Talmud “…metaphors that associate sex with eating, sexual partners with food, and/or sexual desire with hunger/appetite are not unique to rabbinic Judaism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2015 One detail that stands out in this particular attempt to bring the Torah of...
Talmud “…Rashi’s method highlighted key phrases in the talmudic discussion…instead of the paraphrasing commentary style of [previous] scholars” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 February 2015 Unlike the commentaries of R. Hananel, R. Gershom, or the other various commentaries that...
Talmud “Incredibly, since World War II talmudists have scarcely paid attention to the rich Iranian milieu in which the Babylonian Talmud was composed” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 February 2015 Incredibly, since World War II talmudists have scarcely paid attention to the rich Iranian...
Talmud “Boyarin’s book was largely responsible for the “modernization” of talmudic studies in North America, and it played a signal role in updating the concerns and methods of talmudists to match broader trends in the humanities” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 February 2015 In 1993, Daniel Boyarin published a relatively compact book entitled Carnal Israel: Reading Sex...
Talmud “…both the Babylonian Talmud and Middle Persian literature are preoccupied with the preferred contours of the female body” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2015 …it is noteworthy how, despite the differences in subject matter (Jewish marital law versus...
Talmud “…quite a bit of work remains to be done in terms of explaining the sources of the Talmud’s articulations of carnality and sexuality…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2015 Since the “Talmudo-Iranica” revolution, students of the Babylonian Talmud have proceeded to reexamine basic...
Talmud “…the process of Talmud…can have real world value, and that, as full participants in a riven civil society, we should see it as our obligation to realize that value” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2015 I do want to suggest that the process of Talmud, which I understand in...
Talmud “…it is worth noting that Iranian literature can even illuminate rabbinic texts produced in Roman Palestine, beyond what is usually seen as the orbit of Iranian culture…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 December 2014 First, it is worth noting that Iranian literature can even illuminate rabbinic texts produced...
Bible, Talmud Artscroll and Reuben laying with Bilhah Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 December 2014 Genesis 35:22 states that “Reuben lay with Bilhah.” The Artscroll multi-volume commentary on Bereshit...
Bible, Talmud “An examination of biblical and talmudic sources does not reveal that women in particular practiced witchcraft” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 November 2014 An examination of biblical and talmudic sources does not reveal that women in particular...