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Late Antiquity, Mishnah, Tannaitic Literature

“A comparison between Avot and Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists underscores striking similarities and differences between the compositions…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 February 2019
A comparison between Avot and Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists underscores striking similarities and...
Tagged avot, pirkei avot, Second Sophistic, Tannaim, Tannaitic Literature |
Late Antiquity

“The temporal and geographic core of Jewish ritual purity was Second Temple Jerusalem”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 September 2017
The temporal and geographic core of Jewish ritual purity was Second Temple Jerusalem. Like...
Tagged archaeology, Jerusalem, Jewish ritual purity, Second Temple, Second Temple Jerusalem, Second Temple sectarianism |
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Beer, Late Antiquity, Wine

“The contrast between wine culture of Palestine and beer culture of Babylonia is well documented in the Talmud…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017
One of the important distinctions between the diet of Graeco-Roman Palestine and Babylonia was...
Tagged Babylonia, Babylonian Talmud, beer, Israel, Persia, Talmud, Wine |
Judaism, Late Antiquity, Religion

“Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 October 2016
Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period, and...
Tagged Christianity, Judaism, Second Temple, Simkovich Universalism Lehrhaus |
Judaism, Late Antiquity

“… in the Second Temple period, Judaism was a petri dish of ideas that nurtured a pluralism which invited all people to worship the Jewish God”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 October 2016
We tend to think of the consecutive developments of Greek philosophy, normative Judaism, and...
Tagged Christianity, Judaism, Rabbinic, Second Temple, Simkovich Universalism Lehrhaus, Stoicism, Universalism |
Late Antiquity

“What makes the Second Temple period so unique is that much of its literature sees no need for hard distinctions between religious communities”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 October 2016
Many Jews in the Second Temple period believed that Israel shares a special relationship...
Tagged Christianity, Christians, Jewish Universalism, Rabbinic Judaism, Second Temple, Simkovich Universalism Lehrhaus, Universalism |
Late Antiquity, Talmud

“The laying-up of something in the Temple had the effect of dedicating it to God, and so gave it an additional sanctity”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 August 2016
In view of the divine origin which was attributed to the Scriptures, it is...
Tagged Canon, Holy Temple, Josephus, Late Antiquity, Scriptures |
Late Antiquity

“…oriental banquets must be compared and contrasted with Greek symposia, and the latter in turn with Roman convivia”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 August 2015
Common consumption of food, and of alcoholic beverages in particular, is one effective way...
Tagged Ancient Mediterranean World, banquet, banquets, Convivia, Greek, Late Antiquity, Mediterranean World, Symposium |
Late Antiquity, Talmud

“…although much of Second Temple and Rabbinic literature can be read in light of the Greek and later Roman-Christian context in which they were composed…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 June 2015
…although much of Second Temple and Rabbinic literature can be read in light of...
Tagged Rabbinic Literature, Second Temple, Shabbat |
Gender, Late Antiquity

“Josephus’s invective against John and his rebel cohort should be read within a wider Roman discourse on transgressive gender”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 April 2014
I have argued that Josephus’s invective against John and his rebel cohort should be...
Tagged Gender, Josephus, Late Antiquity |
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