Excerpted | Category | Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity, Mishnah, Tannaitic Literature

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

A comparison between Avot and Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists underscores striking similarities and...

Late Antiquity

The temporal and geographic core of Jewish ritual purity was Second Temple Jerusalem. Like...

Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Beer, Late Antiquity, Wine

One of the important distinctions between the diet of Graeco-Roman Palestine and Babylonia was...

Judaism, Late Antiquity, Religion

Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period, and...

Judaism, Late Antiquity

We tend to think of the consecutive developments of Greek philosophy, normative Judaism, and...

Late Antiquity

Many Jews in the Second Temple period believed that Israel shares a special relationship...

Late Antiquity, Talmud

In view of the divine origin which was attributed to the Scriptures, it is...

Late Antiquity

Common consumption of food, and of alcoholic beverages in particular, is one effective way...

Late Antiquity, Talmud

…although much of Second Temple and Rabbinic literature can be read in light of...

Gender, Late Antiquity

I have argued that Josephus’s invective against John and his rebel cohort should be...