Alcoholic Drinks, Scholarship Alcohol “constitutes an especially revealing focus of analysis for anthropologists and historians” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 April 2021 In brief, alcoholic drinks are not simply reducible to a uniform chemical substance with...
Historiography, Scholarship Challenges of reconstructing Rashi’s Torah commentary: “there never was an Urtext of Rashi’s Torah commentary” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 July 2019 …synopsis of the current state of knowledge regarding medieval Jewish scribal practice, manuscript production,...
Scholarship “Neusner moved the study of Judaism from Near Eastern Language or History departments into Religious Studies” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 February 2019 As both a scholar and an academic politician, Neusner moved the study of Judaism...
Scholarship “Neusner was a rabbinic historian. He can be credited with reinventing rabbinic historiography in the modern period” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 February 2019 Neusner was a rabbinic historian. He can be credited with reinventing rabbinic historiography in...
Scholarship “The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 February 2019 The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians....
Babylonian Talmud, Scholarship “…the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and…urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia is the Babylonian Talmud” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 September 2018 By far, the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and, in a sense,...
Archaeology, Rabbinic Literature, Scholarship “The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 September 2018 The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity. In the...
Scholarship “Is it the responsibility of those who study a community to reinforce the choices of others to join that community?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 March 2018 I remain fascinated by and ambivalent of the ways in which American Jewish sociology...
Scholarship “Unparallel parallels which feed a partisan ego scarcely represent good scholarship…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 March 2018 Unparallel parallels which feed a partisan ego scarcely represent good scholarship, whether the dabblers...
Archaeology, Scholarship “…archeologists of late antiquity should not just naively stuff mishnayot in their rucksacks…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 March 2018 …archeologists of late antiquity should not just naively stuff mishnayot in their rucksacks to...