A “rabbinic literary form which has analogies in rabbinic texts is the chreia, also called apophthegma or pronouncement story”
Another rabbinic literary form which has analogies in rabbinic texts is the chreia, also...
“Musical genres are like unstable elements, constantly on the verge of breaking down”
Musical genres are like unstable elements, constantly on the verge of breaking down. Some...
“If we’re just like everybody else, what are we for?” -Clive Lawton
If we’re just like everybody else, what are we for? If we can’t add...
Pundits Have Incentives to Being Bold
When uncertainty abounds, pundits strive to differentiate themselves from their peers. There’s little to...
“This whole story says more about those Jews who attach importance to Madoff’s Jewishness, than it says about Madoff” – Hirschfield
On the one hand, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, co-president of CLAL – the National Center...
“The Sabbath symbolizes a state of complete harmony between man and nature and between man and man”
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In the Old Testament, a man who “gathers sticks” (Num. 4:32 ff.) is considered...“Josephus’s invective against John and his rebel cohort should be read within a wider Roman discourse on transgressive gender”
I have argued that Josephus’s invective against John and his rebel cohort should be...
Considering how to separate a text from its context re: Rabbinic Literature
If neither technical terms nor attributions are available for separating a text from its...
Biblical Events “might indeed offer some guidance for the future”
Do the foregoing events bear any lessons for modern Israel? In one sense they...
Jews “can relax; we don’t have to worry about [quantitative] numbers”
As you may know, we’re not expanding at a great rate. Numerically, we’re probably...