Alcoholic Drinks, Beer, Wine “Most traditional forms of alcohol are made for immediate consumption” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 April 2021 Most traditional forms of alcohol are made for immediate consumption: They will spoil within...
Babylonian Talmud “recycling…is the likely explanation for the relative scarcity of metal finds at major urban centres at opposite ends of the Sasanian empire…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 October 2018 It should be remembered that recycling is not a modern Western concept, but is...
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...
Beer “Iron Age sites in Israel have recently produced numerous remains, such as beer jugs and bottles, straw-tip strainers and donut-shaped fermentation stoppers, all of which provide evidence of Israelite beer drinking” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 March 2018 Iron Age sites in Israel have recently produced numerous remains, such as beer jugs...
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...
Archaeology, Beer, Bible “Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the tools used in beer production…are often linked to bread-making…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 July 2017 Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the...