Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud “A number of Rava’s rulings require intention as a necessary condition for establishing liability for both civil and ritual violations” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 Where early generations of Babylonian Amoraim employed a system of strict liability in deciding...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud “The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic jurisprudence and legal conceptualization” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic...
Babylonian Talmud “the Talmud only makes sense to the reader who has already read it; a first reading of the Talmud only happens during its second reading” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2020 The Talmud is not a book to be read, but a book to do...
Babylonian Talmud, Haredim/Haredi-ism, Jewish Community The Siyum HaShas “Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2020 The Event Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli. I kind of...
Uncategorized “…the Korean Talmud, in some ways, is an inversion of the Babylonian Talmud…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 February 2019 …the Korean Talmud, in some ways, is an inversion of the Babylonian Talmud –...
Babylonian Talmud, Mishnah, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud of the Land of Israel “Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here and there, or chameleons that change color to fit the scenery” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2019 Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here...
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 Cultivated Crops during the Time of the Babylonian Talmud Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 October 2018 As in earlier periods, the staple crops were wheat, barley and dates. A daily...
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,...
Menstrual Impurity, Talmud “Rabbi Zera merely describes a stringent practice which Babylonian Jewish women had taken upon themselves” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 April 2018 This term, first used by medieval commentators (see Zimmerman, p. 27, note 6), is,...