“Unparallel parallels which feed a partisan ego scarcely represent good scholarship…”
Unparallel parallels which feed a partisan ego scarcely represent good scholarship, whether the dabblers...
Tag Archives: Rabbinic Literature
“…archeologists of late antiquity should not just naively stuff mishnayot in their rucksacks…”
…archeologists of late antiquity should not just naively stuff mishnayot in their rucksacks to...
“Rabbinic and Roman texts create the impression of a clear dichotomy between slaves and free people…”
Rabbinic and Roman texts create the impression of a clear dichotomy between slaves and...
“For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation”
For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation. First,...
“In addition to the biblical distinction between normal and abnormal discharges, the rabbis developed two more categories…”
Leviticus 15 is concerned with normal and abnormal, male and female genital discharges. As...
“The practice of waiting seven blood-free days following the end of a regular menstrual period is variously described in the Talmud as heḥemiru al atzman, minhaga, and halakhah pesukah, indicating that a variety of attitudes existed as to the severity of the requirement”
Zimmerman is correct in saying that a seven-day wait after any bleeding has become...
“…the true Jewish ethos of modesty does not exclusively pertain to sexuality…”
The topic of “tzniut” or “modesty” has recently become a prominent point of discussion...
“It is the Babylonian Talmud that collects the traditions on Hanukkah and creates a lengthy, detailed and coherent discourse on the holiday…”
The rabbinic sources on Hanukkah, which are not numerous, are unevenly dispersed among the...
“It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers of the Mishnah…”
It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers...
Differences of a famous midrash about Name, Language, and Clothing
Leviticus Rabbah 32:5 (M. Margoliot ed., Jerusalem 1958, vol. 4, p. 747) lists four...