“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 are Christians or Jews. How should a serious […]
Tag: 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 guide their digs any more than biblical archeologists […]
“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 free people. Just as free male Roman citizens […]
“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, breast milk is produced by women and for […]
“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 scholars have noted, the chapter is structured chiastically: […]
“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 standard practice, almost never dispensed with. However, she […]
“…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 in the Jewish community, mostly in response recent […]
“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 classical legal compendia. The earliest rabbinic legal works, […]
“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 of the Mishnah, which is the document of […]
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 things on account of which the Israelites were […]
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