Hanukah, Talmud “It is the Babylonian Talmud that collects the traditions on Hanukkah and creates a lengthy, detailed and coherent discourse on the holiday…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 December 2016 The rabbinic sources on Hanukkah, which are not numerous, are unevenly dispersed among the...
Talmud “It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers of the Mishnah…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 December 2016 It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers...
Talmud Differences of a famous midrash about Name, Language, and Clothing Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 November 2016 Leviticus Rabbah 32:5 (M. Margoliot ed., Jerusalem 1958, vol. 4, p. 747) lists four...
Talmud “Sometimes in Tannaitic Literature, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are not connected by relationship to a single man, nor by a common subject) as the essential connective element of a relatively large chapter” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 November 2016 …Sometimes in TL, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are...
Scholarship “When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah…flourished in the early decades of the first century in Galilee, then…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 November 2016 When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah,...
Scholarship ” If subjective opinion makes its way as fact, it is because of the political power of a given professor, not because of the power of persuasion of reasoned and systematic arguments…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 November 2016 The “Herr Professor” who passes his opinion without fearing any public laughter will tell...
New Testament, Scholarship, Talmud “…it is a fruitless quest to continue to try to find elusive rabbinic sources for everything which Paul wrote” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 September 2016 In the case of Paul and the rabbis, let us assume that, at no...
Talmud “This interpretation has absolutely no basis in the simple reading of text, and Rabbi Akiva’s exegetical excess infuriates Rabbi Yishmael” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 January 2016 We do not know much about Nahum Ish Gamzu’s exegetical style except for the...
Talmud “…Rabbinic tales; in addition to all their other aspects, they were often attempts to understand the past” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 October 2015 When analyzed in these terms, those same stories which seem so inappropriate for writing...
Talmud “Talmud…means ‘study’…, but also ‘instruction, teaching’…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 August 2015 Talmud (from lamad, ‘to learn’, or limmad, ‘to teach’) means ‘study’ (a theoretical activity,...