Scholarship “Neusner was a rabbinic historian. He can be credited with reinventing rabbinic historiography in the modern period” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 February 2019 Neusner was a rabbinic historian. He can be credited with reinventing rabbinic historiography in...
Scholarship “The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 February 2019 The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians....
Scholarship “I am only suggesting the lack of value in many value judgments, when these emerge from an acquaintance merely with excerpt instead of with the intent, and the nuances, of a literature” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 August 2016 Rabbinists have sometimes assumed that a gospel pericope was lifted bodily from the Gemara....
Gender, Masculinity, Scholarship, Talmud “In the formative years of women’s and gender studies in the field of rabbinics, inquiries into the Talmudic concept of gender took the shape of liberal feminist readings” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 July 2015 In the formative years of women’s and gender studies in the field of rabbinics,...