Challenges of reconstructing Rashi’s Torah commentary: “there never was an Urtext of Rashi’s Torah commentary”
…synopsis of the current state of knowledge regarding medieval Jewish scribal practice, manuscript production,...
Tag Archives: Scholarship
“Neusner moved the study of Judaism from Near Eastern Language or History departments into Religious Studies”
As both a scholar and an academic politician, Neusner moved the study of Judaism...
“The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians”
The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians....
“…the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and…urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia is the Babylonian Talmud”
By far, the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and, in a sense,...
“The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity”
The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity. In the...
“Is it the responsibility of those who study a community to reinforce the choices of others to join that community?”
I remain fascinated by and ambivalent of the ways in which American Jewish sociology...
“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...
“…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...
“Epistemological insiderism not only stakes out certain domains as belonging to persons with certain identities; it also risks boxing persons with those identities into specific domains”
…the Tuvel affair raises issues that go beyond the controversial notion of transracialism. First,...
“…respecting interdisciplinary partnership, virtually all of us have loyalties which we neither can nor should deny”
…respecting interdisciplinary partnership, virtually all of us have loyalties which we neither can nor...