“…studying Talmud…connects the (presumably) pluralistic ideas of the learner with the very activity in which they are engaged”
Even as the Shoah and the State of Israel were essential drivers of Greenberg...
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“…the Korean Talmud, in some ways, is an inversion of the Babylonian Talmud…”
…the Korean Talmud, in some ways, is an inversion of the Babylonian Talmud –...
“Neusner was a rabbinic historian. He can be credited with reinventing rabbinic historiography in the modern period”
Neusner was a rabbinic historian. He can be credited with reinventing rabbinic historiography in...
“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 Korean Talmud and its outsized popularity can thus also be understood as a form of Occidentalism”
The turn to the Talmud as a book of Western wisdom in Japan, Korea,...
“For the independent early Tosafists the Talmud text itself was the focal point of study…”
The independence of early Tosafist works notwithstanding, it is important to realize that talmudic...
Ruth Calderon on Encountering Talmud and Becoming Enamored with it
…I contained — a void. I did not know how to fill that void, but when I first encountered the Talmud and became completely enamored with it — its language, its humor, its profound thinking, its modes of discussion, and the practicality, humanity and maturity that emerge from its lines — I sensed that I had found the love of my life, what I had been lacking.
Ruth Calderon, “‘The Time Has Come To Re-appropriate What Is Ours’”, Israel Now: A Special Supplement to the Jewish Week, trans. Elli Fischer (31 May 2013), 13.