“Why did the rabbis in the early period (for the most part) divide people based on righteousness and virtue, and in the later period based on ethnicity?”
Why did the rabbis in the early period (for the most part) divide people...
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“…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...
“No talmudic discussion regards the recitation of [the Song of the Day] as anything other than temple practice”
…the daily Levitical songs (Pss 24, 48, 82, 94, 81, 93, 92) as recorded...
“A number of Rava’s rulings require intention as a necessary condition for establishing liability for both civil and ritual violations”
Where early generations of Babylonian Amoraim employed a system of strict liability in deciding...
“The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic jurisprudence and legal conceptualization”
The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic...
“the Talmud only makes sense to the reader who has already read it; a first reading of the Talmud only happens during its second reading”
The Talmud is not a book to be read, but a book to do...
“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,...
“…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,...