Neusner was a rabbinic historian. He can be credited with reinventing rabbinic historiography in the modern period. Prior rabbinic historians were either […]
The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians. Literary scholars produce scholarship on small quantities of […]
The turn to the Talmud as a book of Western wisdom in Japan, Korea, and China is reminiscent of a similar interest […]
By far, the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and, in a sense, urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia […]
The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity. In the Greek and Roman world, with their so-called epigraphic […]
This term, first used by medieval commentators (see Zimmerman, p. 27, note 6), is, itself, an inaccuracy: Rabbi Zera merely describes a […]
Unparallel parallels which feed a partisan ego scarcely represent good scholarship, whether the dabblers are Christians or Jews. How should a serious […]
For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation. First, breast milk is produced by women and for […]
Being the principal alcoholic beverage of Mesopotamia, it is discussed at length in the Babylonian Talmud and, naturally, the vocabulary is Mesopotamian. […]
Leviticus 15 is concerned with normal and abnormal, male and female genital discharges. As scholars have noted, the chapter is structured chiastically: […]
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