Babylonian Talmud, Judaism, Rabbinic Literature “…the true Jewish ethos of modesty does not exclusively pertain to sexuality…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 February 2017 The topic of “tzniut” or “modesty” has recently become a prominent point of discussion...
New Testament, Rabbinic Literature “A careful reader of the Gospel is able to uncover the author’s motives and intentions while at the same time making connections between the images in the Gospel with other images, or ‘truths’, presented in the Talmudic ‘library'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 February 2017 True storytellers never tell, they show. Michael Riffaterre uses the concept of “fictional truth”...
Babylonian Talmud, Beer, Wine “…it appears that wine was much more expensive in Babylonia than beer in the Talmudic period” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2017 …it appears that wine was much more expensive in Babylonia than beer in the...
Talmud “In discussing the use of אני in TL, it is necessary to distinguish between אני אומר used in contradiction, and שאני אומר used to introduce a reason for an opinion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 December 2016 In discussing the use of אני in TL, it is necessary to distinguish between...
Talmud Differences of a famous midrash about Name, Language, and Clothing Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 November 2016 Leviticus Rabbah 32:5 (M. Margoliot ed., Jerusalem 1958, vol. 4, p. 747) lists four...
Talmud “Sometimes in Tannaitic Literature, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are not connected by relationship to a single man, nor by a common subject) as the essential connective element of a relatively large chapter” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 November 2016 …Sometimes in TL, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are...
Scholarship “When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah…flourished in the early decades of the first century in Galilee, then…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 November 2016 When a New Testament scholar provides evidence that the Judaism of the dual Torah,...
New Testament, Scholarship, Talmud “…it is a fruitless quest to continue to try to find elusive rabbinic sources for everything which Paul wrote” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 September 2016 In the case of Paul and the rabbis, let us assume that, at no...
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....
Talmud “This interpretation has absolutely no basis in the simple reading of text, and Rabbi Akiva’s exegetical excess infuriates Rabbi Yishmael” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 January 2016 We do not know much about Nahum Ish Gamzu’s exegetical style except for the...