Monthly Archives: July 2011

Protestant Mishnah

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

A serendipitous combination of circumstances brought Jonathan Z. Smith’s Drudgery Divine and Hanan Gafni’s Peshutah shel Mishnah to my shelf side by side. Gafni’s brand-new book, based on a dissertation written under the supervision of Jay Harris at Harvard, is written in beautiful … Continue reading →

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Outsourcing Scholarship

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

The joys of New York City had me sitting in a car, waiting for a 9-10:30am spot to become legal on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. No matter, I had my laptop and the BBC playing, where I learned of … Continue reading →

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RSK’s New Book and Paradigms of Gender Research

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

In a recent review at the Review of Biblical Literature, Gail Streete looks at Ross Shepard Kraemer‘s newest book, Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.  It is a fascinating take on how one of the foremost gender theorists … Continue reading →

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Digitally Humanizing Jewish Studies

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

The past week has seen some updates in the digital humanities side of Jewish Studies. For those of us who like wasting time constructively online, RAMBI has added some 17 RSS feeds of recently published articles. Each feed is dedicated … Continue reading →

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Reading the Talmud in…

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

The South Korean interest in Talmud has been a real hot-topic over the past few months. This piece outlines the phenomena, but as a simple Google search will show, there are many, many more articles on the subject (see also Menachem Mendel’s … Continue reading →

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Bar Ilan Talmud Conference Proceedings

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

Back in 2007, I attended a Talmud conference at Bar Ilan University. It was an international meeting, and included a nice variety of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, along with a “continental” Talmudist or two. The proceedings have … Continue reading →

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Talmud in the New World

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Since the early decades of the twentieth century, the bond between academic Talmud and America has been a strong one.  To name but a few highlights, Julius Kaplan published his  pioneering work on the redaction of the Babylonian Talmud, Solomon … Continue reading →

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Sifre Bemidbar, Ed. Kahana!

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

In 1982, when he completed his doctoral dissertation, Menahem Kahana wrote: In the first stages of preparing this dissertation, over a decade ago, I naïvely thought that I could quickly finish the menial work of collecting the material and collating it. … Continue reading →

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Around the Web

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

Paula Fredriksen’s Augustine and the Jews (New Haven, 2010) is reviewed at length at Bryn Mawr. How did a complete set of the Bomberg Talmud find its way into King Henry VIII’s? library? A tehum marker dating from Roman/Byzantine times was found near … Continue reading →

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SBL Conference Day 2 – Guest Post by Ari Lamm

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

  continued from day 1 I got a bit of a later start on Tuesday than I had on Monday.  Busy packing up our London apartment for our move back to New York – my wife and daughter had already made … Continue reading →

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