Monthly Archives: November 2011
Around the Web and Around Town- November 30, 2011
Yes, we know, it’s been a while since our last around the web post. This is mainly due to our Twitter feed, which has been covering a lot of internet based Talmudic going-ons. If you want to stay up-to-date, make … Continue reading
Of Intertexts, Rugelach, and Marginalia: Discussing Boyarin’s Intertextuality upon its Appearance in Hebrew
As noted a few weeks ago on The Talmud Blog, Boyarin’s Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash is now out in Hebrew, after a long wait. Last night, students, havrutot, friends, and admirers of Boyarin and Boyarenesque scholarship coalesced at … Continue reading
Next Month: AJS
In case you need some convincing to go to the AJS next month, here are some sessions that might persuade you to make the trip to DC. Three trends of note: (1) There seems to be new interest in thinking … Continue reading
Pet Projects
I am involved in two new and exciting projects at Hebrew U that although at some distance from academic Talmud, may be of interest to some readers of this blog. The first is the Group for the Study of Late … Continue reading
If You’re Going to San Francisco…
For those attending the SBL/AAR, here is a quick round up of rabbinics-related sessions and panels of interest. And for those not attending, now you will at least know what people are talking about. Following the list, there are additional … Continue reading
Reading List
To the two things that are certain in life, death and taxes, I would add foiled grand plans. My grand plan was to survey recent dissertations that discuss various aspects of purity in rabbinic literature – it seems that purity … Continue reading
Class Notes: Kirdir’s Persecutions
Historians, especially Jewish historians, love talking about religious persecutions. But what do we mean by religious persecutions of Jews? The other day in class, I spent a bit of time discussing a few lines in a series of inscriptions commissioned … Continue reading
Boyarin’s Intertextuality Now Available in Hebrew
Last spring, future Talmud blog contributors and other Jerusalemite students of Rabbinic literature were lucky enough to spend a delightful evening with Prof. Daniel Boyarin, discussing Carnal Israel from the hindsight of twenty years. Prof. Boyarin had scheduled his trip … Continue reading
The Book Club
Over the next few weeks the Talmud Blog will be launching some exciting new ventures. One of these is “The Book Club” – a space where a recent and significant book in the field will be discussed by readers of … Continue reading
A Moving Target- Guest Post by Chaim Saiman
The View from There As part of the Talmud Blog’s efforts to foster dialogue between and beyond the various academic fields in which rabbinic literature is studied, we present to you “The View from There” a series by scholars from … Continue reading
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