Tag Archives: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

The Talmud Blog Hosts Michal Bar Asher-Siegal

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

In a beautifully appointed Jerusalem home, and framed by some Avigdor Arikha, Michal Bar Asher-Siegal led an extremely animated discussion that compared many of the motifs comprising the Bavli’s Resh Lakish story cycle with similar elements from Syriac Christian hagiographical texts. Like … Continue reading →

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Zion 76:3 published

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

The latest issue of the journal Zion has just been published. Yehudah Cohn’s book, Tangled up in Text, is reviewed (once again!), now by Yonatan Adler.  This time around, the reviewer is far more skeptical (and ironically, therefore, traditional).  It … Continue reading →

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