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Massekhet Keritot

Author : Federico Dal Bo
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161526619
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Massekhet Keritot written by Federico Dal Bo and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2013 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tractate Keritot of the Babylonian Talmud belongs to the Order of Qodashim in the Mishnah. It discusses the Temple and its rituals, especially sacrifices, but deals mostly with laws of incest, sexual transgressions, childbirth, and miscarriages. In this commentary, Federico Dal Bo provides a historical, philological and philosophical investigation on these gender issues. He discusses almost the entire tractate, referring to many other sources, Jewish (the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Sifra, and other rabbinic texts) as well as non-Jewish (Akkadian, Hittite, and Ugaritic). The author also provides accurate philological observations both on the Mishnah and the Gemara. Finally, he addresses gender issues by combining a reductionistic approach to Talmudic study (the so called "Brisker method") with philosophical deconstruction. Dal Bo shows that in nearly the entire tractate Keritot the rabbis discuss human sexuality in a tendentious and restrictive way, claiming that heterosexuality is the only proper sexual contact and progressively stigmatizing any other kind of sexual behavior.

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences

Author : Susanne Luther
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110717514
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences written by Susanne Luther and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.

Holy Men and Hunger Artists

Author : Eliezer Diamond
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195137507
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Holy Men and Hunger Artists written by Eliezer Diamond and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself.

Massekhet Hullin

Author : Tal Ilan
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161552007
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Massekhet Hullin written by Tal Ilan and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Babylonian Talmud's Tractate Hullin is the longest in the Order of Qodashim with twelve chapters and over 140 pages. The Order of Qodashim ("holy things") in general deals with the Temple. The word hullin, however, means "profane things" and actually describes the kosher slaughter of beasts for human consumption outside the temple. Even though this topic is not overtly gendered, and neither does it pertain specifically to women, Tal Ilan discusses over 100 traditions that touch on women and gender. She shows that "women" forever served as good "tools" with which to discuss various topics such as halakhic reliability, or the use of magic, but more specifically that while the tractate is intensely interested in beasts and beast anatomy, women most often serve as points of comparison with beasts for authors of the Talmud. In this way, the rabbinic world view of the intermediate position of women between human and beast is repeatedly demonstrated throughout the tractate.

Massekhet Betsah

Author : Tamara Or
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161506895
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Massekhet Betsah written by Tamara Or and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a feminist commentary on Tractate Betsah, which deals with the laws specific to festivals. Tamara Or reveals surprising insights into the role of women in the development of halakhah. Thus, the commentary shows women's oppression as well as their actual power and influence even on halakhic decisions. The power women possess in this tractate can be explained as emanating from the fact that most of it is based on labors usually performed by women. In nearly all the cases where the rabbis discuss the sphere of action of women, the latter's behavior was considered halakhically correct or at least not in need of change. The power and influence gained by women through their various activities and endeavors were passed over in silence and thus hidden from the view of their descendants. The following commentary will strive to put these women back into Jewish history and into the history of the development of halakhah.

The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature

Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature written by Shaye J. D. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Printing the Talmud

Author : Sharon Liberman Mintz
Publisher : [New York, NY] : Yeshiva University Museum, 5765
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Printing the Talmud written by Sharon Liberman Mintz and published by [New York, NY] : Yeshiva University Museum, 5765. This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 3 The Literature of the Sages

Author : Shmuel Safrai
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004275134
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 3 The Literature of the Sages written by Shmuel Safrai and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary creation of the ancient Jewish teachers or Sages--also called rabbinic literature--consists of the teachings of thousands of Sages, many of them anonymous. For a long period, their teachings existed orally, which implied a great deal of flexibility in arrangement and form. Only gradually, as parts of the amorphous oral tradition became fixed, was the literature written down, a process that began in the third century CE and continued into the Middle Ages. Thus the documents of the rabbinic literature are the result of a remarkably long and complex process of creation and editing. This volume gives a careful and succinct analysis both of the content and specific nature of the various documents, and of their textual and literary forms, paying special attention to the continuing discovery and publication of new textual material. The contributors are all engaged in academic teaching and research in Israel. Incorporating ground-breaking developments in research, their essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time.

The Moral Maxims of the Sages of Israel

Author :
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595316727
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Maxims of the Sages of Israel written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Massekhet Taʻanit

Author : Ṭal Ilan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Massekhet Taʻanit written by Ṭal Ilan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Order of Moed in the Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud outlines the way Jews celebrate their festivals. It is well known among feminists that Jewish life is not the same for men and women, and that women experience Jewish festivals differently." "The purpose of the feminist commentary on Seder Moed is to outline these differences, as they are reflected in the mishnaic and talmudic texts, which have become canonical for Jews and serve as a blueprint for the way they live their lives. In this introductory volume the questions of women's participation in Jewish festivals are handled on a more general and theoretic level than in the upcoming volumes which will be devoted to individual tractates. Various world-renown scholars discuss the role of women in the tractates of Seder Moed from a variety of aspects - legal, literary, theological and historical."--BOOK JACKET.

Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans

Author : Vered Noam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192539396
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans written by Vered Noam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shifting image of the Hasmoneans in the eyes of their contemporaries and later generations is a compelling issue in the history of the Maccabean revolt and the Hasmonean commonwealth. Based on a series of six Jewish folktales from the Second Temple period that describe the Hasmonean dynasty and its history from its legendary founders, through achievement of full sovereignty, to downfall, this volume examines the Hasmoneans through the lens of reception history. On the one hand, these brief, colorful legends are embedded in the narrative of the historian of the age, Flavius Josephus; on the other hand, they are scattered throughout the extensive halakhic-exegetical compositions known as rabbinic literature, redacted and compiled centuries later. Each set of parallel stories is examined for the motivation underlying its creation, its original message, language, and the historical context. This analysis is followed by exploration of the nature of the relationship between the Josephan and the rabbinic versions, in an attempt to reconstruct the adaptation of the putative original traditions in the two corpora, and to decipher the disparities, different emphases, reworking, and unique orientations typical of each. These adaptations reflect the reception of the pristine tales and thus disclose the shifting images of the Hasmoneans in later generations and within distinct contexts. The compilation and characterization of these sources which were preserved by means of two such different conduits of transmission brings us closer to reconstruction of a lost literary continent, a hidden Jewish "Atlantis" of early pseudo-historical legends and facilitates examination of the relationship between the substantially different libraries and worlds of Josephus and rabbinic literature.

Hebrew Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library

Author : Cambridge University Library
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521583398
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Hebrew Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library written by Cambridge University Library and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some five hundred years, Hebrew books have been counted among the treasures of the University of Cambridge, and Cambridge University Library's current holdings of Hebrew manuscripts (excluding most of the 140,000 fragments in its Genizah collections) are in excess of a thousand items. A wide range of Hebrew literature is represented, with substantial numbers in Bible, Bible Versions and Commentaries, Talmud, Halakhah, Liturgy, Science, Poetry, Philosophy and Kabbalah. The bulk of the material is late mediaeval but there are also earlier items, among them the famous Nash Papyrus from the second pre-Christian century. Although this collection is among the world's most important, attempts, beginning in the mid-Victorian period, to describe it in detail, and to publish the results, have never met with success. In this volume, Stefan Reif, assisted by Shulamit Reif, has attempted to set the situation right by providing careful descriptions that will guide researchers in codicologial matters and will alert them to data of special scholarly significance, without overwhelming them with the kind of prolix treatment that characterised manuscript study in the nineteenth century. The volume has benefited not only from local Cambridge expertise but also from world-wide scholarly co-operation and includes many references to recent publications, as well as a representative selection of photographed folios. There are essays on the history of Hebraists and Hebraic at Cambridge that will interest historians, as well as extensive indexes that will provide easy access to the rich and varied contents of the descriptions.

Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism

Author : Reuven Kiperwasser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110671549
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism written by Reuven Kiperwasser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially in religions, perhaps most notably in Judaism. In such cultural contexts scepticism manifests as a critical attitude towards different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and towards religious and political authorities. It is not merely an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but a critical form of life that expresses itself in such diverse phenomena as religion, literature, and society. Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion and the Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advances Studies.

Leaves of Faith

Author : Aharon Lichtenstein
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881256680
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Leaves of Faith written by Aharon Lichtenstein and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where its predecessor dwelt primarily upon the content, mode, and practitioners of Torah study, this volume focuses upon issues--some theoretical, others pragmatic; some current, others timeless--which concern the practice and implementation of Torah. It opens with an inquiry into whether, and to what extent, Halakhah recognizes the validity and value of an ethic which, in some sense, lies beyond its scope. This is followed by two essays--focused upon events in Israel but of more general significance, as well--which deal with the character--and bounds of Jewish polity. Tangentially related is the subject of the next chapter--straddling the communal and the personal--regarding the parameters of tolerance. The next several chapters treat more purely personal topics--response to suffering, Shabbat prayer, and shemittah. They are followed by discussions of aspects of the sensitive areas of conversion, abortion, and the Israeli chief rabbinate, commingled with two essays, more sociologically oriented, on Jewish self-identification and communal service, and an exchange concerning Baruch Goldstein. These are, in turn, followed by two chapters focused upon modern or centrist Orthodoxy, particularly. The volume concludes with a series of responses to major questions posed in various symposia, in which participants were asked, descriptively and prescriptively, both to evaluate the current Jewish scene and to chart a suggested course for its future direction.

The Literature of the Sages

Author : Shemuel Safrai
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the Sages written by Shemuel Safrai and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literature of the Sages 1

Author : Shmuel Safrai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780800606053
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of the Sages 1 written by Shmuel Safrai and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World

Author : Geoffrey Herman
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1946527106
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World written by Geoffrey Herman and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that explore the rich engagement of the Talmud with its cultural world The Babylonian Talmud (Bavli), the great compilation of Jewish law edited in the late Sasanian era (sixth–seventh century CE), also incorporates a great deal of aggada, that is, nonlegal material, including interpretations of the Bible, stories, folk sayings, and prayers. The Talmud’s aggadic traditions often echo conversations with the surrounding cultures of the Persians, Eastern Christians, Manichaeans, Mandaeans, and the ancient Babylonians, and others. The essays in this volume analyze Bavli aggada to reveal this rich engagement of the Talmud with its cultural world. Features: A detailed analysis of the different conceptions of martyrdom in the Talmud as opposed to the Eastern Christian martyr accounts Illustration of the complex ways rabbinic Judaism absorbed Christian and Zoroastrian theological ideas Demonstration of the presence of Persian-Zoroastrian royal and mythological motifs in talmudic sources