Haaretz is reporting that Bar-Ilan University will be the home of a new online library of Hebrew texts, a project initiated by President Shimon Peres. The works slated for inclusion in the project will be selected by academics from Bar-Ilan and other universities over the next few months. In addition, a section of the data [...]
While searching for an article by Prof. Steven Fraade, I came across his website which has a large number of scans of articles that he has published. There are articles on Midrash, Targum, Qumran, etc.
Rabbi Jeffrey Hoffman was kind enough to send me a copy of an article of his which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the JQR. The article is on Akdamut, the Aramaic poem which is recited before the Torah reading on Shavuot. Below are some of his comments, and I also recommend reading [...]
Iyov has posted about a recent symposium on R. Abraham Joshua Heschel’s book The Prophets. One of the topics which was discussed at this symposium was the “prophetic spirit” in modern American politics. In the weeks before the 1972 Presidential elections between Richard Nixon and George McGovern, R. Seymour Siegel wrote an op-ed piece in [...]
Marcus Jastrow is well-known for his monumental Aramaic dictionary. Also see this web site from Penn and this article by Menachem Butler. While searching through the Internet Archive, I came across an interesting monograph by Jastrow, “The History and the Future of the Talmudic Text”, a lecture delivered at Gratz College in 1895. In this [...]
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