The new blog Sacred Texts promises to offer lots of goodies for the text/tech geek crowd. With “Sacred Techs” we wanted to bring together information focused upon using technology in the real of biblical and ancient studies. It will be periodically updated, on a monthly basis at the least, with articles and interviews on various [...]
Many people have been talking about the news report on Israel Channel Two about Jewish texts, reported to be from the 10th century, that were found in Afghanistan. This report in the Jerusalem Post provides the main points of the news report. Below is the video of the Channel Two news report. (Hebrew)
The following is an example of how a scribal error made its way to the commonly used printed editions of the Talmud. The example is from Bechorot 38b. Florence II-I-7: איני והא’ רב אידי בר אבין א’ רב יצחק בר אשייאן אדר וניסן לח London – BL Add. 25717 402: איני והא’ (רבא ידי)[רב אידי] [...]
Josefina Rodríguez Arribas writes about using the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the National Library of Israel for studying the history of astrolabes. (hat tip) Astrolabes are the medieval equivalent of the kind of handheld technology we’re all very accustomed to in the twenty-first century. They were instruments you could use to find your [...]
Eliezer Segal’s talk before the 1993 WCJS on editing Talmudic texts (Hebrew), “יעדים ואמצעים בההדרת טקסטים מהתלמוד הבבלי”, can be found here.
Rabbi Dov Linzer has a good post about some of the recent discussions in Daf Yomi, We Don’t Add to the List of Treifot-Really? Rabbi Linzer addresses the discussion found in the Gemara as to whether it is possible to add to the list of conditions that are fatal to an animal and therefore make [...]
At the Talmud Blog, Amit Gvaryahu, whom I had the pleasure of meeting this past shabbat, gives a good overview of Menahem Kahana’s new edition of Sifre Bemidbar.
On the Main Lane has a guest post about research using Talmud MSS. The post includes this bit of news about the Lieberman Institute of Talmud Research’s Database of Talmud MSS. A powerful resource for Talmudic research is now available freely on-line. The latest version of Eidei Nusah. This site contains the text of almost [...]
Leshoneinu (72, 3) 261-286, has an article by Binyamin Elizur on the new edition of Seridei ha-Yerushalmi that is hopefully nearing its publication. Seridei ha-Yerushalmi [here] was published by Louis Ginzberg in 1909 and included texts from the Jerusalem Talmud that were found in the Cairo Geniza. The new edition of Seridei ha-Yerushalmi will include [...]
David Stern writes in the Forward about the recent sale of the Valmadonna Trust Library. Here is Stern’s description of when the library was on display at Sotheby’s. The exhibition was the closest one could ever come to seeing the entire Jewish people in its generations gathered in a single enclosed space. There is a [...]
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