From H-Judaic:
The National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization
Project, is pleased to announce that a digitized version of the Library’s
manuscript “Catalonia Mahzor” is now available for public access.
The “Catalona Mahzor” is a Mahzor for Rosh Ha-Shana and Yom Kippur according
to the Spanish Catalonian Rite. It is dated approximately 1280.
The text includes liturgical [...]
In a previous post I showed how a variant reading in the Talmudic text influences the way that the flow of the Talmudic argument is understood. I will now show how different interpretations of the text were the result of this variant reading. The text discussed is found on bKiddushin 80b.
1. נימא מתני’ [...]
In the last chapter of Tractate Kiddushin there is a mishnah which discusses the limitations on people of the opposite sex being secluded alone (mKiddushin 4:12, bKiddushin 80b). One of the teachings is that a man should not be alone with two women. The Gemara notices a contradiction between the opinion brought in [...]
From JTS publicity:
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New York, NY, February 19, 2008 — The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary announces the launch of a digital library which provides global access to some of Jewish history’s most outstanding treasures.
The purchase of the digital library software (DigiTool) was made possible through the generous support of the Rebell Family Foundation and [...]
I started to think more about la’azim (”glosses”), and I did some quick searching in the catalogue of the IMHM and found a few mss. which have la’azim in numerous languages. Here are some commentaries on the Tanakh that contain la’azim.
1. Italy, 15-16th century-glosses in Italian.
2. Italy, 16th century-glosses in Italian.
3. Ashkenaz, 16th century-glosses [...]
The JTS library has just launched a blog, Mekorot, with the following description,
The Mekorot blog will feature reviews and discussion of new and classic sources in Jewish Studies, bibliographical notes, and edifying tidbits by the librarians of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Now if the library could only get books cataloged and returned to the shelves quicker, [...]
At Unlocked Wordhoard there are two videos featuring images from medieval manuscripts, the first of which is concerned with images on the production of manuscripts. (hat tip) This Medieval Manuscript Manual might be a helpful complement to the videos.
An interesting episode in Koranic scholarship. A few salient points. First, it seems that scholars of rabbinic literature from Hebrew University aren’t the only ones who keep their scholarly research hidden. Second, the theory that parts of the Koran were originally written in Syriac is interesting. I recently linked to an [...]
A very well-known mishnah, Kiddushin 1:7, reads,
כל מצות הבן על האב אנשים חייבין ונשים פטורות וכל מצות האב על הבן אחד אנשים ואחד נשים חייבין וכל מצות עשה שהזמן גרמה אנשים חייבין ונשים פטורות וכל מצות עשה שלא הזמן גרמה אחד אנשים ואחד נשים חייבין וכל מצות לא תעשה בין שהזמן גרמה בין שלא הזמן [...]
PK at BibliOdyssey has posted some interesting images from a French ms. titled, Talismans Cabalistiques Magiques, grands secretes des Planettes.
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