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Geonica: Lecture Series by Neil Danzig at JTS

Becoming the People of the Talmud

Talya Fishman’s book Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures has been published. From the publisher’s web site: What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and [...]

Extra-Legal Punishments

For your weekend reading: Zev Farber, “Extra-Legal Punishments in Medieval Jewish Courts,” in Mishpetei Shalom – A Jubilee Volume in Honor of Rabbi Saul (Shalom) Berman, edited by Yamin Levy (Ktav Pub, 2010). Available here.

Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah-MS Huntington 80 Online

The Bodleian Library at Oxford has put one of the most important MS of the Mishneh Torah online. Huntington 80, an authorized copy of the MT, can now be viewed at this website. The site is very nice and they plan to put more of their Rambam related material online at a later date.

Jews and Healing in the Middle Ages

This paper was presented at a conference a few years ago, but it hasn’t lost its relevance. (hat tip) Jews and Healing in the Middle Ages: The Harmonisation of Jewish Beliefs with Theories and Practices of Different Western Medical Traditions. Available here. By Carmen Caballero-Navas Paper given at the Conference on Religion and Healing and [...]

Karaitic Biblical Interpretation

Professor Meira Pollack of Tel-Aviv University will speak at JTS on Monday, March 8, 3:40 p.m. Her topic will be, “Karaites Against Rabbinites? The Developing Methods of Biblical Interpretation”

Two New Books on Medieval European Jewry

H-German has a review of two new books on Medieval European Jewry. The first book is Susan L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France. The second book is David Joshua Malkiel, Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250. I finally arrived at the AJS conference [...]

Methodology and Literary Studies

Mary Kate Hurley has a very interesting post at In the Middle, “Is There a Methodology in this Class.” From the title, it is not surprisingly in response to a talk by Stanley Fish. The post raises a number of very important questions which hopefully many who study Talmudic and Rabbinic literature critically are thinking [...]

Haym Soloveitchik Lecture at Fifth Ave. Synagogue

Forwarded to me by my friend JB.

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture

A recently published book by Gregg Stern, Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc. From the publisher, Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community’s multigenerational cultivation [...]

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