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 January I attended a conference on Teaching Rabbinic Literature which was sponsored by the Mandel Institute at Brandeis University. They have now posted videos of most of the sessions online. There were a number of interesting sessions, including at least one, AFAIK, by a reader of this blog.
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’ [...]
From the new books catalogued at the JNUL, I see that Dr. Aaron Ahrend has published a critical edition of Rashi on Massechet Megillah. A number of people have written dissertations on Rashi’s Talmud commentary to a number of tractates and have found that there are no small number of variants between the manuscripts. [...]
If you were wondering how controversial the International Bible Quiz (Hidon ha-Tanakh) could be, this year proved you wrong. An Israeli girl who is apparently a Messianic Jew is in the finals, and there are some who want to prohibit her participation. (See these two posts by ADDeRabbi and don’t miss this video whose [...]
I don’t think that I have noticed this before, but among the articles which Prof. Shamma Friedman has posted on his website is his seminal article, “A Critical Study of Yevamot X with a Methodological Introduction” (Hebrew) which was published in Texts and Studies, Analecta Judaica I, ed. H. Z. Dimitrovsky, New York, 1977, pp. [...]
Haaretz has an article on Prof. David Weiss Halivni.
I just had to look up something in The Talmud-The Steinsaltz Edition: A Reference Guide. Luckily I was given one as a gift a number of years ago, but does anyone know why this hasn’t been reprinted? Used copies are selling for around $70 to $150 or more. While published by Random [...]
There is a recent post at Seforim which among many interesting topics, discusses some opinions as to “How much effort should people put into learning?,” or maybe more appropriately, “How much effort do people put into learning?” In medieval Ashkenaz, more than one teacher complained about both their students and the general level of learning. [...]
I was aware that there were differences between the Artscroll English and Hebrew Talmuds since the Hebrew edition is not a translation of the English one, and it has different editors and commentators. I decided to do a little comparison regarding the bottom of Kiddushin 30a, discussed partially here, and was surprised at the [...]
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