The Society for the Interpretation of Talmud has published Aaron Amit’s commentary on the fourth chapter of Bavli Pesahim, Makom She-Nahagu. This volume, as well as the others already published, is available for purchase from Rubin Mass.
The Babylonian Talmud is now available for users of Accordance software. See here for details. The text is from the editio princeps (Venice, 1520-1523). They have also reformatted Jacob Neusner et al.’s English translation to better work with the original. This is great news for this snowy day. There are [...]
In the most recent issue of Les Cahiers du judaïsme there is an article about the approach to Talmud study of David Weiss Halivni, “The teaching of David Halivni: deciphering the voices of the Stammaim,” written by Florian Deloup Wolfowicz. Hopefully we’ll see more from his blog, שקלא וטריא. Below is the author’s summary of [...]
So far AJS 2009 is going well. Because of weather-related travel issues there seems to be a smaller crowd, with no small number of people having to cancel their presentations. I also noticed that most of the book publishers are giving pretty small discounts. A few are giving discounts of 30%, but [...]
The Forward has a positive review of Norman Solomon’s The Talmud: A Selection. Despite the large amount of enjoyment that I get from Woody Allen and Seinfeld, I couldn’t help thinking about how unsubstantiated this one paragraph sounded to me.
The reader ought to be told, even in summary form, how the centuries that Jews [...]
The Talmud Department of the Jewish Theological Seminary is pleased to present
Professor Shamma Friedman
Benjamin and Minna Reeves Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS
Director, The Saul Lieberman Institute of Talmudic Research
Speaking on:
The Debate over Maimonides’
Reservations regarding the Study of Talmud
Monday, December 14, 5:30 pm
Private Dining Room
Ynet has an article (Hebrew) about the Steinsaltz Talmud which includes an interview with R. Adin Steinsaltz. According to the article, Steinsaltz will finish his edition of the Talmud next year when he publishes Nidah and Hullin. He started his work on the Talmud when he was 28 (!) years old and has [...]
Starting this week, Torah in Motion is offering a number of classes free-of-charge. This series has an excellent selection, ranging from Shai Secunda on “The Talmud and its World” to Dan Rabinowitz on “Forgeries and Censorship in Jewish Literature and Jewish Tradition.” These are just two of the very interesting classes in this [...]
Here are two new books on Talmud that have recently been published.
The first one is Marc Hirschman’s The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture, 100 C.E. -350 C.E.: Texts on Education and Their Late Antique Context. For those who aren’t familiar with Hirshman’s work, you can find a talk of his, “Jewish and Christian Battles Over [...]
The journal Zion has recently published an issue devoted to the study of Jewish history in Israel. It includes a number of very interesting historiographical studies by a number of scholars about how Israeli scholarship on certain historical periods has changed (or maybe not) over the years. One thing that I noticed was [...]
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