Menachem Mendel

The inaugural issue of Oqimta is now available online. Oqimta is a digitized research journal devoted to all spheres and types of talmudic and rabbinical literature – in Jewish law and exegesis.

Posted on April 28th, 2013 under New Articles, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Tannaitic Literature. Comments Off

I want to congratulate my friend Jenny Labendz on the publication of her book Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture. The relationship of the rabbis of Late Antique Palestine to their non-Jewish neighbors, rulers, and interlocutors was complex and often fraught. Jenny R. Labendz investigates the rabbis’ self-perception and their self-fashioning within this non-Jewish social [...]

Posted on April 23rd, 2013 under Jewish-Gentile Relations, New Books, Talmud, Tannaitic Literature. Comments Off

From the THE BLOG OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH LAW Review of Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Demonic Desires: ‘Yetzer Hara’ and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 264 pages. $69.95 By Jason Rubenstein jasonbassirubenstein-at-gmail.com Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s Demonic Desires: ‘Yetzer Hara’ and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity is an [...]

Posted on April 4th, 2013 under Ancient Judaism, Book Reviews, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Tannaitic Literature. Comments Off

Hayyim Lapin has begun work on a “Digital Mishnah.” The website of the project is here.  Below is an example of what a page of such an edition might look like.

Posted on April 29th, 2012 under Mishnah, Tannaitic Literature, Technology. Comments: 2

The second volume of the English edition of Binyamin Lau’s The Sages is now available. I have all four volumes of the Hebrew edition and I highly recommend it. For some comments about the fourth volume of the Hebrew edition, see this (H) post by Rav Tzair.

Posted on February 14th, 2012 under New Books, Rabbinic Literature, Tannaitic Literature. Comments: 2