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Rabbanite Views and Rabbinic Literature in Judeo-Persian Karaite Exegesis
This article discusses the outlook of Judeo-Persian Karaite authors on Rabbanite law and rabbinic literature based on an exegetical corpus written in Early Judeo-Persian from the eleventh century, which mostly remains in manuscript form.
Ofir Haim
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Style Classification of Rabbinic Literature for Detection of Lost Midrash Tanhuma Material [PDF]
Midrash collections are complex rabbinic works that consist of text in multiple languages, which evolved through long processes of unstable oral and written transmission.
Shlomo Tannor +2 more
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Citation network analysis for viewpoint plurality assessment of historical corpora: The case of the medieval rabbinic literature. [PDF]
Citation networks enable analysis of author groups, defining in-group dynamics, and mapping out inter-group relationships. While intellectual diversity and inclusiveness is one of the important principles of modern scholarship, it is intriguing to ...
Nati Ben-Gigi +3 more
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Grappling with rabbinic literature
Pieter M. Venter
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The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness [PDF]
There is an unusual phrase that occurs only fourteen times in the Hebrew Bible. Those fourteen occurrences mark the accounts of ten highly consequential days.
Charles R. Lightner
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Priestly Garments as Atoning Agents in Amoraic Literature
The garments worn by the priests in the Temple not only present a stark image of “glory and splendor” (Exod 28:2) but present an accompanying theology, as well.
Shlomo Zuckier
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Many modern rabbis insist that original sin was invented by St. Paul, and that it does not have a Jewish antecedent. Instead, rabbinic Judaism explains human evil in terms of “yeṣer ha-raʻ,” “the evil inclination.” But evidence from Second Temple period ...
Matthew Wade Umbarger
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And G-d Created Wife: How Did the Modern Other Emerge?
Asking the question of the emergence of the modern other, the paper explores the inversion of relationships between wife and woman, husband and man in an archeological analysis of a Talmudic reading by Emmanuel Levinas “And God Created Woman.” The ...
Sergey Dolgopolski
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This article examines the evolution of rabbinic interpretative discourse on the creation of woman, as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, addressing well-known rabbinic writings from the fifth to the tenth centuries.
Katja von Schöneman
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Midrash and exegesis – distant neighbours?
The term Midrash should be reserved for the specific quotation literature of the rabbinic sources of classical Judaism. Decisive is its literary form: the combination of rabbinic statement and biblical quotation. All other rabbinic and non-rabbinic texts
Albert van der Heide
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