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Torah and Law in Paradise Lost
, 2022It has been the fate of Milton, the most Hebraic of the great English poets, to have been interpreted in this century largely by those inhospitable to his Hebraism.
J. Rosenblatt
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Does time stop in the world of Talmud Torah?
Religion, 2021In 2012 I began a certain engagement as a way to fill what the academy tellingly calls a period of ‘leave.’ That engagement constitutes study at Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ), the ‘last remaining’ yeshiva on New York’s Lower East Side, and it began ...
Jonathan Boyarin
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Abstract This chapter centers on a concept emerging in tannaitic literature that study should be done for its own sake, rather than to gain prestige, power, or wealth. An innovative idea was to portray Torah study as potentially harmful to those who study it for the wrong purposes.
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The Changing Character of the Torah
Journal of Ancient JudaismIn this essay I suggest that the attitudes to Jewish law and the conflicting interpretations reflected by the early Jesus tradition are best understood within a landscape of change, in which the character of torah as instruction, guidance, and ...
Thomas Kazen
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Sufism and the Scriptures, 2018
This chapter develops a traditional riddle concerning the relationship between the “Heavenly Torah” and the “Earthly Torah.” First it is established that the Jewish tradition is heavily committed to the existence of a Heavenly Torah, and that ...
Samuel Lebens
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This chapter develops a traditional riddle concerning the relationship between the “Heavenly Torah” and the “Earthly Torah.” First it is established that the Jewish tradition is heavily committed to the existence of a Heavenly Torah, and that ...
Samuel Lebens
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Rashi's Commentary on the Torah
, 2019Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah explores the reception history of the most important Jewish Bible commentary ever composed, the Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki, 1040–1105).
E. Lawee
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