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Otzar Ha-Geonim He-Hadash- Review by Yosaif Mordechai Dubovick
Otzar Ha-Geonim He-Hadash, Ed. R. Brody with C. Cohen and Y.Z. Stampfer (Jerusalem: Ofeq Institute, 5772). Review by Yosaif Mordechai Dubovick Towards the end of the sixth century, the torch of...
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The Babylonian Talmud, Now in Arabic
As reported in such news outlets as the Jerusalem Post, Yeshiva World News, and PaleoJudaica, a new translation of the Babylonian Talmud into Arabic has just been published in Jordan and is on sale for...
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Iranica Antiqua 47: More on the Hebrew inscription on Ardashir’s Tunic
The latest Iranica Antiqua has just been published online. The Talmud Blog generally does not announce the publication of every journal from the field of Iranian Studies (or Late Antiquity, Early...
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Shavua haSefer 2012
With the heat intensifying, the first of the summer groups arriving, and the stirrings of social-protest demonstrations, there is no question that the Israeli June is here. For this writer, and I...
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A Trip to the Bookstore
After holding back for a longtime, I caved in last friday and made a trip to my local ultra-Orthodox bookstore, Girsa. As one can imagine, there were even more options than ever for someone coming to...
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Naftali Cohn’s “The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis”
In an attempt at remaining sane during the present Israeli election cycle, I found myself reading Naftali Cohn‘s The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis (although given some of the...
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Some Recent Hebrew Publications
One of the many points of feedback that we’ve gotten during the World Congress of Jewish Studies, going on now in Jerusalem, is that it would be nice if we also posted some of what we posted on our...
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Reading List
If you find yourself foraging for what to read on the final Saturday afternoon of daylight savings time, here are some exciting-looking articles that recently came out. Enjoy, and feel free to leave...
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On Paul Mandel’s ‘Was Rabbi Akiva a Martyr?’- Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin’s study of martryology in late antique Judaism and Christianity has been one of the most enduring legacies of his scholarship. A recently published study by Paul Mandel on the martyrdom...
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Right of Reply: Azzan Yadin-Israel Responds to Amit Gvaryahu’s review
My thanks to The Talmud Blog for inviting me to respond to Amit Gvaryahu’s review of Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash. I find myself in […]
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