“Without knowing the rabbis’ interpretation of theBible, one does not understand eitherJewish thought or Jewish practice.” See alsoAdania 2002, 20-21.2Trebolle Barrera 1998, 21-22, and Signer 1994, 66-67.3The main focus is on so-called ‘Rabbinic Judaism’, but the term ‘midrash’ is...
Judaic studies Translating the tower| Genesis 11 and ancient Jewish interpretation EMORY UNIVERSITY Walter T. Wilson ShermanPhillip MichaelThe narrative of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meaning of the narrative and the actions of both the human characters and the...
KT was supported by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India (GENESIS: BSC0121) and (BSC 0208). GC acknowledges the financial support from European Union European Regional Development Fund through the Centre of Excellence in Genomics to Estonian Biocentre and University...
Jewish Tribes and Women in the Genesis and Battle of the Dajjāl: Nuʿayim ibn Ḥammād al-Khuzāʿī al-Marwzī’s Kitāb al-Fitan was published in Peoples of the Apocalypse on page 129.
If the scandalous interpretation of this Mishnah is true, it may explain why R. Akiba met such a dreadful death where his skin was flayed off his body. The flaying of Akiba’s skin may be an allusion to the verse, “Therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to ...
The first book of the Torah, and therefore of the whole Bible, is called by the Jews "Bereshit," after the initial word; by the Septuagint and by Philo it is called Γύνεσις (κόσμου) = "origin" (of the world), after the contents, and hence "Genesis" has become...
I’m going to try to make this פירוש (interpretation) as צנוע or modest as possible given the racy subject matter here. If you can’t handle frank discourses of a sexual nature then go read something else. I notice something new every time I read the Megilla,...
Sexuality is part of this image, allowing man and woman to become one body, as they were (in one interpretation) before God separated them. The 13th-century Bible commentator Nahmanides, commenting on Genesis 2:23-24, emphasizes the bond that human partners ideally have: unlike the arbitrary...
The excavation of this synagogue has given us a new perspective on the religious complexion of Sardis during the second and third centuries. In the following I should like to examine Melito's fragments on the sacrifice of Isaac (Akedah Isaac) in light of the Jewish interpretation of the ...
Six days of the week they spend in pious contemplation, chiefly in connection with Scripture. On the seventh day both men and women assemble together in a hall; and the leader delivers a discourse consisting of an allegorical interpretation of a Scriptural passage. The feast of the fiftieth ...