Rabbinic Literature, Syriac Patristic
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Khristiansky Vostok 9/15 (2021) 77–94
* * * now available online * * * https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/index.html The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (GEDSH) is the first major encyclopedia-type reference work devoted exclusively to Syriac... more
PhD Dissertation defended on the 28th April 2021
This is an English version of משה שוֹשן, הדרך ללוד – סיפורו של ניצול: בריחתו של רבן יוחנן בן זכאי מירושלים על פי מדרש איכה רבה א, ה The article presents an analysis of the story of the escape of R. Yohanan ben Zakkai from Jerusalem as... more
Throughout Rabbinic literature—the Talmud and the Midrash—a mysterious creature known as the Salamandra is mentioned. This creature is also mentioned by various early philosophers and scientists. It is reported to have been created in... more
Scripture assigns to Melchizedek the distinguished title of royal priest (Gen. 14:18). Apart from this ascription and a few details related to his encounter with Abraham, the only two references to Melchizedek included in the Hebrew... more
In this article it is argued that the Qiblah passages in the Qur’an, which are commonly understood as referring to the direction of the prayer, are directly engaging with and interpreting the Shema passages in Deuteronomy and their... more
A small biography of Aphrahat
The present chapter traces how the rabbis in the tractate of Hagigah developed the biblical commands concerning cultic pilgrimage into laws for a bygone Jerusalem temple pilgrimage to see and be seen by God. Our investigation points to... more
On the occasion of the 80 th birthday of Sebastian P. Brock, Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy & Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden, are hosting a major conference on " The Future of Syriac Studies. " Sebastian Brock has agreed to be... more
The article presents a contemporary view of the study of piyyut, demonstrating that Jewish po- etry of late antiquity (in Hebrew and Aramaic) was closely related to Christian liturgical poetry (both Syriac and Greek) and Samaritan... more
This essay focuses on liturgical texts that incorporate in sophisticated ways materials concerning the creation of the universe in rituals of atonement and consecration of holy places of worship. I argue that the employment of accounts... more
Comprehensive list of prominent literary phenomena in chapters of Mishnah, including: Anaphora, Epiphora, Segues among chapters, Anadiplosis, Inclusio, Wordplays, and Keywords
The article presents the discovery of a new manuscript containing extracts from the Syriac version of the «Hundred Chapters» of St. Diadochus of Photice. The article provides the identification of the chapters along with their incipits as... more
This volume gives a bilingual Syriac-English edition of Saint Jacob of Sarug’s homily on the Chariot which the Prophet Ezekiel saw. The Syriac text is fully vocalized, and the translation is annotated with a commentary and biblical... more
These slides (presented in 2018) give a brief overview and sample of the literature known as the Pseudo-Clementines, while providing some arguments for the originality of the Syriac text. (N.b.: a sense of humor is required.)
Comprehensive list of 7 literaray phenomena in Mishnah: anaphora, epiphora, chapter segues, anadiplosis, inclusio, paranomasia, leitwort
רשימה מקפת של 7 תופעות ספרותיות במשנה: אנפורה, אפיפורה, מעברי פרקים, שרשור, משחקי לשון, מילים מנחות
רשימה מקפת של 7 תופעות ספרותיות במשנה: אנפורה, אפיפורה, מעברי פרקים, שרשור, משחקי לשון, מילים מנחות
Lo femenino ha sido un tópico recurrente en los autores de la patrística y ha ocupado gran lugar en sus obras exegéticas, poéticas o históricas. Sin embargo, el interés de estos autores no solo se dirigió al análisis de cuestiones... more
We will examine texts from the Mishnah Berakhot and Bavli Berakhot whose message seems subsersive, going against the grain of the apparent overall aims of the broader context. By means of close reading I will show that the apparently... more
This paper examines the macro-redaction of a tractate, Berakhot. In previous work I have shown how the conclusion of the Toseftan tractate sums up the major themes of the tractate and integrates them into a cohesive conceptual framework.... more
Conference “Judaism in the 7th and 8th Centuries”, Princeton University, 12-13 November 2017.
Much of Mishnah Tractate Sotah consists of digressions from the titular topic. Going beyond the standard explanation of pre-existing collections included by the redactor for mnemotechnical reasons, this article will demonstrate the... more
The edition includes a study on the East Syriac hymnological collection Warda (13th-16th cent.)+ 35 hymns in the Syriac original and Russian translation.
מחבר המאמר הוא ד"ר לתלמוד מאוניברסיטת פוטסדאם בוגר הישיבות 'חברון' ו'מיר'. המאמר אינו מציית לכללים החברתיים-כלכליים של העולם האקדמי (בורדייה/ 'אין חבוש מתיר עצמו מבית האסורים'). המאמר מבקש לבחון את הדרך בה אנו קוראים ומפרשים את התלמוד... more
This paper presents a series of examples revealing some significant aspects about the technique of the Greek translation of Ephrem’s mēmrā on Niniveh and Jonah (Syriac text by Edmund Beck, 1970; editio princeps of the Greek text by... more
רבים תוהים מדוע המשנה במסכת שבת מקדימה למשנה המרכזית של 39 מלאכות (פ"ז מ"ב) את ששת הפרקים הראשונים, העוסקים בחלקם בהכנות לקראת שבת ובחלקם בענייני הוצאה. במאמר זה נבחן הסברים שונים שהוצעו לסדר הפרקים כאן, ונתמקד בפתיחה 'במה' המופיעה בארבעה... more
The doctoral thesis examines a universal history by the 7th-century East Syriac (The Church of the East) author John bar Penkaye “Book of the Main Points, or The History of the Temporal World” in the context of East Syrian literary... more
הזמנה לערב עיון - השקת ספרי מרבדי משנה