by hadassah | Feb 22, 2016 | Amoraim
Babylonian Talmud Eruvin 54b-55a- Amoraic Pedagogy The Amoraim made use of various techniques to impart the oral Torah to their students. Most prominent was simple repetition. To aid in memorizing, since the oral Torah was transmitted and taught through an oral...
by hadassah | Feb 22, 2016 | Amoraim
Genesis Rabbah 97-13- The Migration of the Sanhedrin The various locations of the Sanhedrin are linked with the verse in Genesis which locates the tribe of Zebulun by the seashore. Genesis Rabbah, a midrash on Genesis edited in the fifth century C.E., locates the...
by hadassah | Nov 3, 2008 | Amoraim
Written and Oral Torah Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991. One of the basic premises on which the tradition of the tannaim was based was the concept of the two Torahs, oral and written, which, the rabbis...
by hadassah | Sep 23, 2008 | Amoraim, Byzantine Period
Rehov Synagogue Mosaic Floor, 6th-7th century CE The oldest known Talmudic inscription The synagogue of Rehov was excavated by Fanny Vitto of the then-Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums between 1974-80. The synagogue of Rehov was built in three phases,...
by hadassah | Sep 23, 2008 | Amoraim
Steven Fine. The Rehov Synagogue Inscriptions: The Earliest Preserved Text of the Talmudic Literature. The earliest manuscripts of Rabbinic literature date to the middle ages, hundreds of years after many of the cardinal documents of the “Oral Torah” were initially...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Amoraim
From Amoraic Interpretation to Talmudic Texts Excerpted from Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991. The Talmuds (Gemaras) are complicated texts, originally constructed orally as part of the study sessions of the...
