by hadassah | Dec 10, 2025 | The Talmud
Targum Jonathan to Judges 5- An Aggadic Translation The Targum to Prophets was composed, according to talmudic tradition, by the tanna Jonathan ben Uziel (first century B.C.E.–first century C.E.). He was likely the author of an early translation which appears...
by hadassah | Dec 10, 2025 | The Talmud
Targum to Exodus 20-1-14- The Ten Commandments The reading of the Torah was accompanied by the oral translation of the text into Aramaic, the vernacular of most Jews in Byzantine Palestine and Sassanian Babylonia. With time, fixed targumic texts grew up which...
by hadassah | Dec 10, 2025 | The Talmud
Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 30a-b- The Soul of Man is the Lamp of the Lord This fascinating example of fourth-century C.E. homiletics from the Land of Israel is preserved in the Babylonian Talmud. It seems to constitute the entire sermon, changed only slightly to...
by hadassah | Dec 10, 2025 | The Talmud
Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana 25-1-4- A Penitential Homily Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana is a collection of homilies grouped around the Torah readings for festivals and special occasions. It is one of the oldest Midrashim, dating to some time in the sixth or early seventh...
by hadassah | Dec 3, 2025 | The Talmud
Lamentations Rabbah, Proem 21- The Leper and the Temple This proem to the reading of Lamentations on the Ninth of Av, anniversary of the destruction of the Temple, opens with a passage describing the leper and his impurity which are allegorically interpreted to...
by hadassah | Nov 27, 2016 | Greco-Roman Period, The Talmud
Shaye J.D. Cohen. “Judaism to the Mishnah: 135-220 C.E.” Part II Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism- a Parallel History of their Origins and Early Development. Ed. Hershal Shanks. Washington D.C.- Biblical Archaeology Society, 1993. The Organization of the...
