Posts
Here are links to my posts for my rabbinics comps readings:
I. Mishnah, Tosefta, Midrash Halakhah
Alan J. Avery-Peck, Mishnah’s Division of Agriculture: A History and Theology of Seder. Here.
Baruch Bokser, The Origins of the Seder. Here, here.
Gerson Cohen, “The Talmudic Age.” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
Judah Goldin, “The Period of the Talmud.” Here.
Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Martin Jaffee, Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism 200 BCE-400 CE. Part 1, Part 2.
Sid Leiman, The Canonization of Scripture. Second Degree Impure Food, Uninspired Canonical Books?.
Saul Lieberman, Hellenism in Jewish Palestine. Here, here.
Study in Ancient Judaism 1. Here.
Jacob Neusner, “Form and Meaning in Mishnah.” Here.
Jacob Neusner, Introduction to Rabbinic Literature. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Jacob Neusner, Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah. Part 1, Part 2.
Jacob Neusner, Uniting the Dual Torah: Sifra and the Problem of the Mishnah. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Shmuel Safrai, Literature of the Sages. Here.
Robert Seltzer, Jewish People, Jewish Thought. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.
H.L. Strack and G. Stemberger, Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8.
Ben Zion Wacholder, “Messianism and Mishnah.” Here.
Judith Romney Wegner, Chattel or Person?: The Status of Women in the Mishnah. Here, here.
Richard Sarason, A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture. III. Commentary. Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18 , Part 19, Part 20.
Alberdina Houtman, Mishnah and Tosefta: A Synoptic Comparison of Tractates Berakhot and Shebiit. Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 , Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15.
Judith Hauptman, Rereading the Mishnah: A New Approach to Ancient Jewish Texts. Here, here. (Actually, this is about Hauptman’s “Mishnah as a Response to the Tosefta”.)
Steven Fraade, “Sifre Deuteronomy 26: How Conscious the Composition”. Here.
Moshe David Herr, “Midreshei Halakhah.” Here.
Jacob Lauterbach, “Midrash and Mishnah: A Study in the Early History of the Halakhah.” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
Ben Zion Wacholder, “The Date of the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael.” Here.
II. Midrash Aggadah
David Stern, “Midrash.” Here.
Philip Alexander, “Midrash.” Here.
Michael Fishbane, The Exegetical Imagination. Here.
Michael Fishbane, “Torah and Tradition.” Here.
Michael Fishbane, Garments of Torah. Here.
Michael Fishbane, “Inner Biblical Exegesis.” Here.
Michael Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.
Steven Fraade, “Sifre Deuteronomy 26: How Conscious the Composition”. Here.
Eugene Mihaly, “A Rabbinic Defense of the Election of Israel: An Analysis of Sifre Deuteronomy 32, 9, Pisqa 312.” Here.
Judah Goldin, Studies in Midrash and Related Literature. Here.
William Scott Green, “Writing with Scripture.” Here.
Richard Sarason, “Interpreting Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation: The Problem of Midrash, Again.” Here.
Moshe David Herr, “Aggadah.” Here.
Moshe David Herr, “Midrash.” Here.
Louis Jacobs, “Hermeneutics.” Here.
James Kugel, “Two Introductions to Midrash.” Here.
James L. Kugel and Rowan A. Greer, Early Biblical Interpretation. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.
Geza Vermes, “Bible and Midrash”. Here.
Joseph Heinemann, “The Nature of Aggadah”. Here.
Saul Lieberman, Hellenism in Jewish Palestine. Here, here.
George Foot Moore, “Christian Writers on Judaism.” Here.
Henry Slonimsky, “The Philosophy Inherent in the Midrash.” Here.
David Stern, “Imitatio Hominis: Anthropomorphism and the Character(s) of God in Rabbinic Literature.” Here.
David Daube, “Rabbinic Methods of Interpretation and Hellenistic Rhetoric.” Here.
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, “Who’s Kidding Whom? A Serious Reading of Rabbinic Word Plays.” Here.
William Scott Green, “Romancing the Tome: Rabbinic Hermeneutics and the Theory of Literature.” Here.
Raphael Loewe, “The ‘Plain’ Meaning of Scripture in Early Jewish Exegesis.” Here.
Jacob Neusner, Invitation to Midrash. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10.
Barry Holtz, “Midrash.” Here.
Lewis Barth, “The Midrashic Enterprise.” Here.
Richard Sarason, “Toward a New Agendum for the Study of Rabbinic Midrashic Literature.” Here.
Geoffrey Hartman, “The Struggle for the Text.” Here.
Richard Sarason, “The Petichtot in Leviticus Rabbah: ‘Oral Homilies’ or Redactional Constructions?” Here.
David Stern, “Midrash and the Language of Exegesis.” Here.
Shalom Spiegel, Last Trial. Part 1, Part 2.
Jon Levenson, Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son. Here.
Alan Segal, Two Powers in Heaven. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Renee Bloch, “Midrash.” Here.
Roger Le Deaut, “Apropos a Definition of Midrash.” Here.
Geza Vermes, Scripture and Tradition in Judaism. Here.
Israel Bettan, “Early Jewish Preaching in the Synagogue.” Here.
Rabbinic Anthology. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14.
Richard Sarason, “Kadushin’s Study of Midrash: Value Concepts and Their Literary Embodiment”. Here.
