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JUST/CLAS/RELG 3022 and PHIL 3729: Searching for God: Week 10: Rabbinic Judaism 3
Ancient Greeks, Jews, and Christians
Topic for the week
Topic: Rabbinic Judaism Part 3: The Midrashic Hermeneutic: Torah as Perfection
Primary Sources: Rabbinic Judaism 3
Professor will provide:
- Polysemy in Midrash” (dropbox)
- Song of Songs Rabbah 1:2 (dropbox),
- Genesis Rabbah 22 (handout)
- Sifra, Emor, Chapter 11.3Current Version: Venice 1545 Source: he.wikisource.org
Current Translation: Sifra by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein Source: sefaria.org License: CC-BY - Deuteronomy 22:25-27Current Version: Miqra according to the Masorah Source: he.wikisource.org License: CC-BY-SA
Current Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS Source: jps.org License: Copyright: JPS, 1985 - Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 73aCurrent Version: Wikisource Talmud Bavli Source: he.wikisource.org License: CC-BY-SA
Current Translation: William Davidson Edition - English
English from The William Davidson digital edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Source: korenpub.com License: CC-BY-NC
The prohibition against Cooking a kid in it’s Mother’s Milk:
- Exodus 23:19Current Version: Miqra according to the Masorah Source: he.wikisource.org License: CC-BY-SA
Current Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS Source: jps.org License: Copyright: JPS, 1985 - Exodus 34:26Current Version: Miqra according to the Masorah Source: he.wikisource.org License: CC-BY-SA
Current Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS Source: jps.org License: Copyright: JPS, 1985 - Deuteronomy 14:21Current Version: Miqra according to the Masorah Source: he.wikisource.org License: CC-BY-SA
Current Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS Source: jps.org License: Copyright: JPS, 1985 - Mekhilta d'Rabbi Yishmael 23:19Current Version: Mekhilta -- Wikisource Source: he.wikisource.org License: Public Domain
Current Translation: Mechilta, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein Source: sefaria.org License: CC-BY
Even the Oral Torah is said to have always already existed (cf. Plato’s anamnesis) (Deuteronomy 9:10) and the rabbinic interpretation on it attributed to R. Joshua b. Levi (3rd century, among others —
- Deuteronomy 9:10Current Version: Miqra according to the Masorah Source: he.wikisource.org License: CC-BY-SA
Current Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, published by JPS Source: jps.org License: Copyright: JPS, 1985 - 4th to 5th century Palestinian sourcesFrom Sefaria: a Living Library of Torah search results
(The 4th to 5th century Palestinian sources here). - Cf. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 5a on Ex. 24:12.Current Version: William Davidson Edition - Vocalized Aramaic Aramaic from The William Davidson digital edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Nikud (vocalization) by Dicta - the Israel Center for Text Analysis Source: sefaria.org License: CC-BY-NC
Current Translation:
William Davidson Edition - English
English from The William Davidson digital edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Source: korenpub.com License: CC-BY-NC
Speaking of Plato’s notion of the soul and anamnesis of the forms, the rabbis repeat almost the identical myth, only about the Torah instead of the forms:
- Babylonian Talmud Niddah 30b (Corrected link)Current Version: William Davidson Edition - Vocalized Aramaic
Aramaic from The William Davidson digital edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Nikud (vocalization) by Dicta - the Israel Center for Text Analysis Source: sefaria.org License: CC-BY-NC
Current Translation:
William Davidson Edition - English
English from The William Davidson digital edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Source: korenpub.com License: CC-BY-NC - Babylonian Talmud, Sotah 16a (read ##5-13)Current Version:
William Davidson Edition - Vocalized Aramaic Aramaic from The William Davidson digital edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Nikud (vocalization) by Dicta - the Israel Center for Text Analysis Source: korenpub.co.il License: CC-BY-NC
Current Translation:
William Davidson Edition - English English from The William Davidson digital edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Source: korenpub.com License: CC-BY-NC
Rare complete handwritten Torah Bible scroll. Deer skin. 150 years old. Morocco
Secondary Sources: Rabbinic Judaism 3
- Chapter 3: Striving for Meaning: A Short History of Rabbinic OmnisignificanceElman, Yaakov. (2014) Chapter 3: Striving for Meaning: A Short History of Rabbinic Omnisignificance In World Philology (Pollock, Sheldon I., Benjamin A. Elman, and Ku-ming Kevin Chang, eds) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. URL: https://sheldonpollock.org/archive/pollock_world_2014.pdf
- World Philology (just FYI entire book from Sheldon Pollock's complete bibliography and repositoryPollock, Sheldon I., Benjamin A. Elman, and Ku-ming Kevin Chang, eds. World Philology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. URL: https://sheldonpollock.org/archive/pollock_world_2014.pdf
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