https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/amitgvaryahu/activity/ Activity feed for Amit Gvaryahu. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:37:17 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ba62ec56b9e837832ca05ab6f68db64c https://tannaiticmidrash.hcommons.org/?p=5 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:33:47 +0000 The rabbis of the second and third centuries CE, known as the Tannaim (“repeaters”), were arguably the most impactful intellectual group in the history of the Jews. Their orally-codified works form the basis for […]

]]> 175fce8a5d48e3f6c774b213abcdebf6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859952/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:31:01 +0000 0 6891ac12e85780e7cdad8afe5bffcc2d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858511/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:46:23 +0000 This article is a discussion of two Greek loanwords found in the Rabbinic text Song of
Songs Rabbah. It shows that these words are best identified and explained through a
comparison with a Stoic theory of fire, described and refuted by Philo of Alexandria.
That these words, both hapax legomena in Rabbinic literature, are used in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 95a3349178db82f8c2b4682e1ae2a794 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825743/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 22:55:00 +0000 For centuries, the legal rate of interest in the Roman Empire was “one- hundredth”: 1 percent of the principal of the loan was added to it each month. Although Christian leaders and writers in the Greek and Latin west did not approve of this practice, Syriac-speaking Christian communities in the eastern Roman Empire incorporated the rate of “on…[Read more]

]]> 0 54cd137848f2bce8554d97b679548b7a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817543/ Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:36:29 +0000 A review of Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE, written by Ben Zion Rosenfeld and Haim Perlmutter

]]> 0 75fdaa5912aea4834ce48203f3c9e37e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817147/ Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:00:57 +0000 The Biblical Hebrew word פללים is rare and cryptic. Various readings have been פללים offered for it in its long reception history. Ancient readers of Scripture read in Exod 21:22 in two distinct ways. Some read it as “judges,” whereas others associated פללים with requests, pleas, petitions, and prayers. This latter under- standing of the wo…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b8764a942ae5e9c35d4ea29972b5c5f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1795013/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 02:23:47 +0000 Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.

]]> 0 b1221e7afef5996d09be0267e5882518 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1795012/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 02:23:45 +0000 Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.

]]> 0 99544e503635cd0cf318af04cc62df48 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794851/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:00:25 +0000 Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.

]]> 0 a8150f2e26821ba6dc5f234c7cb4bdc1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792860/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:23:47 +0000 Benjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc3fdb40c7ae80dc3f32e9b57299657e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792859/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:23:44 +0000 Benjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fcb9f03dfb4b745543519c74ca04231 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792858/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:23:38 +0000 Benjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]

]]> 0 48adf4e3bc3af4e619fd964e6cb59d7c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792740/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:44:38 +0000 Benjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]

]]> 0 70d2c492f255712530710ef9771d7b41 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792510/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:31:52 +0000 This article is a new reading of a Hebrew letter, Oxford MS Heb.d.69(P), written on papyrus and dated tentatively by scholars to the 6th century. The article begins with a new edition of the letter, first published in 1903, its first translation into English, a discussion of its language and epistolary conventions, including layout, script, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 057bdf23eda9daa6f513b822dd11ab03 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766227/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:29:17 +0000 Tannaitic literature, the earliest stratum of rabbinic literature, offers a detailed account of a complex and multivalent relationship between a small group of provincial subjects of the Roman Empire and their coins, couched in legal terms. In this article, I discuss tannaitic prescriptions for use and abuse of coins against the backdrop of other…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6dd28a18522c3c86da900518bccea70 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765741/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 07:34:11 +0000 0 4f6c6f3be2f020c8ea16584338de0ecb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764529/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:44:21 +0000 0 64d2c67450b8453b0fb5ecd83f2415fe https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741004/ Wed, 09 Jun 2021 18:32:08 +0000 0 638f292349848e539632e8cc9f921b24 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739172/ Sun, 23 May 2021 15:56:08 +0000 0 81083ce44f4c1459bb3bacff1ee54afc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738569/ Tue, 18 May 2021 11:32:04 +0000 The Persian lexeme pahrēz-, pahrēxtan (inf.), “to avoid, to abstain” and also “to care, to protect”, is found in Jewish, Christian, and Mandaic magical literature. It is also current in Mandaic works, and is found in some Geonic works in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. It has not yet been found in the Babylonian Talmud itself. In this article I discuss…[Read more]

]]> 0 24c51e768ff8a0cf4c70dbe1931c9da6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1735783/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 08:39:28 +0000 0 887f161a939f065e93023d81f3f500e1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1735220/ Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:16:01 +0000 0 b0056af8fa20171c962978abf3a4632f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1735219/ Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:09:28 +0000 0 5e906c9b9cac21db92b75d03774a88ef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1735217/ Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:31:43 +0000 0 e79cefdd5f055ebf64b6885e7dc28e34 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1735216/ Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:26:58 +0000 0 42b34d4f8db1b35fa9694cee1e8ba7dd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1734625/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:53:31 +0000 0 855b43e43b72cf79f9f808db16550e02 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1734623/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:49:16 +0000 0 230a5326b0f92988394d09357942643b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725636/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:53:58 +0000 The Hebrew Bible prohibits lending at interest. This is usually linked to care for the poor. A similar connection is found in post-biblical literature as well. In Deut 23:20–21, however, usury is disconnected from the poverty laws. Classical rabbinic literature (second to sixth centuries) follows Deuteronomy in sharply de-coupling usury from p…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca28453cc5b920c9e2488539bdb7f644 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723584/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:58:47 +0000 0 02622624107c48e238650231ad3675e1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723495/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:33:53 +0000 0 bc07c37f91b308770fe91c7a4493b267 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720737/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:27:32 +0000 0 04a43b3438f60688f43f8917bb693343 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714736/ Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:25:17 +0000 0 66dde65123ed26d8550718f67c286d66 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714591/ Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:58:37 +0000 0 9ed2b13364b935e9c23cbb6662b0b471 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713630/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:36:25 +0000 0 dd6935ddf2c80b96179c0d3ea87b616d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713629/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:33:55 +0000 0 c797493f6002fdc65ef637c57dfc26a7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713628/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:31:27 +0000 0 1e44affd96f810833d87b0616c9b6d8f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713627/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:28:22 +0000 0 5da1e51f0c80871d3c6a59f0b4d1bf81 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713614/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:25:48 +0000 Review of Stefan Krmnicek, Jérémie Chameroy, Money matters: coin finds and ancient coin use. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2019. Pp. vi, 272. ISBN9783774941755 €69,00.

]]> 0 f8d9e55be2dc5f23533c018c7762715f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713613/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:25:45 +0000 Review of Stefan Krmnicek, Jérémie Chameroy, Money matters: coin finds and ancient coin use. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2019. Pp. vi, 272. ISBN9783774941755 €69,00.

]]> 0 ef3865aa88f6da0c1cbf8e96112588a1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713568/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:19:34 +0000 Review of Stefan Krmnicek, Jérémie Chameroy, Money matters: coin finds and ancient coin use. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2019. Pp. vi, 272. ISBN9783774941755 €69,00.

]]> 0 3ca11b5d8dc42d26065f039dae5e9c5b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713566/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:20:02 +0000 0 4dc91649439b559a1ca86ae33571ecbf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693312/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:25:54 +0000 A description and edition of a fragment of the early rabbinic work Sifre Numbers, miscatalogued as a different work, found in the university library, Wrocław.

]]> 0 a2be3d45154f1eaf01f0db76cab0ca3b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693311/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:25:52 +0000 A description and edition of a fragment of the early rabbinic work Sifre Numbers, miscatalogued as a different work, found in the university library, Wrocław.

]]> 0 5129530a259e3f8267ea965cf1b5d0f6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693017/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:06:06 +0000 A description and edition of a fragment of the early rabbinic work Sifre Numbers, miscatalogued as a different work, found in the university library, Wrocław.

]]> 0 32361e7b00286c1f3254b5e665a7b13c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684948/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:25:42 +0000 Review of Ivan Marcus, Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

]]> 0 6b23792162bc12fdb65626e1d434f502 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684875/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:58:49 +0000 Review of Ivan Marcus, Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

]]> 0 80fc84972857aa604806ce4f5c220e3a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677981/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:25:23 +0000 The Tannaitic Laws of Battery: Scripture and Halakhah
Amit Gvaryahu
Four laws in the Pentateuch discuss fights between people. The arrangement of these laws and their relationship to one another were debated in the Tannaitic academies. The school of Rabbi Ishmael read these laws as a single entity, each law “coming to teach things omitted” in…[Read more]

]]> 0 357c7750ff6bd1fb8382d9edb8444533 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677980/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:25:21 +0000 The Tannaitic Laws of Battery: Scripture and Halakhah
Amit Gvaryahu
Four laws in the Pentateuch discuss fights between people. The arrangement of these laws and their relationship to one another were debated in the Tannaitic academies. The school of Rabbi Ishmael read these laws as a single entity, each law “coming to teach things omitted” in…[Read more]

]]> 0 d79a340cd4e3e7c4e4bb13c484d855cc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677917/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 22:52:04 +0000 The Tannaitic Laws of Battery: Scripture and Halakhah
Amit Gvaryahu
Four laws in the Pentateuch discuss fights between people. The arrangement of these laws and their relationship to one another were debated in the Tannaitic academies. The school of Rabbi Ishmael read these laws as a single entity, each law “coming to teach things omitted” in…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c0dc8963586cd756429aaf758dd607c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677573/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:26:33 +0000 A review of Katell Berthelot, Jonathan Price (ed.), In the Crucible of Empire: The Impact of Roman Citizenship upon Greeks, Jews and Christians. Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion, 21.

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