Sarit Kattan Gribetz begins a review forum engaging Moulie Vidas' The Rise of Talmud.
We are pleased to announce this year's Models of Piety lineup at SBL's annual meeting!
"Places of Practice, Practices of Place: Two Perspectives on Religious Community in Rural Syria and Palestine during Late Antiquity"
With Dina Boero, Ra’anan Boustan, and Karen Britt
Mid Afternoon on Nov 20th.
Ishay Rosen-Zvi on how much credit to give the tannaim in light of Vidas' The Rise of Talmud.
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Maren Niehoff surveys Vidas "The Rise of Talmud" by bringing midrash into the conversation.
Today on AJR, Julia Hintlian offers her review of Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars by Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri (Yale University Press, 2025)
New pod! Mike talks to Matthew Crawford and Aaron Johnson on their translation of Cyril of Alexandria.
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Today, Carrie Schroeder reviews Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri's Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/26/working-with-manuscripts-a-guide-for-textual-scholars
I will argue that in the Amoraic period, the Jerusalem Talmud may not have been quite so unique and innovative in a way that differs from all other rabbinic compilations. Rather the Talmud and the…
The Bavli might remain the most celebrated rabbinic work, but the Yerushalmi was the first of its kind. The Bavli, in a sense, becomes less unique through Moulie’s reading, and “the Talmud” is…
“Throughout, the book keeps in focus the materiality of manuscripts and the embodied aspects of the craft of manuscript research. Although subtitled “A Guide for Textual Scholars,” this volume…
Moulie Vidas responds to the review forum on his book The Rise of Talmud. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/...
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“ The Rise of Talmud concludes with the argument that Talmud was distinctive because it centered humans reading other humans, as opposed to humans reading God; let this piece conclude with an…
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