A discussion group that’s open to all AJS members
Rachel Neis deposited Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine in the group
Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies on AJS Commons 5 months, 1 week agoDrawing on rabbinic sources redacted in the early third and late fourth/ early fifth centuries, this paper tracks the intertwined lives of divine image-things and rabbis living in late Roman and Byzantine period Palestine. The paper argues that the religious image-things of others (or avodah zarah, in rabbinic terms) pressed in different ways on…[Read more]
Marc Bregman deposited “God Made Himself into a Serpent before Moses” in the group
Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies on AJS Commons 1 year ago“God made Himself into a Serpent before Moses”
A Unique Midrashic Tradition on Exodus Chapters III-IV (Parashat Va-Era)
from an Early Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Genizah Fragment
