Thursday, March 01, 2007

How the Bible militates against parochialism and ignorance

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I thought I'd try my hand at that inspirational pull-a-quote genre. Thomas Huxley said , of the Bible: "[I]t forbids the veriest h...

Google goofles

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Haha. Link
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Masoretic text: the other side of the story

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I enjoy hearing the other perspective on issues. Well, not always, but I do when I barely even knew there was another perspective. For examp...

Purim is coming

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Posted at Mail-Jewish in 2005 by the talented Martin Stern (via Manuscript Boy ): Classic line, in my opinion: Ibn Shakhran notes that, thro...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Some quaint 17th century English definitions of Hebrew words

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1. From John Florio's Italian-English dictionary, " Queen Anna's New World of Words ," 1611, הושענה: Osánna signifies in H...

George Bush @ English Hebraica (alsos something for the pedants)

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1. Learn about Professor George Bush and download a very interesting review of his 1835 Hebrew grammar at English Hebraica . 2. For the peda...

NYU's Hebrew Professor George Bush (1796-1859)

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George Bush (1796-1859), an ordained minister, was professor of Hebrew and oriental literature at NYU from 1832-1846. He would have been lon...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Yated Neeman's text of Mishna Avot

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On the whole Yated/ YCT brouhaha J-blog newcomer Rejewvenate asks "how they can [publish] a piece like this and then get the one piece...

Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed. Post I: Heidenheim and Baer

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Having access to the new version of Encyclopedia Judaica through Spertus' wonderful Feinberg e-collection (see here ), I thought it mig...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Rabbi Mordechai Breuer (1921-2007)

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ADDeRabbi notes the passing of a giant of scholarship, Rabbi Mordechai Breuer z"l . edit: Also Lamed , Mar Gavriel , Ari Kinsberg and...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Chassidishe textual criticism and emendation

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This tendency of the Hasidim to encourage gladness and enjoyment is well illustrated by the view taken by R. Zebi Hirsch of Zhidachow (Zydac...

Dinim de Sehita y Bedica

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I'm not sure what audience there is for something like this, but it definitely is of antiquarian interest. You can download a small boo...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Did Elias Levita become a Christian? Also, teaching Torah to non-Jews.

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R. Eliyahu Bachur (but known by many names: "R. Eliyahu Ha-medakdek" "R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi" "Elias Levita" ...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Fascinating

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Hakirah

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I thought it might be interesting to review an article in the fourth volume of the Hakirah journal, which I was given an advance copy of. ...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

A conversation between Lawrence Schiffman and a Samaritan

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Here is a very interesting interview of Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman and a Samaritan Israelite for the A.B. Samaritan News publication. R...
Monday, February 05, 2007

Red Sea, Reed Sea, Jewish Sages with Greek and Persian names and Aristeas's letter

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Hirhurim posts about the identification of the yam suph , which literally means something like reed sea but entered Western consciousness a...

Why didn't Rabbis Nathan Adler and Samson Raphael Hirsch not find it necessary to become reformers?

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In the 1891 issue of the Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Dr Aaron Hahn, rabbi of Cleveland's Temple Anshe Chesed...
Friday, February 02, 2007

Don't white-out children's books

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Ugh .
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Did the Samaritans "always have the Torah + Joshua," as per R. Avigdor Miller?

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On pg. 38 of R. Avigdor Miller's Torah Nation we find Because of their hostility towards Israel, the Samaritans are one of the many tes...