Studies in Post-Biblical Judaism: History and Literature of Rabbinic Judaism

RS-709; McMaster University, Term I, 2003/2004 – Tuesdays, 1:00 to 3:00 pm, UH 122
Annette Y. Reed (Dept. of Religious Studies; UH 110; 905-525-9140 ext. 24597)


ON-LINE RESOURCES

Below are a list of links to some of the many on-line resources for studying, researching, and teaching Rabbinic Judaism. If you find any other links that may be of interest to the members of our seminar, please email me.

GENERAL, INTRODUCTORY, & REFERENCE

  • RAMBI - Index of Articles in Jewish Studies
  • Jewish Encyclopedia - This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.
  • Jewish Virtual Library
  • Judaism 101 - Glossary of basic terms and concepts
  • Index of Electronic Resources for Judaic and Cognate Studies - An extensive and well-organized collection of links compiled by the UPenn Library.
  • Dinur Center for the Study of Jewish History
  • Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
  • Timeline for the History of Judaism
  • www.annettereed.com - Judaism links

    ON-LINE TEXTS, BOOKS, & JOURNALS

  • Mecho Mamre - Features on-line Hebrew texts of Mishneh, Bavli, Yerushalmi, Tosefta
  • Shaye J. D. Cohen, The Beginnings of Jewishness : Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. - Ebook; McMaster users only.
  • Marc Hirshman, A rivalry of genius: Jewish and Christian biblical interpretation in late antiquity, Albany : State University of New York Press, 1996. - Ebook; McMaster users only.
  • Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal - See esp. Jeffrey L. Rubenstein's "The Rise of the Babylonian Rabbinic Academy: A Reexamination of the Talmudic Evidence" (PDF).
  • Louis Ginzberg's The Legends of the Jews - Ginzberg's classic in electronic form; from The Internet Sacred Text Archive; also available from the e-text archive Philologos
  • Learning @JTS - Selections from books -- most notably for our purposes Richard Kalmin's Sages, Stories, Authors and Editors in Rabbinic Babylonia -- plus book recommendations from JTS faculty (see esp Joel Roth's list of books related to Talmud, which includes a helpful survey of English editions of the Bavli.
  • "The Aqedah: Examples of Midrashic Interpretation" - By Jay Treat
  • Selections from Midrash Tanhuma - from The Internet Sacred Text Archive

    BIBLIOGRAPHIES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

  • Bibliography: Jewish Social Studies in Antiquity by Meir Bar-Ilan (Bar-Ilan University); includes sections on social history, women, and childhood.
  • Midrash Bibliography - An extensive, searchable bibliography on Midrash from Hebrew Union College, including primary texts and translations, as well as a broad range of relevant secondary literature.
  • Judaica Bibliography - From Vanderbilt University.

    HEBREW & ARAMAIC LANGUAGE RESOURCES

  • Jewish Language Resource Site - Summaries and bibliographies; see esp. sections on Hebrew and Aramaic.
  • Hebrew Abbreviations
  • The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon - A new dictionary of the Aramaic language, in preparation by an international team of scholars, centered at HUC Cincinnati.

    TEACHING RABBINIC JUDAISM IN ACADEMIC SETTINGS: SYLLABI & ON-LINE COURSE MATERIALS

  • JSN Syllabus Pages - A collection of syllabi from the H-Judaism Jewish Studies Network
  • Homepage of Eliezer Segal - Including a number of resources for teaching from his course at the University of Calgary, including an Interactive Page from the Talmud and Timeline of the Classical Rabbinic Period, see esp. his course materials for Judaism in Talmud and Midrash
  • Persona in Rabbinic Tradition - Introductory material by Mahlon Smith; see also his page on Rabbinic Texts and Traditions
  • The Goy's Guide to Midrash - Compiled by the Seminar on Jewish Apocalyptic, Harvard Divinity School, Fall 1988, Under the Supervision of Professor Michael E. Stone, edited by K. William Whitney, Jr.
  • Basic Timeline of Jewish History - Handout from my course at Rutgers on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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