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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
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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
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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).
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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.
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"The Aqedah: Examples of
Midrashic Interpretation" - By Jay Treat
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Selections from Midrash Tanhuma
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The Internet Sacred Text Archive
BIBLIOGRAPHIES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
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Bibliography: Jewish Social Studies in Antiquity by Meir
Bar-Ilan (Bar-Ilan University); includes sections on social history, women, and
childhood.
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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.
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- Hebrew
Abbreviations
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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
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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
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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