This dissertation examines the ancient Iranian context of the Babylonian Talmud, the vast compendium of Jewish law and lore that the rabbis produced while living under the Persian Sasanian Empire (224–651 C.E. ) whose official religion was Zoroastrianism. While for decades schol…
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This dissertation argues that an assembly of passages of mid-fourth century redaction lays submerged below the textual surface of b. Rosh Hashanah. It claims that the third Babylonian amoraic generation (c. 290–320 C.E.) witnessed a cultural exchange that allowed some early vers…
This dissertation argues for the importance of a feminist hermeneutics which refuses to submit to the dominant androcentric discourse of rabbinic literature. Analyzing the talmudic discussions of menstrual regulations (Niddah), it engages in readings of select texts which have a…
This dissertation examines Emmanuel Lévinas's Talmudic readings and the hermeneutics employed to translate the Talmud into modern language. Lévinas claims to be translating “Hebrew” into “Greek” by rendering into a universal, philosophical language (“Greek”) the ethical structur…
Sherira, living in 10th century Baghdad, head of the world-renowned Academy there, popularly called Pumbedita, was the leading Jewish Halachic authority of his day. His responsa, dealing basically with Halachic and Talmudic issues, but also with social and economic problems, wer…
This dissertation assesses the degree of tolerance held by the rabbis of the Talmud towards diversity of halakhic practice within the rabbinic community. By comparing dozens of Yerushalmi and Bavli parallel sugyot, we have found that the Yerushalmi generally views diversity of p…
The Bavli contains 39 cases about "a certain woman" who appears, autonomously of any male relative or guardian, before a rabbi for a legal decision on a variety of civil, ritual, and other issues. These cases, identified by applying Isaiah Gafni's formulaic criteria for an "actu…
Massekhet Ta`anit, a tractate of the Babylonian Talmud that addresses fasts in response to drought among rabbinic Jewish communities in Iate antiquity, envisions rainfall as a tangible manifestation of divine blessing and a key signifier of the relationship between God and Israe…
This dissertation investigates the meaning and usage of a particular set of linguistically related Talmudic terms in order to show how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the emerging scholastic centers of rabbinic learning in late Sassanian Babylonia.…
Scientific Rabbinics is dominated by the desire to clarify the relationship between Amoraic material and the anonymous (stama) material in the two Talmudim. One of the most radical suggestions has been that of "fictitious sugya", that stama editors invented and attributed statem…
This dissertation, utilizing part of Bavli Ta'anit Chapter 1 as a model, demonstrates how the theories and methods of contemporary Talmudic scholarship can be synthesized to create a comprehensive scientific edition of, and commentary to the Babylonian Talmud. I. The methodology…
Yahudilik, evlilik olgusuna Tanrı'nın bir emri olarak bakmaktadır. Böylece evlilik kutsal bir sorumluluk, çoğalma ve toplumun oluşması için gerekli bir hâle dönüşmektedir. Bir eş bulma ve ailenin önemi hakkında gerek yazılı kültürde gerekse sözlü kültürde kaynaklar doğrultusunda…
“Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Osmanlı Ordusu İçerisinde Yer Almış Yahudiler” konulu tezde Osmanlı Devleti’nin Birinci Dünya Savaşı’na sürüklendiği yıllarda etkili Yahudi isimlerini araştırmak hedeflenmiştir. Özellikle savaş esnasında komutanlık yapmış olanlar, Siyonizm’e hizmet etmi…
Kur'an-ı Kerim'de kesin ve bağlayıcı bir emirle hamrın haram olduğu bildirilmiştir. Ancak İslam hukukçuları arasında hamrın kapsamının ne olduğu, ihtilaflı bir konudur. Bu çalışma ile alkollü içkiler konusundaki Ebû Hanîfe'nin görüşlerinin tesbit edilmesi amaçlanmıştır.
The printed version of the Commentary of Rav Hananel to Bava Metsia does not go beyond folio 52 of the tractate, although Bava Metsia is more than twice as long, extending to fol. 119a. Lost portions of the lost commentary may be reconstructed on the basis of Genizah fragments a…
The Talmud reflects a predominantly agricultural and sedentary life style. Halakhic activities that presupposed physical presence operated efficiently in this world. The shift to a commercial and mobile society in the medieval period, however, rendered the presumption of presenc…
This dissertation examines the scope and limitations of the re-appropriation of the term barbarism by modern Jewish intellectuals in conversation with Third World social movements. Emmanuel Lévinas is my paradigmatic example of this re-appropriation, as his Talmudic interpretati…