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Professor of Talmud and Halakhah at HUC-JIR. Some of my closest friends lived many centuries ago. All opinions mine.
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Today Alyssa Gray engages Gross' Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity (Cambridge Press, 2024) by examining class consciousness between rabbis and the non-rabbinic wealthy.

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New article of mine: The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law - Read on degruyter.com/document/doi... @degruyter_brill or please DM me for a PDF.

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AJR published their first article 10 years ago, an essay by Alyssa Gray reflecting upon her 2005 monograph, " A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah." #AJRAnniversary

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I'm happy to announce the publication of Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin (Brown Judaic Studies, 2024), which I edited together with my friend and colleague Prof. Carol Bakhos. press.sbl-site.org/product/maki...

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This is a sort of subtweet (can we say that here? 😁) Yitzhak Isaac Halevy writes amusingly (to me) against arguments that Yerushalmi didn't come to Bavel earlier than Sa'adyah: "it's as if the land of Israel is a region on the moon, from which it's impossible to bring all the learning of EY. . . ."

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Thanks to @kristadalton.bsky.social, I'm new here on Bluesky! Who else do I know here?

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