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I believe the interpretation you are trying to make is wrong because it is out of context . This gives a little pause because it is supposed to be sort of ok to take biblical verses out of context. Baraita_of_Rabbi_Ishmael The thirteen rules were compiled by Rabbi Ishmael b. Elisha for the elucidati...

This probably refers to "What need have I of all your sacrifices?" Says the LORD. "I am sated with burnt offerings of rams, And suet of fatlings, And blood of bulls; And I have no delight In lambs and he-goats. (Isa 1:11 TNK) This is obviously sarcastic - 1:10-17 puts it in context. H...

It fascinated me that Duvi argued that the Jesus passages in the Talmud were not about Jesus. I think this is because that the brilliant defenses of the Talmud of the Middle Ages came to be integrated into Judaism. The Disputation_of_Paris is an example. The terms of the disputation demanded that th...

It's remarkable that the only "academic" reference is a book about the Shroud. Tzitzit should probably be looked at at the same time. the name for specially knotted ritual fringes, or tassels, worn in antiquity by Israelites and today by observant Jews and Samaritans. Tzitzit are attached ...

Jesus_in_the_Talmud The name "ben Stada", used for the same figure, is explained by Peter Schäfer as a reference to his mother's supposed adultery: His mother's true name was Miriam, and “Stada” is an epithet which derives from the Hebrew/Aramaic root sat.ah/sete' (“to deviate from the ri...

We just read Parshah Chayei_Sarah where Genesis 24 deals with Abraham's servant going to find a wife for Isaac. The name of the servant is never mentioned. However, it is a decent guess that it was Eliezer - The Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer identified the unnamed steward of Abraham’s household in Genesis ...

Unlike your two posts, I included some references and specially noted the footnotes. There is a possibility that Josephus is not telling the truth. There is also the certainty that the document he looked at wasn't actually 1000 years old. One way or another it had to be a copy or recent. Footnote se...

This was interesting enough to look up. The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium edited by Lowell K Handy http://www.amazon.com/Age-Solomon-Scholarship-Millennium-Studies/dp/9004104763/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415630004&sr=8-1&keywords=handy+the+age+of+solomon Availab...

A friend at Shul asked the Rabbi about the meaning of[wiki]Lot's_wife[/wiki], which can only mean her turning into a Pillar of Salt. This shocked me a little because I always thought that this came from the geological formations near the Dead Sea and Mount Sodom. I was pleased to see that my instinc...

I think Rashi favored the interpretation that Melchizedik was Shem . According to some Jewish traditions (e.g., B. Talmud Nedarim 32b; Genesis Rabbah 46:7; Genesis Rabbah 56:10; Leviticus Rabbah 25:6; Numbers Rabbah 4:8.), Shem is believed to have been Melchizedek, King of Salem whom Abraham is reco...