Prof. Ishay Rosen-Zvi is Professor of Rabbinic Literature in the department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel-Aviv University, and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Kogod Center. He holds a Ph.D. in rabbinic literature from Tel-Aviv University and was elected to the Israel Young Academy of Sciences in 2013. Among his many publications are Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (2011); Body and Soul in Ancient Judaism (2012); and Goy: Israel’s Others and the Birth of the Gentile (2018, with Adi Ophir).
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June 3, 2020
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The Mishnah adds further humiliation to the biblical sotah ritual for a suspected adulteress. Other rabbinic texts from the same period critique this expansion, as well as the gender inequality inherent in the ritual itself.
The Mishnah adds further humiliation to the biblical sotah ritual for a suspected adulteress. Other rabbinic texts from the same period critique this expansion, as well as the gender inequality inherent in the ritual itself.
Some scholars see evidence for an early form of conversion in the requirement for a ger to be circumcised in order to bring a paschal offering (Exod 12:48). This requirement, however, is likely based on a connection between circumcision and the paschal offering as apotrapaic rituals. Instead, conversion as we know it is a rabbinic development.
Some scholars see evidence for an early form of conversion in the requirement for a ger to be circumcised in order to bring a paschal offering (Exod 12:48). This requirement, however, is likely based on a connection between circumcision and the paschal offering as apotrapaic rituals. Instead, conversion as we know it is a rabbinic development.
