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Hebrew Union College Annual

Hebrew Union College Annual Hebrew Union College Annual 79 (2008), 1-41 Avraham Walfish, Halakhic Confrontation Dramatized: A Study of Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 2:8-9 ( Mishnah Roš Haššanah 2:8-9 relates the confrontation between R. Joshua and Rabban Gamliel regarding the sanctification of the new moon. The article presents a novel reading of the story that unveils an inner logic and solves seemingly problematic features of the narrative, thereby refuting recent attempts to “reconstruct” the original version of the story); 43-68 Gail Labovitz, Of Proper and Unrestrained Men: Reading Law, Narrative, and Desire in the Babylonian Talmud (Presents a reading of a sugya in Talmud Bavli, Qiddušin 80b-81b, which discusses rules regulating yîḥûd —private contact between men and women. The author takes into account the legal and narrative parts of the text as well as issues of rabbinic culture, demonstrating that the sugya is open to multiple interpretations, each of which may carry alternative ways of understanding how the sugya constructs ideas about men, women, and sexual desire); 69-86 Tzvi Novick, Blessings over Misvot: The Origins of a Category (Traces the origins of the rabbinic category of blessing over miṣwôt in Second Temple Judaism and early rabbinic Judaism, and argues that one of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of Judaism Brill

Hebrew Union College Annual

Journal for the Study of Judaism , Volume 46 (4-5): 583 – Nov 25, 2015

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Survey of Articles
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0047-2212
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1570-0631
DOI
10.1163/15700631-12340118
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Hebrew Union College Annual 79 (2008), 1-41 Avraham Walfish, Halakhic Confrontation Dramatized: A Study of Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 2:8-9 ( Mishnah Roš Haššanah 2:8-9 relates the confrontation between R. Joshua and Rabban Gamliel regarding the sanctification of the new moon. The article presents a novel reading of the story that unveils an inner logic and solves seemingly problematic features of the narrative, thereby refuting recent attempts to “reconstruct” the original version of the story); 43-68 Gail Labovitz, Of Proper and Unrestrained Men: Reading Law, Narrative, and Desire in the Babylonian Talmud (Presents a reading of a sugya in Talmud Bavli, Qiddušin 80b-81b, which discusses rules regulating yîḥûd —private contact between men and women. The author takes into account the legal and narrative parts of the text as well as issues of rabbinic culture, demonstrating that the sugya is open to multiple interpretations, each of which may carry alternative ways of understanding how the sugya constructs ideas about men, women, and sexual desire); 69-86 Tzvi Novick, Blessings over Misvot: The Origins of a Category (Traces the origins of the rabbinic category of blessing over miṣwôt in Second Temple Judaism and early rabbinic Judaism, and argues that one of the

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Published: Nov 25, 2015

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