Shoshannat Yaakov : : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of Yaakov Elman / / edited by Shai Secunda and Steven Fine.

• Superior document: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, v. 35
• TeilnehmendeR: Elman, Yaakov.; Secunda, Shai.; Fine, Steven.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (567 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Shoshannat Yaakov honors Yaakov Elman, Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and celebrates Elman’s contributions to a broad range of disciplines within Jewish and Iranian studies. The fruits of Elman’s seminal project of bringing together of scholars of Iranian studies and Talmud in ways that have transformed both disciplines, are well represented in this volume, together with scholarship that ranges from Second Temple Judaism to Late Antique Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Samaritanism and Christianity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Re-Presentation of ‘Biblical’ Legal Material at Qumran: Three Cases from 4Q159 (4QOrdinancesa) / Moshe J. Bernstein -- Medieval and Modern Philology: Notes on the First Sugya of BT Nazir / Daniel Boyarin -- What Must the Jew do to Help the Cooking? An Analytic Resolution to bAZ 38 / Shalom Carmy -- Biblical Influence on Virgil / Louis H. Feldman -- “For this Schoolhouse is Beautiful”: A Note on Samaritan ‘Schools’ in Late Antique Palestine / Steven Fine -- Sorting Out the Wages of Adultery: Execution, Ordeal or Divorce / Shamma Friedman -- “One Day David Went Out for the Hunt of the Falconers”: Persian Themes in the Babylonian Talmud / Geoffrey Herman -- The Agonistic Bavli: Greco-Roman Rhetoric in Sasanian Persia / Richard Hidary -- A Late Antique Babylonian Rabbinic Treatise on Astrology / Richard Kalmin -- Redesigning Tzitzit in the Babylonian Talmud in Light of Literary Depictions of the Zoroastrian kustīg / Yishai Kiel -- Irano-Talmudica II: Leviathan, Behemoth and the ‘Domestication’ of Iranian Mythological Creatures in Eschatological Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud / Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira -- Learning from the Tāg: On a Persian Word for ‘Crown’ in Jewish Aramaic / Aaron Koller -- The adwadād Offence in Zoroastrian Law / Maria Macuch -- Qui coierit cum muliere in fluxu menstruo . . . interficientur ambo (Lev. 20:18): The Biblical Prohibition of Sexual Relations with a Menstruant in the Eyes of Some Medieval Christian Theologians / Evyatar Marienberg -- ‘Until Tzadok Arose’ in the Damascus Document: Tzadoq and his Appointment as High Priest in Early Jewish Interpretation / Chaim Milikowsky -- Astrology and the Head of the Academy / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- The Curving Shore of Time and Space: Notes on the Prologue to Pushkin’s Ruslan and Ludmila / James R. Russell -- The Samaritans in Amoraic Halakhah / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Parva—a Magus / Shai Secunda -- Religious Actions Evaluated by Intention: Zoroastrian Concepts Shared with Judaism / Shaul Shaked -- Hairy Meat? On Nērangestān, Chapter 47.1–20 / Prods Oktor Skjærvø -- Yefet in the House of Shem: The Influence of the Septuagint Translation of the Scroll of Esther on Rabbinic Literature / Joseph Tabory -- Scripture Versus Contemporary (Interpretive) Needs: Towards a Mapping of the Hermeneutic Contours of Zoroastrianism / Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina -- סעודת ליל הסדר: בין הלל להגדה דוד הנשקה -- להגדרתם של קרבן יחיד ושל קרבן ציבור צבי אריה שטיינפלד.