Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman

568 Pages·2012·6.035 MB·English

by  Shai Secunda, Steven Fine

Shoshannat Yaakov
The Brill Reference Library
of Judaism
Editors
Alan J. Avery-Peck (College of the Holy Cross)
William Scott Green (University of Miami)
Editorial Board
David Aaron (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion, Cincinnati)
Herbert Basser (Queen’s University)
Bruce D. Chilton (Bard College)
José Faur (Netanya College)
Neil Gillman ( Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Mayer I. Gruber (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel Aviv University)
Maurice-Ruben Hayoun (University of Geneva)
Arkady Kovelman (Moscow State University)
David Kraemer ( Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Baruch A. Levine (New York University)
Alan Nadler (Drew University)
Jacob Neusner (Bard College)
Maren Niehoff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Gary G. Porton (University of Illinois)
Aviezer Ravitzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Dov Schwartz (Bar Ilan University)
Günter Stemberger (University of Vienna)
Michael E. Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Elliot Wolfson (New York University)
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Yaakov Elman
(Courtesy of the Yeshiva University Archives)
Shoshannat Yaakov
Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor
of  Yaakov Elman
Edited by
Shai Secunda and Steven Fine
LEIDEN • BoSToN
2012
Cover illustration: Halakhic Inscription from the Rehov Synagogue, 6th–7th century CE.
Photograph by Yair Talmor.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shoshannat Yaakov : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of Yaakov Elman / edited by Shai
Secunda and Steven Fine.
  p. cm. — (The Brill reference library of Judaism, ISSN 1571-5000 ; v. 35)
 Includes bibliographical references.
 ISBN 978-90-04-23544-1 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-23545-8 (e-book) 1. Judaism—
Influence. 2. Iran—Civilization—Jewish influences—To 640. 3. Iran—Intellectual life—To 640.
4. Talmud—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 5. Bible. o.T.—Criticism, interpretation, etc.
6. Sassanids—Intellectual life. I. Elman, Yaakov. II. Secunda, Shai. III. Fine, Steven.
 BM537.S56 2012
 296—dc23
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CoNTENTS
List of Contributors  ........................................................................................ xi
Yaakov Elman: List of Publications  ........................................................... xv
Preface  ................................................................................................................ xxiii
The Re-Presentation of ‘Biblical’ Legal Material at Qumran:
Three Cases from 4Q159 (4Qordinancesa)  ......................................... 1
Moshe J. Bernstein
Medieval and Modern Philology: Notes on the First Sugya of BT
Nazir  ............................................................................................................... 21
Daniel Boyarin
What Must the Jew do to Help the Cooking? An Analytic
Resolution to bAZ 38  ................................................................................ 33
Shalom Carmy
Biblical Influence on Virgil  .......................................................................... 43
Louis H. Feldman
“For this Schoolhouse is Beautiful”: A Note on Samaritan ‘Schools’
in Late Antique Palestine  ........................................................................ 65
Steven Fine
Sorting out the Wages of Adultery: Execution, ordeal or
Divorce  .......................................................................................................... 77
Shamma Friedman
“One Day David Went Out for the Hunt of the Falconers”: Persian
Themes in the Babylonian Talmud  ...................................................... 111
Geoffrey Herman
The Agonistic Bavli: Greco-Roman Rhetoric in Sasanian Persia  ..... 137
Richard Hidary
A Late Antique Babylonian Rabbinic Treatise on Astrology ............. 165
Richard Kalmin
viii contents
Redesigning Tzitzit in the Babylonian Talmud in Light of Literary
Depictions of the Zoroastrian kustīg  ................................................... 185
Yishai Kiel
Irano-Talmudica II: Leviathan, Behemoth and the ‘Domestication’
of Iranian Mythological Creatures in Eschatological Narratives
of the Babylonian Talmud  ...................................................................... 203
Reuven Kiperwasser & Dan D.Y. Shapira
Learning from the Tāg: on a Persian Word for ‘Crown’ in Jewish
Aramaic  ......................................................................................................... 237
Aaron Koller
The adwadād offence in Zoroastrian Law  .............................................. 247
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  .................................................................................................. 271
Evyatar Marienberg
‘Until Tzadok Arose’ in the Damascus Document: Tzadoq and his
Appointment as High Priest in Early Jewish Interpretation  ........ 285
Chaim Milikowsky
Astrology and the Head of the Academy  ................................................ 301
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
The Curving Shore of Time and Space: Notes on the Prologue to
Pushkin’s Ruslan and Ludmila  ............................................................... 323
James R. Russell
The Samaritans in Amoraic Halakhah  ..................................................... 371
Lawrence H. Schiffman
Parva—a Magus  .............................................................................................. 391
Shai Secunda
contents ix
Religious Actions Evaluated by Intention: Zoroastrian Concepts
Shared with Judaism  ................................................................................. 403
Shaul Shaked
Hairy Meat? on Nērangestān, Chapter 47.1–20  ..................................... 415
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Yefet in the House of Shem: The Influence of the Septuagint
Translation of the Scroll of Esther on Rabbinic Literature  ........... 441
Joseph Tabory
Scripture Versus Contemporary (Interpretive) Needs: Towards a
Mapping of the Hermeneutic Contours of Zoroastrianism  .......... 465
Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina
Hebrew Section
א  ..................... הדגהל ללה ןיב :רדסה ליל תדועס
הקשנה דוד
טכ ..................... רוביצ ןברק לשו דיחי ןברק לש םתרדגהל
דלפנייטש הירא יבצ