Contents

List of Contributors

Yaakov Elman: List of Publications

Preface

The Re-Presentation of ‘Biblical’ Legal Material at Qumran: Three Cases from 4Q159 (4QOrdinancesa)

Medieval and Modern Philology: Notes on the First Sugya of BT Nazir

What Must the Jew do to Help the Cooking? An Analytic Resolution to bAZ 38

Biblical Influence on Virgil

“For this Schoolhouse is Beautiful”: A Note on Samaritan ‘Schools’ in Late Antique Palestine

Sorting Out the Wages of Adultery: Execution, Ordeal or Divorce

“One Day David Went Out for the Hunt of the Falconers”: Persian Themes in the Babylonian Talmud

The Agonistic Bavli: Greco-Roman Rhetoric in Sasanian Persia

A Late Antique Babylonian Rabbinic Treatise on Astrology

Redesigning Tzitzit in the Babylonian Talmud in Light of Literary Depictions of the Zoroastrian kustīg

Irano-Talmudica II: Leviathan, Behemoth and the ‘Domestication’ of Iranian Mythological Creatures in Eschatological Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud

Learning from the Tāg: On a Persian word for ‘crown’ in Jewish Aramaic

The adwadād Offence in Zoroastrian Law

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

‘Until Tzadoq Arose’ in the Damascus Document: Tzadoq and his Appointment as High Priest in Early Jewish Interpretation

Astrology and the Head of the Academy

The Curving Shore of Time and Space: Notes on the Prologue to Pushkin’s Ruslan and Ludmila

The Samaritans in Amoraic Halakhah

Parva—a Magus

Religious Actions Evaluated by Intention: Zoroastrian Concepts Shared with Judaism

Hairy Meat? On Nērangestān, Chapter 47.1–20

Yefet in the House of Shem: The Influence of the Septuagint Translation of the Scroll of Esther on Rabbinic Literature

Scripture Versus Contemporary (Interpretive) Needs: Towards a Mapping of the Hermeneutic Contours of Zoroastrianism

Hebrew Section

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