Shai Secunda
Biographic Data
| ID | 2832419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shai Secunda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shai |
| FAMILY NAME | Secunda |
| SIGNATURE | SECUNDA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of JerusalemMt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905Israel |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-9237-1591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Talmud's Red Fence
Rituals governing menstruation were an important aspect of Babylonian Jewish life, and they took shape within the context of Sasanian Mesopotamia, where neighboring religious communities were similarly animated by menstruation and its assumed impurity. The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstruation and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context examines how the Talmudic rules of menstruation functioned within the dynamic space of Sasanian Me…
Talmud's Red Fence
Impure Gates
This chapter shows how menstrual rituals were a meaningful component of religious identity formation in the Sasanian Empire. Attitudes towards menstruation were used to categorize and differentiate religious communities, while changing attitudes towards menstrual impurity signaled changing religious affiliations. Three main Sasanian non-Jewish attitudes towards menstrual impurity are described: The Zoroastrian, which is shown to be formulistic, S…
This, but Also That
“This, but Also That”: Historical, Methodological, and Theoretical Reflections on Irano-Talmudica Shai Secunda Some fifteen years ago, Yaakov Elman and a handful of young talmudists embarked on a major effort to correct a scholarly lacuna, namely, the dearth of talmudic studies that take the Bavli’s Sasanian context seriously into account. The history of scholarship has been recounted time and again, but the primary point bears repeating. Unlike …
Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon
This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various …
The Fractious Eye
Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of the Avesta and interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian wri…
The Iranian Talmud
Note on Abbreviations, Citations, and Terminology Introduction Chapter 1. The Sea of Talmud and Its Shore: The Talmud and Sasanian Remains Chapter 2. In the Temple and Synagogue: Locating Jewish-Zoroastrian Encounters in Sasanian Mesopotamia Chapter 3. Constructing Them: Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Discourses of the Other Chapter 4. Closer Than They May Appear: Alternative Descriptions of Sasanians and Zoroastrian Priests in the Bavli Chapter 5. In …
Shoshannat Yaakov
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 Antiq…
Shoshannat Yaʻaqov
The Talmudic Bei Abedan and the Sasanian Attempt to »Recover« the Lost Avesta
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Reading the Bavli in Iran
Recently, scholars have begun to reexamine the Babylonian Talmud in light of its Sasanian Iranian context A fair number of parallels have thus far been adduced and analyzed. However, there has been relatively little theoretical discussion regarding the implications of contextualizing the Bavli. This article articulates one methodological problem by, on the one hand emphasizing both the Bavli's apparent insularity from non-Jewish Sasanian literatu…
Talmudic Text and Iranian Context
The past few years have witnessed an expansion of the range of sources that Talmudists regularly employ in their research on the Bavli. Scholars now turn to Iranian epic and folk literature; to Zoroastrian, Manichaean, and Eastern Christian ritual and theological writings; to Sasanian civil law; and to other nonrabbinic sources in an effort to broaden and deepen their understanding of the Bavli and its place in the “splendid confusion” that was S…
The Iranian Talmud
Note on Abbreviations, Citations, and Terminology Introduction Chapter 1. The Sea of Talmud and Its Shore: The Talmud and Sasanian Remains Chapter 2. In the Temple and Synagogue: Locating Jewish-Zoroastrian Encounters in Sasanian Mesopotamia Chapter 3. Constructing Them: Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Discourses of the Other Chapter 4. Closer Than They May Appear: Alternative Descriptions of Sasanians and Zoroastrian Priests in the Bavli Chapter 5. In …
The Fractious Eye
Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of the Avesta and interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian wri…
Reading the Bavli in Iran
Recently, scholars have begun to reexamine the Babylonian Talmud in light of its Sasanian Iranian context A fair number of parallels have thus far been adduced and analyzed. However, there has been relatively little theoretical discussion regarding the implications of contextualizing the Bavli. This article articulates one methodological problem by, on the one hand emphasizing both the Bavli's apparent insularity from non-Jewish Sasanian literatu…
This, but Also That
“This, but Also That”: Historical, Methodological, and Theoretical Reflections on Irano-Talmudica Shai Secunda Some fifteen years ago, Yaakov Elman and a handful of young talmudists embarked on a major effort to correct a scholarly lacuna, namely, the dearth of talmudic studies that take the Bavli’s Sasanian context seriously into account. The history of scholarship has been recounted time and again, but the primary point bears repeating. Unlike …
Talmudic Text and Iranian Context
The past few years have witnessed an expansion of the range of sources that Talmudists regularly employ in their research on the Bavli. Scholars now turn to Iranian epic and folk literature; to Zoroastrian, Manichaean, and Eastern Christian ritual and theological writings; to Sasanian civil law; and to other nonrabbinic sources in an effort to broaden and deepen their understanding of the Bavli and its place in the “splendid confusion” that was S…
Reading the Bavli in Iran
Recently, scholars have begun to reexamine the Babylonian Talmud in light of its Sasanian Iranian context A fair number of parallels have thus far been adduced and analyzed. However, there has been relatively little theoretical discussion regarding the implications of contextualizing the Bavli. This article articulates one methodological problem by, on the one hand emphasizing both the Bavli's apparent insularity from non-Jewish Sasanian literatu…
The Talmudic Bei Abedan and the Sasanian Attempt to »Recover« the Lost Avesta
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Shoshannat Yaakov
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 Antiq…
Shoshannat Yaʻaqov
The Iranian Talmud
Note on Abbreviations, Citations, and Terminology Introduction Chapter 1. The Sea of Talmud and Its Shore: The Talmud and Sasanian Remains Chapter 2. In the Temple and Synagogue: Locating Jewish-Zoroastrian Encounters in Sasanian Mesopotamia Chapter 3. Constructing Them: Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Discourses of the Other Chapter 4. Closer Than They May Appear: Alternative Descriptions of Sasanians and Zoroastrian Priests in the Bavli Chapter 5. In …
Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon
This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. The studies, written by leading scholars in the fields of Assyriology, Iranian studies and Jewish studies, examine various modes of cultural connections between these societies, such as historical, social, legal, and exegetical intersections. The various …
The Fractious Eye
Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of the Avesta and interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian wri…
This, but Also That
“This, but Also That”: Historical, Methodological, and Theoretical Reflections on Irano-Talmudica Shai Secunda Some fifteen years ago, Yaakov Elman and a handful of young talmudists embarked on a major effort to correct a scholarly lacuna, namely, the dearth of talmudic studies that take the Bavli’s Sasanian context seriously into account. The history of scholarship has been recounted time and again, but the primary point bears repeating. Unlike …
The Talmud's Red Fence
Rituals governing menstruation were an important aspect of Babylonian Jewish life, and they took shape within the context of Sasanian Mesopotamia, where neighboring religious communities were similarly animated by menstruation and its assumed impurity. The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstruation and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context examines how the Talmudic rules of menstruation functioned within the dynamic space of Sasanian Me…
Talmud's Red Fence
Impure Gates
This chapter shows how menstrual rituals were a meaningful component of religious identity formation in the Sasanian Empire. Attitudes towards menstruation were used to categorize and differentiate religious communities, while changing attitudes towards menstrual impurity signaled changing religious affiliations. Three main Sasanian non-Jewish attitudes towards menstrual impurity are described: The Zoroastrian, which is shown to be formulistic, S…
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