Christine Hayes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Hayes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayes |
| SIGNATURE | HAYES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rabbinic Literature
The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning presents the major works of classical rabbinic Judaism as inter-related aggregates analyzed through three broad perspectives: intertextuality (the multi-directional relationships among and between rabbinic texts and non-rabbinic Jewish sources), east and west (the impact on rabbinic texts of the cultures of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Christian West and the Sasanian East), and halakhah and aggadah (the …
Gregg E. Gardner. Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity
“Barbarians” judge the law
In the ancient and late antique world, various peoples engaged in competitive ethnic apologetics. In so doing, they drew on central tropes of the civilized/barbarian dichotomy, first formulated by the Greeks, which valorized law as the definitive mark of a civilized people and bulwark against barbarian savagery. Invoking familiar tropes of the “barbarian repertoire” (described by Kostas Vlassopoulos), ancient and late antique writers adopted a do…
Roman and Jewish Law
Malka presents convincing evidence in support of the claim that the rabbinic list is not indigenous but borrowed from the Roman legal institution of infamia, which was also attached to certain professions and also deprived persons of their eligibility for testimony. More important, she shows that this structural parallel is bolstered by a deeper conceptual parallel, for underlying both the rabbinic and the Roman disqualification is a wider Greco-…
Classic Essays in Early Rabbinic Culture and History
"This volume brings together a set of classic essays on early Rabbinic history and culture, seven of which have been translated into English especially for this publication. The studies are grouped round three themes: sources, methods and meaning; tradition and self-invention; and Rabbinic contexts. The volume is introduced by a new essay from the editor, summarizing the field and contextualizing the reprinted papers"
The Faces of Torah
Statement from the Incoming Editors
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What's Divine about Divine Law?
In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. This book untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine law and shows how early adherents to biblical tradition—Hellenistic Jewish writers such as Philo, the community at Qumran, Paul, and the talmudic rabbis—struggled to make…
What's Divine about Divine Law?
“In the west, they laughed at him
In the present article I examine the rhetorical function of the phrase “in the west [the Land of Israel], they laughed at him/it” found in dialectical halakhic contexts in the Babylonian Talmud. I argue that the literary motif of “mocking westerners” allows Babylonian rabbinic authors/redactors to voice reservations about the nominalist or anti-realist orientation of some rabbinic legal interpretation as seen in the use of legal fictions, contrar…
Statement from the Incoming Editors
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What is (the) Mishnah? Concluding Observations
If the scholarly works discussed here are any indication, as I believe they are, the study of the Mishnah is alive and well. Yet a question immediately suggests itself: Do the works under consideration here together constitute a new approach to the Mishnah and thus inaugurate a new era in mishnaic studies
Do Converts to Judaism Require Purification? M. Pes 8
»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
Ritual and Morality
The Jewish Quarterly Review, XCH, Nos. 3-4 (January-April, 2002) 286-292 Hyam Maccoby. Ritual and Morality: The Ritual Purity System and its Place in Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 231. This concise, tightly-argued volume, an examination of the ritual purity system of the Hebrew Bible and its development into the ritual purity system of the rabbis, makes important contributions to contemporary discussions of the motivat…
Ritual and Morality
Preface 1. The sources of impurity: the human corpse 2. The corpse in the tent: an excursus 3. The sources of impurity: menstruation 4. The sources of impurity: childbirth, the Zab and Zabah 5. Normal emissions 6. Animals and purity 7. Impurity and sacrifices 8. The Red Cow: part one 9. The Red Cow: part two 10. Leprosy 11. The purification of the leper 12. Corpse and leper: an excursus 13. Ritual purity in the New Testament 14. Milgrom on purity…
Kol Nidre
This book is an introduction to the laws of oaths and vows of various types as they appear in biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic sources. These institutions developed over time, and the oaths and vows mentioned in Second Temple literature should not be understood in light of subsequent rabbinic development. On the contrary: it is precisely the Second Temple texts, however obscure they may be, that provide the clues toward understanding the evo…
Intermarriage and Impurity in Ancient Jewish Sources
Does a principle of Gentile ritual impurity motivate Israelite and late antique Jewish prohibitions of intermarriage? The answer to this question turns upon the answer to an even more basic question: is a principle of Gentile ritual impurity found in ancient Israelite and Jewish texts? Some suppose ritual impurity of Gentiles to be an ancient halakah dating perhaps to early biblical times (Schürer, Alon) and serving as the rationale for laws regu…
Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds
In this book, Hayes addresses the central concern in talmudic studies over the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c. AD 370) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. AD 650). Hayes analyses selected divergences between parallel passages of the two Talmuds. Proceeding on a case-by-case basis, she considers whether external influences (cultural or regional differences), intern…
Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds
Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee
Response To Jacob Neusner
A population genetic study of phosphoglycolate phosphatase
The distribution of phenotypes and the gene frequencies for the enzyme phosphoglycolate phosphatase for more than 3700 individuals from 31 different populations throughout the world are presented
Kol Nidre
This book is an introduction to the laws of oaths and vows of various types as they appear in biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic sources. These institutions developed over time, and the oaths and vows mentioned in Second Temple literature should not be understood in light of subsequent rabbinic development. On the contrary: it is precisely the Second Temple texts, however obscure they may be, that provide the clues toward understanding the evo…
A population genetic study of phosphoglycolate phosphatase
The distribution of phenotypes and the gene frequencies for the enzyme phosphoglycolate phosphatase for more than 3700 individuals from 31 different populations throughout the world are presented
Response To Jacob Neusner
Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds
In this book, Hayes addresses the central concern in talmudic studies over the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c. AD 370) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. AD 650). Hayes analyses selected divergences between parallel passages of the two Talmuds. Proceeding on a case-by-case basis, she considers whether external influences (cultural or regional differences), intern…
Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds
Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee
Intermarriage and Impurity in Ancient Jewish Sources
Does a principle of Gentile ritual impurity motivate Israelite and late antique Jewish prohibitions of intermarriage? The answer to this question turns upon the answer to an even more basic question: is a principle of Gentile ritual impurity found in ancient Israelite and Jewish texts? Some suppose ritual impurity of Gentiles to be an ancient halakah dating perhaps to early biblical times (Schürer, Alon) and serving as the rationale for laws regu…
Kol Nidre
This book is an introduction to the laws of oaths and vows of various types as they appear in biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic sources. These institutions developed over time, and the oaths and vows mentioned in Second Temple literature should not be understood in light of subsequent rabbinic development. On the contrary: it is precisely the Second Temple texts, however obscure they may be, that provide the clues toward understanding the evo…
Ritual and Morality
The Jewish Quarterly Review, XCH, Nos. 3-4 (January-April, 2002) 286-292 Hyam Maccoby. Ritual and Morality: The Ritual Purity System and its Place in Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 231. This concise, tightly-argued volume, an examination of the ritual purity system of the Hebrew Bible and its development into the ritual purity system of the rabbis, makes important contributions to contemporary discussions of the motivat…
Ritual and Morality
Preface 1. The sources of impurity: the human corpse 2. The corpse in the tent: an excursus 3. The sources of impurity: menstruation 4. The sources of impurity: childbirth, the Zab and Zabah 5. Normal emissions 6. Animals and purity 7. Impurity and sacrifices 8. The Red Cow: part one 9. The Red Cow: part two 10. Leprosy 11. The purification of the leper 12. Corpse and leper: an excursus 13. Ritual purity in the New Testament 14. Milgrom on purity…
Do Converts to Judaism Require Purification? M. Pes 8
»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
What is (the) Mishnah? Concluding Observations
If the scholarly works discussed here are any indication, as I believe they are, the study of the Mishnah is alive and well. Yet a question immediately suggests itself: Do the works under consideration here together constitute a new approach to the Mishnah and thus inaugurate a new era in mishnaic studies
Statement from the Incoming Editors
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
“In the west, they laughed at him
In the present article I examine the rhetorical function of the phrase “in the west [the Land of Israel], they laughed at him/it” found in dialectical halakhic contexts in the Babylonian Talmud. I argue that the literary motif of “mocking westerners” allows Babylonian rabbinic authors/redactors to voice reservations about the nominalist or anti-realist orientation of some rabbinic legal interpretation as seen in the use of legal fictions, contrar…
What's Divine about Divine Law?
In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. This book untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine law and shows how early adherents to biblical tradition—Hellenistic Jewish writers such as Philo, the community at Qumran, Paul, and the talmudic rabbis—struggled to make…
What's Divine about Divine Law?
Statement from the Incoming Editors
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Faces of Torah
Classic Essays in Early Rabbinic Culture and History
"This volume brings together a set of classic essays on early Rabbinic history and culture, seven of which have been translated into English especially for this publication. The studies are grouped round three themes: sources, methods and meaning; tradition and self-invention; and Rabbinic contexts. The volume is introduced by a new essay from the editor, summarizing the field and contextualizing the reprinted papers"
Roman and Jewish Law
Malka presents convincing evidence in support of the claim that the rabbinic list is not indigenous but borrowed from the Roman legal institution of infamia, which was also attached to certain professions and also deprived persons of their eligibility for testimony. More important, she shows that this structural parallel is bolstered by a deeper conceptual parallel, for underlying both the rabbinic and the Roman disqualification is a wider Greco-…
“Barbarians” judge the law
In the ancient and late antique world, various peoples engaged in competitive ethnic apologetics. In so doing, they drew on central tropes of the civilized/barbarian dichotomy, first formulated by the Greeks, which valorized law as the definitive mark of a civilized people and bulwark against barbarian savagery. Invoking familiar tropes of the “barbarian repertoire” (described by Kostas Vlassopoulos), ancient and late antique writers adopted a do…
Rabbinic Literature
The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning presents the major works of classical rabbinic Judaism as inter-related aggregates analyzed through three broad perspectives: intertextuality (the multi-directional relationships among and between rabbinic texts and non-rabbinic Jewish sources), east and west (the impact on rabbinic texts of the cultures of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Christian West and the Sasanian East), and halakhah and aggadah (the …
Gregg E. Gardner. Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity
Biblical Studies and Interpretation (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (12 works) · History (12 works) · Judaism (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · History (5 works)