Steven D Fraade
Biographic Data
| ID | 943499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven D Fraade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven D |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraade |
| SIGNATURE | FRAADE S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8427-1332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
This Companion offers a comprehensive overview of the history, nature, and legacy of biblical law. Examining the debates that swirl around the nature of biblical law, it explores its historical context, the significance of its rules, and its influence on early Judaism and Christianity. The volume also interrogates key questions: Were the rules intended to function as ancient Israel's statutory law? Is there evidence to indicate that they served a…
Note
In memory of Geza Vermes ל"ז This note announces and publishes for the first time a heretofore unknown and unidentified fragment of a medieval codex manuscript that presents consecutive verses of Gen. 15 and 16 in alternating Hebrew (Scripture) and Aramaic (Targum). It discusses the significance of this manuscript for our knowledge of the codicology of Targum as it relates to the tandem performance of biblical text and its translation
Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism
In this book, Steven Fraade explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism. Interrogating the deep and dialectical relationship between them, he situates representative scriptural and other texts within their broader synchronic - Greco-Roman context, as well as diachronic context - the history of Judaism and beyond. Neither systematic nor comprehensive, his selection of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek primar…
Law As Religion, Religion As Law
Facing the Holy Ark, in Words and in Images
This essay explores depictions of the ark of the covenant in late antique Jewish and Christian texts, as well as ancient art. It explores the interrelationships between the arks of the covenant from the wilderness tabernacle and the first Jerusalem temple, and the ark for Torah scrolls in late antique synagogues. The inaccessibility or invisibility of the arks of the covenant in the tabernacle and temple is contrasted against the visibility and s…
“A Heart of Many Chambers”
Given the multiplicity of legal interpretations and opinions, the question of the place of legal debate within early rabbinic literature of late antiquity—both as textual practice and as hermeneutical and legal theory—has occupied a particularly busy space within recent scholarship. This question centers on several issues of broad significance for the history of rabbinic Judaism and its literature: Does this phenomenon (if we can speak of it in t…
Response to Azzan Yadin-Israel on Rabbinic Polysemy
The author revisits texts and arguments from his 2007 article in AJS Review 31 no. 1 in response to a “response” by Azzan Yadin-Israel in the April 2014 issue (38, no. 1). The central question is whether the widespread rabbinic textual practices of interpretive polysemy and legal multivocality are the product of the post-amoraic (“stammaitic”) editorial layer of the Babylonian Talmud (Yadin-Israel) or are already evidenced and theologically thema…
Rabbinic literature
Rabbinic literature includes texts that comprise the collected teachings and traditions of the rabbinic sages of Palestine (Land of Israel) and Babylonia from the first century CE through the fifth century CE .
Legal Fictions
Ancient Jewish writings combine interpretive narratives of Israel's sacred history with legal prescriptions for a divinely ordered way of life. Two ancient Jewish societies have left us extensive textual corpora preserving interpenetrating legal and narrative interpretive teachings: the sectarian community of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the sage-disciple circles of the early Rabbis. This book comprises studies that explore specific aspects of the in…
Legal fictions
Chapter Two. Nomos And Narrative Before “Nomos And Narrative”
This chapter demonstrates that what we might think of as a particularly modern tendency to separate law from narrative, if only for the economies of specialization, has itself an ancient history, and shows how that tendency, while recurrent, was as recurrently resisted from within Jewish tradition. In particular, at those cultural turning points in which laws are extracted or codified from previous narrative settings, the chapter shows that they …
Introduction to the Symposium
The following four papers originated in a special session of the History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism Section at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 19, 2006, in Washington, D.C. The panelists were asked to review and constructively critique one another's recent works on the Mishnah, with an eye toward setting each within the larger corpus of recent scholarship on the Mishnah and its broader literary and…
Rabbinic Polysemy and Pluralism Revisited
One of the most celebrated aspects of rabbinic literature is its adducing of multiple interpretations of scriptural verses and its valorizing of multiple legal opinions as expressed in debate among the rabbinic sages. This celebration has come from several quarters, with each finding in the purported rabbinic polysemy and pluralism support for agendas that could not possibly have been those of the ancient rabbis. For example, in the 1980s, some l…
Response to Herbert Basser
"Fraade, "From Tradition to Commentary
Interpretive Authority in the Studying Community at Qumran
La communaute des Sectaires de Qumran occupe une place importante dans le processus continu par lequel la Bible hebraique prend sa forme canonique. C'est a partir des manuscrits de la Mer Morte que les savants de la communaute travaillent. Ces manuscrits contiennent des textes bibliques, des commentaires bibliques sectaires et non-sectaires, des textes qui decrivent la place de l'Ecriture et de son interpretation dans la communaute. C'est sur ce …
What Is Midrash?Jacob Neusner
"Fraade's "Enosh and His Generation
Studies on Targum Jonathan to the Prophets
Interpretive Authority in the Studying Community at Qumran
La communaute des Sectaires de Qumran occupe une place importante dans le processus continu par lequel la Bible hebraique prend sa forme canonique. C'est a partir des manuscrits de la Mer Morte que les savants de la communaute travaillent. Ces manuscrits contiennent des textes bibliques, des commentaires bibliques sectaires et non-sectaires, des textes qui decrivent la place de l'Ecriture et de son interpretation dans la communaute. C'est sur ce …
Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism
In this book, Steven Fraade explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism. Interrogating the deep and dialectical relationship between them, he situates representative scriptural and other texts within their broader synchronic - Greco-Roman context, as well as diachronic context - the history of Judaism and beyond. Neither systematic nor comprehensive, his selection of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek primar…
Studies on Targum Jonathan to the Prophets
"Fraade's "Enosh and His Generation
What Is Midrash?Jacob Neusner
Response to Herbert Basser
"Fraade, "From Tradition to Commentary
Interpretive Authority in the Studying Community at Qumran
La communaute des Sectaires de Qumran occupe une place importante dans le processus continu par lequel la Bible hebraique prend sa forme canonique. C'est a partir des manuscrits de la Mer Morte que les savants de la communaute travaillent. Ces manuscrits contiennent des textes bibliques, des commentaires bibliques sectaires et non-sectaires, des textes qui decrivent la place de l'Ecriture et de son interpretation dans la communaute. C'est sur ce …
Rabbinic Polysemy and Pluralism Revisited
One of the most celebrated aspects of rabbinic literature is its adducing of multiple interpretations of scriptural verses and its valorizing of multiple legal opinions as expressed in debate among the rabbinic sages. This celebration has come from several quarters, with each finding in the purported rabbinic polysemy and pluralism support for agendas that could not possibly have been those of the ancient rabbis. For example, in the 1980s, some l…
Introduction to the Symposium
The following four papers originated in a special session of the History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism Section at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 19, 2006, in Washington, D.C. The panelists were asked to review and constructively critique one another's recent works on the Mishnah, with an eye toward setting each within the larger corpus of recent scholarship on the Mishnah and its broader literary and…
Legal Fictions
Ancient Jewish writings combine interpretive narratives of Israel's sacred history with legal prescriptions for a divinely ordered way of life. Two ancient Jewish societies have left us extensive textual corpora preserving interpenetrating legal and narrative interpretive teachings: the sectarian community of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the sage-disciple circles of the early Rabbis. This book comprises studies that explore specific aspects of the in…
Legal fictions
Chapter Two. Nomos And Narrative Before “Nomos And Narrative”
This chapter demonstrates that what we might think of as a particularly modern tendency to separate law from narrative, if only for the economies of specialization, has itself an ancient history, and shows how that tendency, while recurrent, was as recurrently resisted from within Jewish tradition. In particular, at those cultural turning points in which laws are extracted or codified from previous narrative settings, the chapter shows that they …
Rabbinic literature
Rabbinic literature includes texts that comprise the collected teachings and traditions of the rabbinic sages of Palestine (Land of Israel) and Babylonia from the first century CE through the fifth century CE .
Response to Azzan Yadin-Israel on Rabbinic Polysemy
The author revisits texts and arguments from his 2007 article in AJS Review 31 no. 1 in response to a “response” by Azzan Yadin-Israel in the April 2014 issue (38, no. 1). The central question is whether the widespread rabbinic textual practices of interpretive polysemy and legal multivocality are the product of the post-amoraic (“stammaitic”) editorial layer of the Babylonian Talmud (Yadin-Israel) or are already evidenced and theologically thema…
“A Heart of Many Chambers”
Given the multiplicity of legal interpretations and opinions, the question of the place of legal debate within early rabbinic literature of late antiquity—both as textual practice and as hermeneutical and legal theory—has occupied a particularly busy space within recent scholarship. This question centers on several issues of broad significance for the history of rabbinic Judaism and its literature: Does this phenomenon (if we can speak of it in t…
Facing the Holy Ark, in Words and in Images
This essay explores depictions of the ark of the covenant in late antique Jewish and Christian texts, as well as ancient art. It explores the interrelationships between the arks of the covenant from the wilderness tabernacle and the first Jerusalem temple, and the ark for Torah scrolls in late antique synagogues. The inaccessibility or invisibility of the arks of the covenant in the tabernacle and temple is contrasted against the visibility and s…
Law As Religion, Religion As Law
Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism
In this book, Steven Fraade explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism. Interrogating the deep and dialectical relationship between them, he situates representative scriptural and other texts within their broader synchronic - Greco-Roman context, as well as diachronic context - the history of Judaism and beyond. Neither systematic nor comprehensive, his selection of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek primar…
The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
This Companion offers a comprehensive overview of the history, nature, and legacy of biblical law. Examining the debates that swirl around the nature of biblical law, it explores its historical context, the significance of its rules, and its influence on early Judaism and Christianity. The volume also interrogates key questions: Were the rules intended to function as ancient Israel's statutory law? Is there evidence to indicate that they served a…
Note
In memory of Geza Vermes ל"ז This note announces and publishes for the first time a heretofore unknown and unidentified fragment of a medieval codex manuscript that presents consecutive verses of Gen. 15 and 16 in alternating Hebrew (Scripture) and Aramaic (Targum). It discusses the significance of this manuscript for our knowledge of the codicology of Targum as it relates to the tandem performance of biblical text and its translation
Philosophy (16 works) · History (14 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Literature (10 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (9 works) · Judaism (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Classics (6 works) · History (6 works)