Jonathan S. Milgram – författare

Employing text critical methods, Jonathan S. Milgram argues that, in the absence of the hermeneutic underpinnings for tannaitic innovations, the inheritance laws of the tannaim were not the result of the rabbinic penchant for inventive interpretation of Scripture. Turning to biblical, ancient near eastern, Second Temple, Greek, Elephantine, Judean desert, and Roman sources, the author finds conceptual and terminological parallels adopted and adapted by the tannaim and argues for a close affinity between some Roman institutions and their tannaitic counterparts. Since the tannaitic traditions reflect the social and economic contexts of the tannaitic period—the nuclear family on privatized landholdings in urban centers—the author also considers the degree to which the laws may have emerged out of these contexts.

Jonathan S. Milgram zeigt, dass die Umwandlung des Erbrechts von der biblischen zur tannaitischen Zeit am besten vor dem Hintergrund der rechtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhänge erklärt werden kann, in der die tannaitischen Gesetze formuliert wurden. Dazu stellt der Autor Gesetze in anderen antiken Gesetzestraditionen dar, die von den Tannaim übernommen und angenommen wurden und erwägt das Ausmaß, in dem tannaitische Gesetze aus den sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Gegebenheiten des tannatischen Palästina entsprungen sein könnten.

Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his career, Joel Roth has been known as a scholar and teacher of Talmud par excellence, and, without question, as the preeminent decisor of Jewish law for the Conservative movement of his generation. In the meticulous style and approach of the Talmud scholarship of his generation, Roth painstakingly and precisely assayed the vast array of rabbinic legal sources, and proceeded to apply these in pedagogy, in scholarship and particularly in the production of contemporary legal responsa. The articles in this volume reflect the unique and integrated voice and vision that Joel Roth has brought to the American Jewish community.