Author: trmarvin
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Rashi’s Citations of Moshe ha-Darshan
Among the contemporaries Rashi cites in his commentaries, Moshe ha-Darshan is quoted a relatively few, yet still significant, number of times: Rashi cites him by name 17 times in his Tanakh commentary and twice in the Talmud commentary. Moshe ha-Darshan was a scholar active in Provence in the first half of the 11th century, in…
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Page Guide: Talmud
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How to Access Jewish Manuscripts
Updated: 27 February 2023. With so many Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts now digitized (though certainly not all), they are accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This means that anyone, not just scholars trained in codicology and paleography, can peek at these treasures and learn from them. As a medievalist, though not one who primarily…
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Building a Jewish Bookshelf
Looking to start or build your Jewish bookshelf? Here’s what I’d put on a standard Jewish bookshelf, with some notes and tips on selecting which editions to buy that will work best for you. Digital Texts First: I highly recommend using and investing in digital texts for everything except what you plan to be reading…
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Where to Find Jewish Texts Online
We’re living in an amazing, if transitional, age of Jewish text digitization and the leaps forward in access, search, and reading tools are available to all. Open-Access Text Repositories AlHaTorah.org — I’m a big fan of this always-growing and fully open-access repository of classical texts, and, notably, artworks. The reading interface for the Hebrew texts…