Michael Grant's Jewish learning notes

I mentioned to various people at Limmud Conference that I'd be blogging my notes on the talks I've attended, and some people took down the URL of my blog. However, it could be months before any particular set of notes appears. If there's one talk in particular I attended you'd like to see, please comment on this post and I'll let you know when the notes appear.

Key:

o Supercool—you have to read this!
o Interesting.
o You might not find this interesting unless you're into Jewish learning. Or maybe you will, and your taste just differs from mine.

Quick links:

Apocrypha

o Why the Books of Maccabees Didn't Make It Into The Jewish Bible (Limmud 2007)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, posted 7 January 2008
o Jesus ben Sira and Jewish Learning (Newcastle Day Limmud 2007)
Robert Hayward, posted 31 viiiber 2007
o Judith the Obscure (Limmud 2005)
Rivy Poupko Kletenik, posted 7 March 2006

Archaeology

o Archaeological speculation on the origins of the second [sic] commandment (Limmud 2012)
Dr David Ilan, posted 13 January 2013
o How Israel Began (Limmud 2012)
Dr David Ilan, posted 10 January 2013
o The Synagogue of Dura-Europos (Limmud 2009)
Albert Ringer, posted 3 May 2010
o New Archaeological Insights on the Exodus and Mount Sinai (Limmud 2008)
Rabbi Dr Richard Freund, posted 8 February 2009
o Two Jewish Temples in Ancient Egypt (Limmud 2007)
Stephen Rosenberg, posted 3 February 2008
o Has the Teacher of Righteousness Been Found? (Limmud 2006)
Rabbi Dr Richard Freund, posted 3 February 2007
o The Rediscovery of the City of Yavne (Limmud 2006)
Rabbi Dr Richard Freund, posted 31 January 2007
o Talk transcript: The Jews of Elephantine
Rabbi Prof Bezalel Porten (HUJI), posted 8 xber 2005

Culture legend and myth

o Armilus, the Jewish Antichrist—the Apocalypse of Zerubbavel (Limmud 2012)
Roni Tabick, posted 22 May 2016
o Dead Souls (Limmud 2014)
Maureen Kendler, posted 9 May 2016
o Judaism, Mediaeval Ireland, and how Moses received a Gaelic ten commandments (Limmud 2015)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 3 January 2016
o My Two Sons: Ishmael and Isaac (Limmud 2014)
Wendy Amsallem, posted 3 February 2015
o Adventures in Israel: The Golem (Limmud 2012)
Steve Israel, posted 4 January 2014
o Nittelnacht: Christmas in the Yeshiva (Limmud 2011)
Benjamin Crowne, posted 29 January 2012
o Melchizedek as a Prototype for Ancient Jews and Christians (Limmud 2011)
Rabbi Joshua Garroway, Ph.D., posted 15 January 2012
o Romance in the margins of the Book of Esther (Limmud 2008)
Posted 3 March 2009
o The Dead Sea Scrolls on the Near-Sacrifice of Isaac (Limmud 2008)
James Kugel, posted 18 January 2009
o How Barmitzvah Parties Began (Limmud 2007)
Rabbi Dr Michael Hilton, posted 10 February 2008
o Beruriah: Truth. Myth and the Construction of the Ideal Woman (Limmud 2007)
Yaffa Epstein, posted 22 January 2008
o Robin Hood and the Jewish Connection (Limmud 2007)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 15 January 2008
o Reuben's Sin: Did he or didn't he? (Newcastle Day Limmud 2007)
Rabbi Dovid Lewis, posted 19 ixber 2007
o Sea Monsters and Giants (Limmud 2005)
Roni Tabick, posted 20 March 2006
o Judaeo-Spanish Poetry and Song (Limmud 2005)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 5 January 2006
o Judaeo-Spanish Mythology: Lilith (Limmud 2004)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 4 January 2006
o Lilith: First Wife and Demon Queen (Limmud 2004)
Roderick Young, posted 18 January 2005
o Satan in Biblical Israel (Limmud 2004)
Irit Printz, posted 4 January 2005

Halacha

o Suicide—a halachic history (Limmud 2015)
Joe Wolfson, posted 1 June 2016
o Is That בְּרָכָה Really Necessary? Uses and Abuses of the Divine Name (Limmud 2011)
Ian Gamse, posted 12 January 2012
o To Wear Is Human, To Live Divine: Cross Dressing and Drag in Jewish Texts (Limmud 2011)
Rabbi Elliot Kukla, posted 1 January 2012
o Radical Talmud: What's the origin of the ban on intermarriage? (Limmud 2009)
Dr Raphael Zarum, posted 22 February 2011
o No More Music? (the Moishe House Beit Midrash)
Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu, posted 2 March 2010
o What Have Women Done With Niddah (Limmud 2009)
Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers, posted 22 February 2010
o Eden Law: the Role of Rational Morality in the Halachah (Limmud Fest 2009)
Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sinclair, posted 22 viiiber 2009
o A Matter of Customs: Jewish festivals (Limmud 2008)
Rabbi Chaim Weiner, posted 12 March 2009
o An Aversion to Conversion (a talk at the New London Synagogue)
Posted 15 July 2008
o Four Gemaras to Live By: (ii) Concerning the weekly (Limmud 2007)
Dr Raphael Zarum, posted 27 January 2008
o Jewish Wedding—Fairy Tale or Nightmare? (the Marom Beit Midrash)
Rabbi Joel Levy, posted 14 March 2007
o Conditional Marriage (Limmud 2006)
Rabbi Diana Villa, posted 24 January 2007
o Can Sex Before Marriage Ever Be Kosher? (Limmud 2006)
Rabbi Joel Levy, posted 20 January 2007
o 'Women Who Rub': The Rabbis Talk About Lesbians (Limmud 2004)
Jay Michaelson, Nehirim: A Spiritual Initiative for GLBT Jews, posted 13 xber 2006
o Who Counts? Counting Women in the Minyan (New North London Learning, Autumn 2004)
Rabbi Chaim Weiner, posted 27 April 2006
o How To Get Yourself Excommunicated (Limmud 2005)
Rabbi Mark Goldsmith, posted 8 March 2006
o How to be a Mamzer (the Marom Bet Midrash)
Rabbi Jeremy Gordon, posted 19 February 2006
o Issues regarding marital status of women in Jewish Law (the Marom Bet Midrash)
R. Chaim Weiner, posted 26 viiiber 2005
o the historical basis behind segregation in the synagogue (NNLL autumn '04)
Chaim Weiner, posted 29 August 2005

Israel

o How an English Housewife became secretary to the peace process (Limmud 2012)
Pamela Levene, posted 6 April 2016
o Drawing Fire: Investigating the accusations of apartheid in Israel (Limmud 2014)
Benjamin Pogrund, posted 1 February 2015
o The Economic Roadmap for Peace in the Middle-East (Newcastle Day Limmud 2007)
Shmuel Ben-Tovim, posted 29 viiiber 2007
o An overview of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to 1948 (the 1995 RSGB Peace Process Tour)
Sharona <someone>, posted 16 April 2007
o Lost: What Happened to the Israeli Left? (Limmud 2006)
Roy Yellin, posted 17 January 2007
o The failure of the post-Camp David talks and the Six Day War
Posted 25 April 2006

Jewish History

o The Mortara Affair (Limmud 2011)
Jonathan Wolfson, posted 24 May 2016
o The Last Jew in the Tower (Limmud 2015)
Ian Bloom, posted 1 May 2016
o Allied Intelligence and the Holocaust: A Reappraisal (Limmud 2015)
Joel Zisenwine, posted 12 April 2016
o Herzl's secret—how did he change the course of history in under nine years? (Limmud 2015)
Mordechai Friedman, posted 12 January 2016
o The Akeida in its Historical Context (Limmud 2014)
Dr Rami Arav, posted 11 February 2015
o The Jews of the Crimea: from early times to today (Limmud 2014)
Rabbi Misha Kapustin, posted 27 January 2015
o The Truth Behind the 'Miracle Rescue' of Danish Jews during WW2 (Limmud 2012)
Alexander Bodin Saphir, posted 29 January 2014
o Seventy Years Since the Arab Kristallnacht (Limmud 2011)
Lynn Julius, posted 19 xber 2012
o Hannah Arendt and the Eichmann Trial: Self-Hating Jew or Insightful Analyst? (Limmud 2011)
Deborah Lipstadt, posted 17 xber 2012
o The Eichmann Trial: Its Significance and Impact (Limmud 2011)
Deborah Lipstadt, posted 15 xber 2012
o Can you hire a hitman? Talmud with the back-story left in (Limmud 2011)
Benjamin Crowne, posted 24 January 2012
o Big British Broigeses: David Nieto (Limmud 2010)
Jonathan Wolfson, posted 11 May 2011
o Exile in Babylon: The world of cuneiform and the Jewish exile (a talk at the LJCC)
Dr Irving Finkel (British Museum), posted 30 March 2011
o The Story of the Aleppo Codex (Limmud 2010)
Bernard Schneider, posted 13 January 2011
o The Fictional Jews of Peru (Limmud 2009)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 10 January 2010
o Chanukah—Shining a New Light (Jeneration at Moishe House)
Rabbi Shoshana Boyd-Gelfand, posted 18 May 2009
o Kasztner: Saviour or Collaborator? (Limmud 2008)
Ladislaus Löb and Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, posted 1 March 2009
o Jews fighting Jews in the American Civil War (Limmud 2008)
Elkan Levy, posted 25 January 2009
o Napoleon Bonaparte: Friend, Foe or Liberator of the Jews? (Limmud 2008)
Rabbi Danny Rich, posted 15 January 2009
o Would You Buy A Cruse of Oil From This High Priest? (Limmud 2007)
Stephen Rosenberg, posted 9 January 2008
o The Jerusalem that was destroyed in 70CE (the Conservative Yeshiva)
Prof. Rabbi Yisrael (Lee) Levine, posted 22 July 2007
o How to Convert the Pope: Successful and Failed Attempts to Bring the Messiah (Limmud 2006)
David Solomon, posted 13 January 2007
o Nineteenth Century Jewish History (New North London Learning Spring 2005(?))
Michael Wegier, posted 28 August 2006
o Economic antisemitism and Bukharan Jews in the Late Nineteenth Century (Limmud 2004)
Audrey Burton, posted 14 August 2006
o Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War / The Battle of Cable Street
Posted 6 August 2006
o Book review: The Sins of King David
Posted 14 July 2006
o Clive Lawton on Muslim Spain (New North London Learning Autumn 2005)
Posted 20 March 2006
o 350 Years of the Anglo-Jewish Community (Limmud 2005)
Rabbi Jonathan Romain, posted 9 March 2006
o The origins of the Ghetto (Newcastle One-Day Limmud 2005)
Posted 27 February 2006
o Jew and non-Jew in Ancient Gaza (Limmud 2005)
Dr Joshua Schwartz, posted 23 January 2006
o The Avengers: On Forgiving the Unforgivable (Limmud 2005)
Maureen Kendler, posted 12 January 2006
o Elizabeth Tudor and the Marranos (Limmud 2005)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 2 January 2006
o The Spanish Inquisition: Fact and Fiction (Limmud 2004)
Renee Melammed, posted 14 viiber 2005
o A Nation of Philosophers: Jewish scholars and the Greek world (Limmud 2004)
Robert Hayward, posted 25 July 2005
o Messianism and Zionism: The three forerunners of modern Zionism (Limmud 2004)
Nahum Gordon, posted 26 April 2005
o Esther and Haman, the Real Story (Newcastle One-Day Limmud)
Stephen Rosenberg, posted 21 February 2005
o Josef Trumpeldor - the real story (Limmud 2004)
Bernard Fisher, posted 1 February 2005
o Women's Lives As Reflected by the Cairo Geniza Documents (Limmud 2004)
Renee Melammed, posted 26 January 2005
o Maimonides and the Jews of Yemen (Limmud 2004)
Uri Melammed, posted 11 January 2005
o Defying the Spanish Inquisition: The Crypto-Jewish women of Castile (Limmud 2004)
Renee Melammed, posted 5 January 2005

Josephus

o Josephus and the Jews (Limmud 2015)
Martin Goodmann, posted 27 April 2016
o The Jewish War, fit the eleventh and last
Posted 23 August 2012
o The Jewish War, fit the tenth: What shape was the Menorah in the Temple?
Posted 21 August 2012
o The Jewish War, fit the ninth, covering the Slavonic additions and commencing Book VII
Posted 19 August 2012
o The Jewish War, fit the eighth, covering Book VI
Posted 16 August 2012
o The Jewish War, fit the seventh, covering Book V
Posted 13 August 2012
o The Jewish War, fit the sixth, covering Book IV
Posted 9 August 2012
o The Jewish War, fit the fifth, covering Book III
Posted 7 August 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the forty-fourth, and last: So, do Josephus's dates add up?
Posted 18 July 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the forty-first, commencing Book XX
Posted 28 June 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the fortieth, covering Book XIX
Posted 26 June 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the thirty-seventh, covering Book XVIII
Posted 7 June 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the thirty-sixth, concluding Book XVII
Posted 30 May 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the thirty-fifth, commencing Book XVI
Posted 18 May 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the thirty-third, comprising Book XV
Posted 9 May 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the twenty-ninth, commencing Book XIV
Posted 25 April 2012
o Josephus Flavius and his source Nicolaus of Damascus on Women (Limmud 2011)
Tal Ilan, posted 23 April 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the twenty-third, covering Book XIII
Posted 2 April 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the seventeenth, covering Book XII
Posted 11 March 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the eleventh
Posted 29 February 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the tenth
Posted 21 February 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the ninth
Posted 12 February 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the eighth
Posted 8 February 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the seventh
Posted 31 January 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the sixth
Posted 17 January 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the fifth
Posted 4 January 2012
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the fourth
Posted 22 xber 2011
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the third
Posted 19 xber 2011
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the second
Posted 8 xber 2011
o Antiquities of the Jews, fit the first
Posted 23 ixber 2011

Jubilees

o The Book of Jubilees and Rebecca (Limmud 2011)
Rachel Montagu, posted 20 April 2016
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת בְּשַׁלַח part 2 of 2
Posted 19 January 2016
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת בְּשַׁלַח part 1 of 2
Posted 18 January 2016
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת בֹּא בֹּא בֹּא (sorry, Blues Brothers reference)
Posted 10 January 2016
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת וָאֵרָא
Posted 2 January 2016
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת שְׁמוֹת
Posted 26 xber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת וַיְחִי
Posted 19 xber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת וַיִּגַּשׁ
Posted 13 xber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת מִקֵּץ, part 3 of 3
Posted 10 xber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת מִקֵּץ, part 2 of 3
Posted 8 xber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת מִקֵּץ, part 1 of 3
Posted 6 xber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת וַיֵּשֶׁב, part 2 of 2
Posted 2 xber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת וַיֵּשֶׁב, part 1 of 2
Posted 29 ixber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת וַיִשְׁלַח, part 2 of 2
Posted 24 ixber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פַּרְשַׁת וַיִשְׁלַח, part 1 of 2
Posted 22 ixber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת ויצא
Posted 15 ixber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת תולדות
Posted 8 ixber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת חיי שרה
Posted 1 ixber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת וירא
Posted 25 viiiber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת לך לך
Posted 18 viiiber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת נח part 5 of 5
Posted 15 viiiber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת נח part 4 of 5
Posted 14 viiiber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת נח part 3 of (probably) 5
Posted 13 viiiber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת נח part 2 of (probably) 5
Posted 12 viiiber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת נח part 1 of 5
Posted 11 viiiber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת בראשית part 2 of 2
Posted 8 viiiber 2015
o Book of Jubilees, פרשת בראשית part 1 of 2
Posted 6 viiiber 2015
o Blogging the Book of Jubilees
Posted 30 viiber 2015

Judaism and other religions

o John Dee, the Book of Enoch, Jewish sorcery and Elizabeth Tudor (Limmud 2015)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 10 April 2016
o The Jew in Shakespeare (Limmud 2012)
Dr Hilton Immerman, posted 22 February 2015
o The Church Discovers the Talmud (the LJCC)
Harry Freedman, posted 18 June 2013
o The Qur'ān and Eretz Israel (Limmud 2009)
Sheikh Dr Muhammad Al-Hussaini, posted 3 February 2010
o The Epistle of Panic: Fear of Jewish Law in Early Christianity (Limmud 2006)
Nathan Jeffay, posted 15 January 2007
o Does a Judaeo-Christian Heritage Actually Exist? (Limmud 2006)
Nathan Jeffay, posted 1 January 2007
o The Influence of Islam on Judaism (Limmud 2005)
Rabbi Mark Solomon, posted 19 January 2006

Linguistics geekery

o Language, Religion and Identity in Israel (a talk at UCL)
Dr Ghil`ad Zuckermann, posted 24 February 2009
o חתן תורה
Posted 12 viiiber 2006
o The Story of Hebrew (Limmud 2004)
Joel Hoffman, posted 4 January 2005
o Akkadian origins of the names of the Hebrew months
Posted 19 viiiber 2004

Liturgy

o The Essence of Prayer (Limmud 2010)
Rabbi Michael Hattin, posted 11 January 2011
o The Seder: A Response to Crisis (Limmud 2009)
Dr Joshua Kulp, posted 23 March 2010
o Approaches to וְהוּא רַחוּם (an AMS talk at Kol Nefesh Masorti)
Posted 5 March 2009
o Hallel? Oh Lord! Save Us Now! (Limmud 2008)
Eran Davis, posted 27 January 2009
o The Foundations of Jewish Prayer: The Concluding Prayers (Limmudfest 2008)
Rabbi Chaim Weiner, posted 24 viiber 2008
o The Foundations of Jewish Prayer: The History of the Shema (Limmudfest 2008)
Rabbi Chaim Weiner, posted 7 viiber 2008
o Two Kaddishes and a Ghost Story (Limmud 2007)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, posted 12 February 2008
o Four Gemaras to Live By: (i) Concerning the Daily (Limmud 2007)
Dr Raphael Zarum, posted 24 January 2008
o Before I Pray, God, I Want To Say A Few Words. And Afterwards, Too. (Limmud 2006)
Rabbi Daniel Goldfarb, posted 29 January 2007
o The Secret Life of Berachot (Limmud 2006)
Sarah Gershuny, posted 22 January 2007
o The History of the Siddur (Limmud 2006)
Rabbi Jacqueline Tabick, posted 10 January 2007
o The Aramaic of the Kaddish (Limmud 2004)
Uri Melammed, posted 26 April 2006
o Rabbi Chaim Weiner on אשרי (Psalm 145)
Posted 22 March 2006
o The Amidah, ancient and modern (Limmud 2005)
Prof. Reuven Hammer, posted 21 February 2006

Maimonides

o Are Women's Intellects 'Poor'? Struggling with the Rambam (Limmud 2012)
Benedict Roth, posted 17 May 2016
o Revisiting Maimonides' Critique of the Kalām (the Maimonides seminar)
Alnoor Dhanani, posted 10 May 2006
o The Role of Reason and Rationality in Maimonides' Approach to the Commandments
Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, posted 9 May 2006
o The Life and Writings of the Rambam in their Historical Context (the Maimonides seminar)
Esther Seidel, posted 8 May 2006
o Maimonides' Epistle on Forced Conversion (Maimonides Foundation one-day seminar 2005)
Joanna Weinberg, posted 2 March 2006

Meta Halacha

o Batmitzvah: the forgotten story (Limmud 2014)
Michael Hilton, posted 5 June 2016
o The Evolution of Simchas Torah (Limmud 2009)
Chana Henkin, posted 3 May 2016
o Can we always pray for someone who is ill? Should we? (Limmud 2015)
R. Oded Mazor, posted 29 March 2016
o DIY Judaism (Limmud 2015)
R. Chaim Weiner, posted 24 March 2016
o The Ethics of Circumcision (Limmud 2015)
Joe Mazor, posted 3 February 2016
o Deities, Diets and Dietary Laws (Limmud 2014)
Rami Arav, posted 25 January 2015
o Diversity in Judaism: the year 1200CE as a test case (Limmud 2012)
Marc Sapirstein, posted 4 February 2013
o Becoming Not Jewish (Limmud 2010)
Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld, posted 13 xber 2012
o 'It'll Never Happen Here!'—Female Spiritual Leaders and Anglo-Orthodoxy (Limmud 2010)
Dr Tamra Wright, posted 12 xber 2012
o Panel discussion: The Limits of Kiddushin (Limmud 2011)
Yaffa Epstein, Rabbi Joel Levy, Rabbi Herzl Hefter, Rabbi Danny Rich, posted 26 February 2012
o Two Approaches to Halakhic Writing: Mishna Berura and Arokh haShulchan (Limmud 2010)
Ian Gamse, posted 20 February 2011
o Can Judaism Be Green? (the Marom Beit Midrash)
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, posted 9 May 2007
o Rabbinic Tradition and the Evolution of Jewish Law (the Marom Bet Midrash)
Posted 14 viiber 2006
o Faith (the Marom Bet Midrash)
Rabbi Joel Levy, posted 22 August 2006
o Halacha Through Masorti Eyes (New North London Learning Autumn 2004)
Rabbi Jeremy Gordon, posted 29 April 2006
o Beyond Belief: Doctrine in Judaism (Limmud 2005)
Dr Tamra Wright, LSJS, posted 15 March 2006
o Is Proselytising Jewish? (Limmud 2005)
Saul Singer (An editor and columnist for the Jerusalem Post), posted 27 February 2006
o Can Jews ascend the Temple Mount? (Limmud 2005)
Yisrael Medad, posted 10 January 2006

Midrash and aggadah

o Ancient answers to good and evil that were cut from the Bible (Limmud 2014)
Joel Hoffmann, posted 12 January 2015
o Before the Beginning: the first midrash on Creation (Limmud 2009)
Dr Rafael Zarum, posted 5 May 2010
o The God of Glass Wombs (Limmud 2009)
Dr Raphael Zarum, posted 7 February 2010
o Garments of Skin in the Garden of Eden (Limmud Fest 2009)
Rabbi Jeremy Gordon, posted 13 viiiber 2009
o Converts in Aggadah (Moishe House)
Posted 17 July 2008
o Meet the Midrash on Abraham (Limmud 2005)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, posted 26 February 2006

Miscellaneous

o How to be a Bundist (Limmud 2015)
Joseph Finlay, posted 17 April 2016
o Are We All Yekkes Now? (Limmud 2015)
David Reuben, posted 16 March 2016
o Germany and Israel: a Historical Asymmetry (a talk at NNLS)
Prof. Moshe Zimmerman, posted 9 xber 2015
o What filled the gap between the Bible and the Mishna?
Posted 26 April 2015
o The Neuropsychology of Religiosity and Spirituality (Limmud 2014)
Rabbi Dr Paul Shrell-Fox, posted 7 January 2015
o Origin of the myth of the Chanukah miracle of the oil
Posted 24 ixber 2013
o How did the Rebbe's Army Become So Large? (Limmud 2012)
Sue Fishkoff, posted 16 January 2013
o Computerised Bible Criticism (Limmud 2012)
Moshe Koppel, posted 7 January 2013
o Uncovering forgeries in Jewish literature (Limmud 2012)
Professor Moshe Koppel, posted 2 January 2013
o Religious Belief and Make-Believe (Limmud 2011)
Samuel Lebens, posted 8 March 2012
o Created Beings of our own: Gender Diversity in Jewish Texts (Limmud 2011)
Rabbi Elliot Kukla, Gregg Drinkwater, posted 19 January 2012
o The Death of the Gods at the Birth of Monotheism (Limmud 2011)
Richard Elliott Friedman, posted 3 January 2012
o Joining our Ancestors: Life After Death (NNLS)
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, posted 18 viiber 2011
o Was the Antichrist anti-Judaism? (the Moishe House Beit Midrash)
R. Dr Michael J. Harris, posted 25 May 2011
o Six Queer Heroes and Scoundrels (Limmud Fest 2010)
Steven Greenberg, posted 8 January 2011
o The Hunger Artist: Fasting as Spectacle, Memory, Sacrifice, etc (Limmud Fest 2010)
Rabbi Steve Greenberg, posted 13 viiber 2010
o Should Jews Stop Flying To Israel? (Limmud 2009)
Dan Bereloitz, R. Natan Levy, Hannah Weisfeld, Jess Gold, posted 16 June 2010
o Leaving Religion: Kids at Risk (Limmud 2009)
Leah Malamet, posted 6 May 2010
o Heavenly Days Right Here on this Earth (a talk at the New London Synagogue)
Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi and Eve Ilsen, posted 28 April 2010
o Food, the Animals and Human Dignity (Newcastle Day Limmud 2009)
Robert Hayward, posted 4 ixber 2009
o Elul and Teshuva (Moishe House)
Posted 14 viiber 2008
o Would the Real Messiah Please Stand Up? (Limmud 2007)
Rabbi Joel Zeff, posted 9 March 2008
o King Arthur and King David: Literary Parallels (Limmud 2007)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 19 February 2008
o Archaeological Espionage—TE Lawrence and Leonard Woolley in Sinai 1913/14 (Limmud 2007)
Stephen Rosenberg, posted 20 January 2008
o Jews and Pirates in the Carribean (Limmud 2007)
Sharonah Fredrick, posted 13 January 2008
o Gospel Singing: T'HILLAH—Hallelujah: Praise the Lord (Limmud 2006)
Sharon Alexander, posted 15 February 2007
o A Sanctuary Transformed: The Revitalisation of American Synagogues (Limmud 2006)
Jack Wertheimer, posted 12 February 2007
o Torah vs Science—A Personal Interpretation of the Garden of Eden Story (Limmud 2006)
Benjamin Gerber, posted 10 February 2007
o He Said Jehovah! (What's in a name?) (Limmud 2006)
Posted 7 February 2007
o Creativity in Torah: Spinoza and Other Heretics (Limmud 2006)
Nathan Lopez-Cardoso, posted 5 February 2007
o All for nought? Abraham Ibn Ezra's numerical innovation (Limmud 2006)
Kineret Sittig, posted 27 January 2007
o Origin of the menorah
Posted 28 viiber 2006
o Gerald Schroeder on Life After Death (Limmud 2005)
Gerald Schroeder, posted 30 August 2006
o Ludwig Zamenhof and the Tower of Babel (the Marom Beit Midrash)
Posted 29 May 2006
o Gender-neutral G-d Language in Reconstructionism
Rabbi Amy Klein, posted 21 May 2006
o Mini Lag BaOmer shiur
Posted 16 May 2006
o An Introduction to Mediaeval Manuscripts
Rabbi Chaim Weiner, posted 2 May 2006
o Can Conservative Judaism survive the oncoming debate on homosexuality? (Limmud 2004)
Daniel Gordis, posted 24 April 2006
o Founding Myths of the Jewish Diaspora (the Marom Beit Midrash)
Posted 27 March 2006
o Hope Springs Eternal: A Look At The Hatikvah (Limmud '05)
Colin Bulka, posted 27 March 2006
o The intermarriage rate revealed: Census Data on Jewish Marriage Patterns (Limmud 2005)
David Graham, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, posted 13 March 2006
o First Among Equals: Which tribe will the Moshiach be from, and why? (N/cle 1-day Limmud)
Nahum Gordon, posted 22 February 2006
o Robert Winston: Wrestling with G-d (Limmud 2005)
Robert Winston, posted 8 February 2006
o Fight Club and Redemption (Limmud '05)
Micah Goodman, posted 25 January 2006

Other religions

o Early Responses to Christianity in the Talmud (the Moishe House Beit Midrash)
Michael Pollak, posted 31 xber 2013
o The Samaritan Temple and the Sons of Joseph (the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society)
Prof. Hugh Williamson, posted 16 viiiber 2013
o Buddhism in Britain (Limmud 2009)
the Venerable Amaranatho Samanera, posted 11 xber 2012
o The Israelite Samaritan Today (the LJCC)
Benyamim Tsedaka, posted 19 ixber 2012
o Good and Bad Sects: The Samaritans (Limmud 2009)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, posted 16 January 2010
o The Last Taboos—Idolatry and Many Gods (Limmud 2008)
Alan Silver, posted 22 February 2009
o The Decline of the West in Muslim Scholarship (Limmud 2008)
Uriya Shavit, posted 20 January 2009
o How to respond to blame for Jesus' death (Limmud 2008)
Rabbi Dr Michael J. Cook, posted 11 January 2009
o How To Resolve Jesus' Empty Tomb Enigmas (Limmud 2008)
Rabbi Dr Michael J. Cook, posted 8 January 2009
o How to Process Jesus' Virgin Birth Stories (Limmud 2008)
Rabbi Dr Michael J. Cook, posted 6 January 2009

Samaritan torah

o Samaritan Torah: Conclusions
Posted 16 viiber 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וְזֹאת הַבְּרָכָה
Posted 9 viiber 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת הַאֲזִינוּ
Posted 31 August 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת נִצָּבִים
Posted 25 August 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת כִּי תָבוֹא
Posted 17 August 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת כִּי תֵצֵא
Posted 11 August 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת שׁוֹפְטִים
Posted 3 August 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת רְאַה
Posted 28 July 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת עֵקֶב
Posted 22 July 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וָאֶתְחַנַּן
Posted 17 July 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת דְבָרִים
Posted 7 July 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת מַטּוֹת
Posted 30 June 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת פִּנְחָס
Posted 23 June 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת בָּלָק
Posted 16 June 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת חֻקַת
Posted 1 June 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת שְׁלַח לְךָ
Posted 29 May 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת בְּהַעֲלָתְךָ
Posted 18 May 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת נָשֹׂא
Posted 11 May 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת בְּמִדְבַּר
Posted 8 May 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת אֱמֹר
Posted 22 April 2013
o Samaritan Torah אחרי מות / קדושים
Posted 13 April 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת מְצֹרָע
Posted 6 April 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת שְמִינִי
Posted 3 April 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת צֵו
Posted 20 March 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וַיִּקְרָא
Posted 10 March 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת כִּי תִשָׂא
Posted 25 February 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת תְּצַוֶּה
Posted 19 February 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת תְּרוּמָה
Posted 12 February 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת מִשְׁפָּטִים
Posted 3 February 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת יִתְרוֹ
Posted 27 January 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת בְּשַׁלַּח
Posted 20 January 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת בֹּא
Posted 14 January 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וָאֵרָא
Posted 5 January 2013
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת שְׁמוֹת
Posted 30 xber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וַיְחִי
Posted 26 xber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וַיִּגַּשׁ
Posted 16 xber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת מִיקֵּץ
Posted 10 xber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וַיֵשֶׁב
Posted 4 xber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וַיִשְׁלַח
Posted 25 ixber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וַיֵצֵא
Posted 18 ixber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת תּוֹלְדֹת
Posted 13 ixber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת חַיֵי שָׂרָה
Posted 6 ixber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת וַיֵרָא
Posted 28 viiiber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת לֶךְ־לְךָ
Posted 22 viiiber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת נֹחַ part 2: Does the Samaritan Torah follow קְרִי or כְּתִיב?
Posted 17 viiiber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת נֹחַ part 1: On the Documentary Hypothesis
Posted 14 viiiber 2012
o Samaritan Torah, פַּרְשַׁת בְּרֵאשִׁית
Posted 10 viiiber 2012
o The Samaritan Torah: Introduction
Posted 26 August 2012

Talmud

o Aikido and Talmud (Limmud 2011)
Andrea Zanardo, posted 4 April 2016
o Blasphemy (Moishe House)
Posted 13 July 2008
o Lag BaOmer (the Moishe House Beit Midrash)
Daniel Silverstein, posted 21 May 2008
o Pre-crime in the Talmud: Responses to the Wayward and Defiant Son (Limmud 2007)
Adam Krause, posted 2 March 2008
o Four Gemaras to Live By: (iii) Concerning the Monthly (Limmud 2007)
Dr Raphael Zarum, posted 29 January 2008
o Interesting snippets from the Advanced Talmud class (the Conservative Yeshiva)
Posted 24 ixber 2007
o Be an עַנְווִתָן like Hillel and not a קַפְדָן like Shammai (the Conservative Yeshiva)
R. Shmuel Lewis, posted 7 August 2007
o On Language and Identity—Sugiyot from Massechet Sotah (Limmud 2006)
Leah Rosenthal, posted 3 January 2007
o His Wife Was Sifting the Flour: The Stories of the Waiting Women (NNLL Spring 2006)
Dr Moshe Lavee, posted 16 August 2006
o Talmudic Humour: Reasoning by Extreme Example (the Marom Beit Midrash)
Roni Tabick, posted 30 July 2006

Tenach

o Lamentations Chapter 5 (the Moishe House Beit Midrash)
Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris, posted 27 July 2009
o Literacy in the Time of the Prophets (Limmud 2008)
Shira Wallach, posted 10 February 2009
o An Introduction to Tehillim (Limmud 2008)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, posted 29 January 2009
o The True Villain in the Garden of Eden (Limmud 2008)
Barbara Spectre, posted 13 January 2009
o Utterly Rejected: Theology in Crisis in the Book of Lamentations
Deborah Kahn-Harris, posted 10 August 2008
o Was the Book of Esther Written by a Jewish Jane Austen? (a talk at the New London shul)
Rabbi Reuven Hammer, posted 18 March 2008
o Envy of Heaven (The Book of Job) (Limmud 2004)
Daniel Reisel, posted 7 May 2006
o Thoughts on last week's Sedra, and on Biblical poetry
Posted 16 August 2005

The Jewish world

o In the Bosnian War, Jews weren't victims; Jews saved Muslims and Christians (Limmud 2014)
Edward Serotta, posted 30 May 2016
o Italy and Israel, a change of narrative (Limmud 2015)
Rossella Tercatin, posted 14 April 2016
o Volver: Modern-Day Marranos and Their Halachic Struggle Returning to Judaism (Limmud 2008)
R. Hillel Athias-Robles, posted 26 February 2009
o Demographic trends in the Anglo-Jewish Community (Limmud 2008)
[Presenter mislaid], posted 16 February 2009
o The Rough Guide To Jewish Europe: Prague (New North London Learning, Autumn 2005)
Richard Goldstein, posted 21 March 2006
o Troyes: Rashi And His World (New North London Learning Autumn 2005)
Chaim Weiner, posted 26 February 2006
o The Rough Guide to Jewish Europe: Toledo: the end of the west (NNLL Autumn 2005)
Chaim Weiner, posted 15 xber 2005
o Gerona: A Jewish Community on the Border (NNLL Autmn 2005)
Chaim Weiner, posted 21 ixber 2005

Unconventional View

o Was Joseph a Woman? (Limmud 2005)
Adam Frankenburg, posted 8 February 2006
o The Importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Limmud '05)
Prof. Rachel Elior, posted 9 January 2006

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