Oqimta
Studies in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature
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Past Volumes

Volume 11 (2025)

Gwynn Kessler

Seminal Omissions: Giving Tumtum v’Androginos Their Due

Pages 1 - 86. Published on 22-10-2024

Tzvi Novick

Reading Piyyut Reading: A Case Study from a Qillirian Geshem

Pages 87 - 117. Published on 22-10-2024

Gideon Bohak, Ohad Abudraham

A Jewish Aramaic Amulet on Papyrus (Strasbourg, Papyrus hébreu 2)

Pages 119 - 131. Published on 22-10-2024

Omri Abadi

The Geographical-Historical Identification of 'Gad Yon' and the Route to the Shiloah (Heb.)

Pages 133 - 144. Published on 09-01-2025

Aaron Koller

“A Miserable Remnant Though this Be, It is Not without Value”: A Fragment of Mishnah Avodah Zarah in the Babylonian Tradition from a Book Binding in the Cambridge University Library

Pages 145 - 159. Published on 09-01-2025

Assaf Brown

Towards an Understanding of R. Yosef Engel’s Method of Study (Heb.)

Pages 161 - 206. Published on 09-01-2025

Volume 10 (2024)

Yosef Marcus

Atonement for the Individual on Yom Kippur During the Time of the Temple: Different Approaches in Tannaitic Literature (Heb.)

Pages 1 - 18. Published on 30-03-2023

Ahuva Liberles

"Traveling to Eretz Yisrael is, Even More, Sinful": A Stay-home Approach for Atonement According to Rabbi Judah the Hasid (Heb.)

Pages 19 - 34. Published on 30-03-2023

Elli Fischer, Tova Ganzel

Rabbi David Zvi Hoffmann's Position on Sesame Oil: A Diachronic Study in the Light of New Sources (Heb.)

Pages 35 - 46. Published on 30-03-2023

Rabin Shushtri

Textual Branches of Chapter 'Yom Hakkippurim' in the Babylonian Talmud: Their Development, Quality, and Representation in the Witnesses (Heb.)

Pages 47 - 127. Published on 17-05-2023

Yoel Kretzmer-Raziel

The Formation of the Baraita of 13 Middot and its Affinity to the Sifra

Pages 129 - 160. Published on 31-05-2023

Eran Viezel

David Wrote the Book of Psalms Through [al-yedei] Ten Elders (BT, Bava Batra 14b-15a) (Heb.)

Pages 161 - 185. Published on 22-08-2023

Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Midrash and/as Allegory: the case of “Ella”

Pages 187 - 209. Published on 12-11-2023

Moshe Simon-Shoshan

"This parable should not be considered a small thing in your eyes": Towards a Rhetorical Poetics of the Mashal (Heb.)

Pages 211 - 241. Published on 03-01-2024

Shraga Bick

The Cancellation of the Recitation of the Ten Commandments in Prayer and Jewish-Christian Polemics: A Re-examination (Heb.)

Pages 243 - 276. Published on 09-04-2024

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

The Story-Cycle in Bavli Nedarim 91a-b

Pages 277 - 297. Published on 09-04-2024

Amitai Glass-Stegmann

Elderly Mothers and Holy Sons: An Examination of Two Late Antique Stories (Heb.)

Pages 299 - 330. Published on 09-04-2024

Ruth Stern

Methods of Lexical Expansion in the Geonic Period – A Window onto the Cultural World of the Jewish Communities  

Pages 331 - 346. Published on 09-04-2024

Shai Secunda

The Talmud of Babylonia

Pages 347 - 377. Published on 09-04-2024

Volume 9 (2023)
Volume 8 (2022)

Yitzhak (Tzahi) Blau

Watering Seeds in the Intermediate Days of the Holiday: The History of a Mishnaic Dispute (MQ 1:3) (Heb.)

Pages 1 - 28. Published on 21-11-2021

Eliyahu Rosenfeld

“A man who showed no mercy to his son and daughter, how could he show mercy to me?” Between Didacticism and Struggle in the Story of Rabbi Yossi from Yokrat (Heb.)

Pages 29 - 51. Published on 21-11-2021

Shira Shmidman

The Rami bar Hama Narrative of Zevahim 96b: A Contextual Analysis

Pages 53 - 86. Published on 21-11-2021

Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Yair Lipshitz

On Talmud as Performance: Reading Bavli Yoma 20b-21a (Heb.)

Pages 87 - 115. Published on 21-11-2021

David Sabato

Praying for Rain (Sheʾîlat Geshamim) in Israel and Diaspora: Halacha, History and Geography (Heb.)

Pages 117 - 140. Published on 21-11-2021

Volume 7 (2021)

Avital Davidovich-Eshed

From Raw Material to Vessel: Be’ilat Miṣvah (Religiously Sanctioned Intercourse) and Transformation in Talmudic Halakhah (Heb.)

Pages 1 - 20. Published on 16-12-2020

Moulie Vidas

What is a tannay?

Pages 21 - 96. Published on 16-12-2020

Eliezer Kortsweil

On the Relation between the Version of Babylonian Talmud Tractate Zevahim Columbia Manuscript and the Version of an Anonymous Ancient Commentator (Heb.)

Pages 97 - 134. Published on 16-12-2020

David Sabato, Tzvi Novick

Graphic Symbols for God's Name in an Unknown Recension of the Tanhuma from the Cairo Genizah

Pages 135 - 174. Published on 16-12-2020

Shimon Fogel, Uri Ehrlich

The Versions of the "Ahava" Blessing for the Evening Service According to the Cairo Genizah Prayer-Books (Heb.)

Pages 175 - 196. Published on 16-12-2020

Volume 6 (2020)

Menachem Katz

"Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai" as an ideological debate – from the Sages in the Tannaitic Period to the scholars of Wissenschaft des Judentums (Heb.)

Pages 1 - 22. Published on 27-02-2020

Tzvi Novick

Ritual and Rhetoric among Jews, Christians, and Samaritans: Two Comparative Observations

Pages 23 - 40. Published on 27-02-2020

Haim Weiss, Mira Balberg

"Raise My Eyes for Me": Gazing at Old Age in a Talmudic Narrative (Heb.)

Pages 41 - 82. Published on 27-02-2020

Shana Strauch

פלוני היינו תנא קמא - איכא בינייהו: The Evolution of a Talmudic Formula

Pages 83 - 122. Published on 27-02-2020

Yosef Marcus

The 'Sefat Emet' Commentaries on the Talmud (Heb.)

Pages 123 - 145. Published on 27-02-2020

Volume 5 (2019)

Mira Balberg

Unforgettable Forgotten Things: Transformations in the Laws of Forgotten Produce (shikhehah) in Early Rabbinic Literature

Pages 1 - 34. Published on 26-09-2019

Moshe Bar-Asher

The Noun Pattern מַפְעָל in the Mishnah (Heb.)

Pages 35 - 70. Published on 26-09-2019

Avital Davidovich-Eshed

These are Maidens': Virginity as Discursive Category in Talmudic Halacha (Heb.)

Pages 71 - 100. Published on 26-09-2019

Ophir Münz-Manor

The Memory of the Hasmoneans in Piyyutim from Byzantine Palestine (Heb.)

Pages 101 - 124. Published on 26-09-2019

Pinchas Roth

A Halakhic Responsum by Moses Botarel (Heb.)

Pages 125 - 134. Published on 26-09-2019

Volume 4 (2016)

Steven H. (Tzvi) Adams

The Development of a Waiting Period Between Meat and Dairy: 9th – 14th Centuries

Pages 1 - 52. Published on 30-06-2017

Rabin Shushtri

Legal and Moral Considerations in the Ownership of Stolen Property (Heb.)

Pages 53 - 142. Published on 13-07-2017

Volume 3 (2015)

Ephraim Bezalel Halivni

The Word Adam – A Man and not a Woman (Heb.)

Pages 1 - 10. Published on 21-06-2016

Aaron Amit

The Origin, Meaning and Development of the Ervah Sugya in Bavli Berakhot 24a (Heb.)

Pages 11 - 26. Published on 27-12-2016

Rivka Raviv

On Missing Characters in the Book of Daniel – Rabbinic Traditions in Palestine and Babylonia (Heb.)

Pages 27 - 60. Published on 18-10-2016

Shalem Yahalom

On the Editing of the Tosafot (Heb.)

Pages 61 - 90. Published on 21-06-2016

Volume 2 (2014)

Ephraim Bezalel Halivni

The Influence of an Adjoining Halakha upon the Formulation of a Halakha (Heb.)

Pages 1 - 18. Published on 28-12-2014

Eliashiv Fraenkel

The Yoke of The Kingdom of Heaven (Heb.)

Pages 19 - 40. Published on 04-03-2014

Gary A. Rendsburg

תפילה לדוד: A Short Note (Heb.)

Pages 41 - 46. Published on 14-12-2015

Richard Hidary

A Rhetorical Reading of the Bavli as a Polemic against the Yerushalmi: Regarding Halakhic Pluralism and the Controversy between the House of Shammai and the House of Hillel (Heb.)

Pages 47 - 88. Published on 04-03-2014

Amram Tropper

From Tatlafush to Sura: On the Foundation of the Academy of Sura according to Rav Sherira Gaon (Heb.)

Pages 89 - 104. Published on 28-12-2014

Yosaif Mordechai Dubovick

On the use of Rabbenu Hananel's Talmud commentary in Raavan's "Even HaEzer" (Heb.)

Pages 105 - 134. Published on 01-03-2015

Aharon Gaimani

Dowry and compensation in Yemenite communities (Heb.)

Pages 135 - 164. Published on 28-12-2014

Jay Rovner

Hillel and the Bat Qol: A Toseftan Discourse on Prophecy in the Second Temple and Tannaitic Periods

Pages 165 - 205. Published on 23-03-2015

Volume 1 (2013)

Shlomo E. Glicksberg

Noise as a nuisance in Tannaitic literature, from Casuistics to Conceptalization (Heb.)

Pages 1 - 24. Published on 07-08-2013

Moti Arad

"Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods” - The Annihilation of Idolatry in Tanaitic Halakha (Heb.)

Pages 25 - 70. Published on 07-08-2013

Gilad Sasson

God Stands in the Congregation of God' Divine Inspiration by the Praying Congregation (Heb.)

Pages 71 - 92. Published on 07-08-2013

Ephraim Bezalel Halivni

Either X or Y: are both Options Equally Appropriate (Heb.)

Pages 93 - 104. Published on 07-08-2013

Menahem Ben-Shalom

Additional Notes on the Verse: “For an impaled body is an affront to God” (Heb.)

Pages 105 - 132. Published on 07-08-2013

Shamma Friedman

Three Sage Stories in Light of a Recently Discovered Unknown Textual Tradition of Tractate Shabbat (Heb.)

Pages 133 - 194. Published on 07-08-2013

Rabin Shushtri

The Comparative Relation of the Yemenite Textual Witnesses for Tractate Sukkah of the Babylonian Talmud (Heb.)

Pages 195 - 242. Published on 07-08-2013

Israel Hazani

Meir Ish-Shalom on the Emigration of Jacob's Sons to Egypt, or: “Who is a Jew?” (Heb.)

Pages 243 - 292. Published on 07-08-2013

Shulamit Valler

The Talmudic discussion on building a porter's lodge and a door for the courtyard

Pages 293 - 318. Published on 07-08-2013

Yishai Kiel

Cognizance of Sin and Penalty in the Babylonian Talmud and Pahlavi Literature: A Comparative Analysis

Pages 319 - 368. Published on 07-08-2013

Jay Rovner

Metasystemic and Structural Indicators of Late-Stage Babylonian Stammaitic Compositions, Both Halakhic and Aggadic

Pages 369 - 420. Published on 07-08-2013

Leor Jacobi

Jewish Hawking in Medieval France: Falconry, Rabbenu Tam, and the Tosafists

Pages 421 - 504. Published on 07-08-2013

Israel Drazin

Nachmanides Introduced the Notion that Targum Onkelos Contains Derash

Pages 505 - 524. Published on 07-08-2013