Conference | Talmuda de‐Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antiquity

Session 3: Monday, 10:00-11:45 AM Chair: Alyssa Gray, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Shawn Zelig Aster, Yeshiva University
Mishnah Baba Metzia 7,7 and the Distribution of the Phoenician Jar: The Relationship of Mishnaic Hebrew to Northern Biblical Hebrew and to Phoenician
Jonathan Milgram, Jewish Theological Seminary
Mishnah Baba Batra 8,5: The Transformation of the Firstborn Son from Family Leader to Family Member
Uzi Leibner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mekhilta de-R. Ishmael, Vayehi Beshalah 1: Rabbis and the Jewish Community Revisited

Session 4: Monday, 1:00-3:45
Chair: Ozer Glickman, Yeshiva University
Steven Fine, Yeshiva University
Babylonian Talmud, Baba Batra 4a: Polychromy and the Jerusalem Temple in Late Antiquity
Sacha Stern, University College London
Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zara 16a: Paganism in Sepphoris-- A Strange Baraita
Steven D. Fraade, Yale University
The Rehov Inscriptions and Rabbinic Literature: Matters of Language
Rachel Neis, University of Michigan
The Isaiah 66:14 Inscription from Jerusalem and Late Antique Jewish Pilgrimage

Session 5: Monday, 4:00-6:00 PM
Chair: Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University
Yonatan Adler, Bar Ilan University
Tosefta Shabbat 1,14: “Come and See to What Extent Purity has Spread Forth”: Archaeological Evidence for the Observance of Ritual Purity in Eretz Israel from the Hasmonean Period until the Close of the Palestinian Talmud
R. Steven Notley, Nyack College
Genesis Rabbah 98,17: "And Why is it Called Gennosar?" Recent Discoveries at Magdala and Jewish Life on the Plain of Gennosar in the Early Roman Period."
Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University and Yeshiva University
Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 1 (71b-72a): “Of the Making of Books”: Rabbinic Scribal Arts in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Summation. Steven Fine and Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University