Daily Archives: June 29, 2010

Unclean Lands; Bible and ANE Documents; Rabbis and Images; Robert Byrd

1.  I finished my assigned reading of Jacob Lauterbach’s Rabbinic Essays.  What stood out to me today was something Lauterbach said on page 255: Indeed, the decree of the two Joses declaring the land of the gentiles unclean (Shab. 15a) … Continue reading

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