General Index
Aaron, biblical figure
164–165, 169, 197, 205
Abahu, R.
57, 133, 139
Abba bar Kahana, R.
251
Abba Chilqiyah
90, 180
Abba Gorion
241n7, 242n10, 243
Abba Yosef
176–177, 179, 180, 183, 184
Abba Yudan
80–84
and his wife
80–84
Abimelech, biblical figure
123–124
Abnimos
176–180, 182–185
Acha, R.
77, 79–80
Acher see Elish ben Abuyah
Acres
199
Adam, biblical figure
123n3
admiration of famous sages
28, 95, 110–112, 199–200, 261
allusions to their narratives or halakha
105, 118, 127, 138, 141, 146, 159, 163, 165, 198, 215, 255n19
hypertextuality
Akiva’s death as just
205–206
Akiva’s reward
167–169, 204
Elisha ben Abuyah apologetics
146, 149
Rashbi apologetics
107, 118
Akiva, R.; Meir, R.
Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 750A
82
Agrippa
King
210, 213–214
General
32
Ahab, biblical figure
125–127
Akiva, R.
122, 229n9, 260–61
afterlife
169–170
and the fox
187–190, 196
and Moses
123n4, 167–168
and R. Tarfon
89n17
and Satan
50n5
and the Bastard
264n18
and Turnus Rufus, on the circumcision
209–216
and Zunin
27–30, 34–35
beginning of
13n52, 161–163
burial
158–172
daughter-in-law
151–155
daughter of
12n47, 157
death of
6n19, 159–161, 197–198, 201–202, 204, 220–221, 235
death as punishment
205–207
death of disciples
67, 108n15
death of son, Shimʾon
261
disciple of
66–67, 70–74
four who entered paradise
199–200
incarceration
159–161
Mishna
85
on repentance
125–126
son, unnamed
152–155
son, Joshua
152–153
wife, Rachel
155–157
wife, previously of Titus or Turnus Rufus
170–171
Albeck, H.
11n43, 87n, 116, 214n, 226n4
Alexander the Great
4n10
Alexandri, R.
133, 139
Alexandria
28n5
alliterations
54, 148, 162, 168n15
allegories
Jewish nation as sheep among wolves
239–240
God as builder
180
Ruth on thrashing floor as Elisha’s soul
148
alphabet of Ben Sira
23, 261
Al Qumisi, Daniel
195n20
‘am ha-`arets
71, 76, 122, 133, 135, 137–138, 149, 175, 207, 263, 270
analogy
11, 16, 19n65, 75, 140, 146
between characters
39, 57, 80n5, 234, 249n5, 256
Antoninus
223–224, 227–235
mother of
227–231
Amoraim
12, 38n4, 151n3, 207, 229n11, 266n25
angels
70, 85, 99, 108, 110, 112, 130–131, 149, 166n13, 168–169, 170n20, 181, 186, 193–194, 196, 262n8
Gabriel; Metatron
Antioch
80–83
antisemitism
63, 104, 216–220, 239
apostasy
26, 28–29, 33, 143, 198, 207
repentance of
134–136, 142, 262
Arab
1, 87–88
Arabic
9n32
Ashkelon
59
Ashkenaz
24, 67, 78, 82n7, 100n, 101, 196, 264, 271n42, 272
and Islamic-contexts
264
Asmodeus
99, 108, 110–112, 113n24, 188
Assaf, biblical figure
190
Atzmon, A.
152n3, 236, 240n5, 241n, 242, 244–245
authors of Late Midrash
273–274
comparable to Rashi
278
scribes
Avery-Peck, A. J.
12n49
Avot de-Rabbi Natan
5, 13, 52 n16, 95n4, 146n18, 149n26, 153n6
Babylonian tales
102n6, 123n5, 138
Bakhtin, M. M.
10, 12
Balberg, M.
69, 75
Bartholomew, St
108n17
Baumgarten, E.
90, 217n10–219, 272
Beast Epic
245–246
Beit-Arié, M.
24n3, 271
Beitner, A.
45, 249, 254nn15, 18, 256–258
Benjamin Nahawandi
199n3
Ben-Porat, Z.
7–8
Ben Sever and Shfifon ben Layish
264n5
Bereshit Rabbah
236n1
Bereshit Rabbati
11n43, 13–14, 87n, 177n2
Beruriah, wife of Meir
258, 274–278
Berzbach, U.
10n37, 187n2, 194
Bigtan and Teresh, biblical figures
243
Bloom, H.
7
Boaz, biblical figure
42–43, 79
Boyarin, D.
1n1, 3n5, 132n12, 156, 275–275
Bregman, M.
40n8, 271n45–46
Buber, S.
101
Byzantine Hagiography
120n6, 168n16
Byzantine Palestine
18, 65, 152, 168, 187n3, 188, 193n16
Byzantine Southern Italy
65, 67, 100, 120n, 273
Caesar
113, 114–115, 217–219, 222, 223, 225, 229–231, 238
Caesarea
57n3, 158–159, 164
Cain, biblical figure
123n3
careful editing
236, 131
Cave of Akiva
157–159, 161, 169–171
Cave of Moses
Cave of Machpela
273n53
Cave of Moses
163–165
Cave of Rashbi
101, 105, 108, 112–113
Chanina ben Dosa, R.
95n2, 262
Chanina, R.
90n21, 248, 255
Chapter of R. Josiah
163–167
Charrautah
50
Chibbur Yafeh min Ha-Yeshu’ah’
90, 149n27, 249n3, 258
Chivalric Romance
96, 260
Chiyya b. Abba, R.
53, 139–140
Chiyya b. Ashi, R.
48–53
wife of
48–53
Chiyya, R.
71–72
Chizqiah, R.
59
Choni the Circle Drawer
2n4
Christianity
18, 30n10, 73n, 74, 199n3, 210, 219, 224n3, 234, 245n25, 261n5, 278n68
Polemics; Jesus
Chronicles of Moses
177n2
circumcision
12n51, 104, 210–217, 229n11, 233
Cordoni, C.
6n24, 14, 66, 71, 76, 191
counter-narrative
23–24, 57, 60, 65, 67, 71, 167, 270
creation of the Earth
181–182
criteria for Selection of Tales
13–14
criticism of excess piety
39, 43, 47, 52–53
Crusades
112, 220
Dama Ben Netinah
4n10, 14, 57–65
Dan, J.
5, 195, 196n21, 269n37
Davar Tov
100
David, biblical figure
16, 51n8, 70, 80, 123n3, 125, 162, 211, 237n3, 255, 262n8
David Alroy
112
Destruction, Tales of the
4n10, 87–88, 101n2, 118, 190n8, 191, 195n19, 219
Devarim Rabbah
26, 84
Devarim Rabbah [Lieberman]
26–27
Dimi, Rav
146
Dio Cassius
229n11
Diocletian
111
Diogenes
188n5
editorial coarseness
32, 50, 115, 170n20, 172, 213, 224n3, 226, 255, 257
careful editing
Ekhah Rabbah
101n2, 265n24
Ekhah Zuta
191n10, 269, 272n48
Elʾazar ben Arakh, R.
253
Elʾazar ben Azariah, R.
187–188
Elʾazar ben Durdayya
74–75
Elbaum, J.
5n15, 54n16, 187n1, 191n9, 195, 266
Elʾazar ben Jose, R.
98, 106–108, 114–118
Eliʾezer Be Rabbi Jose, R., see Elʾazar ben Jose, R.
Eliʾezer, R.
13n52, 55, 58–60, 67n1, 80, 96, 122, 123n2, 165, 196n21, 197, 205–206, 210, 213–215, 270
Elijah, biblical and Talmudic figure
and R. Jose in the ruin
191–192, 195
and the Chassid
43–44
and the Messiah
87n15, 88
and the wife
77–79, 80n5, 81–83, 85–86, 90n22
burying Akiva
157–166, 168n16, 169–170
Elijah ha-Zaqen of Le Mans, R.
273
Elisha, biblical figure
80n5, 165
Elisha ben Abuyah
194n16, 260
divine censure in the Talmud vs Midrash Mishle
144–146
not a sinner
139n26
on Akiva’s death
197–207
redeemed by R. Meir
133–150
in Midrash Mishle vs Palestinian sources
147–148
Eliyahu Rabbah
5, 6, 10n37, 163, 187, 195–196
Eliyahu Zuta
67, 74, 267n27
Enoch, biblical figure
182
Epstein, M. M.
246
Esau, biblical figure
38, 61n9
Esther, biblical figure
84, 101, 104, 111, 142, 234, 239–241, 244
Esther Rabbah II
236, 246, 269
Faust, S.
11n45, 248n2, 251n10, 254n15, 261n7
female audience?
86, 89
fiction
3, 188, 260
folklore
4n12, 42, 43n14, 82, 104, 216, 245, 262, 265n24, 268, 278n68
fornication
41–44, 50, 53, 68n3, 73, 139–140, 154, 229
foxes
187–190, 242–246, 263n13
Fraenkel, Y.
2, 7–8, 11n44, 48n2, 52n10, 53n13, 65n16, 132n11, 135n1, 168n16, 191n11, 192n, 195n19, 217n10, 252, 260, 279n70
on late Midrash
2, 3–4, 6n19, 19, 259, 268, 270n4
freewill
178, 184
Friedman, S.
8, 12–14, 57, 65n17, 124n6, 136n2, 151n1, 153n6, 154n10
Gabriel
69–70
garden
36, 40–41, 49–50, 90
Gamliel, Rabban
28n5, 179, 187–188, 222–226, 262, 270
wife of?
230–232
cover
geonic stylings, implied
30n16, 58, 63n10, 89n17, 91, 136, 195, 207, 251, 273n53
German Pietists see Ashkenaz
Genette, G.
9–10, 15, 23, 28, 54, 88n16, 96, 175n1, 260, 262, 268n29, 279n69
gentiles
Late vs Classical Midrash
266n25
Gichzi, biblical figure
166n11
God, as epilogue
32–33, 44, 86, 119, 130, 183–184, 190, 191, 194, 265
theodicy
gold, heightened descriptions
4n10, 17, 57n4, 60, 84, 267
Goshen-Gottstein, A.
72, 136–137, 140, 143, 149n26, 189, 194n16
gothic
18–19, 23
Green, D. A.
73–74
Gregory of Nyssa
234
Grunwald, I
6, 236n1
Halakha
2, 3n7, 43–44, 47, 57, 60, 63, 65, 91, 107–108, 118, 151n1, 159n1, 162, 181n8, 187, 246, 250, 261, 265n22, 267, 272, 273n50
heterodox in Tales
58, 65, 142, 144, 146, 250
Hadrian
13n51, 137n6, 226n4, 236–239, 244–245
Hagar, biblical figure
99, 108, 111
Hai Gaon
198
Haman, biblical figure
238–242, 243n16, 244
happier endings of late tales
4, 45, 53, 154n7, 168, 217n9, 258, 268
Hasan-Rokem, G.
4n12, 16n61, 137n6, 216–217, 269
Heinemann, I.
11n44, 12n46, 54n16, 131n10
Hekhalot
148, 196n21, 262n8
letters of R. Akiva; Pereq Shira; Prince of the Law
hell
70, 76, 121, 128, 130, 139, 140
Hevroni, I.
47n21, 212
Hillel
38, 39n5, 122, 267
Hillel, R.?
36, 38
Homer
7n26, 9, 96, 260, 279n69
Hosh’ayah., R., medieval
273
hypertextuality
1, 40–43, 45, 47, 57, 61, 63, 80–83, 96, 108, 113, 172, 259–260, 271–272, 278–279
definition
9–10
as ‘Keneged’
11–12
requires knowledgeable audience
10n37
counter-narrative; imitation; inversion
imitation, narratives
9, 10n39, 17–18, 88n16, 120, 175, 182, 190–191, 198, 206, 215, 217, 220, 224, 235, 236, 242, 258, 265, 267n27–28, 273n50, 278
interest in biblical exegesis
38, 52, 80, 119, 152, 184, 189, 210
Tales interpreting rabbinic passages
108, 153
inversion, narratives
13n51, 15, 29, 48, 58, 63, 69, 74, 101n2, 219, 224n3, 234–235, 244, 250n5, 261, 275
Isaiah (or Hos’ayah), disciple of R. Chanina ben Dosa
261n8
Ishamel, R.
254n17
Islam
101, 122, 131n9, 200n3, 213n5, 258, 262n8, 264, 267n27
Jacob, biblical figure
36, 38, 61n9, 181, 239, 277
Jehoshaphat, King of Judah
126
Jephthah, biblical figure
83
Jerusalem
89, 114–115, 118, 186–192, 273n53
Jesus
29, 168n16, 224n3, 243n13, 265n24
Job, biblical figure
37–39, 47, 180, 181, 256
Jose bar Abun, R.
61
Jose ben Chanina
R. 233
Jose `Ish Yoezer
191
Joseph, biblical figure
82n9, 84
Jose, R.
98, 106
Jose the Galilean, R.
275
Joshusa, biblical figure
123n3
Joshua Ben Chananiah. R.
229
Joshua ben `ilam
262
Joshua ben Levi
217
Joshua of Gerasa, R.
158–162, 166, 169–172
Joshua, R.
80, 187, 236–239, 242, 244
Josippon
244
Julian
244
Kabul
251–252
Kadari, A.
193
Kadari, T.
273
Kallah Rabbati
265n24
Kanarfogel, E.
269n37, 272–274
Karaites
65n15, 91, 187n2, 195, 199n3, 263
Kiperwasser, R.
13n51–52
Knohl, I.
65n15
Kosman, A.
14, 47n21, 48–50, 53n13–14, 69, 124n6, 151, 153–154
Kushelevsky, R.
14, 67n1, 70n, 74, 75n19, 101, 104n8, 105n, 106n13, 111n20, 120n6, 217n10, 219, 272
Late Midrash, scholarship
3–5
Late and Classical Tales of Sages
Bavli values transformed by late Tales
53, 157, 89n18, 169
continuation
15, 115, 163, 168–169
in Rashi 276–277 prequel; sequel
expansion
4n7, 26–30, 37, 101
as medieval
23–24, 95–96
heightened emotions and thoughts
45
summarization
48, 54
themes vs the Bavli
264–266
laypeople outdo the Rabbis; medieval historicity vs Talmudic a-historicity; synthesis of Bavli and Palestinian, indicative of late Tales
Late Tales of Sages; Lessened Messainsim
and Bavli tale qualities
8–9
diverse nature reflective of creators
266–267
hyperbolic power of charity
88, 166n13, 262
irony
39, 180, 239, 251
literary devices
259
univocality
267
vs recensions
6
happier endings of late tales; interest in biblical exegesis; Late and Classical Tales of Sages; oral inspired written style; parables
laypeople outdo the Rabbis
52n12, 90–91, 175, 178, 180n, 207, 220–221, 254, 258, 263
‘am ha-`arets
Lehmhaus, L.
4–5, 74n15, 261, 263, 267n27
Legend of the Ten Martyrs
163, 169–170, 206, 254n17
Leqach Tov
91n, 157n17, 184, 237n3
Lerner, M. B.
26–27, 135n1, 138n9, 146, 149n27, 20
Lessened Messainsim
89, 244, 265
Messiah
letters of R. Akiva
157n17
Levi, brother of Moshe ha-Darshan, R.
274
Levi, R., Amora
274
Levinson, B. M.
24, 278
Levinson, J.
2n3, 118–119
Lex Talionis see See Midah-Keneged-Midah
light, divine
18, 135, 137n7, 147n21, 154, 165, 182, 248, 256
Mack, H.
37n2, 49, 91n23, 170n21, 274n55–56
magic
82, 104, 111, 120n6, 148, 193, 229
Marcus, Y.
69
marginal figures as protagonists
28, 52, 54, 158, 233–234, 261–262
women
44, 86, 91, 154, 157, 171–172, 228, 248
marriage
32, 66, 69, 71, 74n16, 79, 123n5, 151–157, 171, 175, 251
Matiah b. Cheresh, R.
98, 106–107, 118, 261
matrons
210, 229–230, 265
medieval historicity vs Talmudic a-historicity
96, 101–102, 105, 123n4, 240, 269–270, 278–279
Meir, O.
2n3, 5n15, 9n33, 13n52, 65n16, 111n22, 135n, 155, 224, 234n20
Meir, R.
106n12, 178, 179, 260, 275
argues with Elisha ben Abuyah
135–144, 197–206
death of sons; unnamed wife
247–257
prays against evildoers
276
redeems Elisha ben Abuyah
145–150
unnamed disciple and death of wife
274–275
Beruriah
Menorat ha-Maor
224–228, 229–232
Messiah
4n10, 18, 79, 80, 86–89, 112, 163n6, 181n8, 239, 265–266
Metatron
112, 141, 200
Midah-Kenged-Midah
11, 142, 163, 257
Midrash Aggadah
91, 266
Midrash Job
13n53
Midrash Mishle
5, 13, 136
Midrash of the Decalogue
13n51, 29, 34–35, 57n2, 224n3, 261, 262, 269, 272
Midrash VaYosha
264n20
Milo, J.
11–12, 40n7, 253n14
Minor Midrashim
13
miracles in Tales as closure
29, 35, 154, 217, 263
the Marvelous
269
Monobaz the King
84n10
Mordecai, biblical figure
241–242, 244
mosaics
18
Moses and Isaac of Evreux, rabbis
273–274
Moses, biblical figure
164, 169n17, 176, 178, 197–198, 206, 208, 214, 224, 226, 229
suckling
233–235
Moshe ha-Darshan, R.
5, 17, 37n2, 157n17, 237n3, 274n55
Nachum `ish Gamzu
29
Natan, R.
186, 190n8, 193, 195–196
Nero
142n14
Neusner, J.
3, 5, 5n17, 6n23, 7n27, 95, 229, 279n70
New Reynard, The
246n27
Niehoff, M.
86
Nikolsky, R.
213n4
Northern France
272
Rashi: Tosafists
Ong, W. J.
7n26, 45n18
oral inspired written style
7n26, 16, 28, 45, 113, 175, 259–260, 266, 270–271, 278
originality as a non-medieval virtue
7
Palestinian themes, medieval?
91, 124, 143n16, 155–157, 169, 232, 250, 265
Panim Acherim
100n
Pappa, Rav
277
parables
16, 84–85, 159n1, 243n15
afterlife requires preparation
128–131
deposits
30–32, 88, 203–204, 253–54, 267
God is the true king and corporal king is his slave
216, 226
sky as ornamented curtain
16–19, 95
Ten Commandments as city
210
the lion’s feast
241–244
allegories; gold, heightened descriptions
Passover Haggadah
270
patterning see hypertextuality
Pharoah, biblical figure
64, 82n9, 104, 114–115, 119, 177–178, 184, 238
daughter of
175, 233, 250n5
Pereq Shira
261n8
Pelimo
45–47
Persia
63n11, 198, 199n3, 246n29, 273
Pesiqta Rabbati
5, 266
Philo
226, 234
Pinchas ben Chama, R.
55, 59
Pincahs, R.
242–243
Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliʾezer
10n37, 65n15, 66, 244, 261
rarity of tales in
123
Pitron
148, 161, 184, 220
allegories
Pitron Torah
11n43, 177n2, 198, 199n3
polemics
29, 64, 65, 104, 111, 178, 209–215, 239, 246
heightened as medieval
266
Christianity; Islam, Jesus
polyphony
3n5, 267
Post-Classical
19, 262, 263n16, 278
prayer
32, 45, 49, 64, 83, 125, 148, 157, 191–194, 246, 255
Prayer of Rabbi Shimʾon bar Yochai, The
112–113
prequel
122, 152, 155, 200n6, 224, 261
sequel
Prince of the Law
196
proem
7n26, 44n16, 58, 242n7, 271n46
proselyte
13n51, 64n14, 143n15, 171, 210, 232
pseudo-biblical language
41n8, 52, 112, 191n10, 239
Qohelet Rabbah
135n, 136n2, 175, 232, 273
Raba
53
Rabbi
13n52
his circumcision
222–235
Rahab
73
Rashbag
226
Rashbi, also R. Shimʾon bar Yochai
95n2, 161n5, 172
annulling Caeser’s decrees
97–113
argument on route to Caeser
114–120
in cave
105, 112
Rashi
28n4, 63n10, 91n, 117, 119, 157n17, 263n13, 269, 272n48, 274–278
Rav
167
redeeming power of lay study
122, 125, 132, 143, 149, 166, 241
mystical aspect thereof
154, 195
mystical visions
70
of telling stories
270
Red Heifer
55–64
Reizel, A.
58n7, 67n1, 78n1, 100n1, 101n2–3, 111n23, 136n2, 187n1, 199n3, 262n8, 265n24
Resh Laqish, R.
death
96, 128–132
not a bandit
123–124
repentance
121–127
Reuben son of Istroboli, R.
98–99, 101–105
rewritten Bible
96
Roberts, M.
16, 18
Rome
29n11, 69, 105, 107, 109, 115–116, 118, 223, 229–230, 235, 239, 275
Rosenberg, M.
82n8, 90, 168n16, 180n7
Rosen-Zvi, I.
48n2, 51, 53n14
Rotman, D.
269
Rubenstein, J. L.
1n1, 2n2, 6n22, 46n20, 48n2, 50n5, 124n6, 135n1, 137n, 138n10, 143, 146n18, 148n24, 198n2, 202, 229n9
on Talmudic poetics
8, 9n32, 11n41, 15n60, 95n2, 259n
on Talmudic themes
151n1, 168, 260n3–4, 263n12–16, 264n19, 265nn21,23, 267n26, 268n30, 33, 270n40
Palestinian themes, medieval?; Stam
Ruth, biblical figure
146n19
Ruth Rabah
13, 86
Sabino of Spoleto, St.
29
Safrai, S.
86n13, 188n4, 229n11
‘Sages, the’
3, 11, 36, 37, 39, 43, 45, 56, 57–58, 60, 63–64, 87, 90, 135, 152–153, 155, 159, 161, 163n6, 218–219, 235, 242n8, 252, 262, 265, 269, 274–275, 278–279
Saladin
112
Samaritan
203–204, 206
Sand, E.
12
Satan, entrapping sages
45–47, 50n5, 261, 276
Savoraim see Stam
scribes
112, 236n2, 246, 269–272
Scythopolis
211
Sefer Chassidim
74n16, 264, 269
Sefer ha-Ma’assim
272–273
Sefer Zerubavel
112
Seljuks
112, 188n1
Sephardic
101, 269n37
Septuagint
244
sequel
13n53, 105, 117, 136, 167, 171
prequel
Shabbatai, R.
61
Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, as Jonathan
125
Shemʾaiah ha-Shoshani, R.
274
Shemi Gibotayah
273
Shimʾon ben Azzai
263
on repentance (inauthentic)
121, 123, 124, 134, 142–144, 146
his marriage to Akiva’s daughter
157–158
entered paradise
199–200
Shimʾon ben Laqish, R. see Resh Laqish
Shimʾon ben Shatach
267n28
Shimʾon ben Zoma
199–200
Shinan, A.
5n15, 10n38, 78–79, 81n, 177n2, 178–179
Shoshany, R.
14, 79n, 81, 82nn7,9, 84, 90n22, 123
spatial contrast in Tales
108, 131, 155
Stam
1n, 8, 50, 89n18, 124n5, 132, 168, 263n16
Stern, D.
3n5, 9n33, 11n40–41, 23n2, 29, 30n15, 188, 203n, 245, 269, 271n43
Story Cycle
50, 75n20, 95n2, 135–136, 141, 175, 198, 260, 265, 276
suicide
52, 57, 219, 229, 274
synthesis of Bavli and Palestinian, indicative of late tales
13n52, 89n17, 136n2, 149, 177, 217, 233, 265n24
Syriac
50n6, 168n16, 265
Tabi, Gamliel’s servant
262
Tabori, Y.
236, 240–242, 243n16, 244, 245
Tafsir Zayd Ibn ‘Ali
58
Tale of the Jerusalemite
11n40
Tales of Sages, definition
2–3
vs The Homiletic Tale
3n3, 10n38
Tanchuma
5, 7n26, 13, 137n6, 236n1, 266, 271n46
Tanchuma Buber
4n10
Tanchum ben Zakkai, R.
273
Tannaim
2n4, 39n5, 64, 154, 184, 215, 229n9, 264, 266n25, 270
Tarfon, R
87n17
Testament of Job
47n21
The Language of Animals
175
The Mother of Seven
217, 219
theodicy
1, 16, 28, 130, 166, 177, 182, 191–194, 205, 256, 264, 268
God, as epilogue
Those I Remember, see Legend of the Ten Martyrs
Tiberias
90n21, 199n4
Titus
170
Turnus Rufus
Todorov, T.
269
Tosafists
28n7, 117, 119, 124, 163, 224, 226, 228, 232–233, 236n2, 260, 269, 272–274
Torah
68, 71, 72, 77, 79, 84, 90, 95n3, 101, 108, 111, 122, 151–157, 158–159, 168, 192, 198–202, 204, 207–208, 223, 232, 241, 248, 255
popularization as late virtue
76, 91, 124–127, 132, 134–146, 149, 151n1, 165–166, 170, 187n2, 195–196, 263, 265, 272
criticism of excess piety; redeeming power of lay study
trans diegetization
54
trans vocalization
28
Tropper, A.
12n48, 29, 95n1, 276
Turnus Rufus
159, 200–201, 209–217, 220–221
wife of
171
Type Scene
43, 148, 178
Ulmer, R.
58
Urbach, E. E.
11n43, 178n, 193n14, 198–200, 273n52
Vachman, G.
42, 111n21, 273n53
Visotkzy, B.
136n2, 139, 143, 146n20, 158, 161, 164n9, 248, 257
Wayiqra Rabbah
265
Western Wall
193n16, 194–195
Wisdom of the Jerusalemites
265
Woman of Valor
80, 248
wordplay
61, 80, 108, 126, 148, 152, 226, 254
Ya ʾakov, R.
201–202n
Yalqut Hamekhiri
177n2
Yassif, E.
5, 52n12, 74, 95n3, 96n8, 111n21, 175n3, 224n1, 229n10, 262n10, 264n17, 268, 272n48, 278n67
Yee, G.
234
Yehudah and Tamar
43n14
Yehudah bar Pazi, R.
181n2
Yehudah Nesi`ah, R.
124, 223–224, 226, 232, 274n55
Yehuda, Rav
167
Yehudah the Prince, see Rabbi
Yelammdenu
26n1
Yochanan ben Zakkai, Rabban
253–254, 264n18
Yochanan, R.
4n10, 53, 96, 122, 123n5, 123, 125, 127, 132, 139, 140, 148n23, 184, 256–257, 264n18
Yochanan, High Priest
36, 38
Yom Kippur
36, 40–42, 45–46, 143, 170n20
Yudan, R.
209, 215
Zadoq, R.
186, 190n8, 191–192, 195–196
Zakkai deNoach
273
Zakkai of Kabul, R.
252
Zakovitch, Y.
11–12
Zellentin, H.
168n16
Zohar
264, 274n55
Zunin see Zynion
Zilkah, Y.
265
Zynion, R.?
25, 27–28, 34–35