Index
Abaye
194–197, 198, 199, 201, 299
Abba Shaul
17–18, 21, 24, 28
Abraham (biblical)
11, 16, 21, 99, 128, 145, 270
The Academy of R. Yannai
214–216
Adik bVa’u al Zion (poem)
152–170
Aelian
14
Aeschylus
262
Ahreman
253
Akbara
215
Akkadian
297
‘Ammei haarets (“commoners”)
53
Amemar
199, 201
Ammonite
8, 67, 203
Amram ben Solomon
151
Amram Dare
147, 151–153
Anaqim
see Rephaites
Aramaic poetry
IX, 151, 159–170
Aristotle
244, 246, 254–255
Astrology
see Mazal
Augustus Caesar
14, 78
Augustine of Hippo
25–26
Baba Rabba
149–150
Babylonian Aramaic
225
Babylonian Gaonate
51, 206
Barbaria
99, 101
Bar Kokhba
55, 247
Bar Qappara
197–198, 211, 227
Basilosaurus
19
Benjamin of Tudela
30–31
Bet Shearim
29
Bezalel (biblical)
180–181
Categories of Jewish Lineage
63–64, 69–76, 79
Chrysostom, John
245
Converts
VIII, 63–66, 68–70, 72–88
Dayumeset
193
dei Rossi, Azariah
26
Dēnkard
251–254
Divre Sofrim
38, 40–49
Divre Torah
38, 40–49
Elizur, Shulamit
161–166
Elman, Yaakov
VII, X–XI, XVI, 32, 60, 176, 226, 295–318
Ezra (biblical)
57, 186–187, 189–191
Forbidden Marriages
67–77, 79–87
Forgetting and Restoration of Law motif
in BT
175–179, 181–206
in JT
175–185, 198
Fossils
VII–VIII, 5, 10, 14, 18–20, 31
Fraade, Steven
40, 46–47
Frigidaria
58
Furstenberg, Yair
40, 88
Garden of Eden
see Shabbat Gan Eden
Gezerah shavah
188
Giants in antiquity
VII, 3–11, 13–19, 21, 24–26, 28, 30–31
Gigantomachy
16, 29–30
Goliath Ossuaries
7–8
Hadrian
26, 28–30
ḥalal
66, 69–70, 75–77, 80, 82–85, 87
Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai
175, 177, 180, 183–184, 186, 188, 191, 200, 202–205
Hananiah b. Hezeqiah b. Gurion
182
Havdalah
184–185
Hayes, Christine
65, 175–176, 202
Hebron
8–17, 30
Hesiod
262
Hidary, Richard
205
Hillel the Elder
40, 42–43, 186–187, 189–195
House of Hillel
38, 182, 265–266, 275, 280
House of Shammai
38, 43, 182, 265, 275, 280
Ifra Hormiz
249–251, 253
Ishmaelite
93–102
Ivory Beds
22–23
Jabez
see Othniel b. Kenaz
Jacob, Benno
299
Josephus
VII, 5–6, 8–16, 20, 30
Joshua (biblical)
9–10, 16, 40, 70–71, 180–181, 188,
Klawans, Jonathan
106, 130–134
Lamentations
160
Leprosy
see Nega and Tsara’at
Lo shanu ela traditions
208–221, 224–226
Ma’aseh Tuvia
4
Machpellah Tomb
12, 15–16
Maimonides
100
Mamre
11–12, 16
Manilius
14
Mayor, Adrienne
5, 13, 19, 22
Mazal
176
Meiri
98, 299
The Menatzpach
190–191
Menstrual Discharge
55–56, 249–252, 263, 288
The Messiah
X, 239, 241–242, 246–247, 254–256
Middle Persian
X, 251–254, 256, 297, 299–300, 305
Minhag
in Roman Palestine
51–60
in medieval Ashkenaz
51
Miriam (biblical)
108, 113–116, 121, 123, 134
Moabite
67, 203
Mount Gerizim
148–150,
Mos maiorum (custom of the ancestors)
52
Moses (biblical)
16, 40, 55, 70, 108–109, 114–115, 122–124, 143, 175, 177, 180, 183–184, 186, 188, 191, 200, 202–205
Naeh, Shlomo
39
Nahote
197
Nazarite
219–221, 232
Nega
107, 113, 116–119, 125, 127–128
The Ninth of Av
IX, 159–161, 166
Nisibis
193
Og king of Bashan
3, 8, 21, 27–28
One seed theory
262–263,
Onqelos
Proselyte
191–192
Targum
191
Othniel b. Qenaz
188–190, 197, 203
Ovid
13
Palestinian Aramaic
IX, 159
Pausanias
15
Perugita
193
Peshitta
243
Philo
244, 249, 254
Philostratus
15
Pinhas b. Yair
223
Pirqoi ben Baboi
51–52, 206
Piyutei Harachva (poetic genre)
161, 167
Plato
244, 246
Pliny the Elder
13, 19, 26, 142, 245–246
Prehistoric Elephant teeth
4–6, 18–19, 22
Proboscideans
4
Procreation
Obligation of
X, 260–261, 265–288
in Babylonian sources
262–264, 269–273, 276–288
in Palestinian sources
261–262, 265–265, 273–276, 281–288
in Greco-Roman sources
262
Mother’s contribution to
262–264
Father’s contribution to
261–262
Qal v’homer
188
Qerova (poetic genre)
160
Qillirian tradition
159–160, 162
Qinot
159–160, 165–166
Qiryat Sefer
188
Qumran
VII, 111–112, 130, 304
R. Abbahu
183–184, 190, 228–229, 268, 271–272, 282, 288,
R. Aqiva
23–24, 182, 184, 193, 200, 202, 219, 247
R. Avdimi of Haifa
199–201
R. Eleazar b. Arakh
193–195
R. Eleazar b. Azariah
124, 186, 193
R. Hiyya
24, 26, 128, 183, 186–187, 189–190, 197–198, 218, 272
R. Hiyya b. Abba
97, 190, 274–278, 284–285
R. Levi
179, 181, 261
R. Meir
24, 72–73, 75, 81, 116–120
R. Shimon b. Eleazar
114, 116, 118–119
R. Shimon ben Laqish
179–180, 187, 194, 197, 227–229, 262
R. Shmuel b. Nahman
215–216, 227
R. Yannai
53, 57, 193, 214–216
R. Yehoshua
191
R. Yohanan
181, 183–185, 188, 190, 193, 204, 217–220, 223–224, 227–228, 230–231, 262, 271–274, 282–285
R. Yohanan b. Baroqa
265–268, 271–273, 282, 285
R. Yehudah b. Ilai
26, 72–77, 80, 82–84, 86–87, 116, 125–128
R. Yehudah b. Beteyra
193
R. Yehudah ben Hanina
179–180, 193
R. Yeshebab
179–180, 182
R. Yose b. Ḥalafta
56, 75, 81–87, 211
R. Yose bar Hanina
221–222, 229
R. Yose b. R. Bun
179–180, 182, 227
Rabban Gamliel
179–180, 191–192
Rabban Yoḥanan b. Zakai
26–30, 39
Rabbinic units of measure
188–189
Rav
24, 186, 188, 191, 184, 219–221, 229, 230, 232, 248, 249, 254, 304
Rav Ashi
196, 200, 202–204
Rav Huna
181, 248–249
Rav Yehuda
24–25, 186–188
Rav Yosef
194–195, 198, 269–270, 303, 305
Rava
195–196, 200–202, 204, 239–240, 246–247, 249–251, 253, 288, 299, 303–304
Rahit style
164
Rand, Michael
159–160, 165–166, 169
Renewal of Jerusalem (poetic motif)
162–165
Rephaites
3, 8
Ritchie, Ian D.
239, 243–244
Ritual Baths
55–58, 140
Ritual Impurity
54–57, 107, 109–110, 117, 130–131, 133, 182–183, 232, 250–253, 288
Roman Freedman
66, 75, 77–79, 87–88
Roman Law
52, 64–66, 79, 81, 85, 87
Samaritan
Sukkot
IX, 137–156
Pentateuch
141
liturgy
147–148, 151–156
Sasanian Empire
25, 30, 205, 239, 256, 297
Saracens
98, 100–101
School of R. Yishmael
270, 278, 288
Schremer, Adiel
40, 42–43, 46–47
Sense of Smell
In Greco-Roman sources
244–246, 255–256
in Bavli
246–251, 255–256
in Middle Persian sources
251–256
Sevara
196
Shammai
40, 42–43
Shabbat Gan Eden
141, 143–144, 147–148
Shapur, Sasinian king
249
Shemini Atseret
150, 152–153
Shimon b. Shatah
92–103
Shimon HaPequli
192
Slaves
66, 69, 71–72, 77–88
Sokoloff, Michael
159–160
Soloveitchik, Hayim
51
Soranus
262
Stam
223, 247, 249
Suetonius
14
Sukkah
Rabbinic
137–138, 142–143
Samaritan
137–138, 141–148, 150, 152–153, 155–156
Karaite
143
in Nehemiah
143
Sukkot
IX, 137–156
Synagogue
29–30, 56, 58, 138–139, 166, 184, 272
Ta-Shma, Israel
51
Targum
191, 242–243
Te’sof Nefutzot Zion (poem)
161–169
Tibat Marqe
144, 147–148, 153, 155
Throne of Maximianus
22–23
Tobius Cohen
see Ma’aseh Tuvia
Tosefta Eduyot
VIII, 38–49
Tsara’at
in Qumran
110
ritual discussions of
IX, 106, 108–109, 130–134
as a punishment
IX, 106, 108–109, 112–124, 126–127, 130–134
as a reward
124–126, 128–129, 134
Two seed theory
262–264
Usha
179–183
Uzziah (biblical)
108, 114–115, 121, 123, 134
Water-libation
183
Yannai
30
Yavneh
38–40, 42, 44, 46–47, 49, 180, 191–192
Yehudai Gaon of Sura
51
Yehudit, wife of R. Hiyya
274–279, 283–285
The Zādspram
254
Zoar Tombstone
XII
Zoroastrianism
VII, X, 205, 249, 252–254, 299–301, 303–304
Zulay, Menahem
161