Alyssa M Gray
@alyssamgray1.bsky.social
Professor of Talmud and Halakhah at HUC-JIR. Some of my closest friends lived many centuries ago. All opinions mine.
Just published: Cambridge History of Rights, volume 1. Chapters covering the various bases, including one by me on rabbinic Judaism (land of Israel compilations).
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Just published: Cambridge History of Rights, volume 1. Chapters covering the various bases, including one by me on rabbinic Judaism (land of Israel compilations).
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Today Alyssa Gray engages Gross' Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity (Cambridge Press, 2024) by examining class consciousness between rabbis and the non-rabbinic wealthy.
Babylonian Rabbinic "Class Consciousness" and Competition for Social and Religious Influence in Sasanian Iran — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
These two sets of patterns—rabbinic tensions with the non-rabbinic wealthy and their involvements with charity and the working poor—are arguably complementary. Not only should the rabbis prevail in…
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February 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today Alyssa Gray engages Gross' Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity (Cambridge Press, 2024) by examining class consciousness between rabbis and the non-rabbinic wealthy.
New article of mine: The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law - Read on degruyter.com/document/doi...
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The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law
The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law was published in Jewish Law on page 169.
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December 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
New article of mine: The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law - Read on degruyter.com/document/doi...
@degruyter_brill
or please DM me for a PDF.
@degruyter_brill
or please DM me for a PDF.
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AJR published their first article 10 years ago, an essay by Alyssa Gray reflecting upon her 2005 monograph, " A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah." #AJRAnniversary
A Talmud in Exile: The Continuing Conversation — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
The Bavli student who also keeps one eye on the Yerushalmi, studying a tractate in both Talmuds, is aware of something else: the two Talmuds’ treatments of the same mishnah...
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November 14, 2024 at 2:05 PM
AJR published their first article 10 years ago, an essay by Alyssa Gray reflecting upon her 2005 monograph, " A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah." #AJRAnniversary
I'm happy to announce the publication of Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin (Brown Judaic Studies, 2024), which I edited together with my friend and colleague Prof. Carol Bakhos. press.sbl-site.org/product/maki...
Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin - SBL Press
Essays in this volume honor Richard L. Kalmin, one of the leading scholars of rabbinic literature. Essays in this volume honor Richard L. Kalmin, one of the leading scholars of rabbinic literature. Vo...
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April 2, 2024 at 1:39 AM
I'm happy to announce the publication of Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin (Brown Judaic Studies, 2024), which I edited together with my friend and colleague Prof. Carol Bakhos. press.sbl-site.org/product/maki...
This is a sort of subtweet (can we say that here? 😁) Yitzhak Isaac Halevy writes amusingly (to me) against arguments that Yerushalmi didn't come to Bavel earlier than Sa'adyah: "it's as if the land of Israel is a region on the moon, from which it's impossible to bring all the learning of EY. . . ."
February 20, 2024 at 7:23 PM
This is a sort of subtweet (can we say that here? 😁) Yitzhak Isaac Halevy writes amusingly (to me) against arguments that Yerushalmi didn't come to Bavel earlier than Sa'adyah: "it's as if the land of Israel is a region on the moon, from which it's impossible to bring all the learning of EY. . . ."
Thanks to @kristadalton.bsky.social, I'm new here on Bluesky! Who else do I know here?
December 27, 2023 at 9:15 PM
Thanks to @kristadalton.bsky.social, I'm new here on Bluesky! Who else do I know here?