Alyssa M Gray

Just published: Cambridge History of Rights, volume 1. Chapters covering the various bases, including one by me on rabbinic Judaism (land of Israel compilations).

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…

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.

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The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law was published in Jewish Law on page 169.

New article of mine: The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law - Read on degruyter.com/document/doi...
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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...

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

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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...

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. . . ."

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