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“One day David went falcon-hunting”: The Demilitarized, Rabbinized, and Enchanted Story of Avishai Saving David From Yishbi-benov (II Samuel 21:15-17; Sanhedrin 95a)

Historical Puzzles and Possible Interpretations of the Encounter Between 'Turnus Rufus' and 'Rabban Gamliel' in the Talmud (Taanit 29a)

Talmudic Apologetics: A Cycle of Dialogues with Roman Pagans Regarding God and Idols (Avodah Zarah 54b-55a) - Pt. 2

Talmudic Apologetics: A Cycle of Dialogues with Roman Pagans Regarding God and Idols (Avodah Zarah 54b-55a) - Pt. 1

'The Land of Canaan is Ours': Alexander the Great as Moderator of Territorial Claims on 'Canaan' by Africans and Arabs in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 91a)

“The Man with the Nose is Wanted”: The Talmudic Story of Tineius Rufus and Rabban Gamliel (Taanit 29a)

Basilica, Stoa, and Cathedra: A Historical and Linguistic Analysis of the Talmudic Passage on the Synagogue of Alexandria (Sukkah 51b)

"Preparing Her Mouth" and "Turning Her Back": The Talmud on the “The Bad Wife” (Yevamot 63b)

Talmudic Rabbis’ Quietism, Downplaying Militarism, As Opposed to Torah Study

What is the largest page size in the Talmud, by word count? Estimating the upper bound using samples and code

R' Meir's Suspicious Brushes with Sexual Indiscretions, and His Encounters with Roman Troops, as Depicted in the Talmud (Avodah Zarah 18a-b; Sanhedrin 11a; Kiddushin 81a)

The Divine Providence of Galut: A Talmudic Perspective on the Jewish Diaspora As A Shield Against Genocide of the Jewish Nation (Pesachim 87b)

More on the Formatting of the Talmud, especially of Non-Halachic Portions (Aggada), and Analyzing Structure in Aggadic Sugyot

Talmudic Identifications of Anonymous Biblical figures

Helpful Formatting of the Talmud: Ohr Somayach’s ‘Talmud Navigator’

An Ancient Coded Letter Embedded in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 12a)

Notes on Some Historical Aspects Relating to Chanukah and the Hasmoneans in the Second Temple Period

“Why Was He Called Thus?”: Talmudic Puns on Biblical Names, Unification of Personalities, and Etymologies of Biblical Words

Talmud, Medieval Manuscripts, and Spinoza: What I’m Currently Reading and Working On

Posts Relating to Current Events

Accessible Talmud - Example from Talmud Bavli, Yevamot Chapter 6 (54a)

From Herodotus to the Talmud: Additional Recommended Amazon Kindle books, on Classical Antiquity

Ancient Interpretations: Talmudic Hermeneutics and Drashot Revisited

Happy and Lucky: 'Asher', 'Gad', 'Mazal' and other Related Names in Jewish Historical Name Usage

OCR Odyssey: Taming Text Recognition for Hebrew Classics

Quirky Queries: Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Hebrew Wikipedia Entries on Talmudic Biography

From Mishnah to Josephus: A New Digital Index of Jewish Personalities in Classical Antiquity

General Update, and Discussion of Widely Available Cutting-Edge Software Tools that Read Text in Images (=OCR), including Hebrew

Android Unleashed: Optimizing My Smartphone

Optimizing my Desktop: Windows Operating System, Chrome, Docs, and Colab

Spreadsheet Secrets: Underrated Spreadsheet Functions Pt.2 - Sheets and Excel

Spreadsheet Secrets: Underrated Spreadsheet Functions Pt.1

Hebrew History: A List of Some Pre-Modern Jewish Chronicles

Bridging Scripts: A Comparison of Tools and Methods for Automated Transliteration of Hebrew characters to Latin characters

Notes Regarding A Critical Lexicon of Names in the Talmud - Pt.2

Using A Linguistic Lens on Midrash: Does a Deep Technical Understanding of Modern Linguistics Provide Significant Help in Understanding Drashot in the Talmud and Midrash?

Jastrow's Greek Gems: Or, How I Extracted and Processed All 1000+ Greek loanwords Defined in Jastrow's Dictionary - Pt.1

Notes Regarding A Critical Lexicon of Names in the Talmud - A Survey of Previous Efforts; Patterns Within Individual Sages

Godly Nomenclature: Theophoric Names in the Hebrew Bible

Names from Nature: Jewish Names Derived from Animals

Quantifying the Talmud: A Technical Dive into Chapter Word Counts

Word Counts of All Chapters in Talmud Bavli

Signposts in Sacred Text: Formulaic Terms Used in Talmud Bavli

Tag, You're It: A Review of Dicta's New Part-of-Speech Tagging Tool, and Comparing it with ChatGPT4

Pt.4 of Scripting the Talmud: Using ChatGPT4 to Automatically Optimize the Formatting of side-by-side Hebrew-English Talmud

Passions and Prohibitions: Some Notes on Sex in the Talmud

Passions and Prohibitions: Some Notes on Sex in the Hebrew Bible

Counting Words and Rolling Scrolls: Word Counts of the books of the Hebrew Bible, in the Context of the Ancient Use of Scrolls As Writing Material

Counting the Covenant: The History of Word Counts and Related Statistics of the Hebrew Bible

Word Counts of Classical Jewish Works: A Deep Dive

Some Exciting Techniques for Making a Typical Talmudic Sugya More Accessible

Pt.3 of Scripting the Talmud: Automated Talmudic Text Extraction and Formatting - Emulating Sefaria’s Bilingual Talmud in a Google Doc with Google Apps Script

Between Tradition and Critique: R' Yaakov Emden's Examination of the Zohar in 'Mitpachat Sefarim' - Pt.2

Between Tradition and Critique: R' Yaakov Emden's Examination of the Zohar in 'Mitpachat Sefarim' - Pt.1

Some Proto-Scientific Jewish scholars, from Pre-Late Modern Period

Instances in Jewish Literature of Extra-judicial Execution of Idol Worshippers, Informers, Apostates, and Heretics

Scraping All Paper Titles and URLs from an Academia.edu page using Google Apps Script

Automate Image Downloading Using Google Apps Script

Ancient Innovators: The First Bedouin, Blacksmith, and Musician, according to the Hebrew Bible

The Geonic Bracha on Virginity (ברכת בתולים)

Melitza in the Digital Age: Experiments in Generating a Pastiche Mixing Zoharic Aramaic, Rabbinic Hebrew, and Modern Hebrew, with Artificial Intelligence

Forgeries of Talmudic era works, created in the Medieval era - Pt. 1 - Shi'ur Qomah

Talmudic Justifications for Biblical Stories that Contradict Halacha: Hora'at Sha'ah and Et La’asot - Pt. 2

Talmudic Justifications for Biblical Stories that Contradict Halacha: Hora'at Sha'ah and Et La’asot - Pt. 1

Notes on the pronunciation of the Hebrew letter ש as 's', as opposed to 'sh' - Pt. 2

Notes on the pronunciation of the Hebrew letter ש as 's', as opposed to 'sh' - Pt. 1

Notes on the Seforim Chitzonim - pt.4

Notes on the Seforim Chitzonim - pt.3

Notes on the Seforim Chitzonim - pt.2

Notes on the Seforim Chitzonim - pt.1

Anthropomorphism and Metaphors in the Zohar and the Medieval Kabbalistic Literature

Asking ChatGPT4 About ‘Contemporary Methods of Studying Talmud - Brisk vs. Academia; and the Artifically Intelligent Lamdan’

Follow-up on ‘Contemporary Methods of Studying Talmud - Brisk vs. Academia; and the Artifically Intelligent Lamdan’

Contemporary Methods of Studying Talmud - Brisk vs. Academia; and the Artifically Intelligent Lamdan

On an important digital layout of Maimonides’ Lists of Tannaim in his Introduction to his Commentary to the Mishnah

Etymologies of personal names in the Talmud

Metaphorical Descriptions of Women in Shir HaShirim

On an important digital layout of Maimonides’ Sefer HaMitzvot

Metaphors in Tractate Avot

Towns in the United States with Names from the Hebrew Bible

Talmudic Sayings: Exploring The Wisdom of the Talmud

Cataloging My Blogposts: An Organized Breakdown by Category

Talmudic Stories Relating to the Destruction of the Second Temple (Gittin 55b-56a)

Tefillin and Tzitzit in the Zohar: A Case Study in Halacha and Polemics

Explanations of Nicknames Provided by the Talmud

Understanding Honorifics in the Talmudic Era

The Patronymic Puzzle: Revisiting Talmudic Names

Notes on some Literary forgeries of Jewish works in the Late Modern Period (1756-1965)

Some Notes on Disparaging Humor in Pre-modern Rabbinic Literature

On the historical accuracy of Talmudic biographical details and stories

Data Transformation for E-Commerce

Notes on controversies, polemics and bans in Modern Jewish history

The Kuzari Argument: A central claim in Ultra-Orthodox Apologetics

Recommended General Non-fiction Kindle Books (not Jewish studies)

Crafting a Personalized Travel Itinerary with ChatGPT-4, and Mapping it

Rome and the Final Judgment: The Messianic-Era Judgement Day in the Talmud and Rome's Role (Avodah Zarah 2a-b)

Data Transformation with the Amazing New ChatGpt4 ‘Code Interpreter’, with Google Colab

Jewish Studies books on Amazon Kindle: A Discussion and Recommended Titles

Charting Jewish Studies: A Taxonomy for the 21st Century

Mobile Minimalism: Streamlining My Smartphone Layout

Was Abraham a Lamdan?

I'm going to European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) annual conference in Frankfurt

Further Experiments in Automating Accessible Talmud Layout

‘The Oven of Akhnai’: Disputation, Miracles, Ostracism, and Disasters in a Foundational Talmudic Story

Pt.2 of Sacred Subterfuge: Stories of Deception in the Talmud

Sacred Subterfuge: Stories of Deception in the Talmud

Speaking During Sacred Silences: Interjections between Netilat Yadayim and Hamotzi

Some Non-Jewish Historical Proper Names Mentioned by Name in the Talmud

Ultra-Orthodox Apologetics: Some Notes on R’ Ahron Lopianski’s Lecture Series “Da Ma Shetashiv”

Transcript of my presentation: “A Selective Overview of Digital Resources for the Scholarly Study of Rabbinic Texts”

More Metaphors in Talmudic literature, and how they can be interpreted within the framework of cognitive metaphor theory

The “Sex is Food” Metaphor in the Talmud

Selected recap from the 3-day workshop, “Editions of Classical Jewish Literature in the Digital Era”

Workshop: Editions of Classical Jewish Literature in the Digital Era

Cataloguing My Blogposts: An Organized Breakdown by Theme - v1

Dicta Tools versus ChatGPT4 in Halachic Text Analysis

AI Self-Reflection: ChatGPT4’s Stance on Assuming the Role of a Rov

“Appropriate Names”: The Interplay of Aptronyms, Pseudonyms, and Epithets in the Talmud

Can Artificial Intelligence Pasken? - Pt.3

Ultra-Orthodox Tensions: The Sefaria Controversy and the Struggle Between Tradition and Modernity

Evaluating Al-Hatorah's Digital Repository: Exploring Its Excellent Tanakh and Talmud Commentaries, and More

Symbols and Syntax: Punctuation and Nikud in the Talmud

Just published: My article in the Seforim Blog on digital layouts of the Talmud - and on the possibility of an AI chavruta

Beyond Miracles and Divine Intervention: Unraveling the Practical Strategies of Apartment Ownership Among Israeli Chareidim

The Intersection of Halacha and Artificial Intelligence - Pt#2

Scripting the Talmud Part#2: Automated Rashi Text Extraction and digital layout of tzurat daf

Adventures in ChatGPT-4 and Pesak: A Confluence of Technology and Tradition

Is There Pesak for Belief in Orthodox Judaism?

Maimonides' Omissions: Explaining Exclusions from Mishneh Torah

The Satmar Rebbe, R' Yoel Teitelbaum: Reviewing his Biography, Beliefs, and Controversies

Announcement: My upcoming presentation: "An Overview of Digital Resources for the Scholarly Study of Rabbinic Texts".

Scripting the Talmud: Automated Talmudic Text Extraction and Formatting

A Century of US Names, Pt 2, Naming Dames: Female Names with Hebrew Bible, Greco-Roman, and Germanic Roots

Faith in Flux: Voices from the Fringes of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism

Releasing the Pressure: A Dive into Freud's Hydraulic Model of the Mind

Waves from the West: Uncovering some Greco-Roman Undercurrents in the Sea of Talmud

Pilgrimage to the Past: The Yeshiva University Family Discovery Club Visits Ellis Island - 2014

A Century of US Names, Pt 1: Male Monikers with Hebrew Bible, Greco-Roman, and Germanic Roots

A Prospectus for a Large Language Model (LLM) to Facilitate Researching Rabbinic Onomastics

Scripture and Structure: The Definition of "Torah" and Taxonomies of Traditional Jewish Literature

Yeshivish Dialect in the Landscape of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Towards Decoding Ha-Yeriah Ha-Gedolah (The Great Parchment), a cryptic 14th century Italian kabbalistic text

Orthodox Judaism, Religious Coercion, and Halacha

Guide to Online Resources for Scholarly Jewish Study and Research - 2023

Genealogy Documents

From Abba to Zebedee: A Comprehensive Survey of Naming Conventions in Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic in Late Antiquity

Remember the Days of Old: My Family History Research