Vered Noam
Vered Noam is the chair of Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University, and a full Professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud. In 2016 she served as a member of the Board of Directors of Tel Aviv University. In 2015 she has been a fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and in 2011 she was a Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies, Yale University. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Rothschild Foundation's Michael Bruno Memorial Award.Noam is the author of Megillat Ta’anit: Versions, Interpretation, History (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2003)
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protest against the practice of eating and bringing heave offerings of gentiles’ grains into the temple. The present article suggests new readings of the relevant lines and, based on parallels in other scrolls, interprets the rule as accusing priests of letting unworthy women in their household touch the holy food and consume the consecrated heave offering. The article further shows that the problem of unfit women eating holy food was a major concern in rabbinic halakhah as well.
This essay seeks to underscore the intrinsic beauty of the halakhah, both
in its function as a normative system and as a constitutive element of the texts in which it is contained, not just as a means of shaping an exemplary lifestyle. Embodied in the halakhah itself is an abstract, meaningful spiritual foundation that shares elements with poetry and philosophy. Halakhic discourse reveals hidden dimensions of the world, heightens the ability of humans and language to shape reality, and articulates theological longing.
This article takes a different approach, making a clear distinction between traditions that most likely belong to the Second Temple period and their secondary reworking in rabbinic citations. By separating ancient embedded fragments from their deliberate reworking, it is possible to characterize both the attitude toward the Hasmoneans in temple times and the shifts that took place among the redactors
and transmitters of rabbinic literature.
This reconsideration demonstrates that the rabbis indeed sought to erase the memory of the individual Maccabean brothers, but that they did not display a negative attitude toward the Hasmonean dynasty as an institution. Their outlook on the generations of the Hasmonean leaders – whether positive or negative – was the outcome of their attempt to present history from the ‘rabbinic’ perspective, in which the Torah and its scholars took center stage.
protest against the practice of eating and bringing heave offerings of gentiles’ grains into the temple. The present article suggests new readings of the relevant lines and, based on parallels in other scrolls, interprets the rule as accusing priests of letting unworthy women in their household touch the holy food and consume the consecrated heave offering. The article further shows that the problem of unfit women eating holy food was a major concern in rabbinic halakhah as well.
This essay seeks to underscore the intrinsic beauty of the halakhah, both
in its function as a normative system and as a constitutive element of the texts in which it is contained, not just as a means of shaping an exemplary lifestyle. Embodied in the halakhah itself is an abstract, meaningful spiritual foundation that shares elements with poetry and philosophy. Halakhic discourse reveals hidden dimensions of the world, heightens the ability of humans and language to shape reality, and articulates theological longing.
This article takes a different approach, making a clear distinction between traditions that most likely belong to the Second Temple period and their secondary reworking in rabbinic citations. By separating ancient embedded fragments from their deliberate reworking, it is possible to characterize both the attitude toward the Hasmoneans in temple times and the shifts that took place among the redactors
and transmitters of rabbinic literature.
This reconsideration demonstrates that the rabbis indeed sought to erase the memory of the individual Maccabean brothers, but that they did not display a negative attitude toward the Hasmonean dynasty as an institution. Their outlook on the generations of the Hasmonean leaders – whether positive or negative – was the outcome of their attempt to present history from the ‘rabbinic’ perspective, in which the Torah and its scholars took center stage.
Examines six sets of parallel stories on the Hasmonean dynasty appearing in Josephus' works and in rabbinic literature, in an attempt to reconstruct the putative original traditions and their attitude towards the Hasmonean dynasty.
Investigates the ways these legends were adapted within each corpus and the motivation behind these adaptations, and explores the nature of the relationship between the Josephan and the rabbinic versions.
Tal Ilan and Vered Noam, in collaboration with Meir Ben Shahar, Daphne Baratz and Yael Fisch, Josephus and the Rabbis
השער הראשון של הספר מוקדש לתיאורם של החיבורים הנכללים בספרות חז"ל ויצירות משיקות להם מן המשנה, התוספתא ומדרשי ההלכה ועד הירושלמי ומדרשי האגדה, בתוספת טקסטים ליטורגיים, תרגומי מקרא וחיבורים היסטוריים למחצה.
השער השני בוחן נושאי חתך מרכזיים, ובהם: היחס בין מסורות בספרות חז"ל ומסורות בספרות בית שני; ההלכה – מקורותיה, תחומיה, צורותיה הספרותיות ותופעת המחלוקת; האגדה – זיקתה למקרא, דרכי מדרשה ולקחיה הרעיוניים; מעמד החכמים בחברה היהודית, והשאלה עד כמה משקפת ספרות חז"ל מציאות ריאלית; היסטוריה ודימויי עבר בספרות חז"ל; לשון חכמים וארמית בספרות חז"ל – אוצר המילים שלהן והמילונאות המתעדת אותן; המאגיה בת התקופה בארץ-ישראל; וספרות חז"ל באספקלריה של הספרות הנוצרית בת הזמן.
מדוע שינו חז"ל את דמותו של דוד ממלך וכאיש צבא לדמות של חכם ש"מלכלך את הידיים"?
האם יש אירוניה בקביעה שדוד עסק בטיהור אשה לבעלה?
ומי הפך את הכינור של דוד לשעון מעורר?
הרצאה זו נישאה במסגרת הכנס - "דברים שלא ידעתם על דוד המלך" של החוג ללימודי התרבות העברית באוניברסיטת תל אביב בשיתוף עם מיזם 929.