Shamma Friedman
Shamma Friedman is the Benjamin and Minna Reeves Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary teaching at The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, and Adjunct Professor in the Talmud Department at Bar Ilan University. He has held a variety of positions at the Seminary, including Professor, acting Librarian, Editor of Hebrew publications and Director of the Schocken Institute. During the 1970s and 1980s, Friedman was the Dean and Director of JTS's Jerusalem campus, now known as the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies.
Professor Friedman also is the founder of the The Society for the Interpretation of the Talmud and the The Saul Lieberman Institute of Talmudic Research
Professor Friedman also is the founder of the The Society for the Interpretation of the Talmud and the The Saul Lieberman Institute of Talmudic Research
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Festschrift by Shamma Friedman
Articles and Reviews by Shamma Friedman
This English abstract (not published within the book) offers summaries of the 22 studies of Mishna/Tosefta parallels which comprise the body of this volume.
תוספתא עתיקתא על מסכת פסח ראשון, מקבילות המשנה והתוספתא ופירושן בצירוף מבוא, רמת-גן תשס"ג
Bar-Ilan University & the FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
INVITE THE PUBLIC:
Medical Knowledge from Ancient Babylonia to Talmudic Babylonia
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH 2015
THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES,
4 AVRAHAM GRANOT ST., JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
Program
14:15 registration
14:30 opening remarks
Mark Geller (Freie Universität Berlin)
Shamma Friedman (The Jewish Theological Seminary, Bar-Ilan University)
15:00 First Session
Gideon Bohak (Tel Aviv University)
Aramaic Manuals of Divination from Late Antiquity
Tanja Hidde (Freie Universität Berlin)
Bulmos/Boulímos in the Talmudic Tradition
16:20 Break/ refreshments
16:40 Second Session
Mark Geller (Freie Universität Berlin)
Goodbye Julius Preuss: Unexpected Instances of Medicine in the Bavli
Aaron Amit (Bar-Ilan University)
An Obscure Disease and a Dubious Cure: The Case of סוסכינתא in Bavli Yebamot 64b
18:00 closing remarks