Having now completed my thesis, I figure that the best way to get back into writing for pleasure is to start by writing about my thesis. Go figure. In any case, a word or two might be in order by way of justifying the relevance of what appears to be a rather convoluted and obscure topic: the prevalence of locative-heh suffix forms within the book of Chronicles.
(Re-)Reading Ecclesiastes: Problems with a Talmudic Exposition
15 11 2006In the Babylonian Talmud¹, an incident is related within which Rabbi Yehoshua asks Rabbis Yohanan ben Beroka and Elazar Hisma for a ‘novel teaching’ from that day’s session at the study hall (מה חידוש היה בבית המדרש היום). One of the teachings that the two Rabbis deliver is related to an exegetical understanding of Ecclesiastes 12:11, presented in the name of Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah. The Biblical passage is as follows:
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Echoes from the Ether: