A short discourse on the necessity for prayer by the Stoic philosopher, Epictetus. . . .
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tagged: Antiquity 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Morrison David Bial and Epictetus the Stoic
Shared on א׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-23) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Second Temple Period, Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer
Tags:  Antiquity, 1st century C.E., 39th century A.M., Stoicism
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown Author(s) and David haMelekh ben Yishai (traditional attribution)
Shared on כ״ה באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: Antiquity, apocryphal psalms, Psalms 151, Judaean Desert Scrolls 
Psalm 151a is unlike any other psalm, because it is openly and clearly a description of David’s own life. He describes his childhood as the youngest of the family, and his anointing. It may have not been included as part of the Masoretic canon because this dissimilarity leads to just a whiff of pseudepigraphical overcompensation. [The psalm is designated Psalms 151a to destinguish it from the text of Psalms 151 found in the Septuagint. –ANV] . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut)
Shared on י״ד במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (2020-10-31) — under the following terms: Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: Antiquity, reconstructed text, apocryphal psalms, pseudepigrapha, Syriac, Psalms 152, Psalms 153 
Unlike Psalms 151, 154, and 155, the apocryphal psalms 152 and 153 were not found in the Judean Desert scrolls, but only in the Syriac psalter. It is thus somewhat uncertain if they were actually ever written in Hebrew or in Aramaic. But their language and content is in keeping with other late apocryphal psalms, so it seems very possible that they were of Hebrew origin. These reconstructed Hebrew texts are largely based on the work of Professor Emeritus Herrie (H. F.) van Rooy,[1] an expert in the Syriac psalter, also factoring in some input from the work of J. A. Sanders.[2] Psalms 152 and 153 are included together here because they are framed by the ascriptions as a pair — the former being David’s prayer before going against the wild beasts (see I Samuel 17:34-36), and the latter being David’s thanksgiving afterwards . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ה באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-18) — under the following terms: Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: Antiquity, apocryphal psalms, Psalms 151, Judaean Desert Scrolls 
Psalm 154 seems to be a hymn of communal eating, very appropriate for the communal life of Qumran, but also features a very Proverbs-like anthropomorphization of Wisdom as a woman. Of the three apocryphal psalms recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls, this one seems the most likely to have been written with sectarian intent, which may have been why it wasn’t included in the Masoretic canon. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ה באייר ה׳תש״פ (2020-05-18) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: acrostic, Alphabetic Acrostic, Antiquity, apocryphal psalms, Psalms 151, Judaean Desert Scrolls 
Psalm 155 is an incomplete acrostic (the Dead Sea Scrolls text records it going from ב to נ, and the Syriac can be reconstructed to include up to פ) with similarities to petitionary psalms like Psalm 3, 22, and 143. It is unclear why it was not included in the Masoretic canon, but one can hazard a guess that it was just not familiar to the compilers. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ben-Zion Bokser and Yishmael ben Elisha
Shared on ג׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Midrash Halakhah, Birkhot haShaḥar
Tags: Antiquity, 49th century A.M., 1st century C.E., exegetical rules, hermeneutics 
The thirteen exegetical rules by which halakhot from the Torah may be derived, according to Rebbi Yishmael, included with the preliminary prayers before the Psukei d’Zimrah/Zemirot of Shaḥarit. . . . 
Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on י״ט באלול ה׳תשע״ז (2017-09-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Birkhot haTorah, Birkhot haShaḥar, Torah Study
Tags: talmud torah, interpretive translation, English Translation, North America, Late Antiquity, Jewish Renewal, Amoraic prayers, Prayers before Torah Study, Tannaitic prayers, Antiquity, ecoḥasid, devotional interpretation 
This English translation of the blessing for Torah study by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l, was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Versification according to the Nusaḥ ha-ARI z”l by Aharon Varady. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Theodotion (translation/Greek) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ׳ בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-16) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: anti-predatory, Antiquity, captives, deuterocanonical works, Jewish Antiquities, dragons, iconoclastic, the Pit, captive animals, קפיצת הדרך ḳfitsat haderekh 
The story of Bel and the Dragon according to the text of Theodotion, translated into biblical Hebrew. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation), Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ו׳ בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-31) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: anti-predatory, Antiquity, captives, deuterocanonical works, Jewish Antiquities, dragons, iconoclastic, the Pit, captive animals, קפיצת הדרך ḳfitsat haderekh, חבקוק Ḥabaquq 
The story of Daniel and the dragon held captive by the neo-Babylonians found in Aramaic in the Divrei Yeraḥmiel (the Chronicles of Jeraḥmeel, Oxford Bodleian Heb d.11). . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Theodotion (translation/Greek) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ׳ בטבת ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-16) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Second Temple Period
Tags: anti-predatory, Antiquity, sexual predation, deuterocanonical works, Jewish Antiquities 
The story of Shoshanah & the Elders, according to the text of Theodotion translated into Biblical Hebrew. . . . |
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