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💬 מַעֲשֶׂה חֲנֻכָּה א׳ | Ma’aseh Ḥanukkah “alef,” a tale of the people’s resistance to the Seleucid Greek occupation

Contributor(s):

Anat Hochberg (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

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Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)

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חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, colonization, sexual violence, sexual predation, Droit du seigneur, eating animals

This digital edition of Midrash Ma’aseh Ḥanukkah was transcribed from the print edition published in Otzar Hamidrashim (I. D. Eisenstein, New York: Eisenstein Press, 5675/1915, p.189-190). With much gratitude to Anat Hochberg, this is the first translation of this midrash into English. . . .

💬 מדרש לחנוכה | Midrash l’Ḥanukkah, an interwoven miscellany of Ḥanukkah stories

Contributor(s):

Aliza Arzt, Isabel Bard (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)

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חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, Angels, Early Middle Ages, cosmological, colonization, sexual violence, sexual predation, Droit du seigneur, Seleucid Greek Occupation

The following is the Midrash l’Ḥanukkah, one of a collection of three midrashim and two megillot containing the details of the story of Ḥanukkah in the Jewish rabbinic tradition. Those already familiar with these other works will quickly recognize portions or summaries of them here albeit with precious additional information added not found anywhere else. . . .

💬 Σουσαννα | שׁוֹשַׁנָּה וְהַזְּקֵנִים | Shoshanah & the Elders, according to Theodotion translated and cantillated in Masoretic Hebrew by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Theodotion (translation/Greek) and Unknown Author(s)

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Second Temple Period

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deuterocanonical works, Jewish Antiquities, anti-predatory, Antiquity, sexual predation

The story of Shoshanah & the Elders, according to the text of Theodotion translated into Biblical Hebrew. . . .

📜 פָּרָשַׁת אַחֲרֵי מוֹת | Parashat Aḥarei Mōt (Leviticus 16:1-18:30), color-coded according to its narrative layers

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic layer 'P' and Masoretic layer 'H'

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Sefer Vayiqra (Leviticus), Parashat Aḥarei Mōt

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פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, atonement, redaction criticism, פרשות parashot, predation, 6th century B.C.E., anti-predatory, 33rd century A.M., Yom Kippur, אחרי מות Aḥarei Mōt, sexual predation, Azazel, mythopoesis, Azael, עינוי Innui (self-affliction), supplementary hypothesis, Molekh, annual Torah reading cycle

The text of parashat Aḥarei Mōt, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . .

📜 פָּרָשַׁת קְדֹשִׁים | Parashat Qedoshim (Leviticus 19:1-20:26), color-coded according to its narrative layers

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic layer 'P' and Masoretic layer 'H'

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Sefer Vayiqra (Leviticus), Parashat Qedoshim

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פרשות parashot, 6th century B.C.E., predation, 33rd century A.M., anti-predatory, אחרי מות Aḥarei Mōt, sexual predation, Molekh, mythopoesis, atonement, קדשים Qedoshim, supplementary hypothesis, annual Torah reading cycle, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, redaction criticism

The text of parashat Qedoshim, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . .

📜 פָּרָשַׁת כִּי־תֵצֵא | Parashat Ki Tetsei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19), color-coded according to its narrative layers

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Len Fellman (translation), Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic layer 'D1', Masoretic layer 'D2' and Masoretic layer 'Dp'

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Sefer Devarim (Deuteronomy), Parashat Ki Tetsei

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mythopoesis, פרשת כי־תצא parashat Ki Tetsei, supplementary hypothesis, annual Torah reading cycle, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim, redaction criticism, predation, פרשות parashot, predatory gaze, the Plains of Moav, anti-predatory, 7th century B.C.E., predatory nature, 34th century A.M., sexual predation, let's review

The text of parashat Ki Tetsei, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . .

📜 פָּרָשַׁת כִּי־תָבוֹא | Parashat Ki Tavō (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8), color-coded according to its narrative layers

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Len Fellman (translation), Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic layer 'Dp', Masoretic layer 'D2' and Masoretic layer 'D1'

Categories:

Sefer Devarim (Deuteronomy), Parashat Ki Tavō

The text of parashat Ki Tavo, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . .