Then and Now
In academic circles, "tradition" has long taken a beating. Scholars have correctly pointed out that "tradition" or "traditions" are often quite malleable as Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger put it in the title of their edited volume, The Invention … [Continue reading] about Tradition!
Over the last year I have been experimenting with "concept mapping" in my classes. In my latest experiment I had my undergraduate students use a software package called CMap to "map" or outline a passage of Talmud that we have been studying this … [Continue reading] about Mapping the Talmud
Over the past few months, as noted earlier, with the help of research assistants I have been compiling a spreadsheet that records each occurrence of a biblical verse cited in the Bavli. The purpose of this data is not so much to ask qualitative … [Continue reading] about The Bible in the Bavli: Some First Numbers
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In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman returns several times to a formative experience he had in the Israeli army. Assigned to a unit responsible for assigning fresh recruits to approriate units, he soon discovered that the interviews … [Continue reading] about Thinking, Fast or Slow? Or, “On Academic Hiring”