Natalie Dohrmann (NBD): Xandy, tell us a bit about your broad scholarly interests, what drew you to them, and what especially excites you about them personally and/or intellectually.
In the spring issue of JQR (JQR 115.2), Christan Stadel takes a look at the Scroll of Antiochus (aka: Hanukkah Scroll, the Greek Scroll, or the Book or Scroll of the Hasmoneans), which tells the Hanukkah story. This text first appears in Babylonian sources and is preserved in several languages, appearing as part of the holiday liturgy in the geonic Middle Ages and beyond.
JQR 113.2 is now available, online and in print.
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Jonathan Kaplan’s research note suggests that tannaitic legends about Serah, the long-lived daughter of the patriarch Asher, derive from much earlier tradition, likely Second Temple–era in origin.
JQR 113.1 is now available, online* and in print.
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