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An exploration of the history and development of printed Rashi commentaries on Tanach.
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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
be joined by Professor Jordan pankow and we'll be discussing his brand new book which is a collection of his articles over the years called titled told us pish rashak published by madak in their series thank you Professor pankow for joining me thank you for having so let's first start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background okay here's a short biography um my education most of it was at yes University I did a ba mathematics then an MA in math at the ba mathematics then an MA in math at the Belford Graduate School of Sciences and I did another ma in Bible at the Bernard Rebel graduate school then I did smik REITs at the rabhan the Theological Seminary with the r for two years there and then I went to Israel and I did my PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Bible uh following all that education many years I then uh went on to teach at Baron University where I became professor of professor of Bible um I've guest lectured in several universities in the states like Harvard Yale University of Pennsylvania univers of Maryland Bern graduate school NYU rutas Etc uh also I've had the great privilege of traveling widely to do research in manuscripts and toor Scrolls in Li liaries and private collections uh in Russia and St Petersburg in the United States like jts Petersburg in the United States like jts Yu New York Public Library and especially in Europe in in many many many uh countries in libraries just for a few examples in England and London uh the British Li badut collection sofa collection Cambridge at the University library and Trinity College Oxford Scotland Ireland Italy in numerous cities numerous Rome Vatican Florence Sienna Palama pada etc etc also
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- 1:33be joined by Professor Jordan pankow and we'll be discussing his brand new book which is…
- 7:46it talks them also a huge quantity of um from so here we go again we…
- 13:28hadu then we had the following text an Shaya MTI not me Shimon Matti not Shimon…
- 19:10that was recently found which I uh uh dealt with and I I deal with that…
- 24:55complicated story my own student Lisa fredman did an excellent job on H excuse me on…
- 30:36times and there are notes of M himself described now what's interesting is umaya always when…
- 36:21manuscript in in the chapter 22 after Rashi brings his explanation in some of the manuscripts…
- 42:17this which means Rashi says listen you know for some time now I explained this text…
- 47:55here this your your readers probably or your listeners don't know about too much Rashi also…
- 54:09of and it says etc etc that whole comment is not by Rashi mind it's byon…
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