Dr. Marc Herman is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at York University and a core member of The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. His Ph.D. is from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Religious Studies. He coedited Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism (2020) and has published in the Jewish Quarterly Review, Jewish History, and the Journal of the American Oriental Society, among other venues.
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May 4, 2023
Books by the Author
Articles by the Author
The absence of an explicit prohibition in the Torah against father-daughter incest led to a debate among the talmudic-era rabbis, and eventually among medieval Rabbanites and Karaites, about whether such a prohibition should be derived from a logical a fortiori (קל וחומר) argument or from a hermeneutic (גזרה שוה) one.
The absence of an explicit prohibition in the Torah against father-daughter incest led to a debate among the talmudic-era rabbis, and eventually among medieval Rabbanites and Karaites, about whether such a prohibition should be derived from a logical a fortiori (קל וחומר) argument or from a hermeneutic (גזרה שוה) one.
The development of the idea that the Torah has 613 mitzvot: From Talmudic aggada, to geonic liturgy, to medieval enumerations.
The development of the idea that the Torah has 613 mitzvot: From Talmudic aggada, to geonic liturgy, to medieval enumerations.
