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Post by Moshe Wise Fri Jun 23, 2023 6:39 pm

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Page 72: 'Kapaḥ' should be 'Qafiḥ'
Page 112: 'sokhrim' should be 'soḥarim'
Page 115: 'sokhrim' should be 'soḥarim'
Page 137: On corporal punishment of children -
The Talmud even exempts a father or a teacher from liability for damages accidentally caused by such punishment (Makkot 8b).
The Talmudic reference provided does not in fact discuss accidental damages but accidental homicide. Normally the accidental killer is confined to a sanctuary city, but Abba Saul exempts accidental killers who killed while engaged in a mitzvah such as disciplining a child or a student.
Page 324:
"Historians usually attribute the founding of Karaism to Anan ben David."
This may have been true in earlier eras, but historians today see Anan ben David as the leader of a non-Karaite sect which has since disappeared.
Page 324: In a comment about Karaites, we are told -
The sect follows a lunar-based calendar rather than the intercalated rabbinic one.
The sect (the Karaites) do not follow a lunar calendar any more than than Talmudic Jews do and they intercalate their calendar to keep up with the seasons. The difference between Karaites and Talmudists is that the former intercalate empirically while the latter do so based on traditional calculations.
Page 324:
Karaites also do not mark the post-biblical holidays of Purim and Ḥanukka.
Purim can only be "post-biblical" if we exclude Esther from the Bible, but both Talmudic and Karaite Jews include Esther in the Bible so it is very strange that the author calls Purim "post-biblical." Additionally, Karaites do celebrate Purim, although not in the same manner as Talmudic Jews.
Page 325:
the Torah explicitly forbids only boiling a sheep in its mother's milk
In the Torah, the prohibition involves a גדי, which is a kid, not a sheep.
Page 328: Ezra and Nehemiah were not prophets. Even if we accept the ancient tradition that identifies Ezra with Malachi, in his own book Ezra never presents himself as a prophet but instead as a scholar, a priest and a representative of Artaxerxes.

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