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Thursday, October 07, 2021

Steven Fraade reflects on his own work.

ANCIENt JEW REVIEW: Retrospective on the Intersection of Translation and Commentary in Ancient Judaism and Its Greco-Roman Context | Steven Fraade.
From my first book to my most recent, comparison (and its pitfalls), both within Judaism and without, has been a constant preoccupation as I continued to focus on texts of legal interpretation, and to struggle with how best to translate the rabbinic texts upon which I was commenting and to what extent either should inform or presume the other.

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