Prof. Moshe Assis

Department

 Department of Hebrew Culture

Curriculum Vitae

 Prof. Moshe Assis is a Talmud Professor at Tel-Aviv University

 
Areas of Specialization

 Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Babli, Minor Tractates, The Gaonic Literature,
Galilean and  Babylonian Aramaic

 
Areas of Interest

 Tosefta, The Halachic Midrashim, The Aggadic Midrashim, The Jewish Calendar

Curriculum Vitae

 
1942 Born (Aleppo, Syria)

1962 Immigration

1963-1969 Military Service

 Areas of Specialization

 Talmud Yerushalmi, Talmud Babli, Minor Tractates, The Gaonic Literature, Galilean and Babylonian Aramaic

Areas of Interest

 Tosefta, The Halachic Midrashim, The Aggadic Midrashim, The Jewish Calendar

Academic Education

1966 BA (Bible and Talmud), The Hebrew University

1971 MA (Talmud), The Hebrew University

1977 Ph. D. (Talmud), The Hebrew University

Thesis and Dissertation

MA  1971 "A critical Edition of Mishna Tractate Arakhin"

Supervisor: The Late Professor Ephraim Elimelekh Urbach

Ph. D.  1977 "Parallel Sugyot in the Jerusalem Talmud (In the Tractates: Bikkurim, Shabbath, Sotah, Makkoth and Niddah)"

Supervisor: The Late Professor Ephraim Elimelekh Urbach

Positions

1970-1975 Assistant and Instructor, Ben-Gurion University

1971-1976 Assistant and Instructor, The Hebrew University

1976-1979 Visiting and Assistant professor, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, U.S.A.

1979-2010 Visiting, Assistant and Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University

1991-1992 Associate and Full Professor, The Seminary of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem

1999-2000 Deputy Chairman, Talmud Department, Tel-Aviv University

2001-2002 Deputy Chairman, Talmud Department, Tel-Aviv University

2002-2004 Chairman, Talmud Department, Tel-Aviv University

Papers Given at Conferences

1977  7th World Congress of Jewish Studies - On the Textual History of  the Tractate Shekalim.

1981  8th World Congress of Jewish Studies - The Glosses of  the Gaon of Vilna on Tractate Shekalim.

1985  3rd Annual Conference for the Study of the Talmud – Bar-Ilan University - "Is that not Obvious According to the Opinion of  Rabbi...".

1985  9th World Congress of Jewish Studies - On the Question of the Redaction of Yerushalmi Neziqin.

1989  Day of Study in the Talmud – Tel-Aviv University - A Commentary to a Difficult Passage in Yerushalmi Shekalim.

1989  10th World Congress of  Jewish Studies – Again on the Question of the Redaction of  Yerushalmi Neziqin.

1992  The Yerushalmi and the Literature of Palestine – On the Polemics of "Pnei Zaqen" against the Gaon of Vilna on the Interpretation of  Yerushalmi Shekalim.

1993  11th World Congress of  Jewish Studies - Commentaries on Vague Passages in Midrash Genesis Rabba.

1995  On the Research of the Yerushalmi – Bar-Ilan University - On the Critical Glosses of "Pnei Zaqen" on the Glosses of the Gaon of Vilna on Tractate Shekalim.

1997  The Talmud Babli and the Literature of the Babylonian Rabbis – Tel-Aviv University – The Glosses of R. Yaakob Ashkenazi – Between the Mishna of the Babli and the Yerushalmi.

1997  12th World Congress of  Jewish Studies - The Glosses of R. Yaakob Ashkenazi on the Mishna Order Neziqin.

1998  Synagogue and Prayer in the Tradition – Tel-Aviv University - On the Sidra.

2000  Studies in Tannaitic Literature - Tel-Aviv University – Commentary of One Mishna in Tractate Baba Batra.

2001  13th World Congress of  Jewish Studies – The Kurdish Aramaic and the Talmudic Aramaic.

2005  14th World Congress of  Jewish Studies -  Interpretation of a Vague Statement in the Yerushalmi.

2009  15th World Congress of  Jewish Studies - Commentaries on Vague  Passages in the Yerushalmi.

N.B. All the publications are in Hebrew.

A. Book (in press):

 1. A Concordance of Amoraic Terms, Expressions and Phrases in the Yerushalmi, Jerusalem, Shoken Institute for the Study of Judaism -  The Jewish Thelogical Seminary of America.

B. Articles:

 1. A Fragment of Yerushalmi Sanhedrin, Tarbiz 46 (1977), pp. 29-90.  

 2. Glosses and Commentaries on Yerushalmi Shabbat, HUCA 48 (1977), Hebrew Section, pp. 1-11.

 3. A Responsum on the Fixing of the Calendar Year 4848 (era mundi = 1077/8), HUCA 49 (1978), (Hebrew Section), pp. 1-27.

 4. "Is that not Contradicting even to the Opinion of Rabbi...", Studies in Rabbinic Literature, Bible and History, Jerusalem 1982, pp. 143-162.

5. R. Elijah of Fulda's First Recension of Tractate Shekalim, Teuda 3 1983), pp. 57-70.)

6. On the Origin of One Sugya in Yerushalmi Sotah, Sinai 97 (1983), pp. 110-117.

7. On the Glosses of the Gaon of Vilna on Tractate Shekalim, Tarbiz 53 (1983), pp. 97-115.

8. "Is that not Raising a Difficulty even against the Opinion of Rabbi...", Studies in Memory of the Rishon le-Zion R. Yitzhak Nissim, 2, Jerusalem 1985, pp. 49-66.

9. On the Version of Yerushalmi Tractate Shekalim of R. Shlomo Sirilyo, ibidem, pp. 119-159.

10. On the Commentary of Tractate Shekalim Assigned to the Pupil of R. Shmuel Son of R. Shneur, Teuda 4 (1986), pp. 129-136.

11. A Commentary of One Sugya in Tractate Sanhedrin, Sinai 99 (1986), pp. 110-127.

12. A Commentary on Two Sugyot in Yerushalmi Pesahim, Asufot 1 (1986), pp. 29-46.

13. On the Question of the Redaction of Yerushalmi Nezikin, Tarbiz 56 1987), pp. 147-170.)

14. Some Remarks on Kesef Mishne on the Book of Zeraim, and its Version Employed by the Commentators of Mishne Tora in the Time of R. Joseph Karo, Asufot 3 (1989), pp. 275-322.

15. "Is that not Obvious According to the Opinion of Rabbi...", Teuda 7 1991), pp. 133-147.)

16. Commentaries on Nineteen Sugyot in Yerushalmi Baba Kamma, Saul Lieberman Memorial Volume, N.Y. and Jerusalem 1993, pp. 65-78.

17. Linguistic Aspects of Chapter 143 of R. Shmuel ben Hofni Gaon's Introduction to the Talmud, Leshonenu 56 (1993), pp. 27-43.

18. On the Commentary of One Sugya in Yerushalmi Shekalim, Talmudic Studies 2, Jerusalem 1994 (pp. 393-400).

19. R. Elijah of Fulda's Second Recension of Tractate Shekalim, Asufot 8 (1994), pp. 9-30.

20. On the German Translation of Yerushalmi Shekalim, J.Q.R. 84 (1994), (Hebrew Section), pp. 1-20.

21. A Commentary to a Difficult Passage in Yerushalmi Shekalim, Teuda 10 (1996), pp. 19-30.

22. Commentaries on Vague Passages in Midrash Genesis Rabba, Teuda 11 (1996), pp. 1-16.

23. On Yerushalmi Fragments of Ashkenazic Origin, Alei Sefer 19(2001), pp. 19-34.

24. On the Critical Glosses of "Pnei Zaqen" on the Glosses of the Gaon of Vilna on Tractate Shekalim, Netiot Ledavid, Jerusalem 2004, pp. 165-182.

25. Emendations and Commentaries on Yerushalmi Pesahim, Studies in Talmudic and Midrashic Literature – In Memory of Tirzah Lifshitz, Jerusalem 2005, pp. 461-474.

26. On the Interpretation of Mishna Baba Batra 2:4, Memoria - Wege Jüdischen Erinners - Festschrift für Michael Brocke zum 65. Geburtstag, eds. B. E. Klein und Ch. E. Müller, Berlin 2005, pp. 643-656.

27. On the Sidra, Annual of Bar-Ilan University, 30-31(2006), pp. 353-372.

28. On the Interpretation of a Difficult Term in the Yerushalmi, Sidra, 21 (2006), pp. 51-68.

29. The Glosses of R. Yaakob Ashkenazi on the Mishna Order Neziqin, Sidra 23 (2008), 31-81.

In Press:

1. From the New Jewish Aramaic to the Talmudic and Gaonic Aramaic, Sidra.

 Accepted for publication:

1. Interpretation of a Vague Statement in the Yerushalmi - Jubilee Volume in the Honor of Professor Yosef Tabori

C. Papers Given at Conferences:

1. On the Textual History of the Tractate Shekalim, Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress of Jewish Studies - Studies in the Talmud, Halacha and Midrash, Jerusalem 1981, pp. 141-156.

D. Other Publications:

1. The Jerusalem Talmud, Encyclopaedia Hebraica 32 (1981), col. 895-906.

2. On the New Fragment of Essa Meshali, Tarbiz 51 (1982), pp. 665-669.

3. On the Palestinian Ketubbah, Alei Sefer 14 (1987), pp. 163-166.

4. Prolegomenon to a Critical Edition of Tractate Arakhin, Asufot 5 (1991), pp. 9-101.

5. Samaritan, Hebrew and Aramaic Studies: Presented to Professor Abraham Tal, Lešonénu 68 (2006), pp. 353-363.

1980 A Memberof the Institute of the Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University

1983 Prize in Talmudic Research on the Name of the Late Prof. Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal

1993 A member of the Center of Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania

Introduction to the Yerushalmi     
                                                                
Introduction to the Gaonic Literature  

Introduction to the Minor Tractates

Gaonic Responsa

The Halachic Literature of the Gaonim

Babylonian Aramaic                                                                                      

Galilean Aramaic

Different Tractates of the Babli and Yerushalmi