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Gittin

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Naming Demons: The Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Gittin

What the unique corpus of magical texts inscribed on bowls can teach us about the diffusion of the rabbinic laws of divorce in late antique Babylonia.

Dr. Avigail Manekin Bamberger

The Prozbul: A Narrative Generated by a Pre-Existing Law

The Mishna (Gittin 4:3) states that Hillel established the prozbul to bypass the biblical remission of debts after the shemitah (sabbatical) year. In this essay I suggest that prozbul is one and the same as “one who submits his contracts to the court” that appears in the preceding Mishnah (Gittin 4:2), and is in fact part of a midrashic explanation of the biblical warning against not lending money in the years leading up to the seventh year.

Dr. Aryeh Cohen
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