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What I took as a literary critic from the landscape of page-a-day Talmud study

A final illustration for Tablet Magazine’s series on the writing and design of the Talmud. I was asked to implement bloody chickens, incense, seminal fluid, menstruation, walls that extend to heaven, donkeys, lambs, circumcisions, showbread, olive oil, tzitzit, farts, misogyny, dirty underwear, logical deductive reasoning, idolatry, wine, Abraham's penis, a flying duck, lashings, stonings, capital punishment, rabbinical courts, forged documents, a cucumber, sharp knives, 750-mile-high waves, wrestlers, Roman coins, a camel causing a fire, bearded women, a kidnapped person, a grasshopper spy, bestiality, a magical potion, transvestites, women without underarm hair, grape-eaters, lepers, carcasses, clocks, math problems, incest, rape, nakedness, adultery, prostitutes, hermaphrodites, eunuchs, etrogs, jugglers, acrobats, the moon, gamblers, usurers, bowls full of sacrificial blood, figs, elephants and more but as there were time and size constrictions I had to leave some stuff out.

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