Initial Comments on Select Cairo Genizah Fragments of Tractate Eruvin in the Talmud Bavli

Prof. Uri Zur is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Ariel University, in the Department of Jewish Heritage. His major interests are the redaction of sugyot, the tripartite structure, textual grounding of Halakha, Genizah studies, and the Aramaic language. Prof. Zur has served as Head of the Department of Jewish Heritage at Ariel University (2008-2010) and as co-editor of the journal Moreshet Israel (2008-2012), and continues to serve as member of the board of journal. In 2018, he was awarded the Aminoah Prize of 2018 for his book The tripartite structure of the Sugyot: Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Babylonian Talmud (Ariel: Ariel University Press, 2016). He is also the author of: Orr Israel, Sugyot in Tractate Eruvin (Lod: Habermann Institute for Literary Research, 1999); Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Talmud Bavli: Structure, Language, Redaction, and Halakha (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019); and Studies in tractate Eruvin of the Babylonian Talmud: Redaction, Halakha, and Exegesis (Haifa: Shaanan College Press, 2020).