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Tales of the Sages in Late Midrash
A Curtain Set with Jewels
Av Sivan Nir
Inbunden, 2025
1884 kr
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How should we read tales about rabbinic sages unique to post-Talmudic works? What theological, poetic, and social changes do they hide? Who could have authored them? The Tales of the Sages in Late Midrash, reveals these narratives’ hypertextuality. Their characters, phrasings, and themes only …
Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature
A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays
Inbunden, 2007
1946 kr
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Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature deals with the status of those groups and individuals who, for various reasons, appear to have no place in mainstream Rabbinic Jewish society, or may be perceived by that society as posing a threat to its norms and to its very existence.The book examines the …
Judaism and Christianity
New Directions for Dialogue and Understanding
Av Alan Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner
Inbunden, 2009
2596 kr
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This volume treats the interrelationship between Judaism and Christianity from the first centuries and into modern times, paying particular attention to these faiths’ social, cultural, and theological interactions. The issues covered range from the formation of Jewish and Christian ideology in the …
Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia
Inbunden, 2010
2244 kr
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This book consists of a systematic analysis of the halakhic/legal methodology of fourth and fifth century Nehardean amoraim in Babylonia (as well as their identity and dating). The book uncovers various distinct characteristics present in the halakhic decision making and source interpretation, and …
Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China
Av Fook-Kong Wong, Dalia Yasharpour
Inbunden, 2011
2374 kr
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This comprehensive, textual treatment of the Kaifeng Passover Rite is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion of the community’s origins in particular and to comparative Jewish liturgy in general. The book includes a facsimile of one manuscript and a sample of the other, the full text …
New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations
Av Elisheva Carlebach, Jacob J. Schacter
Inbunden, 2011
3890 kr
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The delicate balance between toleration and repulsion of the Jews, a tiny minority living within the Christian world, stands at the center of studies of religion and society. The development of this difficult relationship on many levels, theological, institutional, and individual, is a matter of …
Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book
Inbunden, 2013
3847 kr
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Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book contains essays on aspects of the early Hebrew book most often treated in a cursory manner if addressed at all. The largest section of the volume is concerned with the makers and places of Hebrew books, mainly addressing book-makers poorly …
Vocabulary of Desire
The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue
Inbunden, 2014
3548 kr
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In A Vocabulary of Desire, Laura Lieber offers a nuanced, multifaceted and highly original study of how the Song of Songs was understood and deployed by Jewish liturgical poets in Late Antiquity (ca. 4th-7th centuries CE). Through her examination of poems which embellish and even rewrite the Song …
Shoshannat Yaakov
Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman
Inbunden, 2012
4603 kr
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Shoshannat Yaakov honors Yaakov Elman, Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and celebrates Elman’s contributions to a broad range of disciplines within Jewish and Iranian studies. The fruits of Elman’s seminal project of bringing together of scholars of Iranian studies and Talmud in ways that …
Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity
Av Steven Fine
Inbunden, 2013
2374 kr
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Art, History, and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity explores the complex interplay between visual culture, texts, and their interpretations, arguing for an open-ended and self-aware approach to understanding Jewish culture from the first century CE through the rise of Islam. The …
Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina
Av Haggai Mazuz
Inbunden, 2014
2022 kr
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In The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina Haggai Mazuz offers an account of the halakhic character of the Jewish community of Medina in the seventh century CE. Making use of a unique methodology of comparison between Islamic and Jewish sources, Mazuz convincingly argues that the …
See Under: Shoah
Imagining the Holocaust with David Grossman
Av Marc De Kesel, Bettine Siertsema m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2401 kr
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Did the first generation Holocaust writers not warn us against the risks of imagination? Does it not create an illusion that the unimaginable can be imagined, the unrepresentable represented? Clearly this warning has not been taken up by David Grossman. Fully embracing imagination’s power, his …
Gender Challenge of Hebrew
Inbunden, 2014
2351 kr
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The Gender Challenge of Hebrew is the first book to delve in depth into the problem of gender representation over the 3,000-year history of the Hebrew language. By analyzing and illustrating the grammatical characteristics of gender in Biblical, Mishnaic, Medieval and Modern Hebrew, Malka Muchnik …
Legacy of Learning
Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner
Av Alan Avery-Peck, Bruce D. Chilton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
3065 kr
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In a career spanning over fifty years, the questions Jacob Neusner has asked and the critical methodologies he has developed have shaped the way scholars have come to approach the rabbinic literature as well as the diverse manifestations of Judaism from rabbinic times until the present. The essays …
Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E.
Living on the Edge
Inbunden, 2015
3756 kr
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Following the failure of the Bar-Kokhba revolt in the second century, the majority of the Jewish population of Palestine migrated northward away from Jerusalem to join the communities of Jews in Galilee and the Golan Heights. Although rabbinic sources indicate that from the second century onward …
Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity (paperback)
Av Steven Fine
Häftad, 2016
857 kr
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Art, History, and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity explores the complex interplay between visual culture, texts, and their interpretations, arguing for an open-ended and self-aware approach to understanding Jewish culture from the first century CE through the rise of Islam. The …
Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism
Essays in Honor of Bruce Chilton
Av Alan Avery-Peck, Craig A. Evans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
3613 kr
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Twenty-two essays, written by top scholars in the fields of early Christianity and Judaism, focus on methodological issues, earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting, Gospel studies, and history and meaning in later Christianity. These essays honor Bruce Chilton, recognizing his seminal …
Second Jewish Revolt
The Bar Kokhba War, 132-136 CE
Av Menahem Mor
Inbunden, 2016
3222 kr
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In The Second Jewish Revolt: The Bar Kokhba War, 132-136 C.E., Menahem Mor offers a detailed account on the Bar Kokhba Revolt in an attempt to understand the second revolt against the Romans. Since the Bar Kokhba Revolt did not have a historian who devoted a comprehensive book to the event, Mor …
Bridging between Sister Religions
Studies of Jewish and Christian Scriptures Offered in Honor of Prof. John T. Townsend
Av Isaac Kalimi
Inbunden, 2016
2765 kr
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This volume is a collection of fresh essays in honor of Professor John T. Townsend. It focuses on the interpretation of the common Jewish and Christian Scripture (the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) and on its two off-shoots (Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament), as well as on Jewish-Christian …
Binding Fragments of Tractate Temurah and the Problem of Lishana Aḥarina
Av Matthew S. Goldstone, Lawrence H. Schiffman
Inbunden, 2018
1136 kr
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Binding Fragments of Tractate Temurah and the Problem of Lishana ’Aḥarina offers a critical edition of an important Talmud manuscript of tractate Temurah discovered in the library of New York University. Addressing the unique Lishana ’Aḥarina (“alternative version”) phenomenon present in this …
Hakol Kol Yaakov
The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume
Av Robert A. Harris, Jonathan S. Milgram
Inbunden, 2021
2224 kr
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Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his …
Intention in Talmudic Law
Between Thought and Deed
Inbunden, 2021
2009 kr
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In Intention in Talmudic Law: Between Thought and Deed, Shana Strauch Schick offers the first comprehensive history of intention in classical Jewish law (1st-6th centuries CE). Through close readings of rabbinic texts and explorations of contemporaneous legal-religious traditions, Strauch Schick …
From Scrolls to Traditions
A Festschrift Honoring Lawrence H. Schiffman
Av Stuart S. Miller, Michael D. Swartz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
3508 kr
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This Festschrift in honor of Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, a renowned authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism, includes contributions by twenty of his former doctoral students, now colleagues. The volume is divided into two sections, the “Biblical and Second Temple Period” and …
Contextualizing Jewish Temples
Av Tova Ganzel, Shalom E. Holtz
Inbunden, 2020
2231 kr
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Jewish temples stood in Jerusalem for nearly one thousand years and were a dominant feature in the life of the ancient Judeans throughout antiquity. This volume strives to obtain a diachronic and topical cross-section of central features of the varied aspects of the Jewish temples that stood in …
Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature
Av Ronit Nikolsky, Arnon Atzmon
Inbunden, 2021
2153 kr
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Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature enables a rare and unique look into the Jewish society of late antiquity and the early Byzantine period, especially the interaction between the beit-midrash and the synagogue cultures. This little-studied corpus is the focus of the present volume, in which various …
Land and Spirituality in Rabbinic Literature
A Memorial Volume for Yaakov Elman ז''ל
Inbunden, 2022
2153 kr
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This volume is devoted to the texts, traditions, and practices of the Land of Israel from the end of the Second Temple period through late antiquity. Based upon a conference organized by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, this collection uses a range of critical methodologies and …
Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2022
1800 kr
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According to Raúl González Salinero, the plurality of religious expressions within Judaism prior to the predominance of the rabbinical current disproves the assumption according to which some Jewish customs and precepts (especially the Sabbath) prevented Jews from joining the Roman army without …
Path of Moses: Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith
by Mózes Salamon
Inbunden, 2022
1657 kr
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Writing in the late 19th century, Mózes Salamon, rabbi of a small Hungarian community, hoped to convince his fellow rabbis to recognize women as equally privileged members of the People Israel. The result was his The Path of Moses: A Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith, a …
In the Shadow of the Caesars: Jewish Life in Roman Italy
Inbunden, 2022
2531 kr
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The main contribution of this book is that it tries to determine how the Jews answered the challenges of Roman society. Thus, the book presents a refreshing approach to the nature of the Roman attitude toward Judaism and the Jews. In addition, it provides the first detailed examination of the …
Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud
Inbunden, 2023
1800 kr
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Credit is the oxygen of every society. In many cases we wonder why the rabbis prohibit certain business credit transactions considering them usury. The writer uses literary and epigraphic sources to decipher the rabbinic approach. This book shows how rabbinic legislation innovatively expand the …
