Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings Books

Book SynopsisMichael Rand’s The Evolution of al-Ḥarizi’s Taḥkemoni investigates the stages whereby the text of al-Ḥarizi’s maqama collection as we currently know it, on the basis of manuscripts (and the editio princeps), came into being during al-Ḥarizi’s travels in the East over the course of approximately the last ten years of his life. The discussion is based on a close examination of the textual evidence, the investigation of a number of relevant literary motifs, and a comparison to al-Ḥarizi’s model, the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī. The book includes a catalogue of fragments of the Taḥkemoni in the Genizah and Firkovitch IIA collections, and some previously unpublished material that can reasonably be claimed to belong to a heretofore unattested version of the Taḥkemoni.

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Book SynopsisAncient Readers and their Scriptures explores the various ways that ancient Jewish and Christian writers engaged with and interpreted the Hebrew Bible in antiquity, focusing on physical mechanics of rewriting and reuse, modes of allusion and quotation, texts and text forms, text collecting, and the development of interpretative traditions. Contributions examine the use of the Hebrew Bible and its early versions in a variety of ancient corpora, including the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic works, analysing the vast array of textual permutations that define ancient engagement with Jewish scripture. This volume argues that the processes of reading and cognition, influenced by the physical and intellectual contexts of interpretation, are central aspects of ancient biblical interpretation that are underappreciated in current scholarship.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction  Garrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne Reading the Hebrew Bible in Jewish and Christian Antiquity  William A. Tooman Part 1: Reading Scripture in the Second Temple Period 1 What Did Ben Sira’s Bible and Desk Look Like?  Lindsey Arielle Askin 2 Creation as the Liturgical Nexus of the Blessings and Curses in 4QBerakhot  Mika S. Pajunen 3 The Qumran Library and the Shadow it Casts on the Wall of the Cave  Jonathan D.H. Norton Part 2: The New Testament and Practices of Reading and Reusing Jewish Scripture 4 Exegetical Methods in the New Testament and “Rewritten Bible”: A Comparative Analysis  Susan E. Docherty 5 Scriptural Quotations in the Jesus Tradition and Early Christianity: Textual History and Theology  Martin Karrer 6 The Return of the Shepherd: Zechariah 13:7–14:6 as an Interpretive Framework for Mark 13  Paul Sloan 7 The Hybrid Isaiah Quotation in Luke 4:18–19  Joseph M. Lear part 3: Reading Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 8 A Single, Huge, Aramaic Spoken Heretic: Sequences of Adam’s Creation in Early Rabbinic Literature  Willem Smelik 9 The Variant Reading ולא / ולו of Psalm 139:16 in Rabbinic Literature  Dagmar Börner-Klein 10 Jewish and Christian Exegetical Controversy in Late Antiquity: The Case of Psalm 22 and the Esther Narrative  Abraham Jacob Berkovitz part 4: Reading Retrospective 11 What does ‘Reading’ have to do with it? Ancient Engagement with Jewish Scripture  Garrick V. Allen and John Anthony Dunne

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Book SynopsisThe Ancient Sefer Torah of Bologna: Features and History contains studies on the most ancient, complete Pentateuch scroll known to date. It was considered in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as the archetypal autograph written by Ezra the Scribe. The scroll was rediscovered by Mauro Perani in 2013 at the University Library of Bologna. In this volume, leading specialists study the history, textual and material features, and different halakhot or norms to copy a Sefer Torah, as adopted in the pre-Maimonidean scrolls. The Hebrew text is very close to the Aleppo codex, and the scroll was probably copied in Northern Iberia in ca. 1200 CE. The scroll contains letters with special shapes and tagin linking its production with a Jewish milieu which associated the scribal tradition with mystical and esoteric meanings. Besides its codicological and palaeographical interest, the "Ezra scroll" has been preserved for centuries among the treasures of the Dominican convent of San Domenico in Bologna and, in the early modern period, it was the object of reverence and curiosity among the Christians, before being almost entirely forgotten after its confiscation by the French revolutionary troops. This volume presents a detailed overview of the fascinating history and the peculiar makings of this remarkable artefact.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: History and Vicissitudes of the Bologna Ancient Sefer Torah 1 The Many Lives of the ‘Bible of Esdras’: Proposals for a Long-term Investigation  Rita De Tata 2 The “Ezra Scroll” of Bologna: Vicissitudes of an Archetype between Memory and Oblivion  Saverio Campanini Part 2: Writing, Textual and Paratextual Features of the Bologna Scroll 3 Textual and Para-textual Devices of the Ancient Proto-Sephardic Bologna Torah Scroll  Mauro Perani 4 The Making of the Bologna Scroll: Palaeography and Scribal Traditions  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 5 The 12th–13th Century Torah Scroll in Bologna: How It Differs from Contemporary Scrolls  Jordan S. Penkower Part 3: Comparison with Other Ancient Sifre Torah 6 The Sefer Torah of Biella: History of the Unearthing and Initial Investigations  Amedeo Spagnoletto 7 Criteria for Dating the Sefer Torah Meran 1 and Its Peculiar System of Otiyyot Meshunnot  Josef M. Oesch and Franz D. Hubmann 8 The Torah Scroll Fragment from the Parochial Archives in Romont (Switzerland)  Justine Isserles, Josef M. Oesch and Franz D. Hubmann

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Book SynopsisThis Festschrift in honor of Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, a leading authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism, includes contributions by twenty of his disciples, each of whom is a scholar in their own right. The many subjects covered display a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

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Book SynopsisJewish 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 Jerusalem, one that draws on and incorporates different disciplinary and methodological viewpoints. Ten contributions are included in this volume by: Gary A. Anderson; Simeon Chavel; Avraham Faust; Paul M. Joyce; Yuval Levavi; Risa Levitt; Eyal Regev; Lawrence H. Schiffman; Jeffrey Stackert; Caroline Waerzeggers, edited by Tova Ganzel and Shalom E. Holtz.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction  Tova Ganzel and Shalom E. Holtz 2 The Sacred Bureaucracy of Neo-Babylonian Temples  Yuval Levavi 3 Priestly Courses and the Administration of Time in Neo-Babylonian Temples  Caroline Waerzeggers 4 The Priestly Sabbath and the Calendar: between Literature and Material Culture  Jeffrey Stackert 5 Between the House of the Father and the House of the Lord: Privacy and Purity in the Israelite Dwelling and the Israelite Temple  Avraham Faust 6 Literary Artistry and Divine Presence  Gary A. Anderson 7 Yahweh Become a Temple? MT Ezekiel 11:16 מִקְדָּ֣שׁ מְעַ֔ט Revisited  Simeon Chavel 8 On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Heavenly and Earthly Temple in Ezekiel 40–48  Paul M. Joyce 9 The Temple Scroll and Mishnah Middot: a Literary Comparison  Lawrence H. Schiffman 10 Why Did the Early Christians Care about the Temple after 70 CE? The Case of the Gospel of Matthew  Eyal Regev 11 Divine Presence in the Absence of the Temple  Risa Levitt Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThrough the application of scientific methods of analysis to a corpus of medieval manuscripts found in the Cairo Genizah, this work aims to gain a better understanding of the writing materials used by Jewish communities at that time, shedding new light not only on the production of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, but also on the life of those Jewish communities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Résumé [Francais] Kurzfassung [Deutsch] Introduction 1 The Cairo Genizah  1 Historical Background  2 Presentation of the Corpus 2 Writing Materials  1 Writing Surfaces  2 Writing Inks 3 Experimental Methods  1 Experimental Protocol 4 Results and Discussion  1 Use of Writing Surfaces  2 Ink Typology  3 Elemental Composition of the Inks and Writing Surfaces within the General Dataset  4 Conclusion of the Chapter 5 Implications of This Research, Conclusions and Outlook  1 Inks Detected on Jewish Legal Documents  2 Arabic Documents  3 Religious Documents  4 Autographs of Maimonides  5 Conclusions and Outlook Documents Studied Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an edition and English translation of a medieval commentary on the book of Hosea that was written by an anonymous Karaite author in the Middle Ages. The text has been established by joining together hundreds of small fragments that have been preserved in the Cairo Genizah collections. The edited work is written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew letters). The publication includes copious notes, which clarify the meaning and background of the text. This book brings into the light of scholarship an important but hitherto lost text in the intellectual history of the Karaites.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Text and Translation Textual Notes References Index of Biblical Verses

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Book SynopsisIn the collection entitled Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews Gabriella Gelardini gathers fifteen essays written in the last fifteen years, twelve of which are in English and three in German. Arranged in three parts (the world of, behind, and in front of Hebrews’s text), her articles deal with such topics as structure and intertext, sin and faith, atonement and cult, as well as space and resistance. She reads Hebrews no longer as the enigmatic and homeless outsider within the New Testament corpus, as the “Melchizedekian being without genealogy”; rather, she reads Hebrews as one whose origin has finally been rediscovered, namely in Second Temple Judaism.Trade Review“She [Gelardini] ably summarizes and engages with broader currents such as the linguistic turn or spatiality, with wider ancient contexts such as discussions of synagogue practice or Roman fides and brings these to bear in the detail of her exegetical or structural discussions of the text of Hebrews. While some details may not persuade […] her wider project of attending to the detail of what it means to locate Hebrews within Second Temple Judaism is both important and convincing. ” – Nicholas J. Moore, Durham University, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.Table of ContentsContents Introduction  1 Hebrews Scholarship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  2 Hebrews Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century  3 Arrangement and Content of This Collection Part 1: The World of Hebrews’s Text 1 “As if by Paul?” Some Remarks on the Textual Strategy of Anonymity in Hebrews  1 Introduction—Hebrews: Pauline or not Pauline, or “Somehow” Connected to a Pauline Environment  2 Anonymity as a Literary Strategy  3 Habakkuk 2:4 in Hebrews and Paul  4 Jesus as Mercy Seat (ἱλαστήριον) in Heb 9:5 and in Rom 3:25?  5 Once for All (ἐφάπαξ) in Hebrews and Paul  6 Brief Conclusion 2 From “Linguistic Turn” and Hebrews Scholarship to Anadiplosis Iterata: The Enigma of a Structure  1 History of Ideas  2 Hebrews Scholarship in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries  3 Structural Analysis: A New Proposal 3 Hebrews, Homiletics, and Liturgical Scripture Interpretation  1 The Ancient Synagogue and its Liturgy  2 The Ancient Synagogue Homily  3 The Two Readings Underlying Hebrews, or its Two Central Scriptural Quotations  4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily and its Remaining Scriptural Quotations  5 Hebrews in the Context of Ancient Synagogue Liturgy 4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av: Its Function, Its Basis, Its Theological Interpretation  1 Introduction  2 The Ancient Synagogue Homily in Its Liturgical Context  3 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av  4 Conclusion 5 Rhetorical Criticism in Hebrews Scholarship: Avenues and Aporias  1 A Brief History  2 Exemplary and Theoretical Analysis  3 Summary and Prospects Part 2: The World behind Hebrews’s Text 6 Frei von Blut und Fleisch, Sündenbewusstsein und Todesfurcht: Die Hoffnung auf einen vollkommenen Menschen im Hebräer  1 Einleitung  2 Der kosmische Horizont des Menschenbilds im Hebräer  3 Jesus Christus ist der Mensch—die “christologische” Anthropologie  4 Blut und Fleisch, Seele und Geist, Tod und Leben  5 Geheiligtes Menschsein muss noch im Glauben der Erprobung im Leiden standhalten  6 Versuch einer historischen Kontextualisierung  7 Schluss 7 Charting “Outside the Camp” with Edward W. Soja: Critical Spatiality and Hebrews 13  1 Introduction  2 Hebrews 13 in Scholarship: Riddles about a Key Space  3 Critical Spatiality: An Apt Methodology  4 The Text of Hebrews 13: Overlapping Maps  5 The Primary Intertext of Hebrews 13: Exodus 32–33  6 How the Primary Intertext, Exodus 32–33, Reinterprets Hebrews 13 Spatially  7 Conclusion and Outlook 8 Useless Foods: Communal Meals in Hebrews  1 Introduction  2 The Epistle to the Hebrews and Communal Meals  3 Context, Structure and Content  4 Research History and Central Intertext  5 How the Intertext Exod 32–34 Interprets Heb 13  6 Conclusion 9 Von Bundesbruch zu Bundeserneuerung: Das sühnende Opfer im Hebräer  1 Das Opfer im Neuen Testament und im Hebräer  2 Der kultisch-liturgische Kontext des Hebräers  3 Der theologische Kontext des Hebräers  4 Die kultischen Inhalte des Hebräers  5 Der sühnende Opferkult des Jom Kippur  6 Der sühnende Opferkult im Hebräer  7 Der historische Kontext des Hebräers 10 The Inauguration of Yom Kippur according to the LXX and Its Cessation or Perpetuation according to Hebrews: A Systematic Comparison  1 Introduction  2 Hebrews Scholarship  3 Systematic Comparison of Cultic Elements  4 Conclusion Part 3: The World in Front of Hebrews’s Text 11 Faith in Hebrews and Its Relationship to Soteriology: An Interpretation in the Context of the Concept of Fides in Roman Culture  1 Fides quaerens intellectum?  2 Bicultural Interaction, Not Syncretism  3 Fides and πίστις  4 The Cloud of Witnesses 12 Existence beyond Borders: Hebrews and Critical Spatiality  1 The Turn to Critical Spatiality  2 Mapping the Ancient World with Hebrews  3 “Outside the Camp”: A “Counter Space” in Hebrews 13 13 “Wir haben hier keine bleibende Stadt” (Hebr 13,14): Kritische Raum- und Machtdiskurse im Hebräer  1 Die Wende zur Raumsoziologie (“Critical Spatiality”)  2 Eine Landkarte der Alten Welt: Nach dem Neuen Testament und dem Hebräerbrief  3 “Ausserhalb des Lagers”—Ein “Gegenort” in Hebräer 13 14 The Unshakeable Kingdom in Heaven: Notes on Eschatology in Hebrews  1 Introduction—Eschatology and Apocalypticism  2 Hellenistic and Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews  3 The Unshakeable Kingdom of Heaven 15 Ethics in Hebrews  1 Introduction  2 Descriptions of Hebrews’s Ethics  3 Ethical-Hermeneutical Evaluations of Hebrews  4 Conclusion Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisTanhuma-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 authors study historical, philological, cultural or linguistic aspects of this literature. The result is a body of work dedicated to this important corpus, and is a first step into giving it its proper place in Jewish Studies.Table of ContentsPreface  Arnon Atzmon and Ronit Nikolsky 1 Let Our Rabbi Teach Us: An Introduction to Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature  Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon Part 1: Bibliographical Survey 2 A Bibliographical Survey of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Research: Past, Present, and Future  Marc Bregman Part 2: Textual Findings 3 Tanhuma as a Textual Martyr: On the Reception of Tanhuma Literature in Literary and Documentary Genizah Sources  Moshe Lavee 4 The Transmission of Midrash Tanhuma in Ashkenaz as Reflected in Binding Fragments from Germany  Andreas Lehnardt Part 3: Language and Terminology 5 The Language of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: The State of Research  Yehonatan Wormser 6 “Rabbi Tanhuma Said”: A Code Phrase for the Quotation from Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature  Gila Vachman Part 4: Sources and Parallels 7 Pesikta in the Tanhuma: The Case of Pericope Shekalim  Arnon Atzmon 8 A Tanhumaic Tradition on a Hasmonean King: Between Tannaitic Sources and the Babylonian Talmud  Tal Ilan Part 5: Adjacent and Later Literatures 9 The Affinity between the Lost Midrash Yelammedenu and Midrash Vayekhulu  Amos Geula 10 The Provenance of Aggadat Bereshit: A Reassessment of the Origins of the Work as a “Tanhuma Satellite”  Lieve Teugels 11 Tanhuma in Masquerade: Discovering the Tanhuma in the Latter Midrash Rabbah Texts  Shalem Yahalom Part 6: Cultural Context 12 Dramatic Dialogues in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Midrashim  Dov Weiss 13 Meshalim on Election and Power: Two Examples in Tanhuma Buber  Eric Ottenheijm 14 Joseph, Judah, and the Study of Emotions in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature  Ronit Nikolsky Part 7: Textual Witnesses 15 Survey of Textual Witnesses of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature  Arnon Atzmon Bibliography Index of Biblical Sources Index of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature Index of Sources Index of Modern Scholars General Index

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated volume offers the most comprehensive and updated survey on about sixteen thousand Hebrew manuscript fragments reused as book-bindings and preserved in hundreds of libraries and archives in Italy. Contributions by the leading scholars in the field elucidate specific collections and genres no less than individual fragments, bringing to new life a forgotten library of medieval Jewish books, as almost 160 Talmudic codices, which include the Mishna, Tosefta, Palestinian Talmud and, for the most part, the Babylonian one, and several hitherto unknown texts. The contribution of these fragments to the ongoing research on the “European Genizah”, as the Books within Books Project, and to Jewish Studies in general cannot be overestimated.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations 1 Foreword  Israel Ta-Shma, zal 2 Introduction  Mauro Perani Part 1: General Description and History 3 Manuscripta manent: “Books within Books”, an Overview  Emma Abate and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 4 “The Italian Genizah”: an Unexpected New Source of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts  Benjamin Richler 5 Death and Rebirth of Hebrew Manuscripts  Mauro Perani 6 Ashkenazic Responsa in the Italian Genizah  Simcha Emanuel 7 The “Italian Genizah”: Features and Report on Forty Years of Research  Mauro Perani 8 The “European Genizah”: Between Hope and Reality  Simcha Emanuel Part 2: Bible and Its Commentaries 9 11th–12th-Century Biblical Manuscripts from the “Italian Genizah” and Their System of Vocalization  Chiara Pilocane 10 The Importance of the “Italian Genizah” for the Study of Yosef Qara’s Biblical Commentaries  Avraham Grossman Part 3: Talmudic and Halakhic Texts 11 The Talmudic Fragments of the “European Genizah”  Yaaqov Sussmann 12 An Important Manuscript of the Mishnah in the “Italian Genizah”  Gad Ben-Ammi Sarfatti, zal 13 The Most Ancient Fragment Found in the “Italian Genizah”: the Tosefta of Norcia (ca. 1000 BCE)  Mauro Perani and Günter Stemberger 14 Eight New Pages of an 11th-Century Talmud Yerushalmi Megillah and Ḥagigah from the State Archives of Bologna  Mauro Perani 15 The Talmud Yerushalmi from Bologna, Probable Vorlage of Ms. Leiden: the New Fragments from Megillah and Ḥagigah  Günter Stemberger 16 The She’iltot de-Rav Aḥai from the 10th–11th Century Found in Ravenna  Pinchas Roth 17 The Travel of the 10th–11th-Century She’iltot de-Rav Aḥai from Sicily-Maghreb to Ravenna via Ferrara and an Important Purchase Note  Mauro Perani 18 Juridical Books Bound in 16th-Century Bologna with Folios from a 12th-Century Manuscript of Halakhot Gedolot, Found in Bologna and in Leipzig University Library  Mauro Perani 19 The Bologna Fragments of Halakhot Gedolot and Their Relation to the Italian Textual Tradition of the Book  Roni Shweka Part 4: Midrashic Texts 20 The Pages of the Halakic Midrashim in the Nonantola and Modena Archives  Menahem Kahana 21 Pages from a New Manuscript of Sifre on Numbers and Deuteronomy in the Estense Library in Modena  Menahem Kahana Part 5: Kabbalah 22 Fragments of Kabbalistic Works from the “Italian Genizah”: An Updated Survey  Saverio Campanini Bibliography on the “Italian Genizah” and “European Genizah” 1915–2021  Mauro Perani and Emma Abate Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough recently more studies have been devoted to the representations of Biblical heroines in modern European art, less is known about the contribution to the portrayals of Biblical women by modern Jewish artists. This monograph explores why and how heroines of the Scripture: Judith, Esther and the Shulamite received a particular meaning for acculturated Jewish artists originating from the Polish lands in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. It convincingly proves that artworks by Maurycy Gottlieb, Wilhem Wachtel, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Maurycy Minkowski, Samuel Hirszenberg and Boris Schatz significantly differed from renderings of contemporary non-Jewish artists, adopting a “Jewish perspective”, creating complex and psychological portrayals of the heroines inspired by Jewish literature and as well as by historical and cultural phenomena of Jewish revival and the cultural Zionism movement.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Note to the Reader Introduction  1 Historical Background  2 Aims of the Book and the State of the Research  3 Methodology 1 Judith in Late Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Jewish Art  1.1 The Book of Judith  1.2 Judith in Pre-modern Jewish and Christian Tradition and Art  1.3 Judith in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art  1.4 Celebrating Her Triumph: Judith in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Jewish Art 2 The Jewish Queen Esther in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art  2.1 The Book of Esther: Introduction  2.2 Esther in Pre-modern Jewish and Christian Tradition and Art  2.3 Jewish and Christian Literary Treatments of the Book of Esther in the Nineteenth Century  2.4 Esther in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art 3 The Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art  3.1 The Song of Songs: An Introduction  3.2 The Shulamite in Jewish and Christian Tradition and Art Up to the Nineteenth Century  3.4 New Meanings of the Song of Songs in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Jewish and Christian Literature  3.5 The Ideal Jewish Woman: The Shulamite and The Song of Songs in Jewish Art of the Early Twentieth Century Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, scholars from different fields and dealing with different material sources are trying to consider the Hebrew Bible as a whole. The development of new databases and other technological tools have an increasing impact on research practices. By inviting doctoral students, young researchers, and established scholars to contribute, this interdisciplinary book showcases methods and perspectives which can support future scientific collaborations in the field of the Hebrew Bible. This edited volume gathers relevant research from Dead Sea Scrolls Studies, Cairo Genizah Studies, European Genizah Studies, and from Late Medieval Biblical Manuscript Studies.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls Paleo-Hebrew Script: Its Roots in Hebrew Scribal Tradition  Antony Perrot and Matthieu Richelle 2 4Q216 and the Jubilees Creation Account: A Material Philological Analysis  Matthew Monger 3 Methods for the Reconstruction of Large Literary (Sc)rolls from Fragmentary Remains  Drew G. Longacre 4 Rethinking Methodological Approaches: The Phylactery Corpus from the Judean Desert as a Test Case  Anna Busa 5 LXX, between Textual Criticism and Redactional Criticism  Gilles Dorival 6 A New Proposal for the Identification and Interpretation of the Genizah Fragment T S D. 1.61’  Elvira Martín-Contreras 7 Two New Fragments from the Scribe behind the Leningrad Codex (B19a)  Kim Phillips 8 Biblical Manuscripts from the Collections of the National Library of Russia, and Their Use in the Textual Research of the Hebrew Bible  Viktor Golinets 9 Catalogues of Hebrew Manuscripts and the Cataloguing of Hebrew Fragments  Javier del Barco 10 Identifying the Model of a Copy: The Case of Colmar’s Biblical Fragments  Judith Kogel 11 The Question of Tagin Their Origin and Use: New Light from the Old Sefer Torah Recently Re-found in Bologna University Library  Mauro Perani 12 The MBH Project and the Systematic Study of Late Mediaeval Hebrew Bibles: New Perspectives and 3D Experiments  Élodie Attia and Léo Pascal 13 Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Cairo Genizah and Books within Books: Towards a Comparative Study of the Manuscript Fragments of the Hebrew Bible  Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 14 Continuities and Parallels in the Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in the Second Temple Period and in the Middle Ages  Geoffrey Khan Index of Modern Authors Index of Sources and Manuscripts

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Book SynopsisThe first half of the book of Daniel contains world-famous stories like the Writing on the Wall. These stories have mostly been transmitted in Aramaic, not Hebrew, as has the influential apocalypse of Daniel 7. This Aramaic corpus shows clear signs of multiple authorship. Which different textual layers can we tease apart, and what do they tell us about the changing function of the Danielic material during the Second Temple Period? This monograph compares the Masoretic Text of Daniel to ancient manuscripts and translations preserving textual variants. By highlighting tensions in the reconstructed archetype underlying all these texts, it then probes the tales’ prehistory even further, showing how Daniel underwent many transformations to yield the book we know today.

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Book SynopsisIn the first book-length study of Takkanot Kandiyah, Martin Borýsek analyses this fascinating corpus of Hebrew texts written between 1228 –1583 by the leaders of the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. Collected in the 16th century by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali, the communal byelaws offer a unique perspective on the history of a vibrant, culturally diverse Jewish community during three centuries of Venetian rule. As well as confronting practical problems such as deciding whether Christian wine can be made kosher by adding honey, or stopping irresponsible Jewish youths disturbing religious services by setting off fireworks in the synagogue, Takkanot Kandiyah presents valuable material for the study of communal autonomy and institutional memory in pre-modern Jewish society.

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Book SynopsisThis volume honors the extraordinary scholarship of Prof. Gary A. Rendsburg, whose work and friendship have influenced so many in the last five decades. Twenty-five prominent scholars from the US, Europe, Israel, and Australia have contributed significant original studies in three of Rendsburg’s areas of interest and expertise: Hebrew language, Hebrew Bible, and Hebrew manuscripts. These linguistic, philological, literary, epigraphic, and historical approaches to the study of Hebrew and its textual traditions serve as a worthy tribute to such an accomplished scholar, and also as an illustration how all of these approaches can complement one another in the fields of Hebrew and Biblical Studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface The Publications of Gary A. Rendsburg Part 1 Hebrew Language 1 On Third Person Masculine Plural Pronouns in Hebrew  Steven E. Fassberg 2 Out of the Sweet Came Good: A Study in Semitic Etymology  Edward L. Greenstein 3 Hebraisms in Mandaic  C.G. Häberl 4 The Phasal Narrative Function of Long yiqṭol and weqaṭal in Biblical Hebrew  Geoffrey Khan 5 Windows, Walls, and Terebinths: The -ōn Morph in חַלּוֹנֵינוּ ḥallōnēnū (Jer 9:20) and Beyond  Frank H. Polak 6 On the Biblical Hebrew Preposition min  Aaron D. Rubin 7 Historical Linguistics and Language Change: the Rabbinic Hebrew Deponent  Azzan Yadin-Israel 8 The Etymology and Meaning of Kuntillet ʿAjrud: An Experimental Inquiry  Ziony Zevit Part 2 Hebrew Bible 9 שֵׁדִים šēḏīm: Shades of Difference between ‘Demons’, Deity, and שַׁדַּי šadday  Debra Scoggins Ballentine 10 Greek Eros in Song of Songs 8:6–7  Adele Berlin 11 Month Names in the Bible  Christian M.M. Brady 12 Further Reflections on Egyptian Influences on the Early Hebrews—Priestly Matters  James K. Hoffmeier 13 The Akedah in a Different Voice  Aaron Koller 14 Targum Jonathan in the Critical Apparatus of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta in 1 and 2 Samuel  Craig E. Morrison 15 Hidden Waters: The Sounds of Sinking in the Song of the Sea  Scott B. Noegel 16 Sound Play in the Song of Hannah  Elizabeth Robar 17 Northern Refugees in Jerusalem: The Case of Menaḥem, Son of Yawbana  William M. Schniedewind 18 Transformation and Continuity in Liturgical Poetry: The Case of Psalm 20  Benjamin D. Sommer 19 Two Notes on the Rescue of Moses in Exodus and in the Dura-Europos Synagogue Mural  Jeffrey H. Tigay 20 Isaiah 15:9  H.G.M. Williamson 21 The Joy of Secondary Texts: The “Little Horn” in Masoretic Text and Old Greek Daniel 7–8  Ian Young Part 3 Hebrew Manuscripts 22 Who Wrote Acrostic Signatures in Early Masoretic Bibles? The Case of Ḥananya ha-Levi ben Shelomo  Vincent D. Beiler 23 Christian Scholarship and Jewish Prayer in 13th-Century England: Oxford, MS Arch. Selden A. 3  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 24 The Curious Case of the Corresponding Colophons in Codex Cairo 3  Benjamin M. Outhwaite 25 A Letter from the Chief of the Samaritans, with a Little Present  Stefan Schorch

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