Judaism Books

Book SynopsisThis Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino) , and Jewish varieties of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Berber, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Iranian, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Malayalam, Occitan (Provençal), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Syriac, Turkic (Karaim and Krymchak), Turkish, and more. Chapters include historical and linguistic descriptions of each language, an overview of primary and secondary literature, and comprehensive bibliographies to aid further research. Many chapters also contain sample texts and images. This book is an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Jewish languages, and will also be very useful for historical linguists, dialectologists, and scholars and students of minority or endangered languages. This book is also available as paperback version.Trade Review"...aquest llibre és una font única i indispensable que de ben segur esdevindrà un manual de referència, molt útil per als lingüistes, dialectòlegs, acadèmics i estudiants de llengües minoritàries i amenaçades." - Mariona Vernet i Pons, Universitat de BarcelonaTable of ContentsIntroduction Aaron D. Rubin and Lily Kahn 1 Jewish Amharic Anbessa Teferra 2 Judeo-Arabic Geoffrey Khan 3 Judeo-Aramaic Steven E. Fassberg 4 Jewish Berber Joseph Chetrit 5 Jewish English Sarah Bunin Benor 6 Judeo-French 1 Marc Kiwitt and Stephen Dörr 7 Jewish Georgian Reuven Enoch 8 Judeo-Greek Julia G. Krivoruchko 9 Jewish Hungarian Judith Rosenhouse 10 Judeo-Iranian Languages Habib Borjian 11 Judeo-Italian Aaron D. Rubin 12 Judezmo (Ladino) David M. Bunis 13 Karaim and Krymchak Henryk Jankowski 14 Jewish Latin American Spanish Evelyn Dean-Olmsted and Susana Skura 15 Jewish Malayalam Ophira Gamliel 16 Judeo-Occitan (Judeo-Provençal) Adam Strich with George Jochnowitz 17 Judeo-Portuguese Devon Strolovitch 18 Jewish Russian Anna Verschik 19 Judeo-Slavic Brad Sabin Hill 20 Jewish Swedish Patric Joshua Klagsbrun Lebenswerd 21 Judeo-Syriac Siam Bhayro 22 Judeo-Turkish Laurent Mignon 23 Yiddish Lily Kahn Epilogue: Other Jewish Languages, Past and Present Aaron D. Rubin Index

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Book SynopsisJudah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua’s State Archives. It consists of contributions on Moscato and the intellectual world in Mantua during the 16th and 17th centuries.Trade Review"This fascinating conference volume is the latest publication of the remarkable Italian-German scholars Veltri and Miletto. It reflects the strong trend in Renaissance interests among European Jewish studies scholars, of whom this pair are leading lights. [...] The book overall is a fine example of what a conference volume should be. [...] [T]he essays [...] are all good; [...] rise to the level of excellence." – Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University, in: Renaissance Quarterly 65.4 (Winter 2012), pp. 1271-1273, DOI: 10.1086/669413 "Brill's new scholarly edition and translation of Moscato's sermons is a major contribution to Jewish Renaissance studies. [...] The editors identify the many references to both Jewish and Classical literature, and give brief but clear explanations when needed. The translation is also clear, and seems to accruately reflect the Hebrew text." – Jim Rosenbloom, in: Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, November/December 2012Table of ContentsEditor’s Preface Part I: Judah Moscato. His Life and His Work Judah Moscato: Biographical Data and Writings Gianfranco Miletto Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto Giuseppe Veltri Moscato as Eulogist Marc Saperstein On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato’s Qol Yehudah Moshe Idel Amitica and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato’s Nefuṣot Yehudah Bernard Dov Cooperman Judah Moscato, Abraham Portaleone, and Biblical Incense in Late Renaissance Mantua Andrew Berns Judah Moscato’s Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey Adam Shear Part II: The Jewish intellectual World of Mantua in 16th-17th century The Gonzaga Archives of Mantua and Their Rearrangements Over the Centuries, along with and Overview of Archival Materials on Mantuan Jewry Daniela Ferrari The Levi Dynasty: Three Generations of Jewish Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Mantua Don Harrán Spatial Stories: Mantua and the Painted Jew Dana Katz Saladin the Crusader, the Christian Haman and the Off-key Priest: Some Reflections on Christians and Christianity in Yiddish Literary Texts from the Italian Renaissance Claudia Rosenzweig Some Unknown 16th-Century Documents about Abraham Yagel and a Possible Link to the Controversy about the “Holy Diana” in the Mantuan Synagogue Daniel Jütte On Abraham’s Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yeṣirah (Mantua 1562) and Its Context Saverio Campanini The Italian Translation of the Psalms by Judah Sommo Alessandro Guetta Savants and Scholars in Jewish Mantua: a Reassessment Shlomo Simonsohn

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Book SynopsisThis volume assembles multidisciplinary research on the Judaeo-Islamic tradition in medieval and modern contexts. The introduction discusses the nature of this tradition and proposes the more fluid and inclusive designation of “Jewish-Muslim Relations.” Contributions highlight diverse aspects of Jewish-Muslim relations in medieval and modern contexts, including the academic study of Jewish history, the Qur’anic notion of the “upright community” referring to the “People of the Book,” Jews in medieval fatwas, use of Arabic and Hebrew script, Jewish prayer in Christian Europe and the Islamic world, the permissibility of Arabic music in modern Jewish thought, Jewish and Muslim feminist exegesis, modern Sephardic and Morisco identity, popular Tunisian song, Jewish-Muslim relations in cinema and A.S. Yehuda’s study of an 11th-century Jewish mystic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors Transliteration Note Introduction  Josef Meri 1 The Academic Study of Islamicate Jewry  Norman A. Stillman 2 The “Upright Community”: Interpreting the Righteousness and Salvation of the People of the Book in the Qurʾān  Asma Afsaruddin 3 Jews and Muslims [Re]Define Gender Relations in Their Sacred Books: yimshol and qawwāmūn  Ruth Roded 4 How did Jewish Prayer in the Medieval Islamic World Differ from Its Equivalent in Christian Countries?  Stefan C. Reif 5 A Matter of Script? Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic in the Genizah Collections  Esther-Miriam Wagner 6 Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Duties of Hearts: A.S. Yahuda and His Study of Judaism  Saeko Yazaki 7 A Fatwā by al-Māzarī (d. 536/1141) on a Jewish Silk Merchant in Gafsa  Camilla Adang 8 “There on the Poplars [Arabs] We Hung Up [Rely On] Our Lyres [Jewish Music]”: Rabbi ʿOvadyah Yosef’s Halakhic Rulings on Arabic Music  Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad 9 ‘Once Upon a Time Our Home Was in Spain’; Comparing Diaspora Discourses among Morisco Descendants and Sephardim Today  Marta Dominguez Diaz 10 Muslim-Jewish Relations in France through the Lens of Recent Cinema  Dinah Assouline Stillman 11 Remembering the Jewish Past through Song in Contemporary Tunisia  Ruth Davis General Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume explores the stone carved shrines for the scrolls of the Mosaic Law from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century synagogues in the former Polish Kingdom. Created on the margin of mainstream art and at a crossroad of diverse cultures, artistic traditions, aesthetic attitudes and languages, these indoor architectural structures have hitherto not been the subject of a monographic study. Revisiting and integrating multiple sources, the author re-evaluates the relationship of the Jewish culture in Renaissance Poland with the medieval Jewish heritage, sepulchral art of the Polish court and nobles, and earlier adaptations of the Christian revival of classical antiquity by Italian Jews. The book uncovers the evolution of artistic patronage, aesthetics, expressions of identities, and emerging visions among a religious minority on the cusp of the modern age.Trade Review"...intéressante monographie" – Eliane Poirot, in: Mikhtav 67 (2013)Table of Contents1. Medieval Synagogues in Cracow and Kazimierz 2. The Renaissance Reaches Jewish Kazimierz 3. The Isserls' Torah Ark: Deconstructing the Bricolage 4. The Isserls' Torah Ark: Reconstructing the Unity 5. Developments of the Isserls' Model in Kazimierz 6. From Kazimierz to Pińczow and Szydłow 7. Revivals of Ancient Art in the Design of Late-Sixteenth- to Mid-Seventeenth-Century Arks 187 illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English commentary on Josephus’ Against Apion, his apologetic treatise which rebuts Egyptian and Hellenistic slurs on the Judean people. Accompanied by a new translation, the commentary provides full analysis of the historical, literary, and rhetorical features of the treatise, and analyses its engagement with the cultural politics of the ancient world.Trade Review"this is a work of great quality which [...] provides us with an excellent instrument for research, and excellent reference for studies on Josephus." – Francesca Calabi, University of Pavia, in: Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2009 "Es handelt sich um den bisher umfassendsten und zweifelsohne besten Kommentar zu diesem Traktat, der in den letzten Jahren vermehrt in den Blickpunkt der Forschung genommen wurde ... John Barclays Kommentar zu Josephus' Apion ist ein Meilenstein in der Josephus-Forschung, an dem man sich gerne orientiert und der eine enorme Bereicherung für die Erforschung des Judentums der griechisch-römischen Zeit insgesamt ist." – René Bloch, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland "It is a first rate work of scholarship.I suspect that the commentary will be used principally as a reference work. It can be so used with profit. Each section is full enough to stand on its own. It will also reward those who spend the time to work through the whole.[...] I do not anticipate another English commentary to Contra Apionem for many years. Thankfully, we will not need one. Barclay's commentary will serve us well for many years." – Gregory Sterling, in: The Studia Philonica Annual 20 (2008)

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the critical edition of Joseph Seniri’s commentary on the Former Prophets. Son of the famous poet Isaac Ha-Seniri, Joseph Seniri lived in Beaucaire at the turn of the thirteenth century. His work, which follows the Provençal tradition of Jewish exegesis combining the teachings of northern France with those of Spain, contains numerous Provençal glosses ( le’azim). Through Kogel’s analysis of the text and the study of the grammatical terminology, it is possible to see the main sources of influence Seniri’s influence: Rashi’s commentary and Ibn Janaḥ’s grammar.

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Book SynopsisThis book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese, from the forced conversion of Jews in 1497, until the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. It tries to understand what motivated this vast literary production, its different currents, and how they evolved. Additionally, it studies the image of New Christians and seeks the reasons for the perpetuation of this perception of Jewish descendants in the Early Modern Portuguese world. The Imaginary Synagogue seeks to identify which Jews and which ‘synagogue’ those authors constructed in their texts and their reasons for doing so, and offers conclusions on the self-affirmed Catholic importance of this literary current.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations vi Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 Jews in Portugal and the Beginnings of Polemical Literature 9 2 Portuguese Anti-Semitic Literary Production: Forms, Objectives, and Reception (17th – 18th Centuries) 18 2.1 Sermons and Auto-da-Fe Lists 19 2.2 Treatises 44 2.3 Sources 65 2.4 Circulation and Censorship 67 3 The New Christian Image 77 3.1 Terminology 77 3.2 Punishment of the Deicides 82 3.3 Enemies of the Portuguese 84 3.4 Rites and Beliefs 87 4 Continuity and Change: The Different Currents of Anti-Jewish Literature 94 4.1 The Seventeenth Century Context 94 4.1.1 Memorials 96 4.2 Signs of a New Time? 101 4.2.1 Pamphlets 106 5 Conclusions 117 Annex 1: Inquisitorial Medals and Diplomas 121 Annex 2: The Auto-da-Fé Sermon in Lisbon on May 5th, 1624 130 Sources and Bibliography 187 Index of Names and Places 204

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Book SynopsisAncient texts, once written by hand on parchment and papyrus, are now increasingly discoverable online in newly digitized editions, and their readers now work online as well as in traditional libraries. So what does this mean for how scholars may now engage with these texts, and for how the disciplines of biblical, Jewish and Christian studies might develop? These are the questions that contributors to this volume address. Subjects discussed include textual criticism, palaeography, philology, the nature of ancient monotheism, and how new tools and resources such as blogs, wikis, databases and digital publications may transform the ways in which contemporary scholars engage with historical sources. Contributors attest to the emergence of a conscious recognition of something new in the way that we may now study ancient writings, and the possibilities that this new awareness raises.Table of ContentsList of Contributors List of Abstracts Preface 1. Introduction: Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies Claire Clivaz PART ONE: DIGITIZED MANUSCRIPTS 2. The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. The Digitization Project of the Dead Sea Scrolls Pnina Shor 3. Dead Sea Scrolls Inside Digital Humanities. A Sample David Hamidović 4. The Electronic Scriptorium: Markup for New Testament Manuscripts Hugh Houghton 5. Digital Arabic Gospels Corpus Elie Dannaoui 6. The Role of the Internet in New Testament Textual Criticism: the Example of the Arabic Manuscripts of the New Testament Sara Schulthess 7. The Falasha Memories Project. Digitalization of the Manuscript BNF, Ethiopien d’Abbadie Charlotte Touati PART TWO: DIGITAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING 8. The Seventy and Their 21st-Century Heirs. The Prospects for Digital Septuagint Research Juan Garces 9. Digital Approaches to the Study of Ancient Monotheism Ory Amitay 10. Internet Networks and Academic Research: the Example of the New Testament Textual Criticism Claire Clivaz 11. New Ways of Searching with Biblindex, the Online Index of Biblical Quotations in Early Christian Literature Laurence Mellerin 12. Aspects of Polysemy in Biblical Greek. A Preliminary Study for a New Lexicographical Resource Romina Vergari 13. Publishing Digitally at the University Press? A Reader’s Perspective Andrew Gregory 14. Does not Biblical Studies Deserve to Be an Open Source Discipline? Russell Hobson Indices Author index Subject index

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Book SynopsisIn Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome William den Hollander places under the microscope the Judaean historian's own account of the latter part of his life, following his first encounters with the Romans. Episodes of Josephus' life, such as his embassy to Rome prior to the outbreak of the 1st Judaean Revolt, his prophetic pronouncement of Vespasian's imminent rise to the imperial throne, and his time in the Roman prisoner-of-war camp, are subjected to rigorous analysis and evaluated against the broader ancient evidence by the application of a vivid historical imagination. Den Hollander also explores at great length the relationships formed by Josephus with the Flavian emperors and other individuals of note within the Roman army camp and, later, in the city of Rome. He builds solidly on recent trends in Josephan research that emphasize Josephus' distance from the corridors of power.Trade Review…den Hollander's insistence on using our knowledge of Flavian Rome to shape our reading of Josephus. That Josephus needs to be understood and evaluated in light of contemporary literature and history is an important step forward in the scholarly attempt to reconstruct the historical Josephus and his place within his Roman environment. Sean A. Adams, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (18.06.2014)

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Book SynopsisIn The Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum Meins G.S. Coetsier breaks new ground by demonstrating the Jewish existential nature of Etty Hillesum’s spiritual and cultural life in light of the writings of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Hillesum’s diaries and letters, written between 1941 and 1943, illustrate her struggle to come to terms with her personal life in the context of the Second World War and the Shoah. By finding God under the rubble of the horrors, she rediscovers the divine presence between humankind, while taking up responsibility for the Other as a way to embrace justice and compassion. In a fascinating, accessible and thorough study, Coetsier dispels much of the confusion that assails readers when they are exposed to the bewildering range of Christian and Jewish influences and other cultural interpretations of her writings. The result is a convincing and profound picture of Etty Hillesum's path to spiritual freedom.

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Book SynopsisSephardim are the descendants of the Jews expelled from the lands of the Iberian Peninsula in the years 1492-1498, who settled down in the Mediterranean basin. The identifying sign of the Sephardim has been, until the middle of the twentieth century, the language known as Jewish-Spanish. The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the cultural and social changes that characterized the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, because of the crucial changes related to modernization and the political circumstances that came into being at the turn of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the Sephardim lost their unique identity.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Introduction Jerusalem Once upon a Time Who is a Sephardi? The Language of the Sephardim Conclusion 1. From Expulsion to Revival The Expulsion from Spain To Where did the Exiled Turn to Go? Portugal Navarre North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya Italy The Ottoman Empire Leaders of the Sephardi Communities in the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century Jerusalem Safed Tiberias Hebron The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries The Turkish Republic Conclusion 2. The Meʿam Loʿez: The Masterpiece of Ladino Literature (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries) The Anthology Meʿam Loʿez Everydaylife of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean Dispersal According to the Meʿam Loʿez 3. Immigrants in the Land of Their Birth: The Sephardi Community in Jerusalem. The Test Case of the Meyuḥas Family Modernization Processes in the Ottoman Empire The Alliance Israelite Universelle A Jerusalemite Sephardi Family in the Change of Time: The Test Case of The Meyuḥas Family The History of the Meyuḥas family in the Balkans and in Istanbul (Kushta) The Meyuḥas Family in Jerusalem: The Meguilat Yoḥasin of the Rishon Le-Zion Rabbi Refael Meyuḥas and the Purim de los Meyuḥasim The Descendants of Rabbi Refael Meyuḥas Shadarim of the Meyuḥas Family The Meyuḥas Family in Kefar Ha-Shiloʾaḥ Conclusion 4. Beautiful Damsels and Men of Valor: Ladino Literature Giving Us a Peek into the Spiritual World of Sephardi Women in Jerusalem (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) Ladino Books Kept by Nona Flor Nona Flor the Storyteller Old Readers and New Readers Conclusion 5.The Spanish Senator Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the “Spaniards without a Homeland,” Speakers of Jewish Spanish 248 Dr. Angel Pulido Fernandez and the Sephardim How Did the Sephardim React to Pulido’s Ideas? Conclusion 6.The Lost Identity of the Sephardim in The Land of Israel and the State of Israel The Weekly Hed Ha-Mizraḥ and its Readers The Second World War in Greece: The Extermination of the Jews The Sephardim of the Land of Israel Facing the Holocaust Epilogue: History in the Eyes of the Beholder Bibliography Hebrew Bibliography Other Languages Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSacrifice is a well known form of ritual in many world religions. Although the actual practice of animal sacrifice was largely abolished in the later history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is still recalled through biblical stories, the ritual calendar and community events. The essays in this volume discuss the various positions regarding the value of sacrifice in a wide variety of disciplines such as history, archaeology, literature, philosophy, art and gender and post-colonial studies. In this context they examine a wide array of questions pertaining to the 'actuality of sacrifice' in various social, historical and intellectual contexts ranging from the pre-historical to the post-Holocaust, and present new understandings of some of the most sensitive topics of our time.Trade Review'Students of the liturgical sciences wil profit greatly from this volume of rich contributions. Those interested in ecumenical issues will liekwise find the volume informative and helpful in understanding how liturgical renewal is indeed a concrete path to Christian unity.' James F. Puglisi, Centro Pro Unione, Worship 90, January 2016.Table of ContentsArchaeology and the Hebrew Bible Louise A. Hitchcock, Conspicuous Destruction and the Economy of Sacrifice in the Bronze and Early Iron Age Dorothea Erbele-Kuester, Reading as an Act of Offering: Reconsidering the Genre of Leviticus 1 David Frankel, The Death of Moses as a Sacrifice of Atonement for the Sins of Israel: A Hidden Biblical Tradition New Testament and post-Biblical Judaism Eric Ottenheijm, ‘So the Sons are Free’: The Temple Tax in the Matthean Community Lawrence Schiffman, Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls Adelbert Denaux, Jesus Christ, High Priest and Sacrifice according to the Epistle to the Hebrews Joshua Schwartz, Sacrifice without the Rabbis: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period according to Contemporary Sources Early Christianity and Rabbinic literature Riemer Roukema, Sacrifice in ‘Gnostic’ Testimonies of the Second and Third Centuries CE Marcel Poorthuis, Sacrifice as Concession in Christian and Jewish Sources: The Didascalia Apostolorum and Rabbinic Literature Alberdina Houtman, Putting One’s Life on the Line: The Meaning of he`erah lamavet nafsho and Similar Expressions in Rabbinic Literature Michael Swartz, Sacrifice and Society in Yerushalmi Yoma Thoughts on Sacrifice in the High Middle Ages Harm Goris, Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrifice of Christ: Thomas Aquinas against Later Thomist Theology Alexander Even Chen, On Purifying Sacrifice in the Philosophy of Don Isaac Abravanel Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Liturgy Gerard Rouwhorst, Which Religion Is Most Sacrificial? Reflections on the Transformations of Sacrifice in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism David Golinkin, The Restoration of Sacrifices in Modern Jewish Liturgy Sacrifice in Modern Philosophy Yossi Turner Sacrifice and Repentance: The Religious Thought of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik Renée van Riessen The Subject as Sacrifice: Levinas’s Confusing Critique of the Idealistic Subject Philosophy Simon Simonse Can We Be at Peace without Sacrifice? The Connection between Sacrifice and Crisis in the Work of René Girard Sacrifice in Art and Culture Shula Laderman Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in Artistic Representations of the Sacrifice of Isaac Rachel Berger ‘From the Blood of My Heart’: Christian Iconography in the Response of Israeli Artists to the Holocaust Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz The Iconography of Gendered Sacrifice: Women’s Army Corps Memorials in Israel and Great Britain Judith Frishman On Sacrifices, Victims, and Perpetrators: Israel’s ‘New Historians’, Critical Artists, and Zionist Historiography Frank Bosman Tarkovsky's Sacrifice: Between Nietzsche and Christ

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Book SynopsisHasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects, and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah. Examined at the delicate and difficult to define interface between seemingly simple, folk art and complex ideological and conceptual outlooks which contain deep, abstract symbols, the study touches on aspects of object history, intellectual history, the decorative arts, and the history of religion. Based on original texts, the focus of this volume is on the subjective experience of the user at the moment of ritual, applying tenets of process philosophy and literary theory – Wolfgang Iser, Gaston Bachelard, and Walter Benjamin – to the analysis of objects.Trade Review"Batsheva Goldman-Ida's Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah sets up a visual feast that recalls the ancient Tabernacle or Temple vessels while, at the same time, expanding our notion of the sacred." - Glenn Dynner, Jewish Review of Books (Fall 2018).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Part 1: Manuscripts 1 Hasidic Prayer Book  Continuity and Change  Significance  Conclusion Part 2: Ritual Objects 2 Hasidic Wine Cup  Continuity and Change  Models  Significance  Conclusion 3 Hasidic Seder Plate  Continuity and Change  Models  Influences  Significance  Conclusion 4 Hasidic Sabbath Lamp  Continuity and Change  Models  Significance  Conclusion 5 The Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament  Continuity and Change  Models  Shpanyer-Arbet  Influences  Significance  Conclusion Part 3: Folk Art 6 The Hasidic Pipe and Snuffbox  Continuity and Change  Models  Significance  Conclusion 7 Hasidic Talismans  Continuity and Change  Models  Influence  Significance  Conclusion 8 The Hasidic Rabbi’s Chair  Continuity and Change  Influences  Significance  Conclusion 9 Conclusion  Symbolism  Mythic Context  Hasidic Context  Worship through Corporeality  The Nature of Hasidism  New Directions in Research Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLes intellectuels juifs de Bagdad. Discours et allégeances (1908-1951) suit la trajectoire d’un groupe d’intellectuels juifs de langue arabe à Bagdad pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle. Les intellectuels juifs de Bagdad. Discours et allégeances (1908-1951) follows the trajectory of a group of Arabic-speaking Jewish intellectuals in Baghdad during the first half of the 20th century.Table of ContentsRemerciements Table des illustrations Abréviations Note de lecture Introduction A. L’intellectuel moderne et l’État B. Nations et nationalismes C. Structure et note sur les sources D. La communauté juive au XIXe siècle : entre ottomanisation et européanisation 1. Ottomanisme, arabisme, irakisme : allégeances impériales et nationales (1908-1929) A. La révolution de 1908 et son contrecoup B. La presse, l’espace public et la vie associative C. Entre millet et égalité citoyenne : discours sur le communautarisme D. « La patrie pour tous » : échec d’une stratégie L’année 1929 : le point de non-retour 2. Naissance d’une presse et d’une littérature d’opinion (1929-1941) A. La question sociale : entre « popularisme » et réalisme Liens entre les journalistes d’al-Ḥāṣid et le groupe al-Ahālī Le réalisme dans la fiction B. Rupture avec les « autorités compétentes » : politisation de la Nahḍa C. Critique du colonialisme, du nazisme et du fascisme Le colonialisme britannique Nazisme et fascisme D. Vers une panarabisation des discours 3. Anciennes et nouvelles allégeances : Le sionisme, le communisme et les partis de gauche (1941-1951) A. Conséquences du coup d’État de Rashīd ʿĀlī (1941) : entre sionisme et communisme Le mouvement sioniste Le Parti communiste et la Ligue antisioniste B. L’alternative : adhésions aux partis politiques de gauche (1946) C. Anciennes et nouvelles alliances Liens entre le Parti communiste et les autres partis de gauche Nouvelles alliances entre le Parti de l’Indépendance (PI) et le Parti national démocratique (PND) D. Nouveaux discours panarabes Conclusion Après 1950-1951 Bibliographie Sources Littérature secondaire Annexe I : Notices biographiques des intellectuels juifs de Bagdad (1908-1951) Annexe II : repères chronologiques Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of an Honorable Mention in the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) 2017 Book Award competition for an outstanding book on a Latin American Jewish topic in the social sciences or humanities published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Landscapes of Memory and Impunity chronicles the aftermath of the most significant terrorist attack in Argentina’s history—the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed eighty-five people, wounded hundreds, and destroyed the primary Jewish mutual aid society. This volume, edited by Annette H. Levine and Natasha Zaretsky, presents the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary work about this decisive turning point in Jewish Argentine history—examining the ongoing impact of this violence and the impunity that followed. Chapters explore political protest movements, musical performance, literature, and acts of commemoration. They emphasize the intersecting themes of memory, narrative and representation, Jewish belonging, citizenship, and justice—critical fault lines that frame Jewish life after the AMIA attack, while also resonating with historical struggles for pluralism in Argentina.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction, Annette H. Levine and Natasha Zaretsky Chapter One: The Nation’s Bodies: Justice and Belonging in the Aftermath of the AMIA Bombing, Susana Wappenstein Chapter Two: Reading Memoria Activa’s Discourse: Demands for Justice and Identity Symbols, Fernando Fischman and Javier Pelacoff Chapter Three: Remembering the AMIA Bombing: The Mothers of Pasteur Street and Stones of Memory, Edna Aizenberg Chapter Four: Vestiges of Memory Post-Atentado: Monumental Photographs and Spaces of (Impossible) Return, Annette H. Levine Chapter Five: Blows to the Heart: Reflections on the Literature of the AMIA, Stephen A. Sadow Chapter Six: Struggles of Coherence: Listening as Political Agency in the Plazas and Streets of Memory, Natasha Zaretsky Chapter Seven: Searching for Justice: Citizenship, Human Rights, and Anthropology, Karen Ann Faulk Chapter Eight: So We Don’t Lose Memory: Jewish Musical Performance in Buenos Aires After the AMIA Bombing, Lillian M. Wohl

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Book SynopsisFollowing 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 the demographic center of Jewish Palestine was in Galilee, archaeological evidence of Jewish communities is found in the southern part of the country as well. In The Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine, 300-800 C.E., Steve Werlin considers ten synagogues uncovered in southern Palestine. Through an in-depth analysis of the art, architecture, epigraphy, and stratigraphy, the author demonstrates how monumental, religious structures provide critical insight into the lives of those who were strangers among Christians and Muslims in their ancestral homeland.Table of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS PERIODS AND DATES NOTE ON SPELLINGS AND ITALICS INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 THE LOWER JORDAN VALLEY: Na‘aran and Jericho Chapter 2 THE DEAD SEA REGION: En-Gedi Chapter 3 THE SOUTHERN HEBRON HILLS: Susiya, Eshtemoa, Ma‘on (in Judea), and Ḥ. ‘Anim Chapter 4 THE JUDEAN SHEPHELAH: Rimmon Chapter 5 THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN: Gaza Maiumas and Ma‘on-Nirim Chapter 6 CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX PLATE SECTION

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Book SynopsisThe Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library presents twelve articles by renowned experts in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies. These articles explore from various angles the question of whether or not the collection of manuscripts found in the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran can be characterized as a “library,” and, if so, what the relation of that library is to the ruins of Qumran and the group of Jews that inhabited them. The essays fall into the following categories: the collection as a whole, subcollections within the overall corpus, and the implications of identifying the Qumran collection as a library.Table of ContentsPart 1 - General Studies Devorah Dimant, “The Library of Qumran in Recent Scholarship” Årstein Justnes, “On Being a ‘Librarian’: Labels, Categories, and Classifications” Part 2 - The Greco-Roman Context Monica Berti, “Greek and Roman Libraries in the Hellenistic Age” Corrado Martone, “The Qumran Library and Other Ancient Libraries: Elements for a Comparison” Ian Werrett, “Is Qumran a Library?” Part 3 - The Collection as a Whole and the Question of a Library Sidnie White Crawford, “The Qumran Collection as a Scribal Library” Stephen Reed, “The Linguistic Diversity of Texts found at Qumran” Mladen Popović, “The Ancient ‘Library’ of Qumran between Urban and Rural Culture” Stephen Pfann, “The Ancient Library or Libraries of Qumran: The Specter of Cave 1Q” Part 4 - Collections within the Collection: Specific Evidence for a Library? Helen R. Jacobus, “Calendars in the Qumran Collection” Daniel Machiela, “The Aramaic Scrolls: Coherence and Context in the Library of Qumran” Implications for the Identification of the Qumran Collection as a Library Armin Lange, “The Qumran Library in Context: The Canonical History and Textual Standardization of the Hebrew Bible in Light of the Qumran Library”

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Book SynopsisNorbert M. Samuelson is Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Trained as an analytic philosopher, he went on to establish the Academy of Jewish Philosophy in 1980, which contributed greatly to the professionalization of Jewish philosophy in America. An ordained Reform rabbi, a constructive theologian, and a public intellectual, Samuelson has insisted that philosophy is the very heart of Judaism and that in order to survive in the 21st century Judaism must rethink itself in light of contemporary science. Through his scholarship and organizational work he has brought a Jewish voice to the dialogue of religion and science. Viewing Jewish philosophy as central to the understanding of the Jewish past, Samuelson has explicated the philosophical dimension of Judaism, from the Bible to the present.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Editors’ Introduction to Series Norbert M. Samuelson : An Intellectual Portrait, Jules Simon A Critique of Rosenzweig’s Doctrine: Is It Jewish and Is It Believable?, Norbert M. Samuelson The God of the Theologians, Norbert M. Samuelson The Concept of ‘Nichts’ in Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption, Norbert M. Samuelson The Challenges of the Modern Sciences for Jewish Faith, Norbert M. Samuelson Interview with Norbert M. Samuelson, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNorbert M. Samuelson is Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Trained as an analytic philosopher, he went on to establish the Academy of Jewish Philosophy in 1980, which contributed greatly to the professionalization of Jewish philosophy in America. An ordained Reform rabbi, a constructive theologian, and a public intellectual, Samuelson has insisted that philosophy is the very heart of Judaism and that in order to survive in the 21st century Judaism must rethink itself in light of contemporary science. Through his scholarship and organizational work he has brought a Jewish voice to the dialogue of religion and science. Viewing Jewish philosophy as central to the understanding of the Jewish past, Samuelson has explicated the philosophical dimension of Judaism, from the Bible to the present.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Editors’ Introduction to Series Norbert M. Samuelson : An Intellectual Portrait, Jules Simon A Critique of Rosenzweig’s Doctrine: Is It Jewish and Is It Believable?, Norbert M. Samuelson The God of the Theologians, Norbert M. Samuelson The Concept of ‘Nichts’ in Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption, Norbert M. Samuelson The Challenges of the Modern Sciences for Jewish Faith, Norbert M. Samuelson Interview with Norbert M. Samuelson, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisConverso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late Medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies publications will examine the implications of these mass conversions for the converts themselves, for their heirs (also referred to as Conversos and Moriscos) and for Medieval and Modern Spanish culture. As the essays in this collection attest, the study of the Converso and Morisco phenomena is not only important for those scholars focused on Spanish society and culture, but for academics everywhere interested in the issues of identity, Otherness, nationalism, religious intolerance and the challenges of modernity. Contributors include Mercedes Alcalá-Galan, Ruth Fine, Kevin Ingram, Yosef Kaplan, Sara T. Nalle, Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Ashar Salah, Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, Claude Stuczynski, and Gerard Wiegers.Trade Review“This impeccably edited volume contains tables, images, and an index, and is to be commended for managing to cover the entire temporal and geographical scope of its topic. It is recommended for anybody interested in the history of Moriscos and Conversos, especially since this is a neglected but rich field in need of further research.” Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2 (summer 2018), pp. 533-535.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Introduction Introduction to this Volume Kevin Ingram Chapter One A Forgotten Campaign against the Conversos of Sigüenza: Pedro Cortés and the Inquisition of Cuenca Sara T Nalle Chapter Two Iberians before the Venetian Inquisition Gretchen Starr-Le Beau Chapter Three The Psalms of David by Daniel Israel López Laguna, a Wandering Jew Ruth Fine Chapter Four Anti-Rabbinic Texts and Converso Identities: Ferna͂o Ximenes de Araga͂os Catholic Doctrine Claude B Stuczynski Chapter Five Injurious Lexicons: Inquisitorial Testimonies regarding New Christians in Macacu, Manila and Nagasaki in the Late Sixteenth Century Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço Chapter Six Converso Complicities in an Atlantic Monarchy: Political and Social Conflicts behind Inquisitorial Persecution Ignacio Pulido Serrano Chapter Seven Philip II as the New Solomon: The Covert Promotion of Religious Toleration and Synergism in Post-Tridentine Spain Kevin Ingram Chapter Eight The Granada Lead Books Translator Miguel de Luna as a Model for both the Toledan Morisco Translator and the Arab Historian Cidi Hamete Benengeli in Cervantes’ Don Quijote Gerard Wiegers Chapter Nine An Attempted Morisco Settlement in Early Seventeenth Century Tuscany Asher Salah Chapter Ten From Mooresses to Odalisques: Representations of the Mooress in the Discourse of the Expulsion Apologists Mercedes Alcalá-Galan Chapter Eleven This Thing Will Preserve their Nation Forever: Circumcision and Conversion in the EarlyModern Western Sephardic Communities Yosef Kaplan Index

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Book SynopsisYeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994) was an Israeli philosopher and scientist. For decades, his thinking and persona were the embodiment of a Judaism that was vital, rebuking, involved, and committed to all the Jews of Israel. As seen in this book, Leibowitz’s far-reaching public statements are not a certain aspect of this thinking, but its very essence. They are the essence of this thinking even when he is seemingly involved with other, distant issues, such as his exegesis of Maimonides and his writings on popular science. These broad vistas are an invitation to those interested in Israel to meet an Israeli thinker who greatly impressed several generations of listeners, and to become acquainted with part of Israel’s intellectual life.

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Book SynopsisTwenty-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 contribution to the study of earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting. Chilton’s scholarship has established innovative approaches to reconstructing the life of Jesus, a Jew whose religious ideology developed and therefore must be understood within the Judaism of the first centuries. Following upon Chilton’s approaches and insights, the essays collected here illustrate the centrality of the literatures of early Judaism to the critical exegesis of the New Testament and other writings of early Christianity.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Preface Introduction Part 1: Methodology A Phenomenological Approach to Values and Valuing: A Research Strategy, M. Kathryn Armistead Justification: An Essay on Approach and Method in Biblical Studies, Baruch A. Levine Critical Issues in the Formation of the Hebrew Bible, Lee Martin McDonald Part 2: Earliest Christianity in Its Judaic Setting Gamaliel and Paul, Richard Bauckham What Shall We Remember, The Deeds or the Faith of Our Ancestors? A Comparison of 1 Maccabees 2 and Hebrews 11, Christian M.M. Brady Reading Paul in Relation to Judaism: Comparison or Contrast?, William S. Campbell The Targums and the Apostle Paul, Delio DelRio Few and Far Between: The Life of a Creed, Scot McKnight Patterns of Prophecy, Jacob Neusner What James Was, His More Famous Brother Was Also, John Painter Part 3: Gospel Studies The Compassionate Father of Two Difficult Sons (Luke 15:11-32) and Judaic Interpretation of the Ark and 2 Samuel 6, Roger David Aus Parables of Jesus: Told and Enacted, Frederick Houk Borsch Passover and the Date of the Crucifixion, Philip R. Davies An Aramaic Parable in a Greek Gospel: The Quest for the Original Meaning of the Vineyard Parable, Craig A. Evans The Gospel of Mark in Syriac Christianity, Daniel M. Gurtner The Legacy of B.F. Westcott and Oral Gospel Tradition, Stanley E. Porter Misunderstood New Testament Texts: Mark 2:23 and Galatians 2:1, John Townsend Part 4: History and Meaning in the Later Church Origen: Exegesis, Contemplative Prayer, and the Limits of Language, Robert M. Berchman Exploring the Origins of the descensus ad inferos, J.H. Charlesworth The Chalcedonian Formula and Twentieth Century Ecumenism, Paul B. Clayton, Jr. The Gospel of Participation, Klyne Snodgrass One Supper, Many Suppers: The Eucharist in the Earliest Christian Communities, Armand Puig Tarrech Major Publications of Bruce Chilton Index of Biblical and Post-Biblical References Index of Topics

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Book SynopsisJewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah, which sets a new tone for future studies, consists of a selection of transcribed and translated Genizah fragments that contain some of the earliest known texts of rabbinic prayers. Reif describes in detail the physical makeup of each manuscript and assesses the manner in which the scribe has tackled the matter of recording a preferred version. He then places the prayer texts included in the manuscript within the context of Jewish liturgical history, explaining the degree to which they were innovative and whether they established precedents to be followed in later prayer-books. He offers specialists and more general readers a fresh understanding of the historical, theological, linguistic, and social factors that may have motivated adjustments to their liturgical formulations.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. T-S G1.78: Naṭronai’s Hundred Blessings 2. T-S NS 123.12: Preliminary Readings and Prayers 3. T-S H18.4: Poetic ‘Amida 4. Or.1080 3.2: ‘Amida with Strong Emotions 5. Add.3160.2: Evening Prayer and Bibliographical Crux 6. T-S NS 123.92: Weekday and Shabbat Eves Compared 7. T-S 8H16.23: Differences on Friday Evenings 8. T-S NS 299.150: Polemical Reading against Karaites 9. Add.3159.4: Shabbat Beginnings and Endings 10. T-S 6H6.6: folio 4: Qaddish in Strange Form 11. T-S NS 235.171: Musaf for Rosh Ḥodesh 12. Add.3160.9: Rosh Ḥodesh to Rosh Ha-Shana 13. T-S 10H3.4 and T-S NS 235.157a & 157b: Prayers for Rosh Ḥodesh and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana 14. T-S 8H23.2: Prayers for Rosh Ha-Shana 15. T-S H8.79: Verses and Musaf for Rosh Ha-Shana 16. T-S NS 155.1: Ways to Start Yom Kippur 17. T-S 10H4.1: Shemini ‘Aṣeret’s Own Rite 18. T-S H2.124: Special Qiddush for Pesaḥ 19. T-S H2.152: Ma Nishtana in Five 20. Add.3159.13: Haggada before Meal 21. T-S 8H24.3: Prayers for Pesaḥ 22. T-S NS 89.36: Additions for Ḥanukka 23. T-S NS 196.66: Hafṭara Blessings 24. Or.1080 15.4 & T-S AS 110.359: Unusual Grace 25. T-S NS 123.31: Instructions in Aramaic List of Works Cited and Abbreviations Indexes Sources Names Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn 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 used a variety of historical materials including literary sources (Jewish, Christian, Greek and Latin) and archaeological sources (inscriptions, coins, military diplomas, hideouts, and refuge complexes). The book reviews the causes for the outbreak while explaining the complexity of the territorial expansion of the Revolt. Mor portrays the participants and opponents as well as the attitudes of the non-Jewish population in Palestine. He exposes the Roman Army’s part in Judaea, the Jewish leadership and the implications of the Revolt.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter I: The Causes for the Outbreak of the Bar Kokhba Revolt Chapter II: The Territorial Expansion of the Revolt: Participants and Opponents Chapter III. The Roman Army in Judaea during the Revolt Chapter IV: Attitude of the Non-Jewish Population in Palestine to the Second Revolt Chapter V: Leadership of the Revolt Chapter VI: The Results of the Revolt: Epilogue Abbreviations General Selected Bibliography Appendix: Bibliography to the Bar Kokhba Revolt (1990–2015) Index

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Book SynopsisJ. Cornelis de Vos examines the impact and reception of the Decalogue up to 200 CE, scrutinizing the versions of the Decalogue, and the history of the Decalogue in ancient Jewish writings, the New Testament, and early Christian writings. Almost all texts show an interconnection of identity and normativity: the Decalogue functions as an expression of fundamental moral concepts of socio-religious groups. At the same time, these groups enhance the Decalogue with normativity—sometimes even expanding on it—to make it a text that generates their own identity. This is the first study that presents an in-depth and continuous analysis of the early history of the Decalogue. Der Wirkung und Rezeption des Dekalogs bis 200 n.Chr. widmet sich J. Cornelis de Vos in dieser Studie. Dafür erforscht er zunächst die alten Textzeugen der beiden Dekalogfassungen, um anschließend zu fragen, wie die Zehn Gebote bei antik-jüdischen Autoren, im Neuen Testament sowie in frühchristlichen Schriften aufgenommen wurden. Es zeigt sich eine Verbindung von Normativität und Identität: Der Dekalog gilt zumeist als Ausdruck der moralischen Grundauffassungen sozioreligiöser Gruppen; er wird gleichzeitig von diesen Gruppen mit Normativität aufgeladen – manchmal sogar erweitert – gerade um als Identität stiftend für die eigene Gruppe zu gelten. Dies ist die erste Studie, die eine detaillierte und durchgehende Geschichte des Dekalogs in der Antike beschreibt.Trade ReviewIm Ergebnis liegt, das sei vorab gesagt, ein Werk vor, das ohne Einschränkung als die wichtigste und in gewisser Weise abschließende Untersuchung zum Thema in der gegenwärtigen bibelwissenschaftlichen Forschung angesehen werden kann (...) Dem Vf. ist mit größter Hochachtung Dank zu sagen für ein Buch, das künftig zu den Standardwerken biblischer Exegese gehören dürfte. Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Theologische LiteraturzeitungTable of ContentsInhalt 1 Einleitung 2 Der Dekalog in den frühen Textzeugen 3 Der Dekalog bei Philo, Josephus und Pseudo-Philo 4 Der Dekalog in sonstigen frühjüdischen Schriften 5 Der Dekalog im Neuen Testament 6 Der Dekalog in den frühchristlichen Schriften 7 Fazit Anhänge 1 Synopse der Dekalogfassungen: Hebräisch-Deutsch 2 Zählungen des Dekalogs 3 Vergleich zwischen der Septuaginta und dem Masoretischen Text 4 Vergleich zwischen der Qumranbezeugung und dem Masoretischen Text 5 Vergleich zwischen der Vetus Latina, der Septuaginta und dem Masoretischen Text 6 Vergleich zwischen der Peschiṭta und dem Masoretischen Text 7 Textkritische Übersicht über die Dekalogfassungen, Zeugen und Varianten 8 Übersicht über die Dekalogrezeption in den sonstigen frühjüdischen Schriften 9 Übersicht über die Dekalogrezeption im Neuen Testament 10 Übersicht über die Dekalogrezeption in den frühchristlichen Schriften Literatur Register antiker Quellen Register moderner Autoren

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Book SynopsisIn Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception, the editors present a collection of essays that reveal both the many similarities and the poignant differences between ancient myths in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and modern secular culture and how these stories were incorporated and adapted over time. This rich multidisciplinary research demonstrates not only how stories in different religions and cultures are interesting in their own right, but also that the process of transformation in particular deserves scholarly interest. It is through the changes in the stories that the particular identity of each religion comes to the fore most strikingly.

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Book SynopsisDespite its centrality in mainstream linguistics, cognitive semantics has only recently begun to establish a foothold in biblical studies, largely due to the challenges inherent in applying such a methodology to ancient languages. The Semantics of Glory addresses these challenges by offering a new, practical model for a cognitive semantic approach to Classical Hebrew, demonstrated through an exploration of the Hebrew semantic domain of glory. The concept of ‘glory’ is one of the most significant themes in the Hebrew Bible, lying at the heart of God’s self-disclosure in biblical revelation. This study provides the most comprehensive examination of the domain to date, mapping out its intricacies and providing a framework for its exegesis.Trade Review"I think Burton makes a contribution towards the better understanding of the concept glory in Classical Hebrew. She also provides some parameters to consider when trying to describe a semantic domain of the ancient language." ~ Dr Christo H J van der Merwe, Stellenbosch University, in Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages (JNSL), Vol. 44/1 (2018) "Burton has written an important linguistic study which I can heartily recommend to Hebrew scholars." -Pieter de Vries, Reformed Theological Seminary (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

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Book SynopsisThe New Ethnic Studies in Latin America aims at going beyond and against much of Jewish Latin American historiography, situating Jewish-Latin Americans in the larger multi-ethnic context of their countries. Senior and junior scholars from various countries joined together to challenge commonly held assumptions, accepted ideas, and stable categories about ethnicity in Latin America in general and Jewish experiences on this continent in particular. This volume brings to the discussions on Jewish life in Latin America less heard voices of women, non-affiliated Jews, and intellectuals. Community institutions are not at center stage, conflicts and tensions are brought to the fore, and a multitude of voices pushes aside images of homogeneity. Authors in this tome look at Jews’ multiple homelands: their country of birth, their country of residence, and their imagined homeland of Zion. "This volume brings together an important series of chapters that pushes ethnic studies to greater complexity; therefore, this work is critical in laying the foundation for what Jeffrey Lesser has called the new architecture of ethnic studies in Latin America." - Joel Horowitz, St. Bonaventure University, in: E.I.A.L. 28.2 (2017) "Overall, this collection serves as a stimulating invitation to scholars of Latin American ethnic studies. It offers multiple models of scholarship that go beyond and against traditional narratives of Jewish Latin America." -Lily Pearl Balloffet, University of California Santa Cruz, in: J.Lat Amer. Stud. 50 (2018) "These essays manage to bring to the fore stories of Jews whose journeys have been sidelined until now. Their stories demonstrate that identities are always a work in progress, a continuous dance between ancestry, history, and culture." - Ariana Huberman, Haverford College, in: American Jewish History 103.2 (2019)Trade Review"This volume brings together an important series of chapters that pushes ethnic studies to greater complexity; therefore, this work is critical in laying the foundation for what Jeffrey Lesser has called the new architecture of ethnic studies in Latin America." - Joel Horowitz, St. Bonaventure University, in: E.I.A.L. 28:2 (2017) "Overall, this collection serves as a stimulating invitation to scholars of Latin American ethnic studies. It offers multiple models of scholarship that go beyond and against traditional narratives of Jewish Latin America." - Lily Pearl Balloffet, University of California Santa Cruz, in: J.Lat Amer. Stud. 50 (2018) "These essays manage to bring to the fore stories of Jews whose journeys have been sidelined until now. Their stories demonstrate that identities are always a work in progress, a continuous dance between ancestry, history, and culture." - Ariana Huberman, Haverford College, in: American Jewish History 103:2 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction, Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman Remaking Ethnic Studies in the Age of Identities, Jeffery Lesser Factory, Workshop, and Homework: A Spatial Dimension of Labor Flexibility among Jewish Migrants in the Early Stages of Industrialization in Buenos Aires, Nadia Zysman Becoming Polacos: Landsmanshaftn and the Making of a Polish-Jewish Sub-ethnicity in Argentina, Mariusz Kałczewiak Ethnicity and Federalism in Latin America: Rethinking the National Experience of Jews and Middle Eastern Descendants in Argentina, Mauricio Dimant "For an Arab There Can Be Nothing Better Than Another Arab”: Nation, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Peronist Argentina, Ariel Noyjovich and Raanan Rein Otherness in Convergence: Arabs, Jews, and the Formation of the Chilean Middle Sectors, 1930-1960, Claudia Stern The Untold History: Voices of Non-affiliated Jews in Chile, 1940-1990, Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt The Other as a Mirror: Representation of Jews and Palestinians on Argentinian and Chilean Television Screens, Gabriela Jonas Aharoni In the Land of Vitzliputzli: German-Speaking Jews in Latin America, Liliana Ruth Feierstein Epilogue: The Centesimal Nisman, David M.K. Sheinin Index

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Book SynopsisThe collection of Aramaic magic bowls and related objects in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin is one of the most important in the world. This book presents a description of each object and its contents, including details of users and other names, biblical quotations, parallel texts, and linguistic features. Combined with the detailed indices, the present volume makes the Berlin collection accessible for further research. Furthermore, sixteen texts, which are representative of the whole collection, are edited. This book results from an impressive collaboration between Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, Dan Levene, and Ortal-Paz Saar, with further contributions by Matthew Morgenstern, Marco Moriggi, and Naama Vilozny, and will be of interest for all those engaged in the study of these fascinating objects. "The presentation, transcriptions, translations, and commentaries are excellent examples of the finest scholarship from some of the leading scholars in the study of ancient Aramaic and its dialects.... The manuscript and the bowls it introduces should be eagerly received and examined by graduate students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible, esoteric traditions of later antiquity (like the seals of Solomon, demonology, etc.), and the historical development of Aramaic." - Peter T. Lanfer, Occidental College, in: Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2019)Trade Review"The presentation, transcriptions, translations, and commentaries are excellent examples of the finest scholarship from some of the leading scholars in the study of ancient Aramaic and its dialects [...]. The manuscript and the bowls it introduces should be eagerly received and examined by graduate students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible, esoteric traditions of later antiquity (like the seals of Solomon, demonology, etc.), and the historical development of Aramaic." - Peter T. Lanfer, Occidental College, in: Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2019)Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Sigla List of Contributors Introduction Text Editions I VA.2182 II VA.3854 III VA.2418 IV VA.2428 V VA.Bab.2829 + VA.unnumberedD VI VA.2269 VII VA.2510 VIII VA.2419 IX VA.2445 + VA.unnumberedC X VA.2439 + VA.unnumberedA (rim) + VA.unnumberedB (side) XI VA.2435 XII VA.3383 XIII VA.Bab.2765 XIV VA.Bab.4167i XV VA.Bab.2792 XVI VA.Bab.2764 and VA.Bab.2840 Catalogue Joined Fragments (with Different Shelf Marks) Glossary Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Mandaic Syriac List of Terms Discussed List of Divine Names, Angels, Demons, and Exemplary Figures List of Beneficiaries and Adversaries List of Biblical Quotations List of Texts Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma Olav G. Ørum translates and analyzes three parallel 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Egypt. These manuscripts present a story (whose earliest version is attributed to Kaᶜb al-ᵓAḥbār) about Jesus reviving the skull of a deceased king. The skull narrates his encounter with the Angel of Death, a painful purgatory and descension to hell. The manuscripts reveal a wide spectrum of interesting written and spoken Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic variety features in which Ørum pays special attention to signs of linguistic divergence from the standardized written (fuṣḥā) and spoken (ᶜāmmiyya) variety. The unique sociolinguistic situation of the Jewish Egyptian community makes this book an important contribution to those working on Judaeo-Arabic in general, but also for students or scholars interested in Egyptian Arabic historical dialectology and sociolinguistics.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Technical Notes and Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 Judaeo-Arabic Texts: The Presence of a Wide Spectrum of Written and Spoken Varieties  1.2 Middle Arabic  1.3 Standard Arabic and the Nahḍa  1.4 Egyptian Arabic, Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Non-Standard Cairene 2 The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition  2.1 The Jewish Community in Cairo During the 19th Century  2.2 On the Story ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma 3 Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma ‘The Story of the Skull’  3.1 Introduction to the Three Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts  3.2 Reading Guidelines  3.3 ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma ‘The Story of the Skull’ 4 Linguistic Analysis  4.1 Orthography and Phonology  4.2 Morphology  4.3 Syntax  4.4 Lexical Features 5 Summary and Concluding Remarks  5.1 Orthography and Phonology  5.2 Morphology  5.3 Syntax  5.4 Lexical Features Appendix 1: Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel Versions Appendix 2: Facsimile of ‘Ramle—Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25’ (GAM) References Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino) , and Jewish varieties of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Berber, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Iranian, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Malayalam, Occitan (Provençal), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Syriac, Turkic (Karaim and Krymchak), Turkish, and more. Chapters include historical and linguistic descriptions of each language, an overview of primary and secondary literature, and comprehensive bibliographies to aid further research. Many chapters also contain sample texts and images. This book is an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Jewish languages, and will also be very useful for historical linguists, dialectologists, and scholars and students of minority or endangered languages. This paperback edition has been updated to include dozens of additional bibliographic references.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner of the Frank Moore Cross Award for Best Book in Biblical Studies from ASOR Winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society 2017 Publication Award for Best Book Relating to the Hebrew Bible Eugene Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible the comprehensive and synthesized picture he has gained as editor of many biblical scrolls. His earlier volume, The Biblical Qumran Scrolls, presented the evidence — the transcriptions and textual variants of all the biblical scrolls — and this volume explores the implications and significance of that evidence. The Bible has not changed, but modern knowledge of it certainly has changed. The ancient Scrolls have opened a window and shed light on a period in the history of the text’s formation that had languished in darkness for two thousand years. They offer a parade of surprises that greatly enhance knowledge of how the scriptural texts developed through history.

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses crucial aspects of the period between the two revolts against Rome in Judaea that saw the rise of rabbinic Judaism and of the separation between Judaism and Christianity. Most contributors no longer support the ‘maximalist’ claim that around 100 CE, a powerful rabbinic regime was already in place. Rather, the evidence points to the appearance of the rabbinic movement as a group with a regional power base and with limited influence. The period is best seen as one of transition from the multiform Judaism revolving around the Second Temple in Jerusalem to a Judaism that was organized around synagogue, Tora, and sages and that parted ways with Christianity.

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Book SynopsisIn Pesher and Hypomnema Pieter B. Hartog compares ancient Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Bible with papyrus commentaries on the Iliad. Hartog shows that members of the movement which produced and preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls adopted classical commentary writing and adapted it to their own needs. The connection between the Qumran Pesharim and Hypomnemata on the Iliad resulted from exchanges of scholarly knowledge across Hellenistic-Roman Egypt and Palestine. Analysing the effects of these knowledge exchanges, Pesher and Hypomnema demonstrates that members of the Qumran movement were thoroughly embedded within their Hellenistic and Roman environment.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 Pesher in Context  2 A Glocal Perspective  3 Definitions  4 Outline of This Book 2 The Hypomnemata and the Pesharim as Expressions of Intellectual Culture  1 Scribes and Scholars  2 The Hypomnemata and Intellectual Life in Hellenistic-Roman Egypt  3 The Pesharim and Intellectual Life in Hellenistic-Roman Palestine  4 Commentaries as Scholarly Literature  5 Conclusion 3 Textual Scholarship and the Physicality of the Hypomnemata  1 “Ammonius, son of Ammonius”  2 Dimensions  3 Corrections and Abbreviations  4 Signs  5 Sense Dividers  6 Conclusion 4 Textual Scholarship and the Physicality of the Pesharim  1 Dimensions  2 Writing Divine Names  3 Corrections and Additions  4 Signs  5 Sense Dividers  6 Conclusion 5 A Bi-Fold Structure  1 The Rhetoric of Commentary  2 Structural Variety  3 Conclusion 6 Structure and Scholarship in the Hypomnemata  1 Lemmata: Selection and Presentation  2 Interpretation Sections: Contents and Structure  3 The Hypomnemata as Literary Unities  4 Conclusion 7 Structure and Interpretation in the Pesharim  1 Lemmata: Selection and Presentation  2 Interpretation Sections: Contents and Structure  3 Blurred Boundaries  4 The Pesharim as Literary Unities  5 Conclusion 8 Describing Hermeneutics  1 A Quest for Categories  2 The Categories of This Study  3 “Etymology” 9 A Hermeneutical Profile of the Hypomnemata  1 Perspectivisation  2 Normativity  3 Analogy  4 Structure  5 Single Words  6 Conclusion 10 A Hermeneutical Profile of the Pesharim  1 Perspectivisation  2 Application  3 Application and Normativity  4 Analogy  5 Structure  6 Single Words  7 Conclusion Conclusion. Pesher and Hypomnema Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe eighteen studies in this volume in honor of Moshe Bernstein on the occasion of his 70th birthday mostly engage with Jewish scriptural interpretation, the principal theme of Bernstein’s own research career as expressed in his collected essays, Reading and Re-Reading Scripture at Qumran (Brill, 2013). The essays develop a variety of aspects of scriptural interpretation. Although many of them are chiefly concerned with the Dead Sea Scrolls, the significant contribution of the volume as a whole is the way that even those studies are associated with others that consider the broader context of Jewish scriptural interpretation in late antiquity. As a result, a wider frame of reference for scriptural interpretation impinges upon how scripture was read and re-read in the scrolls from Qumran.Trade ReviewOverall this is a densely packed and informative volume that displays a consistently high level of research throughout …. A Festschrift of superb quality, in which the resounding praise for Moshe Bernstein’s expertise is echoed throughout. In addition to engaging with Bernstein’s intellectual ideas, the essays forge new ground in the textual development of biblical exegesis that will reap substantial benefits for scholars of early and later rabbinic Judaism. Sandra Jacobs, Review of Biblical Literature, 2019 This volume illustrates once again the significance of the Scrolls, not only for understanding Jewish exegesis in Second Temple Judaism, but also for the trajectories of interpretation which flow from this era. Dwight D. Swanson, SOTS Book List, 2019Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Bibliography of the Writings of Moshe J. Bernstein Compiled by Binyamin Goldstein List of Contributors Introduction Binyamin Goldstein, Michael Segal, and George J. Brooke Writing a Descriptive Grammar of 4Q252: The Noun Phrase Martin G. Abegg, Jr. A Newly Discovered Interpretation of Isaiah 40:12–13 in the Songs of the Sage Joseph L. Angel Missing and Misplaced? Omission and Transposition in the Book of Jubilees Abraham J. Berkovitz Hot at Qumran, Cold in Jerusalem: A Reconsideration of Some Late Second Temple Period Attitudes to the Scriptures and their Interpretation George J. Brooke The Interpretation on Ezekiel in the Hodayot Devorah Dimant The Quantification of Religious Obligation in Second Temple Judaism—And Beyond Yaakov Elman and Mahnaz Moazami Temple Scroll as Rewritten Bible: When Genres Bend Steven Fraade Hellenism and Hermeneutics: Did the Qumranites and Sadducees Use Qal Va-ḥomer Arguments? Richard Hidary The Puzzle of Torah and the Qumran Wisdom Texts John I. Kampen An Interpretative Reading in the Isaiah Scroll of Rabbi Meir Armin Lange “Wisdom Motifs” in the Compositional Strategy of the Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20) and Other Aramaic Texts from Qumran Daniel Machiela On the Paucity of Biblical Exemplars in Sectarian Texts Tzvi Novick The Mikhbar in the Temple Scroll Lawrence H. Schiffman Harmonization and Rewriting of Daniel 6 from the Bible to Qumran Michael Segal The Textual Base of the Biblical Quotations in Second Temple Compositions Emanuel Tov From Genesis to Exodus in the Book of Jubilees James VanderKam Deuteronomy in the Temple Scroll and its Use in the Textual Criticism of Deuteronomy Sidnie White Crawford Exegesis, Ideology, and Literary History in the Temple Scroll: The Case of the Temple Plan Molly Zahn The Neglected Oaths Passage (CD IX:8–12): The Elusive, Allusive Meaning Shlomo Zuckier Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisThe present study is the first of its kind to deal with Eastern European Karaite historical thought. It focuses on the social functions of Karaite historical narratives concerning the rise of Karaism from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The book also deals with the image of Karaism created by Protestants, and with the perception of Karaism by some leaders of the Haskalah movement, especially the scholars of Hokhmat Israel. In both cases, Karaism was seen as an orientalistic phenomenon whereby the “enlightened” European scholars romanticized the “indigenous” people, while the Karaites (themselves), adopted this romantic images, incorporating it into their own national discourse. Finally, the book sheds new light on several conventional notions that shaped the study of Karaism from the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements11 List of Abbreviations Abstract General Introduction  1 Research Methods and Their Ramifications  2 Reconstructing Historical Thought  3 Types of Sources  4 Pseudo-Scholarship, Forged Documents, and Their Significance for the Research Introduction to Terminology  1 Historical Consciousness and Traditional Writing  2 History versus Historical Narrative  3 Identity  4 Sect  5 Authors’ Identity: Elites versus Everyman 1 The Study of Karaism and Its Paradoxes  1.1 The Research of Ḥokhmat Yisrael and Protestant Scholarship  1.2 The Ideology of Ḥokhmat Yisrael Scholars and the Study of Karaism  1.3 The Karaite Paradigm: Authentic or Imagined Karaism? 2 History or Historical Narratives? Formative Traditions in Karaite Literature and Their Social Function  2.1 Karaite Historical Narratives as Reflections on the Schism  2.2 The Karaite “Chain of Tradition” and the Schism in Rabbanite Sources  2.3 Historicization of Rabbanite Sources—Karaite Historical Writing in the Early Modern Period 3 Karaite Intellectual Life in the Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Poland-Lithuania  3.1 Early Karaite Settlement in Eastern Europe: Historical Background  3.2 Halakhah, Polemics, and Libraries as Influences on Karaite Identity in Fifteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania  3.3 The Polemics of Yitzhak ben Avraham of Troki, His Cultural Milieu, and the Question of Karaite Identity  3.4 The Intellectual Profile and Identity of the Seventeenth-Century Karaite Scholar 4 The Interaction between the Karaites and the Protestant Hebraists in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 5 The Karaite “Chain of Tradition” in Eastern Europe and the Resurgence of Schism Literature  5.1 The Historiographical Writing of Mordecai ben Nisan  5.2 Solomon ben Aaron and His View of History  5.3 Simḥah Isaac Lutski: The Schism and the History of Kabbalistic Tradition 6 Karaite Chronography in the Crimea and Eastern Europe  6.1 Cultural and Historical Features of the Crimean Karaite Communities  6.2 The Chronographic Texts and the Method of Their Analysis  6.3 Features of Chronographic Writing in Poland-Lithuania 7 Karaites and Their Neighbors in the Nineteenth Century: The Attempt to Construct a Karaite History  7.1 The Polish-Lithuanian National Narratives and Karaite Historical Writing  7.2 “Modern-Traditional” Historical Writing 8 The Haskalah, Hokhmat Israel, and the Evolution of Karaite Identity in the Russian Empire  8.1 The Advent of Modernity  8.2 The Historical Theories of Abraham Firkovich  8.3 Historical Writing in Russian Society and Firkovich’s Ideas Conclusion Appendix A: Sources in the Polemical Writings of Isaac ben Abraham of Troki Appendix B: List of Books from the Register (Pinqās) of the Karasubazar Rabbanite Community (1717–33) Appendix C: List of Disciples and Books Studied in the Chufut-Kaleh Study Hall, 1751–53 Appendix D: Fragment of a Chronicle by Abraham Leonowicz Appendix E: Abraham Firkovich, Remarks on the Sadducees and on the Origins of the Karaites of Eastern Europe Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisSources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism: Studies for Tal Ilan at Sixty, a collection of studies by 14 scholars, is designed to honor an outstanding scholar in the field of Ancient Judaism, Tal Ilan. These studies reflect realms within the broad field of Ancient Judaism that are central to Ilan’s scholarship: Second Temple literary sources and history, Gender, Jewish papyrology and rabbinic literature. The studies within this volume are of an interdisciplinary nature, offering new readings and interpretations of known sources such as Josephus and rabbinic texts, but also introducing the reader to an entirely new body of sources, namely Jewish papyri. The volume therefore aims to introduce specialists and non-specialists to new fields of research.Trade Review... Diese Auswahl von Artikeln aus der Festschrift hat exemplarischen Charakter, weitere interessante Publikationen lassen sich anfügen. So spiegelt der Band sowohl das breite Spektrum der Forschungsarbeiten Tal Ilans als auch ihre Kreativität. - in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 2019Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria Introduction Part 1 Second Temple Literature and History 1 Chasing Away Lions and Weaving: The longue durée of Talmudic Gender Icons  Yosef Garfinkel 2 Malthace, Archelaus, and Herod Antipas: Between Genealogy and Typology  Daniel R. Schwartz 3 A New Perspective on Two Jewish Queens in the Second Temple Period: Alexandra of Judaea and Helena of Adiabene  Etka Liebowitz 4 Was Hillel a Pharisee?  Cana Werman Part 2 The Jews and the Papyri 5 Ezechiel 33,21–39,29: Anmerkungen zum Profil der Sinneinheit in der nicht-masoretischen Textfassung (Papyrus 967) und zu Veränderungen durch proto-masoretische Redaktoren  Karin Finsterbusch 6 The Third Century BCE: New Light on Egyptian Jewish History from the Papyri  Noah Hacham 7 ‘Literary Jews:’ The Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus in Light of Non-documentary Texts on Papyrus  Meron M. Piotrkowski 8 Shabtai in Egypt: Cultural Interaction between Jews and Egyptians under the Ptolemies  Zsuzsanna Szántó Part 3 Rabbinic Literature 9 Babylonia of Pure Lineage: Notes on Babylonian Jewish Toponymy  Geoffrey Herman 10 A Spindle for Caesar’s Daughter  Reuven Kiperwasser 11 Rabbinic Forensics: Distinguishing Egg White from Semen in b. Giṭṭin 57a  Judith Baskin 12 Rabbinic Images of Second Temple Diasporas and Their Links with Judaea: History of Fantasy?  Isaiah Gafni 13 Are Parables an Interpretation?  Ronit Nikolsky 14 When a Man Sells His Daughter as an ‮אמה‬‎: The ‮אמה העבריה‬‎ as m. Qiddushin’s Role Model for Becoming a Wife  Judith von Bresinsky 15 Classroom Encounters: An Appreciation  Christiane H. Tzuberi List of Publications of Prof. Tal Ilan Indices

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Book SynopsisThe Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. The contributions in this volume detail those transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities.

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Book SynopsisInterchange between anthropology and biblical scholarship began because of perceived similarities between “simpler” societies and practices appearing in the Hebrew Bible. After some disengagement when anthropologists turned mainly to ethnographic fieldwork, new cross-disciplinary possibilities opened up when structuralism emerged in anthropology. Ritual and mythology were major topics receiving attention, and some biblical scholars partially adopted structuralist methods. In addition, anthropological research extended to complex societies and also had an impact upon historical studies. Modes of interpretation developed that reflected holistic perspectives along with a sensibility to ethnographic detail. This essay illustrates these trends in regard to rituals and to notions of purity in the Hebrew Bible, as well as to the place of literacy in Israelite society and culture. After discussing these themes, three examples of structuralist-inspired analysis are presented which in different ways take into account historical and literacy-based facets of the Bible.

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Book SynopsisMartin Buber: His Intellectual and Scholarly Legacy is a collection of contemporary reflections on one of the most pivotal figures of modern Jewish thought. Born in Austria and reared in Galicia, Buber (1878-1965) became a spiritual representative of Judaism in German culture before emigrating to Jerusalem on the brink of the Shoah. His prolific writings on matters spanning the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to Hasidism and Zionism inspired diverse audiences throughout the world. In this volume, Sam Berrin Shonkoff has curated an illuminating array of essays on Buber’s thought by leading intellectuals from five different countries. Their treatments of Buber’s dialogues with Christianity, politics, philosophy, and Judaism exhibit Buber’s ramified legacy and will surely stimulate fruitful discussion in our own time.Table of ContentsPreface  Sam Berrin Shonkoff part 1 
Dialogues with Christianity 1 Theolatry and the Making-Present of the Nonrepresentable: Undoing (A)Theism in Eckhart and Buber  Elliot R. Wolfson 2 Defining Christianity and Judaism from the Perspective of Religious Anarchy: Martin Buber on Jesus and the Ba‘al Shem Tov  Shaul Magid 3 “Companionable Being”: American Theologians Engage Martin Buber  W. Clark Gilpin 4 Beyond the Law and Without the Cross: Martin Buber and Saint Paul as an Apostolic Competition between “Two Types of Faith”  Christoph Schmidt part 2 
Dialogues with the Political 5 The Hard and the Soft: Moments in the Reception of Martin Buber as a Political Thinker  Samuel Hayim Brody 6 Versions of Binationalism in Said and Buber  Judith Butler 7 Martin Buber’s Socialism  Michael Löwy 8 Buber’s Provocation  Paul Mendes-Flohr part 3 
Dialogues with Philosophy and Philosophers 9 From Genius to Taste: Martin Buber’s Aestheticism  Sarah Scott 10 The Paradox of Realization: Buber on the Transcendental Boundary of Spatial Images  Martina Urban 11 Martin Buber and Leo Strauss: Notes on a Strained Relationship  Philip von Wussow 12 Martin Buber and the Problem of Dialogue in Contemporary Thought  Hans Joas part 4 
Dialogues with Jewish Sources 13 Religious Authenticity and Spiritual Resistance: Martin Buber and Biblical Hermeneutics  Michael Fishbane 14 Buber’s Biblical Hermeneutics and Education—Some New Perspectives  Jonathan Cohen 15 The Tragedy of the Messianic Dialectic: Buber’s Novel Gog and Magog  Fumio Ono 16 Sacramental Existence and Embodied Theology in Buber’s Representation of Ḥasidism  Sam Berrin Shonkoff Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 “Outstanding Academic Title” Award, created by Choice Magazine. In Negotiating Space in Latin America, edited by Patricia Vilches, contributors approach spatial practices from multidisciplinary angles. Drawing on cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, geography, history, literary studies, sociology, tourism, and current events, the volume advances innovative conceptualizations on spatiality and treats subjects that range from nineteenth century-nation formation to twenty-first century social movements. Latin America has endured multiple spatial transformations, which contributors analyze from the perspective of the urban, the rural, the market, and the political body. The essays collected here signal how spatial processes constantly shape societal interactions and illuminate the complex relationships between humans and space, emphasizing the role of spatiality in our actions and perceptions. Contributors: Gail A. Bulman, Ana María Burdach Rudloff, James Craine, Angela N. DeLutis-Eichenberger, Carolina Di Próspero, Gustavo Fares, Jennifer Hayward, Silvia Hirsch, Edward Jackiewicz, Magdalena Maiz-Peña, Lucía Melgar, Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Luis H. Peña, Jorge Saavedra Utman, Rosa Tapia, Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero, Tera Trujillo, Patricia Vilches, and Gareth Wood.Trade Review“[…] this collection comprehensively dissects the concept of space from the perspectives of the political body, the marketplace, the urban, and the rural. Provoking thought and inviting discussion, this energetic bricolage of essays is essential reading for students and scholars who engage with the topic of space broadly, and especially for those with a narrower focus on Latin America.” - S.L. Kwosek, South Carolina State University USA, in CHOICE Vol. 57.10 2020Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Part 1 Introduction Dis/locating Space in Latin America  Patricia Vilches  Part 2 Reclaiming Space 1 Occupying Space and Time: Enabling Communicative Ecologies for Democracy  Jorge Saavedra Utman 2 Reclaiming the Streets: Feminicidio and the Space of Women’s Rights in Mexico  Lucía Melgar 3 Urban Renewal and Emerging Spaces for Art and Identity: the Development of Murals in San Martín, Argentina  Silvia Hirsch and Carolina Di Próspero 4 Framed: Barrio Yungay and Chilean Immigrants Take Center Stage in Fulgor  Gail A. Bulman  Part 3 Travels, Spatial Practices and the Market 5 Temporal and Geographical Markers of Civilization in Patricio Guzmán’s El botón de nácar  Gareth Wood 6 The Commodification of History and the Spectacle of Tourism  Silvia Nagy-Zekmi 7 Differentiated Market Spaces of Lifestyle Migration: a View from Belize  Edward Jackiewicz, James Craine and Tera Trujillo 8 Politicization of Space/Spatialization of Politics in Domingo F. Sarmiento’s Argirópolis  Gustavo Fares 9 The Star of Chile: Modernity and National Identity in the Contact Zone  Ana María Burdach Rudloff and Jennifer Hayward 10 Social Space in Fanny Calderón de la Barca’s Life in Mexico  Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero  Part 4 Space and the Body Politic 11 The Body and Incorporeal Signifier of ‘Andrés Bello’, and the 2011 Chilean Student Movement  Angela N. DeLutis-Eichenberger 12 Staging Modernity: Reports on the Murder of Delmira Agustini, Cursed Celebrity  Magdalena Maiz-Peña and Luis H. Peña 13 Affect, Spectacle, and Horror in Pablo Larraín’s Post Mortem (2010)  Rosa Tapia 14 La Moneda in Ruins: the Palace Tomb and Epitaph of Salvador Allende  Patricia Vilches Name and Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThe articles collected in Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem present diverse biographical aspects and the scholarly oeuvre of arguably the most influential Jewish-Israeli intellectual of the 20th century. Immigrating to Palestine in 1923, Gershom Scholem became one of the founders of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was the first to establish Jewish Mysticism as a scholarly discipline. The articles collected here reflect the diversity of Scholem’s intellectual scope including his contribution to Jewish Studies as a scholar of Kabbalah, religion and history, as a bibliophile, and an expert librarian of Judaica. Central aspects of Scholem’s impact on Jewish historiography, literature and art in Israel, Europe and the US, are presented to the reader for the first time.

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Book SynopsisThis essay offers an introduction to select disciplinary developments in the study of history and in historical study of the Hebrew Bible. It focuses first and foremost on “cultural history,” a broad category defined by nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in anthropology and sociology, literary theory and linguistics, and other fields of study. The first part of the essay comments on developments since the so-called “linguistic turn,” highlighting some key works on culture, narrative, and memory, in order to establish a contemporary historical approach to biblical studies. It then turns to questions of the Hebrew Bible’s usefulness for historical study, and highlights studies of King David and the Davidic polity in ancient Israel/Judah, to show how scholars of the Bible have done historical work in recent years. And finally, it provides a case study of the book of Joshua, demonstrating how historians can utilize biblical texts as sources for cultural history.Trade ReviewThe present essay provides an engaging and accessible introduction into an increasingly important conversation. I recommend it without reservation. Stephen D. Campbell, SOTS Book List, 2020Table of ContentsHistory and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory  Ian D. Wilson  Abstract  Keywords  Introduction  Part 1: History and Culture, Narrative, Memory  Part 2: Hebrew Bible and History  Part 3: Joshua, a Historical Take  Conclusion  References

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Book SynopsisDionysius Bar Ṣalībī’s Treatise against the Jews offers rare and illuminating insight into Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations during the Crusader era, not from the perspective of western Crusaders, but from the frequently neglected viewpoint of the oriental orthodox tradition. Bar Ṣalībī, a distinguished hierarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church, lived in a turbulent time of heightened tensions in the Levant. The Treatise against the Jews, which forms part of the corpus of Syriac Polemical Works, investigates the prejudices of Christians and Jews towards each other during the 12 century AD.This edition and translation is based on all the available manuscripts of the text, accompanied by extensive introductions, notes and commentary as well as studies of its place in the field of Syriac Patristic Polemics.

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Book SynopsisIn Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities, Ori Z. Soltes considers both the emerging and evolving discussion on, and the expanding array of practitioners of ‘Jewish art’ in the past two hundred years. He notes the developing problem of how to define ‘Judaism’ in the 19th century—as a religion, a culture, a race, a nation, a people—and thus the complications for placing ‘Jewish art’ under the extended umbrella of ‘religion and the arts.’ The fluidity with which one must engage the subject is reflected in the broadening conceptual and visual vocabulary, the extended range of subject foci and media, and the increasingly rich analytical approaches to the subject that have surfaced particularly in the past fifty years. Well-known and little-known artists are included in a far-ranging discussion of painting, sculpture, photography, video, installations, ceremonial objects, and works that blur the boundaries between categories.

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Book SynopsisHistorical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move “back to the Jewish roots!” For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 Historical Jesus Research: A Reception History The Modern Quest of a Historical Jesus as a Quest for His Reception The Development of Reception History as a Tool Reception History: Global Dimensions Reception History as a Secularization of the Interpretation of Scripture Reception Theory in Relation to the Jewish Quest Creating Space: The Emergence of New Hermeneutical and Methodological Paradigms 2 The Jewish Jesus Quest and the Wissenschaft des Judentums The Pre-Enlightenment Jewish Jesus The Emergence of the Wissenschaft des Judentums The Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Historical Jesus The Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Concept of a Personal Messiah The Legacy of the Wissenschaft des Judentums 3 Reclaimed or Reclaiming? Recent Jewish Approaches to Jesus’s Wirkungsgeschichte Jewish Jesus Research: Where to Draw the Line? My Previous Contribution Géza Vermès: Concluding the Classical Era of Jewish Jesus Research? Diversity in the Reception History of the Jewish Jesus The Jewish Jesus in Literature Recent Jewish Approaches to Jesus The Contribution of Archaeology to Historical Jesus Studies 4 Jewish Quests and Christian Problems The Jewish Quest of the Historical Jesus: In Search for Equality and Acceptance The Historical Jesus: Challenges to Jewish-Christian Dialogue The Myth of the Judeo-Christian West Jesus the Jew: Implications for Future Christian Theology Back to the Roots? The Value of Christian Hellenism Jewish Jesus Research: Paving the Way for Common Ground Conclusion: Implications and Future Perspectives Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred, François Soyer offers the first detailed historical analysis of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Spain, Portugal and their overseas colonies between 1450 and 1750. These conspiracy theories accused Jews and conversos, the descendants of medieval Jewish converts to Christianity, of deadly plots and blamed them for a range of social, religious, military and economic problems. Ultimately, many Iberian antisemitic conspiracy theorists aimed to create a ‘moral panic’ about the converso presence in Iberian society, thereby justifying the legitimacy of ethnic discrimination within the Church and society. Moreover, they were also exploited by some churchmen seeking to impose an idealized sense of communal identity upon the lay faithful.Trade Review“Arguing against Karl Popper, who regarded conspiracy theories as a product of the eighteenth century, [...] Soyer insists convincingly that they started far earlier, in the early modern period.” Alastair Hamilton, Warburg Institute. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 2 (2020), pp. 410–412. “compelling and thoroughly researched […]. The author is to be congratulated on an important, and highly recommended, contribution.” Norman Roth, University of Wisconsin–Madison, emeritus. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 651–653. “I applaud Soyer’s engagement with a sensitive historical subject like popular antisemitism, without opting to hide behind academic relativism or political correctness. […]. [His book is] solid, convincing, and enrichingly honest.” Claude B. Stuczynski, Bar-Ilan University. In: AJS Review: The Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2 (November 2021), pp. 464–468. “a detailed and fascinating book […], valuable not only for historians but also, and maybe even more so, for people interested in how conspiracy theories work, what they do, and how they endanger ethnic and religious groups.” Lucien van Liere, Utrecht University. In: Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context, Vol. 50, No. 3–4 (2021), pp. 327–328.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations Maps Introduction  1 The ‘Secret Jews’ and Proto-Racialism of Early Modern Spain and Portugal  2 Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracism 1 Conspiracism and Society in Early Modern Europe  1 Defining the Conspiracy Theory  2 Delusional Paranoia, Collective Emotions and the Emotional Dimension of the Conspiracy Theory  3 Explaining the Popularity of Conspiracy Theories  4 Moral Panics: The Social and Political Function of the Conspiracy Theory  5 ‘Modernity’ and the Origins of Conspiracism  6 Conspiracism in Early Modern Europe: the Demonic Superconspiracy  7 Conclusion: the Conspiracy Theory in the Age of ‘Confessionalization’ 2 Forged Documents and the Fear of Jewish Infiltration: The Jewish World Plot and the Early Modern Iberian World  1 The Early Notions of a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy in Medieval Europe  2 The Forged Letter of the Jews of Toledo to Those of Jerusalem:  a Fatal Precedent?  3 Warrant for Hatred: the Forged letters from Toledo and Constantinople  4 The Obscure Origins of the Forged Letters  5 The Reception of the Forged Letters  6 Francisco de Quevedo’s La Isla de los Monopantos  7 The Legacy and Influence of the “Toledan Letters” in Modern Antisemitism  8 Conclusion 3 “Seeking to Build a Synagogue within the Church of God”: the Alleged Converso Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the Catholic Church  1 The Insidious Converso Threat to the Church  2 Perceiving Judaism as a Militant and Missionary Faith  3 The Spectre of the Jewish Dogmatizadores  4 The Menace of Jewish Proselytism amongst Africans and Amerindians  5 Reckless Resistance or Narrative Assault?: the Desecration of Religious Objects and the ‘Jewish Conspiracy’  6 Conclusion 4 Medical Murder: the Myth of the Jewish Serial-Killer Doctors  1 Jews and Medicine in Medieval Iberia  2 Fear of the Homicidal Jewish Doctor and its Medieval Roots  3 The Archetypal Homicidal Doctor: Dr Meir Alguadex  4 Converso Doctors and the ‘Jewish Plot’  5 Ethnic Discrimination and the Medical Professions  6 Medical Antisemitism in the Eighteenth Century  7 Other Medical Conspiracy Theories: a Comparative Study  8 Conclusion 5 “Traitors Who Dwell amongst Us”: the Conversos as Collaborators and Masterminds of the Muslim and Protestant Onslaught against Spain and Portugal  1 The Archetype of Jewish Treason: the Fall of Toledo in 711 CE  2 The ‘Jewish Origins’ of the Reformation: Linking Conversos and Protestants  3 The ‘Jewish Plot’ against the Portuguese Empire  4 A New Toledo in the Americas: Jewish Treason and the Fall of Bahia (1624)  5 Dutch Brazil and the Image of the Conversos  6 The Dutch, the Conversos  and the “Grand Conspiracy” against the Spanish Empire (1610-1650)  7 Conclusion 6 “Sponges That Suck Up the Wealth of Spain”: the Jewish Plot, Economic Parasitism and the Fear of Economic Decline  1 The Trope of Jewish Lust of Gold and Usury beyond  2 The Converso Merchant: a Parasite Growing at the Expenses of the Host  3 The Merchant in the Ancien Régime: a Figure of Suspicion and Fear  4 An Easy Hate Figure: the Converso Tax-Farmers and Asentistas  5 Conclusion Conclusion  1 The Elusive Converso Enemy: a Tool to Construct a Collective Identity  2 Epilogue: the Survival of the Conspiracist Narrative after Bibliography Index

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