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Book SynopsisRitual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts investigates questions that arise in modern ritual studies concerning Jewish and Christian religious communities: How did their religious rituals develop? Where did different ritual communities and their ritual texts interact? How did religious communities and their authoritative texts respond to change, and how did change influence religious rituals? The volume is a product of the interdisciplinary and international research efforts taken by the Research Centre “Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present” at the Universität Erfurt (Germany) and unites the voices of important senior and emerging scholars in the field. It focuses on antiquity and the medieval period but also considers examples from the early modern and modern period in EuropeTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors Introduction  Günter Stemberger Part 1: Ritual Dynamics in (Holy) Jewish and Christian Texts 1 Is Rabbinic Prayer a Liturgy, or Essentially a Reading of Texts?  Stefan C. Reif 2 Ritualizing the Cleaning of the House before Passover in Medieval Ashkenaz: Image and Text in Illuminated Haggadot  Katrin Kogman-Appel 3 The Ritualization of Manufacturing and Handling Holy Books by the Hasidei Ashkenaz between Halakah and Magic  Annett Martini 4 Concepts of History and Tradition in Modern Liturgical Books  Martin Klöckener Part 2: A Dynamic Relationship: Christian and Jewish Traces in Jewish and Christian Texts 5 Memories of the Temple and Memories of Temples  Clemens Leonhard 6 Conceptual and Ideological Aspects in the Mishnaic Description of Bringing the First Fruits to Jerusalem  Hillel Mali 7 Christian Presence in Jewish Ritual  Yaacov Deutsch Part 3: Comparing and Contrasting Rituals 8 Initiation by Circumcision and Water Baptism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity  Gerard Rouwhorst 9 Space, Ritual, and Politics in (the Reconstruction of) the Ancient Synagogue: an Exploration of the Historical Archive  Anders Runesson Part 4: Dynamic Rituals and Innovation of Rituals in Modern Contexts 10 Olive Oil, Anointing, Ecstasy, and Ecology  Jonathan Schorsch Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisHabakkuk is unique amongst the prophetic corpus for its interchange between YHWH and the prophet. Many open research questions exist regarding the identities of the antagonists throughout and the relationships amongst the different sections of the book. In A Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk, David J. Fuller develops a model for discourse analysis of Biblical Hebrew within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The analytical procedure is carried out on each pericope of the book separately, and then the respective results are compared in order to determine how the successive speeches function as responses to each other, and to better understand changes in the perspectives of the various speakers throughout.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction  1 Introduction 1  2 Previous Approaches to Habakkuk  3 Structural Divisions in Habakkuk  4 Conclusions and Chapter Outline 1 Methodology  1 Introduction  2 SFL Discourse Analysis: Framework  3 Discourse Analysis Using SFL: Methodological Steps  4 Conclusion 2 Habakkuk 1:2–11  1 Introduction  2 Analysis: Habakkuk 1:2–4  3 Analysis: Habakkuk 1:5–11  4 Comparison of Habakkuk 1:2–4 and 1:5–11  5 Conclusions 3 Habakkuk 1:12–17  1 Introduction  2 Analysis: Habakkuk 1:12–17  3 Comparison of Habakkuk 1:12–17 and 1:5–11  4 Comparison of Habakkuk 1:12–17 and 1:2–4  5 Conclusions 4 Habakkuk 2:1–2:2.2 and 2:2.3–2:6.2  1 Introduction  2 Habakkuk’s Narrative Aside in 2:1–2  3 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:2.3–2:6.2  4 Comparison of Habakkuk 2:2.3–2:6.2 and 1:12–17  5 Comparison of Habakkuk 2:2.3–2:6.2 and 1:5–11  6 Conclusions 5 Habakkuk 2:6.3–2:20 (Part One)  1 Introduction  2 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:6.3–2:8.2  3 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:9.1–2:11.2  4 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:12.1–2:14.1  5 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:15.1–2:17.2  6 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:18–20  7 Comparison of the Woe Oracles  8 Conclusions 6 Habakkuk 2:6.3–2:20 (Part Two)  1 Introduction  2 Global Analysis of the Woe Oracles as a Unit  3 Comparison of the Woe Oracles and YHWH’s Speech in Hab 2:2.3–2:6.2  4 Comparison of the Woe Oracles and Habakkuk’s Speech in Hab 1:12–17  5 Comparison of the Woe Oracles and YHWH’s Speech in Hab 1:5–11  6 Conclusions 7 Habakkuk 3 (Part One)  1 Introduction  2 Analysis: Habakkuk 3:2–19  3 Conclusions 8 Habakkuk 3 (Part Two)  1 Introduction  2 Comparison of Hab 3:2–19 with the Woe Oracles  3 Comparison of Hab 3 with YHWH’s Speech in Hab 2:2.3–2:6.2  4 Comparison between Habakkuk’s Speeches in 1:12–17 and 3:2–19  5 Comparison between Habakkuk’s First Speech (1:2–4) and Final Prayer (3:2–19)  6 Conclusions 9 Conclusions  1 Introduction  2 Review of Conclusions  3 The Register and Context of Situation of Habakkuk  4 Possibilities for Future Research Appendix A: Mode Charts Appendix B: Field Charts Appendix C: Tenor Charts Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisTargum Chronicles and Its Place Among the Late Targums heralds a paradigm shift in the understanding of many of the Jewish-Aramaic translations of individual biblical books and their origins. Leeor Gottlieb provides the most extensive study of Targum Chronicles to date, leading to conclusions that challenge long-accepted truisms with regard to the origin of Targums. This book’s trail of evidence convincingly points to the composition of Targums in a time and place that was heretofore not expected to be the provenance of these Aramaic gems of biblical interpretation. This study also offers detailed comparisons to other Targums and fascinating new explanations for dozens of aggadic expansions in Targum Chronicles, tying them to their rabbinic sources.Table of ContentsAbbreviations 1 Introduction  1 The Book of Chronicles and Its Traditional Jewish Commentaries  2 The Targum of Chronicles as an Object of Research  3 The Text of Targum Chronicles: Manuscripts and Editions  4 The Vorlage of Targum Chronicles  5 Survey of Literature of TC  6 Research Tools  7 Structure and Methods of This Work 2 Principal Translation Techniques of Targum Chronicles  1 Opening  2 Common Additions in the Aramaic Text  3 Translation Consistency  4 Proper Nouns in Targum Chronicles  5 Double Translations  6 Harmonization  7 Trends in Targum Chronicles  8 Conclusion 3 The Relationship of Targum Chronicles and Targum Jonathan  1 Opening  2 Adherence in TC to the Hebrew Text of Chronicles  3 Similarity of TC and TJ  4 Disagreement of TC and TJ  5 Discussion and Conclusions 4 The Relationship of Targum Chronicles and the Pentateuchal Targums in Parallel Genealogical Lists  1 Opening  2 The Table of Nations (1 Chr 1:5–23 / Gen 10:2–4, 6–8, 13–18, 22–29)  3 Ishmael’s Descendants (1 Chr 1:29–31 / Gen 25:13–16)  4 The Kings of Edom (1 Chr 1:43–54 / Gen 36:31–43)  5 Summary of Findings  6 Conclusions 5 The Relationship of Targum Chronicles and Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and Its Implications  1 Opening  2 Greek Loanwords Shared by TC and TPJ:  3 Other Words Shared by TC and TPJ Reflecting Western Aramaic  4 Words Shared by TC and TPJ Reflecting Eastern Aramaic  5 Unusual Dialectal Features and Other Indicators of Kindred Linguistic Environments  6 Direct Literary Dependence  7 Aramaic Piyyutim in the Liturgical Custom of Medieval Ashkenaz  8 Conclusions 6 The Relationship of Targum Chronicles and Targum Psalms  1 Opening  2 The Word הונגראי and Its Significance for Dating TC and Targum Psalms  3 Similarities between TC and Targum Psalms in Parallel Verses  4 Significant Disparities between Parallel Verses in TC and Targum Psalms  5 Conclusion 7 Targum Chronicles and the Babylonian Talmud  1 Opening  2 Probable Usage of the Babylonian Talmud  3 Possible Usage of the Babylonian Talmud  4 Closing Remarks 8 Additional Expansions in Targum Chronicles and Their Sources  1 Opening  2 Expansions Based upon Targum Pseudo-Jonathan  3 Expansions Linked to Targum Tosephtot in MS Reuchlin  4 Other Sources  5 Expansions Lacking Known Sources  6 Closing Remarks 9 Conclusions  1 Summary  2 When Was Targum Chronicles Composed?  3 Where Was Targum Chronicles Composed?  4 Why Was Targum Chronicles Composed?  5 Implications for Further Research in Targum Studies Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAround 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of a forgotten manuscript, this book abandons the standard majority discourse and approaches the history of Jerusalem through the lens of a community typically considered marginal. It illuminates the political, religious and diplomatic affairs that exercised the city, and guides the reader on a fascinating journey from the Ethiopian highlands to the Holy Sepulchre, passing through the Ottoman palaces in Istanbul. Have a look inside the bookTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Acknowledgments for the English Edition List of Figures Note on Transliteration and Dates Introduction: A Historical Emergency: The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript  1 A Sidestep  2 Three Readings  3 Microcosm, Macrocosm 1 Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery  1 A Monastery on a Roof  2 One Place, Two Memories  3 Histories and Research about the Monastery  4 The Limits of Previous Studies 2 An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript  1 The Archives of the Ethiopian Orthodox Community  2 An Unpublished Manuscript  3 A Cryptic Text 3 The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text  1 A Text Based on Another Dated 1893  2 Sources: The Backbone of the Text  3 Adaptations, Additions and Interpretations  4 A Linguistically Challenged and Challenging Text 4 Conflicts and Protections: 1850–1903  1 Dayr al-Sultan: An Unending Local Conflict  2 A Community with No Legal Autonomy  3 Having Their Voices Heard in Istanbul 5 With Memory as His Only Weapon  1 A New Stage in the Ethiopian Claims  2 Making up for the Absence of Legal Documentation  3 Justifying the Absence of Legal Documentation  4 A Respond to the Coptic Arguments 6 The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation  1 A Dearth of Written Ethiopian Sources  2 No Ethiopian Kings Concerned about Jerusalem?  3 A New Interest for Jerusalem  4 Differentiating Ethiopians from Copts  5 Presenting the Community as Homogeneous 7 The Ethiopians in a Global City  1 Rediscovering Jerusalem  2 Imperial Ethiopia  3 The Opening of an Ottoman City  4 Modernization of Local Administration  5 Protection and Involvement in Conflict over the Holy Sites  6 Acting and Evolving Depending on Others …  7 … And Yet Declaring Oneself Isolated from Others Conclusion: The Keys to Power: The Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary Amharic Text and English Translation of Walda Madhen Appendix 1: German Version of the Ethiopian Anonymous Text of 1893 Appendix 2: Letter Written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852 Appendix 3: Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893 Appendix 4: Short Chronology Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah, Marc Michaels transcribes and recreates fragments of arguably the earliest found manuscript of the manual for sofrim (scribes) concerning the decorative tagin (tittles) and 'strange' letter forms that adorn certain words in the Torah. Comparing these found fragments against other core and secondary sources of Sefer Tagin (including several pages of a new secondary source), Michaels establishes the most likely readings to assist the reconstruction of the fragments and shed light on the original intention of the author of Sefer Tagin.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Assigned Sigla List of Figures, Tables and Reconstructions Note on Transliteration 1 Introduction  1 The ‘Strange Letters’, Visual midrash and Sefer Tagin  2 A Brief Introduction to tagin  3 Sefer Tagin—A Manual for sofrim (Scribes)  4 The Corpus of Textual Witnesses to Sefer Tagin—Core and Secondary Sources  5 Some Example Uses in Sifrey Torah  6 Adding to the Core Corpus, Oxford Bodleian MS. Heb. d. 33/3 (fol. 9), a Known Fragment from the Cairo Genizah 2 A New (Partial) Witness  1 T-S D1.42—Two New Pages from a Version of Sefer Tagin Identified from the Cairo Genizah  2 Dating and Locating T-S D1.42  3 Identifying Additional Joins, T-S AS 139.152, T-S NS 287.11 and T-S AS 139.144  4 An Additional Find, a Secondary Source T-S Misc. 24.182 from the Cairo Genizah  5 Dating T-S Misc. 24.182 3 Transcription and Analysis  1 Diacritical Conventions  2 Digital Composition and Font Construction Part 1 4 Critical Analysis of T-S D.142  1 End of Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter he Form  2 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter he  3 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter he  4 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter he  5 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter vav  6 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter vav  7 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter zayin  8 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter zayin  9 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter zayin  10 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter zayin  11 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter ḥet  12 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter ḥet  13 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter ḥet  14 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter ḥet  15 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter ṭet  16 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter ṭet  17 Summary—T-S D1.42 Part 2 5 Analysis and Reconstruction of Joined Fragments  1 Reconstruction of Additional Pages of Our New Core Source  2 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter ṭet  3 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter yod  4 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter yod  5 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter kaf  6 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter kaf  7 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter kaf sofit  8 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter kaf sofit  9 Description and Example Forms of the Second Special Letter kaf sofit  10 Listing of Instances for the Second Special Letter kaf sofit  11 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter lamed  12 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter lamed  13 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter mem  14 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter mem  15 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter mem sofit  16 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter mem sofit  17 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter nun  18 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter nun  19 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter tav  20 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter tav  21 Conclusion of Sefer Tagin  22 Summary—CG Joined Fragments Part 3 6 Oxford Bodleian MS. Heb. 33/3 (fol. 9)  1 Critical Analysis of MS. Heb. d. 33/3  2 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter nun  3 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter nun sofit  4 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter nun sofit  5 The ‘Upside Down’ nun sofit of Haran  6 Continuing the Listing for the Special Letter nun sofit  7 Description and Example Forms of the Special Letter samekh  8 Listing of Instances for the Special Letter samekh  9 Description and Example Forms of the First Special Letter ʿayin  10 Listing of Instances for the First Special Letter ʿayin  11 Summary—Oxford Heb. 33/9 Appendix 1: Transcription and Annotation of T-S Misc. 24.182 Appendix 2: Enhanced Imagery of Sefer Tagin from Sassoon 82 (JUD. 022) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKitāb al-mustalḥaq is an addendum to the treatises on Hebrew morphology by Ḥayyūǧ, the most classic of the Andalusi works written during the caliphate of Cordoba and the benchmark for studies of the Hebrew language throughout the Arabic-speaking world during the medieval period. Kitāb al-mustalḥaq was composed in Zaragoza by Ibn Ǧanāḥ after the civil war was unleashed in Cordoba in 1013. This new edition includes an historical introduction, taking account of the major contributions from the twentieth century to the present day, a description of the methodology and contents of this treatise, a description of the manuscripts, and a glossary of terminology. This new edition shows how Ibn Ǧanāḥ updated his book until the end of his life.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Transcription Guide Prologue 1 Abū l-Walīd Marwān (Yona) ibn Ǧanāḥ of Cordoba (c. 980–1050)  1 The Early Years in Cordoba  2 Lucena  3 The Second Stage, Zaragoza 2 The Works of Abū l-Walīd Marwān (Yona) ibn Ǧanāḥ  1 The Works of Ibn Ǧanāḥ in the Medieval Period  2 The Editions of Ibn Ǧanāḥ’s Works  3 The Study of Ibn Ǧanāḥ’s Works 3 Kitāb al-mustalḥaq fī l-afʿāl ḏawāt ḥurūf al-līn wa-ḏawāt al-miṯlayn ʿalā mā ṯabbat fī kitābī Abī Zakariyāʾ Ḥayyūǧ (Addendum to the Verbs with Weak Letters and with Geminates as Listed in the Two Books by Abū Zakariyāʾ Ḥayyūǧ)  1 The Contents and Nature of the Treatise  2 The Process of Writing and Transmitting Kitāb al-mustalḥaq  3 Kitāb al-mustalḥaq Manuscripts Text Translation Small Fragments Edition and Translation Bibliography Glossary of Grammatical Terminology Index of Sources Index of Weak and Geminate Roots

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Book SynopsisKabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. Until recently, Kabbalah studies have not extensively covered America, despite America’s centrality in modern and contemporary formations. There exist scattered treatments, but no inclusive expositions. This volume most certainly fills the gap. It is comprised of 21 articles in eight sections, including Kabbalah in Colonial America; Nineteenth-Century Western Esotericism; The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface; Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars; The Post-War Counterculture; Liberal American Denominationalism; Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism and the ‘Other’; and Contemporary American Ritual and Thought. This volume will be sure to set the tone for all future scholarship on American Kabbalah.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1 Introduction: On the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America  Brian Ogren Part 1: Kabbalah in Colonial America 2 “They Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentiles”: Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination  Michael Hoberman 3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity  Brian Ogren Part 2: Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric Trends 4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emerson’s Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America  Clémence Boulouque 5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America  Boaz Huss 6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor  Vadim Putzu Part 3: The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface 7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in America—Max Wolff, The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)  Peter Lanchidi 8 Isidor Kalisch’s Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy  Jonathan D. Sarna Part 4: Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars 9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America  Eliyahu Stern 10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism  Moshe Idel Part 5: The Post-War Counterculture 11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsberg’s Relation to Kabbalah  Yaakov Ariel 12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast  Pinchas Giller 13 Aryeh Kaplan’s Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy  Alan Brill Part 6: Liberal American Denominationalism 14 American Reform Judaism’s Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weiner’s Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics  Dana Evan Kaplan 15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah  Daniel Horwitz Part 7: Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism, and the ‘Other’ 16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism  Ariel Evan Mayse 17 “The Lower Half of the Globe”: Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Vision for Judaism’s American Era  Philip Wexler and Eli Rubin 18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner’s Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology  Elliot R. Wolfson Part 8: Contemporary American Ritual and Thought 19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach  Jody Myers 20 Everything is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos  Marla Segol 21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America  Ron Margolin

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, the relationship between Jews and media is not only vividly illustrated, but it is consciously drawn into the formation of modern Jewish history and modern media. Maya Balakirsky Katz addresses key Jewish-media intersections in which Jews and mass media implicated (or were implicated by) one another. In this study, Katz discusses the relationship that Jews have had with mass media forms of print, film, photography, advertising, and postcards within the periods that these media have gained cultural ascendancy. These historical moments are tethered to a broader conversation addressing the major theoretical issues at the center of the discourse on Jews and media. Bearing this mutually constructive relationship in mind, Intersections between Jews and Media offers both a tangible demographic portrait of the real Jews who entered mass media and lays a theoretical and methodological framework for more qualitative analyses.

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Book SynopsisIn Israel in Egypt scholars in different fields explore what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world. For generations of Jews from antiquity to the medieval period, the land of Egypt represented both a place of danger to their communal religious identity and also a haven with opportunities for prosperity and growth. A volume of collected essays from scholars in fields ranging from biblical studies and classics to papyrology and archaeology, Israel in Egypt explores what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ancient Part 1: 750–300 BCE before Alexander 1 Egypt in the Book of Isaiah  Hugh G. M. Williamson 2 Arameans and Judaeans: Ethnography and Identity at Elephantine  Reinhard G. Kratz Ancient Part 2: 300 BCE–100 CE Qumran and LXX 3 “Egypt” and the Dead Sea Scrolls  Dorothy M. Peters 4 Dating and Locating the Septuagint of Proverbs in Its Jewish-Hellenistic Cultural Context  Lorenzo G. A. Cuppi 5 “They Did Not Settle in the Land of the Lord: Ephraim Settled in Egypt” (Hos 9:3): Returning to Egypt in the Septuagint and Other Hellenistic Jewish Works  Alison Salvesen 6 Hidden and Public Transcript: Jews and Non-Jews in 3 Maccabees  Noah Hacham Ancient Part 3: 300 BCE–100 CE Writers and Their Writings 7 Along the Banks of the Egyptian River: Representations of the Nile in Early Jewish Literature  Nathalie LaCoste 8 Philo of Alexandria and the Memory of Ptolemy II Philadelphus  Sarah Pearce 9 “Pre-eminent in Family and Wealth”: Gaius Julius Alexander and the Alexandrian Jewish Community  Gregory E. Sterling 10 The Metaphor of the Plague: Apion and the Image of Egyptians and Jews under Tiberius  Livia Capponi Ancient Part 4: 300 BCE–100 CE Archaeology and Evidence 11 The Jewish Presence in Greco-Roman Egypt: The Evidence of the Papyri since the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum  Willy Clarysse 12 The Jews of Apollinopolis Magna/Edfu — a Late-First-Century CE Jewish Community in Upper Egypt Re-examined  Margaret Williams Ancient Part 5: 100–400 CE after Trajan 13 Jewish Egypt in the Light of the Risings under Trajan  William Horbury 14 Alexandria in the Literary Memory of the Rabbis: The Failure of Cultural Translation and the Textual Powers of Women  Galit Hasan-Rokem 15 An Addendum to Bagnall and Cribiore, Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt: Two Aramaic Letters from Jewish Women  Tal Ilan Medieval Part 1: History and Society Introduction to the Medieval Section  Mark Cohen 16 Visible Identities: In Search of Egypt’s Jews in Early Islamic Egypt  Petra Sijpesteijn 17 From Egypt to Palestine and Back: Links and Channels in Medieval Judaism  Miriam Frenkel 18 Mastery, Power, and Competition: Jewish Slave Owners in Medieval Egypt  Craig Perry Medieval Part 2: Language and Script 19 On the Graphic Cultures of the beth din: Hebrew Script in Legal Documents from Fustat in the Early Fatimid Period  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 20 Language and Identity in the Cairo Genizah  Esther-Miriam Wagner Medieval Part 3: In the Eyes of Poets and Travellers 21 The Mixed Blessings of the Western Wind: Ambiguous Longings in Ha-Levi’s Alexandrian Poems of Welcome and Farewell  Yehoshua Granat 22 An Andalusian Poet in the Land of the Pharaohs: Judah al-Ḥarīzī’s Account of His Visit to the Jewish Communities of Egypt (circa 1216)  Paul B. Fenton Medieval Part 4: The Image and Concept of Egypt 23 The Concept of Egypt in Medieval Karaite Bible Exegesis  Marzena Zawanowska 24 Living in Egypt — a Maimonidean Predicament  Joanna Weinberg 25 “In the Wilderness of Their Enemies” — Jewish Attitudes toward the Muslim Space in Light of a Fifteenth-Century Genizah Letter  Dotan Arad Index

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Book SynopsisMighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith is the first edited collection devoted to the study of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Although the Bible depicts Baal as powerless, the combined archaeological, iconographic, and literary evidence makes it clear that Baal was worshipped throughout the Levant as a god whose powers rivalled any deity. Mighty Baal brings together eleven essays written by scholars working in North America, Europe, and Israel. Essays in part one focus on the main collection of Ugaritic tablets describing Baal’s exploits, the Baal Cycle. Essays in part two treat Baal’s relationships to other deities. Together, the essays offer a rich portrait of Baal and his cult from a variety of methodological perspectives. The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.Trade Review“This important volume containing eleven essays by colleagues and pupils of Mark Smith presents the reader an excellent overview of recent research on the Ugaritic god Baal as a fitting tribute to Mark Smith, celebrating his sixtyfifth birthday. In offering this gift to him as an expert in this field the editors ran the risk of bringing owls to Athens. However, the different contributions are in most cases renewing and sometimes also take up the discussion with previous work of Smith.(…) This well-edited volume, which is concluded by an index on subjects, can be regarded as a good mix of a Festschrift and a collection of coherent contributions focussing on one subject.” - Klaas Spronk, Protestant Theological University Amsterdam, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVIII N° 5-6, oktober-december 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Vii List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Stephen C. Russell Part 1: Baal’s Story 1 The Baal Cycle as a Myth of Cosmic Unification  Robert S. Kawashima 2 Fight Like a Girl: the Performance of Gender and Violence in the Baal Cycle  Corrine Carvalho 3 Male Agency and Masculine Performance in the Baal Cycle  Martti Nissinen 4 Active and Reactive Bodies in the Baal Cycle  Deena Grant 5 The Grammar of Baal’s Epithets  Steven E. Fassberg 6 Where Are All the Colophons? Colophons in the Ancient Near East and in the Dead Sea Scrolls  Sidnie White Crawford Part 2: Baal’s Peers 7 Gods in Translation and Location  Ronald Hendel 8 Ugaritic Athtartu Šadi, Food Production, and Textiles: More Data for Reassessing the Biblical Portrayal of Aštart in Context  Theodore J. Lewis 9 Yahweh among the Baals: Israel and the Storm Gods  Daniel E. Fleming 10 Who Is the Baal of Peor?  Susan Ackerman 11 Baal’s Legacy: Echoes of Ugarit in Papyrus Amherst 63  Karel van der Toorn Index

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Book SynopsisThe four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under empire (the present), in view of ancestral traditions and cultural heritage (the past), and inspired outlooks assuring hope, deliverance, and restoration (the future). Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel includes thirteen essays that explore the reach and redeployment of the motif in classical and ancient Near Eastern writings, Jewish and Christian scriptures, texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, depictions in European architecture and cartography, as well as patristic, rabbinic, Islamic, and African writings from antiquity through the Mediaeval eras.Trade Review“Die einzelnen Studien sind aus im open access zugänglich, was den hohen Preis des Bandes leichter erträglich macht. Lesenswert ist er in jedem Fall für alle, die sich für das Danielbuch und seine Wirkungsgeschichte interessieren.” – Martin Rösel, Universität Rostock, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 148 (2023).Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction to the Four Kingdoms as a Time Bound, Timeless, and Timely Historiographical Mechanism and Literary Motif  Andrew B. Perrin The Four Kingdoms and Other Chronological Conceptions in the Book of Daniel  Michael Segal Five Kingdoms, and Talking Beasts: Some Old Greek Variants in Relation to Daniel’s Four Kingdoms  Ian Young The Four (Animal) Kingdoms: Understanding Empires as Beastly Bodies  Alexandria Frisch The Apocalypse of Weeks: Periodization and Tradition-Historical Context  Loren T. Stuckenbruck Expressions of Empire and Four Kingdoms Patterns in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls  Andrew B. Perrin The Four Kingdoms Motif and Sibylline Temporality in Sibylline Oracles 4  Olivia Stewart Lester The Generation of Iron and the Final Stumbling Block: The Present Time in Hesiod’s Works and Days 106–201 and Barnabas 4  Kylie Crabbe The Four Kingdoms of Daniel in Hippolytus’s Commentary on Daniel  Katharina Bracht Persia, Rome and the Four Kingdoms Motif in the Babylonian Talmud  Geoffrey Herman The Four Kingdoms of Daniel in the Early Mediaeval Apocalyptic Tradition  Lorenzo DiTommaso The Four Kingdom Schema and the Seventy Weeks in the Arabic Reception of Daniel  Miriam L. Hjälm Conflicting Traditions: The Interpretation of Daniel’s Four Kingdoms in the Ethiopic Commentary (Tergwāmē) Tradition  James R. Hamrick The Politics of Time: Epistemic Shifts and the Reception History of the Four Kingdoms Schema  Brennan Breed Index of Primary Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisApocryphal traditions, often shared by Jews and Christians, have played a significant role in the history of both religions. The 26 essays in this volume examine regional and linguistic developments in Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Armenia, the Balkans, and Italy. Dissenting groups, such as the Samaritans, followers of John the Baptist, and mediæval dualists are also discussed. Furthermore, the book looks at interactions of Judaism and Christianity with the religions of Iran. Seldom verified or authorized, and frequently rejected by Churches, apocryphal texts had their own process of development, undergoing significant transformations. The book shows how apocryphal accounts could become a medium of literary and artistic elaboration and mythological creativity. Local adaptations of Biblical stories indicate that copyists, authors and artists conceived of themselves as living not in a post-Biblical era, but in direct continuity with Biblical personages.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Esoteric Writing and Esoteric Cults in the Biblical Religions 1 The Exoteric Settings of Jewish Esotericism  Ithamar Gruenwald 2 The Gospel of Peter between the Synoptics, Second Century, and Late Antique ‘Apostolic Memoirs’  Tobias Nicklas 3 All Mysteries Revealed? On the Interplay between Hiding and Revealing and the Dangers of Heavenly Journeys according to the Ascension of Isaiah  Joseph Verheyden 4 Early Christianity and the Pagan Mysteries: Esoteric Knowledge?  Jan N. Bremmer 5 The Medieval Dualist Nachleben of Early Jewish and Christian Esoteric Traditions: The Role of the Pseudepigrapha  Yuri Stoyanov 6 The Esoteric Cardinal: Giorgios Gemistos, Bessarion and Theurgy  Ezio Albrile Part 2 Bridging the Account of the Origins and the Messiah’s Advent 7 La création d’ Adam à Noravank̔: Théologie et narrativité  Jean-Pierre Mahé 8 Translatio corporis Adæ: Trajectories of a Parabiblical Tradition  Sergey Minov 9 Apostles, Long Dead ‘Heretics’, and Monks: Noncanonical Traditions on Angels and Protoplasts in Two Late Antique Coptic Apocalypses (7th–8th Century CE)  Daniele Tripaldi 10 Face as the Image of God in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha  Andrei A. Orlov 11 On the Perdition of the Higher Intellect and on the Image of Light: Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary  Maria V. Korogodina and Basil Lourié 12 Bridging the Gaps in the Samaritan Tradition  Abraham Tal 13 ‘On the Mountains of Ararat’: Noah’s Ark and the Sacred Topography of Armenia  Nazénie Garibian 14 The Historian’s Craft and Temporal Bridges in Apocrypha and in Early Christian Art: Para-Biblical Sources in the Light of the Work of Marc Bloch  Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev Part 3 Symbols and Figures of the Messianic Expectation 15 Quellen der nichtbiblischen Mose-Überlieferung in der Kratkaja Chronografičeskaja Paleja  Dieter Fahl and Sabine Fahl 16 Whether Lamb or Lion: Overlapping Metaphors in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism  Abraham Terian 17 Rescuing John the Baptist  Albert I. Baumgarten 18 The Esoteric Legacy of the Magi of Bethlehem in the Framework of the Iranian Speculations about Jesus, Zoroaster and His Three Posthumous Sons  Antonio Panaino 19 Visual Apocrypha: The Case of Mary and the Magi in Early Christian Rome  Felicity Harley 20 Gnostic and Mithraic Themes in Sefer Zerubbabel  Yishai Kiel Part 4 Angels, Heavenly Journeys and Visions of Paradise 21 1 Enoch 17 in the Geneva Papyrus 187  David Hamidović 22 Enochic Traditions in Slavia Orthodoxa  Florentina Badalanova Geller 23 Visions of Paradise in the Life of St Andrew the Fool and the Legacy of the Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Byzantium  Emmanouela Grypeou 24 Eternal Chains and the Mountain of Darkness: The Fallen Angels in the Incantation Bowls  Yakir Paz 25 Iconography of Angels: Roots and Origins in the Earliest Christian Art  Cecilia Proverbio 26 The Gardens of Eden: Compositional, Iconographic and Semantic Similarities between the ‘Birds Mosaic’ of the Armenian Chapel in Jerusalem and the Mosaic of the Synagogue at Maʿon (Nirim)  Zaruhi Hakobyan Postscript: Border-Crossing Texts  Hartmut Leppin Index

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Book SynopsisRepresenting Jewish Thought originated in the conference, convened in honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert, on the theme of visual representations of Jewish thought from antiquity to the early modern period. The volume encompasses essays on various modes and media of transmitting and re/presenting thought, pertinent to Jewish past and present. It explores several approaches to the study of the transmission of ideas in historical sources, zooming in on textual and visual hermeneutics to material and textual culture to performative arts. The volume has brought together scholars from different subfields of Jewish Studies, covering thousands of years of Jewish history, who invite further scholarly reflection on the expression, transmission, and organisation of knowledge in Jewish contexts.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ada Rapoport-Albert: an Appreciation  Mark Geller 1 Introduction  Agata Paluch 2 “Letters of Thought” (otiyot ha-maḥshavah) and “Primordial Intellect”: from Ecstatic Kabbalah to Hasidism  Moshe Idel 3 Staging Hasidism: Representation of the “Yossele Schumacher Affair” in a Hasidic Yiddish Play Vi iz Yossele?  Wojciech Tworek 4 The Manuscript in Chabad: Joining Souls?  Naftali Loewenthal 5 Copying, Compiling, Commonplacing in Kabbalistic Manuscript Collectanea: Sefer Ḥesheḳ and the Kabbalah of Divine Names in Early Modern Ashkenaz  Agata Paluch 6 The “Munich Talmud”: an Exceptional Book of French Jews  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 7 Moral Exegesis? Hermeneutics and Exegetical Strategies in Seder Eliyahu (Zuṭa)  Lennart Lehmhaus 8 Zodiacs of Heaven and Earth  Helen R. Jacobus 9 Playing Hide and Seek: Is There a Jewish Way to It?  Frank Alvarez-Pereyre Index

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Book SynopsisKing David if one of the most central figures in all of the major monotheistic traditions. He generally connotes the heroic past of the (more imagined than real) ancient Israelite empire and is associated with messianic hopes for the future. Nevertheless, his richly ambivalent and fascinating literary portrayal in the Hebrew Bible is one of the most complex of all biblical characters. This volume aims at taking a new, critical look at the process of biblical creation and subsequent exegetical transformation of the character of David and his attributed literary composition (the Psalms), with particular emphasis put on the multilateral fertilization and cross-cultural interchanges among Jews, Christians and Muslims.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Transliteration Notes on Contributors The Variety of Davids in Monotheistic Traditions   An Introduction  Marzena Zawanowska 1 David in History and in the Hebrew Bible  Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò part 1: The Images of David in Medieval Jewish, Muslim and Christian Sources 2 David the Pious Musician in Midrashic Literature and Medieval Muslim Sources  Sivan Nir 3 The Weeping King of Muslim Pietistic Tradition   David in the Kitāb al-waraʿ of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb (d. 238/853) and in Earlier Islamic Sources  Mateusz Wilk 4 David and the Temple of Solomon according to the Arabic Commentaries of Yefet ben ʿEli the Karaite on the Books of Kings and Chronicles  Yair Zoran 5 David as Warrior, Leader, and Poet in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of al-Andalus   Shmuel ha-Nagid’s Self-Portrait as “The David of His Age”  Barbara Gryczan 6 David in Judah Halevi’s Book of the Kuzari   A Reconciliation Project  Marzena Zawanowska 7 Saint Louis as a New David and Paris as a New Jerusalem in Medieval French Hagiographic Literature  Jerzy Pysiak 8 Male Friendship in Medieval Latin Literature   David and Jonathan  Ruth Mazo Karras part 2: The Psalter of David in Monotheistic Traditions 9 David the Prophet in Saʿadya Gaon’s Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts  Arye Zoref 10 Psalms to Reason, Psalms to Heal   The Scriptures in Early Rūm Orthodox Treatises  Miriam Lindgren Hjälm 11 Images of David in Several Muslim Rewritings of the Psalms  David R. Vishanoff 12 David’s Psalter in Christian Arabic Dress   ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl’s Translation and Commentary  Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala 13 King David and the Psalter in Ethiopian Cultural Setting  Witold Witakowski 14 David’s Psalms in Eastern European Karaite Literature  Zsuzsanna Olach part 3: David and His Women: The Cross-Religious Reception Exegesis of the Bathsheba Narrative 15 The Four Wives of David and the Four Women of Odysseus   A Comparative Approach  Daniel Bodi 16 Josephus’ Retelling of the David and Bathsheba Narrative  Michael Avioz 17 Our Mother, Our Queen   Bathsheba through Early Jewish, Christian and Muslim Eyes  Diana Lipton and Meira Polliack 18 God’s Master Plan   The Story of David and Bathsheba in Some Early Syriac Commentaries  Orly Mizrachi 19 Ibn Kaṯīr’s (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah Narrative   The Issue of Isrāʾīliyyāt and the Syrian School of Exegesis  Marianna Klar part 4: Reinventing David in Early Modern and Modern Religious Thought and Literature 20 “David Was Secretly a Woman”   King David as a Messianic Topos in the Teaching of Jacob Frank  Jan Doktór 21 Davidic Narratives in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Liturgical Readings  Elżbieta Łazarewicz-Wyrzykowska 22 The Reception of David and Michal in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature  Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing religious categories within biblical traditions and sheds new light on the importance of the Septuagint for the history of ancient Judaism. Le livre propose une analyse approfondie des démons dans la Bible Hébraïque et la Septante, à la lumière du Proche Orient Ancien et du contexte grec. Par un nouvel angle d’approche, Anna Angelini met en lumière dynamiques de continuité et de changement dans les représentations des puissances divines à l’époque hellénistique, en soulignant l’importance de la traduction grecque de la Bible pour la compréhension de la démonologie, de l’angélologie et de la pneumatologie antiques. En intégrant l’analyse philologique et sémantique avec une approche historique et des méthodes anthropologiques, l’autrice développe une nouvelle méthodologie pour analyser des catégories religieuses à l’intérieur des traditions bibliques et affirme la valeur de la Septante pour l’histoire du judaïsme antique.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste des tableaux Abréviations Introduction: Démons et Septante : les raisons d’une enquête  1 Objet et nature de la recherche  2 Les démons bibliques entre « survivance » et « emprunt »  3 La place de la LXX dans l’étude de la catégorie du démoniaque  4 Une approche d’anthropologie de la traduction  5 Méthodologie  6 Plan de l’ouvrage 1 « Leur nature est différente » : les démons dans l’Israël ancien à la lumière de leur contexte proche-oriental  1 Le débat biblique  2 Le contexte levantin  3 Le « pandaemonium » mésopotamien  4 Démons et divinités mineures en Égypte  5 Retour à l’Israël ancien : vers une définition du démoniaque 2 Le contexte grec : démons, δαίμονες et δαιμόνια dans les traditions grecques et hellénistiques  1 La représentation des démons en Grèce entre pratique et discours  2 Les champs d’action du δαίμων  3 Le δαίμων des philosophes comme figure de la médiation et la re-sémantisation de la catégorie de démon  4 Quelles spécificités pour δαιμόνιον ? 3 Les scénarios du démoniaque dans la LXX  1 La sémantique du δαιμόνιον dans la LXX  2 Le va-et-vient des démons : Azazel et Lilith  3 Un « démon de la porte » ? (Gen 4,7) 4 Les démons comme agents de destruction, entre animaux et maladies  1 Resheph, Deber, Qeṭeb et autres agents de malheurs dans la Bible hébraïque  2 Repenser les démons dans la LXX  3 Le λόγος comme agent démoniaque  4 La LXX et le démon de midi 5 Les habitants des ruines  1 Le potentiel démoniaque des habitants des ruines  2 Des oiseaux, des boucs et des serpents : sur quelques problèmes de correspondance entre hébreu et grec  3 Sirènes, autruches et démons  4 Isaïe 34 et les onocentaures : vers un nouveau paradigme épistémologique 6 Les dieux des autres : entre « démons » et « idoles »  1 Formes et représentations du divin en Deutéronome 32  2 La lxx et les cultes hellénistiques  3 Démons, images, idoles 7 Esprits et possession  1 Les esprits entre nature et psychologie  2 Retour sur rûaḥ et πνεῦμα  3 Sur quelques développements des mauvais esprits dans la lxx  4 Apparitions nocturnes (Job 4,13–16) 8 Anges et démons  1 Esprits angéliques  2 Du śāṭān au diable  3 Tobit dans le contexte de la démonologie hellénistique Conclusions  1 Résumé et résultats de l’enquête  2 Enjeux et perspectives Appendice Bibliographie Index des sources anciennes Index des auteurs cités

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Book SynopsisThe Dead Sea Scrolls have demonstrated the fluidity of biblical and early Jewish texts in antiquity. How did early Jewish scribes understand the nature of their pluriform literature? How should modern textual critics deal with these fluid texts? Centered on the Serekh ha-Yaḥad – or Community Rule – from Qumran as a test case, this volume tracks the development of its textual tradition in multiple trajectories, and suggests that it was not understood as a single, unified composition even in antiquity. Attending to material, textual, and literary factors, the book argues that ancient claims for textual identity ought to be given priority in discussions among textual critics about the ontology of biblical booksTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction  1 Textual Criticism without Originals  2 Difference & Development  3 Textual Variants and Authorization  4 Construing Biblical Books 1 Textual Pluriformity, Textual Development, and Textual Criticism after Qumran  1 Introduction  2 Accounting for Pluriformity after Qumran  3 Higher and Lower Criticism  4 What Is Textual Criticism?  5 The Ontology of Biblical Literature  6 The Influence of Canon  7 Biblical and Non-biblical Texts  8 Excursus: What Do the Scrolls Represent?  9 The Serekh 2 Textual Pluriformity in the Serekh Tradition  1 Introduction  2 The Manuscripts  3 The Text  4 Pluriformity in S, and Text- and Redaction-Criticism 3 The Development of the Serekh Tradition  1 Introduction  2 Past Treatments  3 The Development of the Serekh  4 Conclusions 4 Wisdom, Torah, and Textual Identity  1 Introduction  2 Wisdom and Torah at Qumran  3 The Serekh and Its Authority  4 Summary and Conclusions 5 What Were Biblical Books?  1 Unfinalized Texts & The Rolling Corpus  2 Literary Editions & Rewritten Scripture  3 Ontology and the Individuation of Literary Works  4 What Was the Serekh ha-Yaḥad?  5 What is Textual Criticism? Epilogue: Editing Biblical & Early Jewish Texts Appendix: Synoptic View of the Serekh Bibliography Index of Passages Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book includes the whole transcription of the trial of a converted Muslim (Morisco) from Toledo, condemned to die at the stake at the beginning of the 17th century. In their study of the trial, the authors address the question of how and to what extent Inquisition documents can be used as an historical source by contextualizing and analysing its multifaceted aspects as well as its protagonists and participants, victim, witnesses, and inquisitors. The authors elucidate the beliefs and practices of the culprit, situating his ordeal in the framework of Morisco life and its connections with North African Islam. By so doing they shed light on questions of Inquisitorial procedure, witnessing and testimony, the extent of confession, the effects of life in prison, the relations of trust between inmates and the consequences of isolation.Trade Review"[Jerónimo de Rojas’s] sentence to the stake was opposed by the most senior and experienced of his interrogators, but the Supreme Council of the Inquisition overrode his opinion. As García-Arenal and Sánchez-Blanco point out, this was a moment when the attitude of the Spanish government to the Moriscos was hardening while preparations were being made for their expulsion in 1609. The execution of Jerónimo de Rojas is one of a number of dramatic episodes pointing towards the final tragedy, and the edition of his trial is an important contribution to our knowledge of a grim moment in Spanish history." - Alastair Hamilton (Warburg Institute, London). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 74 (2023): 193–4.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments IX List of IllustrationsI Introduction 1 Jerónimo de Rojas before the Tribunal  1.1 First Stage: Defiance  1.2 Second Stage: Collapse  1.3 The Trial History of Rojas’s Family and Others Denounced by Enríquez 2 The Scene and the Protagonists  2.1 Jerónimo de Rojas  2.2 Fray Hernando de Santiago  2.3 Villarín, the Bigamist from Galicia  2.4 Francisco Enríquez, the Informer  2.5 Officers of the Inquisition  2.6 The Scene: Toledo in the Time of Rojas 3 The Moriscos  3.1 From the Conversions to the War of the Alpujarras (1501–1570)  3.2 The War of the Alpujarras  3.3 From the War of the Alpujarras to Philip III’s Early Reign  3.4 The Political Shift of Philip III’s Early Reign 4 The Inquisition  4.1 Harsh Repression by the Tribunals of Granada, Zaragoza, and Valencia  4.2 Activity of the Llerena Tribunal  4.3 The Toledo Tribunal  4.4 The Limits of the Holy Office 5 The Conversations in Prison  5.1 Life in Prison  5.2 Rojas’s Religious Beliefs and Practices  5.3 Abentute or Ibn Tūda  5.4 Al-Hajarī 6 The Granadan Forgeries, Miguel de Luna, and the Religious Polemic  6.1 The Parchment and the Lead Books of the Sacromonte in Granada  6.2 Miguel de Luna  6.3 Religious Polemic  6.4 Muhamad Alguazir, Pastrana, and Ocaña  6.5 Juan Pérez 7 Secret Prisons and Letters  7.1 The Sequence of Events and Papers  7.2 The Language of the Letters and Rojas’s Knowledge of Christianity 8 Conclusions 9 The Trial Transcript  1 Introductory Note  2 Denunciation and Imprisonment  3 Rojas’s Communications and Letters  4 Witness Statements  5 Statements by Jerónimo de Rojas  6 The Accusation  7 Response to the Accusation  8 Publication of the Witness Statements  9 Response to the Publication of the Witness Statements  10 Written Defense  11 Second Publication of the Witness Statements  12 Vote on the Case  13 Torture  14 The Sentence  15 Establishment of the Date of the Crime Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book conducts a focused study of contradictions and coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan. The first section of this study examines the apparent disruption of congruity with regard to the vertical dimension of the Targum, that is, between the Torah (the Hebrew Vorlage) and the Targum (the Aramaic translation). The second section addresses the apparent disruption of congruity with regard to the horizontal dimension of the Targum, that is, within the boundaries of the TgPsJ corpus. Ultimately, this work suggests that the contradictions are given to resolution, once the greater context of biblical and Jewish tradition is taken into consideration.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction  1 Overview  2 Methodology  3 A Brief History of Research  4 Primary and Secondary Sources Part 1 Vertical Dimension—Contradictions between the Torah and the Targum 1 Contradictions in Converse Translation I  1 Introduction  2 Creation of the Rhetorical Question: Genesis 4:14  3 Addition of the Negative Particle I: Genesis 4:23–24  4 Addition of the Negative Particle II: Genesis 37:33  5 Replacement of the Verb: Exodus 33:3–5  6 Conclusion 2 Contradictions in Converse Translation II  1 Introduction  2 Elimination of the (Implied) Negative Particle at TgPsJ Genesis 19:33  3 Three Questions Regarding the Converse Translation at TgPsJ Genesis 19:33  4 Modern Scholarship on the Converse Translation at TgPsJ Genesis 19:33  5 A Deliberate Converse Translation at TgPsJ Genesis 19:33  6 The Mechanism of Derivation of the Converse Translation at TgPsJ Genesis 19:33  7 The Discrepancy between the Manuscript and the Printed Editions at TgPsJ Genesis 19:33  8 Conclusion Part 2 Horizontal Dimension—Contradictions between Passages within the Targum 3 Contradictions in the Targum I—Concerning Numerals  1 Introduction  2 Part I: Contradictions with Explicit Reference to Numerals  3 Part II: Contradictions with Implicit Reference to Numerals  4 Conclusion 4 Contradictions in the Targum II—Concerning Actions  1 Introduction  2 The Culprit for the Curse: Genesis 3:17 vs. 5:29  3 The Presentation of the Bloodied Tunic of Joseph: Genesis 37:32 vs. 38:25  4 Moses’ Trip to Egypt: Exodus 4:20–26 vs. 18:1–4  5 The Function of the Pillar of Cloud: Exodus 13:21–22 vs. 14:19–20  6 Dathan and Abiram in Egypt and in the Wilderness: Exodus 14:3 vs. Numbers 26:4–9  7 Conclusion 5 Contradictions in the Targum III—Concerning Characters  1 Introduction  2 The Character of Hagar—Slave or Free? Genesis 16:3 vs. 21:14  3 The Character of Nimrod—Righteous or Wicked? Genesis 10:8–12  4 The Character of Esau—Righteous or Wicked? Genesis 32:12  5 The Character of Ishmael—Righteous or Wicked? Genesis 25:7–17  6 Conclusion Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBiblical manuscripts from the Dead Sea and the Cairo Genizah have added immeasurably to our knowledge of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. The papers collected in this volume compare the evidence of the biblical DSS with manuscripts from the Vienna Papyrus Collection, connected with the Cairo Genizah, as well as late ancient evidence from diverse contexts. The resulting picture is one of a dialectic between textual plurality and fixity: the eventual dominance of the consonantal Masoretic Text over the textual plurality of the Second Temple period, and the secondary diversification of that standardized text through scribal activity.

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Book SynopsisPublished in Open Access with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation Historical criticism of the Bible emerged in the context of protestant theology and is confronted in every aspect of its study with otherness: the Jewish people and their writings. However, despite some important exceptions, there has been little sustained reflection on the ways in which scholarship has engaged, and continues to engage, its most significant Other. This volume offers reflections on anti-Semitism, philo-Semitism and anti-Judaism in biblical scholarship from the 19th century to the present. The essays in this volume reflect on the past and prepare a pathway for future scholarship that is mindful of its susceptibility to violence and hatred.Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors 1 Karl Georg Kuhn (1906–1976) – Two Academic Careers in Germany  Hermann Lichtenberger 2 Judaism as Religious Cosmopolitanism: Apologetics and Appropriation in the Jüdisches Lexikon (1927–1930)  Irene Zwiep 3 Anti-Semitism and Early Scholarship on Ancient Anti-Semitism  René Bloch 4 The Rise and Fall of the Notion of “Spätjudentum” in Christian Biblical Scholarship  Konrad Schmid 5 “Circumcision is Nothing”: A Non-Reformation Reading of the Letters of Paul  Paula Fredriksen 6 Anti-Judaism and Philo-Judaism in Pauline Studies, Then and Now  Matthew V. Novenson 7 The Sibylline Oracles: A Case Study in Ancient and Modern Anti-Judaism  Olivia Stewart Lester 8 Anti-Judaism, Philo-Semitism, and Protestant New Testament Studies: Perspectives and Questions  Jörg Frey 9 American Biblical Scholarship and the Post-War Battle against Anti-Semitism  Steven Weitzman 10 Jewish and Christian Approaches to Biblical Theology  John Barton Index

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Book SynopsisThe Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles, which seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Editorial  Giuseppe Veltri and Ze’ev Strauss 1 A Maimonidean Life  Joseph ben Judah Ibn Shimʿon of Ceuta’s Biography Reconstructed  Reimund Leicht 2 Persecution and the Art of Commentary  Rabbi Moses Narboni’s Analysis of al-Ġazālī’s Maqāṣid al Falāsifah (Aims of the Philosophers)  Gitit Holzman 3 Doubt and Certainty in Late Modern Kabbalah  A Tale of Two Schools  Jonathan Garb 4 Where Is Sanctity to Be Found?  A Sceptical Approach to Jewish Tradition and Zionist Utopia in Agnon’s A Guest for the Night  Anna Lissa 5 Jean Bodin’s Universalism and the Twofold Foundations of Natural Religion  A New Reading of the Colloquium heptaplomeres  Gianni Paganini 6 Nancy’s Pleasure in Kant’s Agitation  Adi Louria Hayon 7 Not by Socrates, but by the Splendour of Israel  Philosophy and Kabbalah in Abraham Miguel Cardozo’s Early Thought  Mark Marion Gondelman 8 Looking for Signs  Criticism, Doubts, and Popular Belief in Fifteenth-Century Germany  Jürgen Sarnowsky

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Book SynopsisThe Maimonides Review is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles, which seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors What Does the Messiah Know? A Prelude to Kabbalah’s Trinity Complex  Jeremy Phillip Brown “The Last German Jew” A Perspectival Reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s Dual Identity through His Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute  Libera Pisano “The Divine Philosopher” Rebbe Pinhas of Korets’s Kabbalah as Natural Philosophy  Jeffrey G. Amshalem Questioning Traditions Readings of Annius of Viterbo’s Antiquitates in the Cinquecento: The Case of Judah Abarbanel  Maria Vittoria Comacchi Bordering Two Worlds Hillel Zeitlin’s Spiritual Diary  Jonatan Meir Scepticism in Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Peruš Qohelet)  Rebecca Kneller-Rowe The Forgotten Branch Mediators of Philosophical Knowledge in Eastern European Jewish Thought  Isaac Slater Spinoza’s Moral Scepticism An Overview of Giuseppe Rensi’s Interpretation  Michela Torbidoni Mobility and Creativity David de’ Pomis and the Place of the Jews in Renaissance Italy  Guido Bartolucci The Language of Truth The Śefat Emet Association (Salonica 1890) and Its Taqqanot (Bylaws)  Tamir Karkason

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Book SynopsisHistorically Judaism has been called both a nation and a religion, yet there are those Jews who eschew the religious and national definitions for a cultural one. For example, while TV’s Mrs. Maisel is ostensibly a Jew, the actor playing her is not, and Mrs. Maisel’s actions are not always Jewish. In The Fractured Jew Joel West separates Judaism into phenomenological and performative, starting with popular portrayals of Jews and Judaism, in today’s media, as a jumping-off point to understand Judaism and Jewishness, not from the outside, but from the emic, internal, Jewish point of view.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements  What This Book Is Not Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Who or What Is a Jew?  2 A Fractured Framework: Trauma, Identity, Ethnicity  3 Diachronic Denominationally Jewish  4 North American Semiotics: Jew, Jewish or Judaism as a Sign  5 North American Jews: Alienations  6 North American Jews: Denominations as History  7 Preforming Jew, Jewish, Judaism  8 The Jew Is a Joke—Internalized Antisemitism  Conclusion  References  Index

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Book SynopsisNow available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Sefer ha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manuscripts as material artifacts. Vanonen demonstrates that studying the stability and instability of the War traditions does more justice to the complex material than a traditional chronological literary-critical model. In addition, Vanonen argues that at least liturgical use and study purposes may have created needs for producing different manuscripts that were simultaneously important.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables Introduction  1 Framing the Question  2 Framing the Material  3 Previous Studies on the War Texts  4 Methodological Considerations  5 Research Questions and Outline of the Study Part 1: Analysis 1 1Q33 Alias 1QM  1 Shape and Size  2 Layout and Script  3 Title, Content and Paragraph Division  4 Summary of 1QM 2 4Q491a (4QMa/a + 4Q491a/c) and 4Q492 (4QMb): War Texts That Overlap with Other War Texts  1 4Q491a (4QMa/a + 4Q491a/c)  2 4Q492 (4QMb)  3 Summary of 4Q491a and 4Q492 3 4Q491b (4QMa/b) and 4Q493 (4QMc): Unestablished War Visions  1 4Q491b (4QMa/b)  2 4Q493 (4QMc)  3 Summary of 4Q491b and 4Q493 4 4Q494 (4QMd) and 4Q471 (4QWar Scroll-like Text B): Texts that Overlap with 1QM 2?  1 4Q494 (4QMd)  2 4Q471 (4QWar Scroll-like Text B)  3 Summary of 4Q494 and 4Q471 5 4Q495 (4QMe): Remnants of a War Text? 6 4Q496 (4QpapMf) and 4Q497 (4QpapWar Scroll-like Text A): Opisthographic War Text Manuscripts  1 4Q496 (4QpapMf)  2 4Q497 (4QpapWar Scroll-like Text A)  3 The Opisthographic Nature of 4Q496 and 4Q497 7 4Q285 and 11Q14: Sefer ha-Milḥamah Texts  1 4Q285 and 11Q14 as Material Artifacts  2 Mutual Relationship between 4Q285 and 11Q14  3 Content and Textual Relationship to M Manuscripts Part 2: Discussion 8 Naming and Categorizing the War Texts  1 Ancient Titles  2 Modern Titles  3 Further Reflection 9 Transmitting the Subgenres in the M Tradition  1 Battle Instructions  2 Encouragement Speeches and the Hymnic Material  3 Chief Priest Tradition and the Lateness of 1QM 13  4 1QM in the Light of the 4QM Manuscripts 10 Section Markers in M Tradition Summary and Conclusions Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisThis is a biography of Queen Berenice, the daughter of King Agrippa I, sister of King Agrippa II, wife of two kings and lover of the emperor designate Flavius Titus. A Jew of the 1st century, she witnessed some of the foundational events of her time like the emergence of Christianity and the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, is. She met and socialized with the most important people of her day - Philo the Philosopher (who was at one time her brother-in-law), Paul the Apostle (whose trial she witnessed) and Josephus the Historian who told part of her story.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Methodology  1 Chronology  2 Silencing  3 Disparagement 2 Berenice’s Foremothers: A Long Line of Hasmonean and Herodian Queens  1 Simon the Hasmonean’s Nameless Wife, Berenice’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother (ca. 180 BCE–135 BCE)  2 John Hyrcanus I’s Nameless Wife, Berenice’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother (ca. 155 BCE–104 BCE)  3 Salina Alexandra, Judah Aristobulus I’s Widow, Berenice’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Aunt (ca. 140 BCE–ca. 90 BCE)  4 Queen Shelamzion-Alexandra, Berenice’s Great-Great-Great- Great-Grandmother (140 BCE–67 BCE)  5 Aristobulus II’s Wife, Berenice’s Great-Great-Great-Grandmother (ca. 90–ca. 50 BCE)  6 Alexandra, Berenice’s Great-Great-Grandmother (ca. 70 BCE– 26 BCE)  7 Miriam the Hasmonean, Berenice’s Paternal Great-Grandmother (53–29 BCE)  8 Salome, Herod’s Sister, Berenice’s Maternal Great-Grandmother (ca. 60 BCE–12 CE)  9 Berenice, Aristobulus IV’s Wife, Berenice’s Grandmother (ca. 33 BCE–23 CE)  10 Herodias, Berenice’s Paternal Aunt (ca. 10 BCE–ca. 50 CE)  11 Cypros, Berenice’s Mother (ca. 10–ca. 50 CE) 3 Berenice’s Early Years  1 Judea 28–42 CE  2 Alexandria 42–44 CE  3 Chalcis 3.1.1  Herod of Chalcis 3.1.2  Agrippa I’s Death 3.1.3  Mother Berenice 3.1.4  Herod of Chalcis’ Death 3.2.1  Queen of Chalcis 3.2.2  Brother and Sister (on Killer-Wives and Homosexuality)  4 Caesarea-Philippi/Cilicia/Jerusalem (54 CE–66 CE) 4.1.1  Herodian Women Divorcing Their Husbands 4.1.2  Foreign Dignitaries Converting to Judaism for the Sake of a Herodian Marriage 4.1.3  Jealousy 4.1.4  Incest 4 The War with Rome 66–73 CE  1 Jerusalem 66 CE 1.1.1  Excursus: Berenice and Judaism  2 Caesarea-Philippi 66–70 CE 5 Berenice in Rome  1 The Roman Way of Telling the Story of the Berenice-Titus Romance 1.2.1  Catamites and Eunuchs 1.2.2  “Cleopatra Minor” 1.2.3  Invitus invitam 1.2.4  Excursus: Rome’s Cleopatra  2 Other Information about Berenice in Rome 6 Berenice’s End: Reception History and Fiction  1 Berenice of Sardinia  2 The French School  3 The Jewish Interpretation  4 But She Came Back to (or Stayed in) Rome  5 A Final Speculation 7 Julia Crispina, Berenice’s (Female) Descendant Two Conclusions  1 The Men in Her Life  2 The First Century Appendix  Berenice’s Timeline Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Ma‘asé-Ester, “Esther’s affairs”, is a 14th-century Judeo-Provençal poem on the story of Esther, intended for a recital during the banquet for Purim. The short poem – recently discovered in the single manuscript that preserves it – is a new precious document that enriches a small corpus of medieval Judeo-Provençal texts. This book offers the first critical edition of the complete text accompanied by a detailed study of the sources and the language. It guides us in understanding why the story of Esther became such a popular theme in 14th-century Provence, and in what way the Avignon Papacy and the studies on Moses Maimonides influenced this literary novelty.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Editor’s Note Introduction  1 Judeo-Provençal Texts on Queen Esther: Dates and Context  2 Narrating Purim in Medieval Provence: Wine Songs and Prayers  3 Esther, an Inspirational Example of Provençal Jews  4 Roman d’ Esther: Text, Author, Audience  5 Biblical Inspiration and Jewish Themes  6 Romanz and Romance Themes  7 The Omniscient Author, the Modernization and the Irony  8 Maʿasé-Ester or “Esther’s Affairs”  9 Text, Content and Style  10 Metrical Structure  11 Between Oral Tradition and Authorial Rearrangement  12 A Text in Search of an Author The Maʿasé-Esther: Text and Commentary 1 The Text 2 Alterations in the Manuscript 3 Maʿasé-Esther  1 Text  2 Notes to the Text 4 Linguistic Study  1 Phonetics: Vocalism  2 Phonetics: Consonantism  3 Morphology  4 Syntax  5 Vocabulary 5 Glossary of Provençal Terms 6 Glossary of Hebrew Terms 7 Transcription of the Manuscript Text 8 Transcription in Latin Letters 9 The Codex unicus  1 The ms. Rome, Casanatense 3140  2 Physical Description of the Manuscript and the Scripts  3 Structure  4 State of Preservation  5 Decorations, Notes and Annotations to the Text  6 A Composite Manuscript  7 Story of a Book and of the Person Who Wrote it  8 Watermarks  9 Ms. Rome, Casanatense 3140: Photo-Reproductions of Fols. 190v–192r Bibliography Index of Special Terms

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Book SynopsisThis Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion contributes cases of encounters, diversities and distances to an emerging Jewish-Muslim Studies field. The scholarly essays address both discourses about and lived experiences of minorities in contemporary French, German and UK cities. The authors explore how particular modes of governance and secularism shape individual and collective identities while new technologies re-make interfaith encounters. This volume shows that Middle Eastern and North African pasts and presents weigh on European realities, examines how the pull of Jewish intellectual history is felt by a new generation of Muslim scholars and activists, and uncovers how Orthodox communities negotiate living side by side.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Jews and Muslims in Europe. Between Discourse and Experience   Ben Gidley and Samuel Sami Everett part 1 Jews and Muslims in Germany 1 Abrahamic Stranger Muslim German Intellectuals on Jewish German Intellecturals and Questions of Belonging   Elisabeth Becker and Ufuk Topkara 2 Desiring Memorials Jews, Muslims, and the Human of Citizenship   Sultan Doughan 3 The Politics of Hospitality Welcome and Not So Welcome Middle Easterners in Germany   Dani Kranz 4 Precarious Companionship Discourses of Adversity and Commonality in Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Initiatives in Germany   Alexander-Kenneth Nagel and Dekel Peretz part 2 Muslims and Jews in France 5 Learning the Language of the Other? Hebrew and Arabic in Two Parisian Associations   Samia Hathroubi 6 Between Meta-History and Memory Narrating the Jewish-Muslim Past in Morocco and Present in France   Nadia Malinovich 7 Constructing the Otherness of Jews and Muslims in France   Hanane Karimi 8 Jews and Muslims in Sarcelles Face to Face or Side by Side?   Nonna Mayer and Vincent Tiberj part 3 Jews and Muslims in the UK 9 The Avoidance of Love? Rubbing Shoulders in the Secular City   Ruth Sheldon 10 “This Is Just Where We Are in History” Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Temporality, and Modalities of Solidarity   Yulia Egorova 11 Orthodox Fraternities and Contingent Equalities Muslims and Jews between Public (Health) Policy Discourse and Experience   Ben Kasstan 12 Locality, Spatiality and Contingency in East London An Interview with Michael Keith   Ben Gidley Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a new and inclusive approach to Western exegesis up to 1100. For too long, modern scholars have examined Jewish and Christian exegesis apart from each other. This is not surprising, given how religious, social, and linguistic borders separated Jews and Christians. But they worked to a great extent on the same texts. Christians were keenly aware that they relied on translation. The contributions to this volume reveal how both sides worked on parallel tracks, posing similar questions and employing more or less the same techniques, and in some rare instances, interdependently.

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Book SynopsisTargum Canticles, composed in the dialectally eclectic idiom of Late Jewish Literary Aramaic (LJLA), had immense historic popularity among Jewish communities worldwide. In this work, Paul R. Moore thoroughly analyses several of the Targum’s grammatical peculiarities overlooked by previous studies. Through this prism, he considers its literary influences, composition, and LJLA as a precursor of the highly eccentric Aramaic of the 13th century Spanish cabalistic masterpiece, The Zohar. The study includes transcriptions and analysis of the previously unpublished of fragments of the Targum from the Cairo Geniza, and what is possibly its earliest, known translation into Judaeo-Arabic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Symbols, Terminology, and Conventions 1 Introduction 2 Dialect 3 Recensions  1 Critical Editions 4 Date of Composition  1 Arabic Influence  2 The Ishmaelites  3 Olibanum? 5 Nominal State 6 Verbal Stems  1 Phonological Development?  2 Recalibration of Semantic Ranges  3 Non-normative Infinitives  4 Summary 7 Gender  1 Feminine Nouns with Masculine Agreement  2 Androgyny: נפש  3 Masculine Nouns with Feminine Agreement  4 Gender Shift: בההיא זמנא  5 Gender Shift: בעידנא ההיא 8 Semantic Anomalies  1 אילולי  2 מאים  3 אן  4 פון  5 √חקקG  6 Summary 9 Argument Marking  1 Synthetic Pronominal Object Constructions  2 Repurposing of mt Argument Markers  3 Alternation between ית and ל  4 Arguments Marked by מן  5 Arguments Marked by ב  6 Mis-readings of TgShir 1.8—the Volitive אי בעיא  7 Mis-readings of TgShir 1.8—the Infinitive למיחי  8 Possible Misreading of TgShir 1.10  9 Use of ב to Encode goal Arguments of Verbs of Motion  10 Marking of Causee in Adjuration Formulae  11 Marking of Comparata 10 Quotative Construction: Verb of Speaking + וכן אמר 11 Conclusions 12 Geniza Fragments Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, T-S B11.81 & T-S NS 312  1 Introduction  2 Annotated Transcription 13 Geniza Fragment Oxford, Bodleian Library, Heb. f. 56 (folios 105a–113a)  1 Introduction  2 Linguistic Profile of the Judaeo-Arabic Translation  3 Annotated Transcription Appendix 1: The Isaianic Citation in TgShir 1.1 Appendix 2: The Syntax of TgShir 2.6 Appendix 3: The Text of TgShir 5.3 Appendix 4: The Syntax of TgShir 5.11 Appendix 5: The Lexica of TgShir & Zoharic Literature Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Lexemes Indexof Primary Sources

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Book SynopsisFor Jews and Christians in Antiquity beliefs about demons were integral to their reflections on fundamental theological questions, but what kind of ‘being’ did they consider demons to be? To what extent were they thought to be embodied? Were demons thought of as physical entities or merely as metaphors for social and psychological realities? What is the relation between demons and the hypostatization of abstract concepts (fear, impurity, etc) and baleful phenomenon such as disease? These are some of the questions that this volume addresses by focussing on the nature and characteristics of demons — what one might call ‘demonic ontology’.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Hector M. Patmore and Josef Lössl 1 Demonic Exegesis  Hector M. Patmore 2 Δαίμονες and Demons in Hellenistic Judaism: Continuities and Transformations  Anna Angelini 3 The Demon Asmodeus in the Tobit Tradition: His Nature and Character  Beate Ego 4 Paul’s Suprahumanizing Exegesis: Rewriting the Defeat of God’s Enemies in 1 Corinthians, Romans, and Ephesians  John K. Goodrich 5 Courting Daimons in Corinth: Daimonic Partnerships, Cosmic Hierarchies and Divine Jealousy in 1 Corinthians 8–10  Matthew Sharp 6 Demons and Vices in Early Christianity  Tom de Bruin 7 The ‘Demonogony’ of Tatian’s Oratio ad Graecos: Jewish and Greek Influences  Josef Lössl 8 St. Jerome, Demons, and Jewish Tradition  C. T. R. Hayward 9 Demonic “Tollhouses” and Visions of the Afterlife in Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria’s Homily: De exitu animi  Emmanouela Grypeou 10 The Naked Demon: Alternative Interpretations of the Alexamenos Graffito  Hagit Amirav and Peter-Ben Smit 11 Negotiating Danger: Demonic Manipulations in Jewish Babylonia  Alexander W. Marcus 12 Demons and Scatology: Cursed Toilets and Haunted Baths in Late Antique Judaism  Ilaria Briata 13 The King of Demons in the Universe of the Rabbis  Reuven Kiperwasser 14 The Gender and Sexuality of Demons in the Art of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls  Naama Vilozny Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume focuses on Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246–after 1310), the first scholar to bring Ibn Ezra’s astrological work to the knowledge of Latin readers. The volume has two main objectives. The first is to offer as complete and panoramic an account as possible of Bate’s translational project. Therefore, this volume offers critical editions of all six of Bate’s complete translations of Ibn Ezra’s astrological writings. The second objective is to accompany Bate’s Latin translations with literal English translations and to offer a thorough collation of the Latin translation (with their English translations) against the Hebrew and French source texts. This is volume 2 of a two-volume set.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains fifteen essays in honor of L. Michael White, whose work has been influential in exploring the social histories of ancient Jews and Christians within the Graeco-Roman world. Following an introduction that highlights some of White’s main scholarly contributions, the essays are grouped into three topic areas: Paul and his Legacy, Social Relations, and Material Culture. The essays are united by an interest in reconstructing the social worlds of ancient Jews and Christians through careful analysis of literary sources and material culture in their most precise ancient contexts.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Jaimie Gunderson, Tony Keddie, and Douglas Boin Selected Publications of L. Michael White Part 1: Paul and His Legacy 1 Are Paul’s Moral Teachings Designed for Ordinary Humans?  Stanley Stowers 2 Gods and Non-Gods in Galatians: Reconsidering Paul’s Stoicheia  Emma Wasserman 3 Crisis Management and Boundary Maintenance Gentile Christ-Followers, Multiple Identities, and Sacrificial Practices in Corinth  Richard A. Wright 4 Corinthian PDA Medea Monuments, 2 Corinthians, and the Negotiation of Grief  Jaimie Gunderson 5 The Function of Paul’s Grief in Romans 9:1–2 in Light of Hellenistic Moral Philosophy Transforming Gentiles’ Misunderstanding and Boasting  Jin Young Kim 6 Reading between Two Worlds Philippians and the Formation of Pauline Letter Collections  Angela Standhartinger Part 2: Social Relations 7 Dining in Martial’s World  John T. Fitzgerald 8 The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence about Christians as Epistolary Fiction  Tony Keddie 9 Did Paganism’s First Intellectual Encounter with Christianity Include a Jew? Celsus and Philo  Gregory E. Sterling 10 Social Relations between Jews and Christians in the Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity  Ross S. Kraemer Part 3: Material Culture 11 Greek Tragedy, Pompeian Amphitheater Art, and Christian Martyrs in Nero’s Gardens 1 Clem. 6.2 and Tacitus, Ann. 15.44  David L. Balch 12 Putting Gods in Their Place Terracotta Figurines Discovered in the Synagogue Complex at Ostia  Mary Jane Cuyler 13 The Production of Late-Antique Lamps with Jewish Symbols in Rome and Ostia  Letizia Ceccarelli 14 The Archaeology of Two Early Gospels P.Oxy. 1 and 2 and the Trash Mounds of Oxyrhynchus  Geoffrey S. Smith 15 The Latinity of the Muratorian Fragment “Life to the Reader, Forgiveness to the Scribe, Salvation to the Possessor”  Clare K. Rothschild Index of Ancient Sources Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisMedia studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. This volume is designed to evaluate the status quaestionis of the Dead Sea Scrolls as products of an ancient media culture, with leading scholars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and related disciplines reviewing how scholarship has addressed issues of ancient media in the past, assessing the use of media criticism in current research, and outlining potential directions for future discussions.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Chris Keith 2 Studies in Ancient Media Culture: An Overview  Travis B. Williams Part 1: Past Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media 3 Textuality and the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Examination of Modern Approaches and Recent Trends  Travis B. Williams 4 Is There a Spoken Voice in This Cave? Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls  Shem Miller 5 Ritual Studies and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Review  Michael DeVries and Jutta Jokiranta Part 2: Present Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media 6 Book Production and Circulation in Ancient Judaea: Evidenced by Writing Quality and Skills in the Dead Sea Scrolls Isaiah and Serekh Manuscripts  Mladen Popović 7 4Q169 (Pesher Nahum) in Its Ancient Media Context  Pieter B. Hartog 8 The Copper Scroll: The Medium, the Context and the Archaeology  Joan E. Taylor 9 Curated Communities: Refracted Realities at Qumran and on Social Media  Charlotte Hempel 10 Orality and Written-ness in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Where Have We Got to and Where Are We Going?  George J. Brooke 11 Rituals as Media: Shared, Embodied, and Extended Knowledge Mediation in Rituals  Jutta Jokiranta 12 Rations, Refreshments, Reading, and Revelation: The Multifunction of the Common Meal in the Qumran Movement  Cecilia Wassén Part 3: Future Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media 13 Mediated Textuality: Ambient Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls  Maxine L. Grossman 14 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A View from New Testament Studies  Chris Keith 15 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Classicist’s View  William A. Johnson Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient Sources

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Book SynopsisThe books of Enoch are famed for having been “lost” in the Middle Ages but “rediscovered” by modern scholars. But was this really the case? This volume is the first to explore the reception of Enochic texts and traditions between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bringing specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, it reveals a much richer story with a more global scope. Contributors show how Enoch and the era before the Flood were newly reimagined, not just by scholars, but also by European artists and adventurers, Kabbalists, Sufis, Mormons, and Ethiopian and Slavonic Christians.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ariel Hessayon and Gabriele Boccaccini Part 1: European Traditions and Trajectories before James Bruce’s “Discovery” and Its Impact 1 Enoch Lost and Found?  Rethinking Enochic Reception in the Middle Ages  Annette Yoshiko Reed 2 The Book of Enoch in Relation to the Premodern Christian Doctrines of Spiritual Beings  Euan Cameron 3 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Enoch, and Hermetism  Giulio Busi 4 Earliest Commentaries on 1 Enoch before Laurence  Pompeo Sarnelli (1710) and Daniele Manin (1820)  Gabriele Boccaccini 5 Enoch and the Genesis of Freemasonry  Tobias Churton 6 Blake’s Enoch before the Book of Enoch  Francis Borchardt 7 Enoch in the Tradition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism)  Jared W. Ludlow Part 2: Revisiting James Bruce’s “Discovery” and Its Impact 8 James Bruce’s Illusory “Book of Enoch the Prophet”  Ted M. Erho 9 James Bruce and His Copies of Ethiopic Enoch  Ariel Hessayon 10 A “Rich and Unparalleled Collection”  The Afterlives of James Bruce’s Manuscripts and Drawings  Ariel Hessayon 11 When Enoch Left Ethiopia  On Race and Philological (Im)possibilities in the Nineteenth Century  Elena Dugan Part 3: Enoch beyond Europe 12 The Reception and Function of 1 Enoch in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition  Ralph Lee 13 The Archangel Uriel in 1 Enoch and Other Ethiopian Texts  Daniel Assefa 14 Scales of Creation or Scales of Judgment?  Variant Readings for Parables of Enoch 41 and 43  Robert G. Hall 15 Heavenly Exiles and Earthly Outcasts  Enochic Concepts of Hermetic Knowledge and Proscribed Lore in Parabiblica Slavica (Fifteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)  Florentina Badalanova Geller 16 Enoch as Idrīs in Early Modern Ottoman Sufi Writings  Two Case Studies  Kameliya Atanasova 17 Why Enoch Did Not Die  The Soul Construction of Enoch in the Zohar and Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah  Shaul Magid Appendix: The Earliest English Translations and Synopses of Ethiopic Enoch (1770–1820)  Ariel Hessayon

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Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates Jodi Magness’s long and illustrious career as a scholar of archaeology, early Judaism, and the ancient Mediterranean world. It brings together a series of studies on history, archaeology, and society in Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient synagogues, written by her colleagues, students, and friends. The collected essays reflect the extraordinary range of historical and archaeological issues which Magness has elucidated through her outstanding work, as well as make significant contributions to their respective fields. Some articles publish archaeological data for the first time, others re-evaluate traditional assumptions within new methodological or theoretical frameworks, and others proffer innovative interpretations of old data.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations List of Ancient Sources Pushing Sacred Boundaries: Celebrating the Career and Contributions of Jodi Magness  Matthew J. Grey, Tine Rassalle and Dennis Mizzi Publications by Jodi Magness lix Part 1: History, Archaeology, and Society in Roman through Early Islamic Palestine 1 Where Did the Second Temple Period Low-Level Aqueduct Enter the Herodian Temple Mount? A View from the Western Wall Plaza  Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah 2 Textual and Material Lazarus in Dialogue: Reading John 11:1–44 (53) from Its Intra-textual and Extra-Textual Worlds  Jürgen K. Zangenberg 3 “Where May I Eat the Passover with My Disciples?”: Reassessing the Urban Setting, Furnished Room, and Dining Practices of Jesus’s Last Supper  Matthew J. Grey 4 Stamping Out the Embers: Roman “Mopping-Up” Operations at the End of the First Jewish Revolt  Gwyn Davies 5 Athletic Competitions as Markers of Religious Identity in Caesarea Insights from Origen’s Newly Discovered Homilies, the Second Sophistic, and Rabbinic Literature  Maren R. Niehoff 6 Was There a Constantinian Edict Prohibiting Jews from Entering Jerusalem? Notes on Fact and Fiction  Oded Irshai 7 Unitary Coaxial and Arterial Agricultural Field Systems in the Southern Levant: Evidence of Rural Land Divisions of Late Roman Date  Shimon Gibson and Rafael Y. Lewis 8 Settlement Patterns and Economy in the Negev and Southern Palestine in the Sixth–Eighth Centuries CE: A Reevaluation  Gideon Avni Part 2: Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls 9 The Effects of Hasmonaean Policy on the Qumran Community: History, Theology, and Archaeology  Kenneth Atkinson 10 Qumran-Related History: Contemporaries Jannaeus, Absalom, and Judah the Essene  Stephen Goranson 11 Economic Activity, Trade, and Manufacture at Qumran, with a Special Look at the Inscriptions and Documentary Texts  Sidnie White Crawford 12 The Burial of Sealed Jars in the Qumran Cemetery: Disposal of Consecrated Property?  Dennis Mizzi 13 Timothy I of Seleucia and the Story behind the Disappearance of the Scrolls from Qumran’s Cave XII/53  Oren Gutfeld 14 Purity as Separation: Comparing the Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Literature, and the New Testament  Lawrence H. Schiffman 15 Metaphors of Sin in the Qumran Texts: A Working Typology, and Two Examples  Joseph Lam 16 Resurrection, Interred Bodies, and a Northern Paradise  James C. VanderKam Part 3: The Development of Ancient Synagogues 17 Proximity to Purity: A Spatial Analysis of Late Second Temple Synagogues and Miqwa‌ʾot  Brian A. Coussens 18 Gender, Time, and Space in Early Synagogue Complexes: Reflections on the Andrōn and the Gunaikōnitis in Texts and Archaeology  Joan E. Taylor 19 A Roman Period Synagogue at Shiḥin  Mordechai Aviam and James Riley Strange 20 Synagogues in Palaestina Secunda in the Fifth–Seventh Centuries CE: How Many Have Been Found and How Many Are Still Missing?  Chaim Ben-David 21 Jerusalem in Galilee: Urban Architecture and Communal Belonging in a Mosaic from a Rural Synagogue  Karen Britt and Raʿanan Boustan 22 Two Phases of the Polychrome Plaster of the Ḥuqoq Synagogue  Shana O’Connell Indexes

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of one of the most important treatises written during the late-Middle Ages in defense of converts from Judaism, favoring religious tolerance in the face of religious and racially motivated prejudice and violence. The book also includes a fresh Latin edition, drawing on all known manuscripts. The text was written in response to the actions of the "Old Christians" of Toledo against the "New Christians," also called conversos, in 1449. A letter of Pope Nicholas V favouring the converts is included.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Juan de Torquemada’s Defense of the Conversos  1 The Revolt in Toledo, 1449  2 The Manuscripts, Editions and Translation  3 Conspectus siglorum Tract against the Midianites and Ishmaelites, Foes and Detractors of the Faithful Who Originated from the Israelite People  [Prologue]  1 In Which It Is Shown from a Description of the Quality of the Aforesaid Trial That It Is of No Force or Moment  2 In Which the Things Cited against Christ’s Faithful Descended from the Israelite People Are Proved to Be Erroneous  3 In Which It Is Shown That the Second Foundation Cited by the Foe in Favor of Their Impiety against Those Newly Converted to Christ’s Faith Descended from the Israelite Nation Is Erroneous and Blasphemous  4 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Refuted in a Second Way, with Reasons  5 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Reproved from the Divine Promises Made to the Israelite People  6 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Reproved from the Deeds Done by Christ among the Jewish People  7 In Which One Authority Cited in Favor and Proof of Their Aforesaid Errors Is Answered  8 In Which the Second Authority Cited on the Part of the Foe Is Answered  9 In Which the Third Authority Cited for the Adverse Part Is Answered  10 In Which the Fourth Authority Cited for the Adverse Part Is Answered  11 In Which the Fifth Passage Cited by the Often-Mentioned Midianites and Ishmaelites in Favor and Support of Their Sacrilegious Presumption Is Answered  12 In Which the Principal Conclusion of the Foe Is Shown from the above to Be False and Erroneous  13 That the Unbelief of Those from Whom They Descend Must Not Be Imputed to Those Converted to Christ’s Faith from the People of the Jews  14 In Which Reasons Are Assigned Why Converts to Christ’s Faith, and Especially Those from the Israelite People, Are Not to Be Despised by the Other Faithful, but Rather Loved and Honored  15 In Which the Error and Malice of Those Who Presume to Posit a Difference between Those Converted from the Israelite People and Other Christians Is Confuted  16 In Which Those Things Which the Aforesaid Adversaries Cite in Favor of Their Rashness Are Answered Appendix: Pope Nicholas V: Humani generis inimicus (Fabriano, 24 September 1449) Bibliography Index of Scripture References Index of Classical and Medieval Authors Index of Scholars Cited

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Book SynopsisRoman Judaea, Christian origins, and Roman-Judaean-Christian relations are flourishing fields of endless fascination. Amid the flurry of new research, however, which uses ever new methods in the humanities and social sciences, basic questions about what happened and how people then understood events are easily obscured. This book argues that a simple but consistent historical method can throw new light – and challenge entrenched views – on such familiar topics as Roman provincial governance, the Jewish War, Flavian politics, Judaea after King Herod, Jewish and Christian historiography, Pharisees and Essenes, John the Baptist, the apostle Paul, and Luke-Acts.

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Book SynopsisTwenty-eight rewritten and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly published between 2019 and 2022 are presented in the fifth volume of the author's collected essays. They are joined by an unpublished study, an unpublished "reflection" on the development of text-critical research in 1970-2020 and the author's academic memoirs. All the topics included in this volume are at the forefront of textual research.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables Sources Abbreviations and Sources Part 1 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible 1 The Possible Revision of Hebrew Texts according to the Masoretic Text 2 Textual Harmonization in Leviticus 3 The Tenth Commandment of the Samaritans 4 The Philosophy of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta Edition 5 The Formation of the (ProtoMasoretic Text 6 Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, Le livre de Jérémie en perspective: “Introductory Remarks” 7 Orthographic Practices of the Biblical Texts 8 The Last Stage of the Literary History of the Book of Jeremiah 9 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible in the Digital Age: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Use of Digital Tools 10 Vox Clamantis in Deserto: The History of the Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Isaiah 40:3 11 Copying the Torah: From the Time of the Judean Desert Scrolls to Modern Times Part 2 The Septuagint 12 From a Popular Jewish LXX-SP Text Block to Separate Group Texts: Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls 13 The Textual Value of the Septuagint Version of the Minor Prophets 14 The Interaction between Theological and Text-Critical Approaches 15 The Renderings of the Divine Names in the Greek Torah 16 The Use of the Earliest Greek Scripture Fragments in Text Editions 17 The Palestinian Source of the Greek Translation of the Torah 18 Papyrus Nash and the Septuagint 19 Different Textual Traditions about Sheshonq-Shishak in the Hebrew and Greek Bible 20 The Use of the Septuagint in Critical Commentaries 21 P.Vindob.G. 39777 (Symmachus) and the Use of the Divine Names in Greek Scripture Texts 22 The LXX Translators’ Procedures in Representing Proper Names: Consistency in Representation Part 3 The Dead Sea Scrolls 23 The Qumran Tefillin and Their Possible Master Copies 24 The Background and Origin of the Qumran Corpus of Scripture Texts 25 Approaches of Scribes to the Biblical Text in Ancient Israel 26 ‘Luxury Scrolls’ from the Judean Desert Part 4 Reflections 27 Has the Field of Textual Criticism Changed in the Past Half-Century (1970–2023)? 28 Some Academic Memoirs Index of Ancient Sources Index of Authors

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Book SynopsisThe Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their audience, which has since been reduced by centuries of preaching and repetition. Not only do parables enhance the perspective on Scripture or the kingdom of heaven, they also change the sensory regime of the audience in perceiving the outer world. The theological differences in their applications appear secondary in view of their powerful rhetoric and suggest a shared genre.Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Contributors Introduction  Eric Ottenheijm, Marcel Poorthuis and Annette Merz Part 1: Parables and Realism 1 Genres of Parables: A Cognitive Approach  Gerd Theissen 2 A Parable of the Lost Temple? Archaeology, Intertextuality, and Rhetoric in Matt 21:33−46  Eric Ottenheijm and Boaz Zissu 3 Whom Do You Invite to the Table? Connections between the Dropsical Guest and the Meal Parables in Luke 14:1–24  Bart J. Koet 4 Parable and Ritual in Changing Contexts  Adiel Kadari 5 Sorting out “New and Old” (Matt 13:52) as Changing Money: Rabbinic and Synoptic Parables on Scriptural Knowledge  Eric Ottenheijm 6 The Rabbinic Mashal and the Ancient Fable: Prospects for a Changing Perspective  Justin David Strong Part 2: Parables and Application 7 Parables between Folk and Elite  Tal Ilan 8 Money and Torah in Early Christian and Early Rabbinic Parables  Lieve M. Teugels 9 On Fields, the Poor Human Condition, and the Advantage of One Teacher: Four Rabbinic Parables in Avot de Rabbi Nathan  Marcel Poorthuis 10 Honouring Human Agency and Autonomy: Children as Agents in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Parables  Annette Merz and Albertina Oegema 11 Father’s Child: Fatherhood in the Rabbinic Parables of Song of Songs Rabbah  Tamar Kadari 12 Why Are Biblical Verses Not Quoted in Parables? A Cultural-Cognitive Explanation  Ronit Nikolsky 13 Moses’s Prayer and the Nimshal as Scriptural Mosaic  Arnon Atzmon Part 3: Parables and Social Reality 14 Metaphors, Parables, and the Bildfeld  Petra von Gemünden 15 Jesus’s Parables Create Collective Identity: Parables of Growth through the Lens of Social Identity Theory  Ruben Zimmermann 16 Host and Guests: Some Features of the Eschatological Banquet in Rabbinic Parables and Gospels  Reuven Kiperwasser 17 New Testament and Rabbinic Slave Parables at the Intersection between Fiction and Reality  Catherine Hezser 18 Parables between Realism and Ideology  Anders Martinsen 19 Building a Fence Around the Vineyard: The Shepherd of Hermas’s Fifth Parable in Light of Comparative Parable Research  Martijn J. Stoutjesdijk 20 The Land of Israel as Diasporic Topos in Rabbinic Parables  Constanza Cordoni Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Index of Names and Subjects

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Book SynopsisMartin Goodman’s forty years of scholarship in Roman history and ancient Judaism demonstrates how each discipline illuminates the other: Jewish history makes best sense in a broader Greco-Roman context; Roman history has much to learn from Jewish sources and evidence. In this volume, Martin’s colleagues and students follow his example by examining Jews and non-Jews in mutual contemplation. Part 1 explores Jews’ views of inter-communal stasis, the causes of the Bar Kochba revolt, tales of Herodian intrigue, and the meaning of “Israel.” Part 2 investigates Jews depiction of outsiders: Moabites, Greeks, Arabs, and Roman authorities. Part 3 explores early Christians’ (Luke, Jerome, Rufinus, Syriac poetry, Pionius, ordinary individuals) views of Jews and use of Jewish sources, and Josephus’s relevance for girls in 19th century Britain.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Contributors Introduction  Kimberley Czajkowski and David Friedman Part 1: Looking In 1 Historiography in the Time of Stasis: Reflections on the Nationalistic Uprisings in Judea/Palestine  Jonathan Price 2 The Ban on Circumcision as a Cause of the Bar Kokhba Revolt: A Reconsideration  Aharon Oppenheimer z”l 3 “When I Die, Kill Those Elders”: The Twice-Told Tale of a Despot’s Death  Amram Tropper 4 Pitying Suppliant Animals  Shaye J. D. Cohen 5 Who Are Israel in the Mishnah and Tosefta?  Yehudah B. Cohn Part 2: Looking Out 6 Playing with the Moabites: Textual and Linguistic Reflections on Isaiah 15–16  H. G. M. Williamson 7 Greek Identity in Josephus’s Against Apion  Jonathan Davies 8 Josephus and Nicolaus on Arabs and Arabia  Daniel R. Schwartz 9 Calendars and Dates in the Early Decades of Provincia Arabia: A Reappraisal  Sacha Stern 10 The Rule of the Wise as an Alternative to Kingship and Democracy in Ancient Rabbinic and Philosophical Thought  Catherine Hezser 11 A Tale of Two Cities: Rome and Jerusalem in Jewish Eschatology between 70 CE and 135 CE  Philip Alexander Part 3: Looking Back Again 12 Monotheism and Religious Wars in Antiquity  Benjamin Isaac 13 Did First-Century Asian Jews Live in “Communities”?  Seth Schwartz 14 Jewish–Christian Polemic in Martyrium Pionii  William Horbury 15 Friendships between Jews and Christians in Antiquity  Markus Bockmuehl 16 Jerome, Jews, and “Hebrews”  Alison G. Salvesen 17 Rufinus of Aquileia’s Eusebian Therapeutae: A Monastic Reinterpretation of Philo’s De vita contemplativa  Sabrina Inowlocki 18 Antiochus Proposes, Shmoni Disposes: A Syriac Poem on the Martyrs of 2 Maccabees 7  Sebastian Brock 19 Josephus for Girls  Tessa Rajak Appendix: M. D. Goodman’s Publications Index of Ancient Sources Index of Authors Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe present volume contains articles based on papers delivered at the two international conferences organized as part of the Between Two Worlds research project in 2017 and 2019. Obadiah Sforno was an influential Jewish thinker of sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance, whose religious and exegetical authority has had an enduring legacy. The collected essays offer an unprecedented and much desired overview of his life and thought with an emphasis on the neglected philosophical dimension of his oeuvre, as seen in both his biblical commentaries and his sole philosophical treatise Light of the Nations.Table of ContentsContents Prelude Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Obadiah Sforno: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance  Giuseppe Veltri Part 1: Biography 2 Sforno on Wealth, Work, and Charity  Andrew Berns 3 Roman Holiday: Conjectures on Johann Reuchlin as a Pupil of Obadiah Sforno  Saverio Campanini Part 2: Philosophy 4 “A Fourth Kind of Being”: The Legacy of Averroes in Obadiah Sforno’s Theory of the Intellect  Symon Foren 5 Averroes and Sforno on God’s Knowledge of Particulars  Steven Harvey 6 The Concept of Time in Sforno: The Philosophical and Exegetical Interpretation of the Creation of the World  Giada Coppola 7 Sforno on Intellectual imitatio Dei  Warren Zev Harvey 8 Between Two Versions: A Hebrew Manuscript and an Argument for Latin Priority  Florian Dunklau Part 3: Exegesis 9 Job et les fins de la providence : exégèse, théologie systématique et cohérence de l’œuvre de R. Obadia Sforno  Jean-Pierre Rothschild 10 The Footprints and Influence of Or ʿAmmim in Sforno’s Exegetical Works  Moshe Kravetz Part 4: Environment and Reception 11 Elijah da Nola and Moses Finzi: Medicine and Aristotelianism in Sixteenth-Century Bologna  Guido Bartolucci 12 The Philosophical Syntax of Obadiah Sforno’s Psalms Commentary  Yael Sela Index

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