Publications
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The Book of the Pomegranate: Moses de Leons Sefer H-Rimmon
(2020)
The Book of the Pomegranate is a Hebrew edition of an important work by the Spanish kabbalist Moses de Leon (ca. 1240-1305). Sefer Ha-Rimmon, which was written in 1287, is particularly significant for study of the Zohar ...
The Biblical Herem: A Window in Israels Religious Experience
(2020)
The Biblical Herem: A Window on Israel
Barukh Kurzweil and Modern Hebrew Literature
(2020)
This book is a study of one of the foremost critics of Hebrew literature, Barukh Kurzweil. Kurzweil provides a window into the growth of, and theoretical reflection on, Hebrew literature as both a national literature and ...
Ben Siras View of Women: A Literary Analysis
(2020)
An ""analysis of gender not only in the biblical (Apocrypha) book of Sirach but in literature from the Second Temple period more broadly. Trenchard's study remains important for thinking about ""misogyny"" in the ancient ...
Claude Montefiore and Christianity
(2020)
Claude Montefiore (1858-1938) was among the major founders of Anglo-Liberal Judaism and the World Union for Progressive Judaism, and was known for his radical ideas and deep sympathy for Christian ideas. This volume explores ...
The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature
(2020)
This volume contains six essays that address the ""synoptic problem"" in the study of rabbinic literature. As a whole, they argue for the utility of recognizing that rabbinic documents are as much collections of traditions ...
Support for the Poor in the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Tractate Peah
(2020)
This study seeks to uncover Tractate Peah's meaning by explaining its laws as they were understood by their authors around 200 C.E. Brooks offers both a new translation of the tractate as well as a commentary and study of ...
The Sanctity of the Seventh Year: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Shebiit
(2020)
This study is a translation and exegesis of Tractate Shebiit (The Sabbatical Year) in Mishnah and in its corresponding document, Tosefta. The goal of this volume is to explain the laws of this tractate as they were understood ...
Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands
(2020)
In Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, Nancy Sinkoff examines some of the thinkers, particularly Mendel Lefin and Joseph Perl, who as part of the Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah) of the ...
To Caesar What Is Caesars: Tribute, Taxes, and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine
(2020)
In this book, Fabian E. Udoh offers an exhaustive study of all the sources relating to taxation in Roman Palestine. Udoh concludes that by the standards of the Roman Empire, taxation in Palestine was not oppressive. This ...
A Wise and Discerning Mind: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long
(2020)
An edited volume of essays dealing with the Hebrew Bible and its cultural environment.
Vol. 1 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary
(2020)
This work, in three volumes, consists of a translation and critical commentary to folios 10b-17a of the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Megillah. The material contained therein comprises the only full midrashic exposition of ...
Vol. 3 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary
(2020)
This work, in three volumes, consists of a translation and critical commentary to folios 10b-17a of the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Megillah. The material contained therein comprises the only full midrashic exposition of ...
A Conceptual Commentary on Midrash Leviticus Rabbah: Value Concepts in Rabbinic Thought
(2020)
In this book Kadushin offers a running commentary on sections of Leviticus Rabbah. His goal is not only to explicate individual sections of this Late Antique midrashic work, but also to highlight the basic conceptual ...
The Human Will in Judaism: The Mishnahs Philosophy of Intention
(2020)
This volume examines the role of intention in the Mishnah. What role does intention play in fulfillment of God's commandments according to the rabbis of Late Antiquity?
Handbook of Synagogue Architecture
(2020)
Almost fifty years has passed since the publication of Marilyn J. Chiat
A History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods
(2020)
This study analyzes the history of the festival of Sukkot during the second temple and rabbinic periods. While the Jerusalem temple stood, Sukkot was the preeminent festival and primary pilgrimage. The cult observed the ...
A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Kilayim: Translation and Exegesis
(2020)
This volume presents a translation and exegesis of Mishnah's Tractate Kilayim (Mixed Species) in an effort to discover the original meaning of the tractate. This volume aims to identify the sense which the formulators of ...
Jewish Thought Adrift: Max Wiener
(2020)
Robert Schine
Mishnahs Theology of Tithing: A Study of Tractate Maaserot
(2020)
This study is a translation and exegesis of Mishnah ' s Tractate Maaserot (Tithes) and its corresponding tractate of Tosefta . The goal of the volume is to understand the laws of Maaserot as the tractate 's creator(s) ...
From Rebuke to Consolation
(2020)
This book contributes to the ongoing research into the emergence of rabbinic Judaism in the synagogue setting through a study of one constellation of rabbinic and synagogue literature, the sequence of prophetic lectionary ...
Tasting the Dish
(2020)
This book sits at the intersection of two topics, rabbinic constructions of sexuality and the rhetoric that the rabbis of late antiquity used to promote their sexual mores. Satlow goes underneath the rabbinic legislation ...
The Theology of Nahmanides Systematically Presented
(2020)
In Halakhah in a Theological Dimension, David Novak argues that Jewish law (halakhah) is grounded on a set of theological assumptions relating to the covenant between God and Israel. Novak’s study is fundamental for ...
Scholastic Rabbinism
(2020)
Scholastic Rabbinism is a study of two early rabbinic documents, Pirke Avot and the Avot d'Rabbi Natan. Saldarini's study examines the literary connections between these related documents while at the same time drawing ...
Early Rabbinic Civil Law
(2020)
This study focuses on tractate Baba Mesi‘a’ of the Mishnah, which deals primarily with contracts of various kinds. Lapin's book focuses both on the literary traits of the tractate and, more importantly, attempts to tease ...
The Jewish Family in Antiquity
(2020)
This volume serves as a contribution to the study of diasporas in antiquity and a stimulus to further investigations of other ancient diasporas and their effect. It is a culmination of discussions that took place during ...
Diasporas in Antiquity
(2020)
This volume consists of papers (or the offspring of papers) that were delivered by the Hellenistic Judaism section of the 1990 and 1991 annual meetings of the Society for Biblical Literature. In recognition of the fact ...
Goodenough on the Beginnings of Christianity
(2020)
Few scholars loom as large in the history of scholarship on ancient Judaism than does Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1893-1965). A professor at Yale University for forty years, Goodenough fundamentally changed our understanding ...
Ben Sira’s Teaching on Friendship
(2020)
The purpose of this study is to elucidate Ben Sira’s teaching on friendship within the religious and cultural context of his time, in view of the Hellenistic emphasis on philia (“friendship”). While friendship is of ...
The Libes Briv of Isaac Wetzlar
(2020)
Isaac Wetzlar was an eighteenth century wealthy merchant from Celle, Germany who spent many years reflecting on the socio-religious circumstances of German-Jewish society. He wrote Libes Brivin Yiddish as a critique of the ...
Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in their Interactions
(2020)
This is a collection of several of Goldstein's previously published articles. These articles deal with two themes that have animated much of Goldstein’s scholarly interests, intercultural borrowing and religious resistance ...
Essays on Biblical Method and Translation
(2020)
This collection of essays deals with two interwoven themes. The first is a critical reflection on the often theoretical underpinnings biblical studies. The second engage theoretical reflections on translating the Bible. ...
A Talmud in Exile
(2020)
This book is a targetted study engaging the widely known phenomenon that many tractates in the Babylonian Talmud exhibit broad similarities to their counterparts in the Palestinian Talmud. Gray argues that this is the ...
A History of the United Jewish Appeal
(2020)
The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was the primary Jewish philanthropic umbrella organization until it was combined with another philanthropic organization in 1999. Using original archival research, this volume traces the ...
The Book of the People
(2020)
This volume is an accessible commentary to the Torah, putting each of the books into its ancient Near Eastern context.
Some Jewish Women in Antiquity
(2020)
This book sets out to characterize different types of Jewish women in Eretz-Israel over an extended period of more than a thousand years, from the biblical period to the time of the Mishnah and Talmud. This is a study in ...
The Law of Jealousy
(2020)
This book applies anthropological insights to the understanding of an ancient and puzzling ritual, that of the sotah, or suspected adulteress. The ritual, initiated by a suspicious husband, was first described in Numbers ...
Kol Nidre
(2020)
This book is an introduction to the laws of oaths and vows of various types as they appear in biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic sources. These institutions developed over time, and the oaths and vows mentioned in Second ...
Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue
This book argues that women served as leaders in a number of synagogues during the Roman and Byzantine periods. The evidence for this consists of nineteen Greek and Latin inscriptions in which women bear the titles "head ...
The Priestly Gift of Mishnah
(2020)
This study systematically analyzes Tractate Terumot (heave-offerings) in the Mishnah and its corresponding document, the Tosefta. It provides a new translation of and commentary on Terumot and considers the shape and message ...