Publications
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Halakhah in a Theological Perspective
(2020)
This volume examines the ideas of Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (1194-1270), the Ramban, Nahmanides in the European literature. An exegete, epistemologist of Jewish history and experience, and pioneer of Kabbalistic reasoning, ...
Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls
(2020)
This volume examines the sectarian legal system, specifically its courts, court procedure, rules of testimony and the Penal Code. Schiffman argues that the legal system portrayed in the scrolls coheres organically with ...
Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary
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 ...
The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen
(2020)
In The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen (2000), Michael Zank argues that the idea of atonement serves as a key for understanding the larger philosophy of the German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen ...
Two Treatises of Philo of Alexandria
(2020)
This is a detailed commentary on two paradigmatic books of the Jewish philosopher, Philo of Alexandria.
Approaches to Modern Judaism
(2020)
This is an edited volume of essays by leading scholars in the field on the development of a distinctly modern Judaism, primarily in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Philo’s Perception of Women
(2020)
This volume is a study of Philo's perception of women and female gender.
Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies
(2020)
The studies in this volume focus on individual Babylonian magical texts while developing an overall understanding of these texts as a whole. Part One follows a diachronic approach, Part Two a synchronic one. In this sense, ...
The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, Sources
(2020)
This volume remains one of the only major studies of the Peri Pascha. The Peri Pascha was authored by Melito, the Christian bishop of Sardis in the second century CE, as a homily. It is notable for its early, extensive, ...
History and Literature
(2020)
This collection of close textual reading by scholars in a variety of areas, including rabbinics, Jewish history, education, Hebrew literature, Yidish literature, America Jewish literature, is a tribute to Arnold Band. Each ...
Behind the Essenes
(2020)
A collection of essays by Philip Davies on aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls. While composed to stand along, together these essays create a strong synthetic argument about the Essenes and the production of the Dead Sea Scrolls ...
Goyim
(2020)
This volume examines the way thatMishnah-Tosefta attempted to construct an Israelite ethnic identity in order to differentiate the Israelites from the gentiles who also populated the Land of Israel. This became an especially ...
Goyim
(2020)
This volume examines the way thatMishnah-Tosefta attempted to construct an Israelite ethnic identity in order to differentiate the Israelites from the gentiles who also populated the Land of Israel. This became an especially ...
A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Kilayim
(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 ...
Out of the Shtetl
(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 ...
Jewish Thought Adrift
(2020)
Robert Schine’s intellectual biography of Max Wiener profiles a liberal German-Jewish thinker who turned toward Zionism as the only natural future for Judaism. Schine puts Wiener’s thought into conversation with those of ...
To Caesar What Is Caesar’s
(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
(2020)
This is an edited volume of essays dealing with the Hebrew Bible and its cultural environment.
The Sanctity of the Seventh Year
(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 ...
Ben Sira’s View of Women
(2020)
This volume systematically analyzes all the material concerning women in Sirach, providing detailed exegesis in each case. It synthesizes this evidence to offer a fuller understanding of Ben Sira's perception of women.