Publications
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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 ...