Publications
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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.