Publications
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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 ...