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Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History
(2018)
This volume of original essays explores the power of network thinking and analysis for humanities research. Contributing authors are all scholars whose research focuses on a medical history topic—from the Black Death in ...
Rated A
(2024)
In the 1990s, India’s mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A, Darshana Sreedhar Mini examines the local and transnational influences that shaped ...
Sorcery or Science?
(2022)
Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad ...
Manifold Destiny
(2021)
At the border where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet under the scrutiny of the US and Mercosur (the large South American trade bloc), Arabs have long fulfilled what author John Tofik Karam calls a "manifold destiny." ...
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.
Mishnah’s Theology of Tithing
(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) ...
The Book of the Pomegranate
(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
(2020)
The Biblical Herem: A Window on Israel’s Religious Experience, was a groundbreaking, and controversial, examination of the herem, a biblical mode of declaring something (objects, people, cities) proscribed. Stern here ...
The Human Will in Judaism
(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?
Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter
(1982)
Before 1900, male clerical workers, as apprentice capitalists, performed a wide variety of tasks that helped them learn the business. By 1930, the class position of clerical workers had changed, and autonomous male clerks ...
The Early Colombian Labor Movement
(1992)
David Sowell traces the history of artisan labor organizations in Bogotá and examines long-term political activity of Colombian artisans in the century after independence. Relying on contemporary newspapers, political ...
Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform
(1987)
This collection examines not only the enormous diversity of imeanings and forms of worker participation in the contemporary period but also its global character. The chapters cover Western and Eastern Europe, the United ...
Philadelphia Communists, 1936-1956
(1982)
In Philadelphia Communists, 1936-1956, Paul Lyons constructs a model of the Philadelphia Party experience. He focuses on the experience of becoming, being, and remaining a radical in a particular local setting. Lyons ...