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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 ...