Search Results - "rabbinics"

Mishpachah /

Table of Contents: “…Uncovering the ongoing parental role in education in the rabbinic period /…”
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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition /

Table of Contents: “…; Care for the Poor and the Origins of Charity in Early Rabbinic Literature; The Violence of Poverty; Wealth and Rabbinic Self-Fashioning in Late Antiquity; Justice and Righteousness: Jewish and Christian Approaches to Charity and Poor Law in the High Middle Ages; 1Q/4QInstruction: Training for a Money Changer?…”
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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on Jewish Costume in the Roman World; From Iconic O to Yellow Hat: Anti-Jewish Distinctive Signs in Renaissance Italy; How Should a Rabbi Be Dressed? The Question of Rabbinical Attire in Italy from Renaissance to Emancipation (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries); The Clerks' Work: Jews, Clerical Work, and the Birth of the American Garment Industry.…”
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Jews and Humor /

Table of Contents: “…: identifying humor, satire, and parody in rabbinic literature / Eliezer Diamond -- Masekhet Purim / Peter J. …”
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olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba : This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice /

Table of Contents: “…"The end of the world and the world to come" : what apocalyptic literature says about the time after the end-time / Dereck Daschke -- Warriors, wives, and wisdom : this world and the world to come in the (so-called) apocrypha / Nicolae Roddy -- The afterlife in the Septuagint / Leonard Greenspoon -- Rabbi Akiva, other martyrs, and Socrates : on life, death, and life after life / Naftali Rothenberg -- Heaven on earth : the world to come and its (dis)locations / Christine Hayes -- Olam Ha-ba in rabbinic literature : a functional reading / Dov Weiss -- Dining in(to) the world to come / Jordan D. …”
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Authority and Dissent in Jewish Life /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- Figurative Language of Authority and Rebellion in the Story of the Death of Rabbi Judah ben Bava / Chen Marx -- Midrash, Oral Law, and the Question of Rabbinic Authority / Azzan Yadin-Israel -- Dissenting Literature and Social Formation in the Antique Mediterranean / Zachary B. …”
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Jews and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…The heroines of everyday life : ancient Israelite women in context / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott -- An ironic/satirical, subversively proto-feminist reading of the daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27 and 36 / Jay Caballero -- Constructing gender bride by bride : rabbinic ideas of citizenship in light of gender / Susan Marks -- Gendering emotion in Genesis Rabbah / Joel Gereboff -- The legalization of modesty : sources and significance / Emmanuel Bloch -- Marriage, motherhood, and the matriarchs in the Zohar / Margaret Gurewitz Smith -- Chasidism and gender through a new reading of a feminist story of R. …”
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Is Judaism Democratic? : Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages /

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