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Sex rewarded, sex punished a study of the status "female slave" in early Jewish law / by Kriger, Diane

Table of Contents: “…-- The amah of Exod 21:2-11 -- The shifah neerefet of Lev 19:20-22 -- The 'inheritance' of slavery in rabbinic law : the non-linearity of the matrilineal principle -- Rabbinic interpretations of Lev 19:20-22 -- Literature in support of law : the problem of Bilhah and Zilpah.…”
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Marriage and divorce in the Jewish state Israel's civil war / by Weiss, Susan M.

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction -- The clueless agunah -- The scarlet agunah -- The ping-pong agunah -- The accidental agunah -- The agunah pawn -- The reluctant agunah -- Human rights violations in Israeli rabbinic courts.…”
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Creating Judaism history, tradition, practice / by Satlow, Michael L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Promised lands -- Creating Judaism -- Between Athens and Jerusalem -- The rabbis -- Rabbinic concepts -- Mitzvot -- The rise of reason -- From Moses to Moses -- Seeing God -- East and West -- Epilogue: Whither Judaism?…”
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Border lines the partition of Judaeo-Christianity / by Boyarin, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Sparks of the Logos : historicizing rabbinic religion.…”
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Abraham Geiger's liberal Judaism personal meaning and religious authority / by Koltun-Fromm, Ken

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Abraham Geiger, religious authority, and personal meaning -- Historical memory and the authority of religious Judaism -- The practice of hermeneutical authority -- The gendered politics of authority -- Rabbinic authority -- Jewish education and the authority of personal meaning -- Conclusion : the practice of authority.…”
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Goyim : Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta / by Porton, Gary G.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mishnaic and Toseftan Essays on the Gentiles -- Contexts of Singular Passages -- Literary Styles and Forms -- Rabbinic Masters -- The Land of Israel and the Gentiles -- Israelite Sacred Time and the Gentiles -- Israelite Society and the Gentiles -- Gentiles as Idolaters -- The Jerusalem Temple and the Gentiles -- Israelite Purity and the Gentiles -- The Gentiles as Non-Israelites.…”
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Yet I loved Jacob reclaiming the biblical concept of election / by Kaminsky, Joel S., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Cain and Abel -- Ishmael and Isaac (and Hagar and Sarah) -- Jacob and Esau -- Joseph and his brothers -- Promise and covenant -- Election in Leviticus and Deuteronomy : law and holiness -- The anti-elect in the Hebrew Bible -- The non-elect in the Hebrew Bible -- Prophecy and election -- Election in Psalms and the Wisdom literature -- New Testament and rabbinic views of election.…”
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The Gaon of Vilna the man and his image / by Etkes, I.

Table of Contents: “…Ha-Gaon He-Hasid : in his own time and for succeeding generations -- The Vilna Gaon and Haskalah -- The Vilna Gaon and the beginning of the struggle against Hasidism -- The Vilna Gaon and the Mitnagdim as seen by the Hasidim -- Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin's response to Hasidism -- Talmudic scholarship and the rabbinate in Lithuanian Jewry during the nineteenth century -- Torah and yira in the thought and practice of the Vilna Gaon.…”
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The Hebrew book in early modern Italy

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Marchion in Hebrew manuscripts: state censorship in Florence, 1472 / Nurit Pasternak -- Daniel van Bombergen, a bookman of two worlds / Bruce Nielsen -- The rabbinic Bible in its sixteenth-century context / David Stern -- Sixteenth-century Jewish internal censorship of Hebrew books / Joseph R. …”
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Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament by Jackson, Bernard S.

Table of Contents: “…: marriage and divorce in the scrolls, the New Testament and early Rabbinic sources.…”
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Halakhah in a Theological Perspective / by Novak, David

Table of Contents: “…-- The Conflict Between Halakhah and Ethics: The Case of Mamzerut -- Annulment in Lieu of Divorce in Jewish Law -- Divorce and Conversion: Is a Traditional-Liberal Modus Vivendi Possible? -- Women in the Rabbinate? -- Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Perspective of Jewish Tradition -- Judaism and Contemporary Bioethics -- The Threat of Nuclear War: Jewish Perspectives -- The Logic of the Covenant: An Essay in Systematic Jewish Theology.…”
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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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Religious-Zionism history and ideology / by Schwartz, Dov

Table of Contents: “…A revolutionary consciousness -- Rabbi Reines and the foundation of the Mizrachi -- Religious-Zionist education: beginnings -- Rav Kook: an orthodox-national alternative to Religious-Zionism -- The foundation of the Chief Rabbinate -- Ha-Poʻel Ha-Mizrachi: against the exile and the bourgeoisie -- Criticizing Zionist policy -- The settlement drive -- Religious-Zionism and the Holocaust -- Israel's first years: hopes and disappointments -- From rearguard to vanguard: the struggle for greater Israel -- Religious Zionism in the United States -- Religious Zionism: present and future.…”
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Torah in the observatory Gersonides, Maimonides, Song of Songs / by Kellner, Menachem Marc, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Providence and the rabbinic tradition -- Mosaic prophecy: Maimonides and Gersonides -- Eschatology and miracles -- Creation, miracles, revelation -- Song of Songs and Gersonides' world -- Maimonides and Gersonides on astronomy and metaphysics -- Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the nature of science -- Politics and perfection: Gersonides vs. …”
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Fertility and Jewish law feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature / by Irshai, Ronit

Table of Contents: “…Halakhic rulings on abortion: a historical survey from the rabbinic to the modern period -- Chapt. 4. Abortion in contemporary halakhic rulings -- Pt. …”
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Imagining the fetus the unborn in myth, religion, and culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Restoring nuance to imagining of the fetus -- The story of Samkarsana's and K.r.s.na's births : a drama involving embryos -- The great men of Jainism in utero: a survey -- A womb with a view : the Buddha's final fetal experiences -- Life in the womb : conception and gestation in Buddhist scripture and classical Indian medical literature -- Philosophical embryology : Buddhist texts and the ritual construction of a fetus -- Tibetan Buddhist narratives of the forces of creation -- Female feticide in the Punjab and fetus imagery in Sikhism -- Embryology in Babylonia and the bible -- The leaping child : imagining the unborn in early Christian literature -- Famous fetuses in Rabbinic narratives -- A prophet emerging : fetal narratives in Islamic literature -- The colossal fetuses of La Venta and Mesoamerica' earliest creation story -- Out of place : fetal references in Japanese mythology and cultural memory -- Seeing like a family : fetal ultrasound images and imaginings of kin.…”
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New perspectives on old texts proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11January, 200...

Table of Contents: “…Schiffman -- The wood-offering: the convoluted evolution of a halakhah in Qumran and rabbinic law / Cana Werman -- Further reflections on a divine and angelic humanity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Crispin H.T. …”
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Leaders and legacies in Assyriology and Bible the collected essays of David B. Weisberg / by Weisberg, David B.

Table of Contents: “…Lehman, HUC mss 951-981 from Kai Feng, and a purported link between China and Yemen -- Some observations on late Babylonian texts and rabbinic literature -- Visibility of the new moon in cuneiform and rabbinic sources -- "Feet of iron" in the Babylonian Talmud? …”
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Friends on the way Jesuits encounter contemporary Judaism /

Table of Contents: “…Preface / Thomas Michel -- Introduction / Harold Kasimov -- From windfall to fall : the conversos in the Society of Jesus / Marc Rastoin -- Reflections on the dialogue between Jew and non-Jew in the Bible and in rabbinic literature / Tovia Ben-Chorin -- The goal of the Ignatian exercises and Soloveitchik's halakhic spirituality / Christian M. …”
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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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