Search Results - "rabbinics"

Jewish literatures and cultures context and intertext /

Table of Contents: “…Bland -- "Reverse marranism," translatability, and practice of secular Jewish culture in Russian / Gabriella Safran -- Intertextuality, Rabbinic literature, and the making of Hebrew modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Brooklyn am Rhein? …”
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Jewish Bible theology perspectives and case studies /

Table of Contents: “…Greenspahn -- Constructing the past : the recent history of Jewish biblical theology / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Fighting forms of idolatry : the meaning of an image of Moses in Jewish theology / Asa Kasher -- Jewish conceptions of the human factor in biblical prophecy / Moshe Greenberg -- Biblical destinies : conditional promises / Uriel Simon -- God and human rights in a secular society : a biblical-talmudic perspective / David Novak -- The biblical attitude toward human toil / Amos Frisch -- New Testament and rabbinic views of election / Joel Kaminsky -- Amalek and amalekut : a homiletic lesson / Zev Garber -- Foundations for a Jewish theology of the Hebrew Bible : prophets in dialogue / Marvin A. …”
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Law in the documents of the Judaean desert

Table of Contents: “…Yadin 21-22: sale or lease / Amihai Radzyner -- Gift and inheritance law in the Judaean desert documents / Yosef RIvlin -- Reflections of the deeds of sale from the Judaean desert in light of rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Halakhic observance in the Judaean desert documents / Zeʻev Safrai -- Index of passages -- Index of names.…”
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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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Human remains in society : Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence /

Table of Contents: “…Lane 2 (Re)politicising the dead in post-Holocaust Poland: the afterlives of human remains at the Belzec extermination camp -- Zuzanna Dziuban 3 Chained corpses: warfare, politics and religion after the Habsburg Empire in the Julian March, 1930s-70s -- Gaetano Dato 4 Exhumations in post-war rabbinical responsas -- David Deutsch 5 (Re)cognising the corpse: individuality, identification and multidirectional memorialisation in post-genocide Rwanda -- Ayala Maurer-Prager 6 Corpses of atonement: the discovery, commemoration and reinternment of eleven Alsatian victims of Nazi Terror, 1947-1952 -- Devlin M. …”
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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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Defining identities we, you, and the other in the Dead Sea Scrolls : proceedings of the fifth meeting of the IOQS in Gröningen /

Table of Contents: “…Hogeterp -- La règle de la guerre (1QM) et la construction de l'identité sectaire / Jean Duhaime -- Les identités en présence dans les scènes du jugement dernier de 4QInstruction (4Q416 1 et 4Q418 69 ii) / Émile Puech -- Gôrâl versus payîs: casting lots at Qumran and in the rabbinic tradition / Francis Schmidt -- Keeping outsiders out: impurity at Qumran / Hannah K. …”
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Persecution, polemic, and dialogue essays in Jewish-Christian relations / by Berger, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…From Crusades to blood libels to expulsions : some new approaches to medieval anti-Semitism -- A generation fo scholarship on Jewish-Christian interaction in the medieval world -- Jacob Katz on Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages -- Introduction to The Jewish-Christian debate in the high Middle Ages : a critical edition of the Nizzahon vetus with an introduction, translation, and commentary -- On the image and destiny of Gentiles in Ashkenazic polemical literature -- On the uses of history in medieval Jewish polemic against Christianity : the quest for the historical Jesus -- Christians, Gentiles, and the Talmud : a fourteenth-century Jewish response to the attack on rabbinic Judaism -- Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian contacts in the polemical literature of the high Middle Ages -- The Barcelona disputation : review essay -- Christian heresy and Jewish polemic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Gilbert Crispin, Alan of Lille, and Jacob Ben Reuben : a study in the transmission of medieval polemic -- The attitude of St. …”
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Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history authority, diaspora, tradition /

Table of Contents: “…Chajes -- Dreamers in paradise : the rise and fall of a new holy site in Beit She'an, Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Words, images, and magic : the protection of the bride and bridegroom in Jewish marriage contracts / Shalom Sabar -- The dislocation of the temple vessels : mobile sanctity and rabbinic rhetorics of space / Ra'anan S. Boustan -- Sacred space, local history, and diasporic identity : the graves of the righteous in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Lucia Raspe -- Detours in a "hidden land" : Samuel Romanelli's Masa' ba'rav / Andrea Schatz -- The rhetoric of rescue : "salvage immigration" narratives in Israeli culture / Tamar Katriel -- Judaism and tradition : continuity, change, and innovation / Albert I. …”
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The multiple meaning of scripture the role of exegesis in early Christian and medieval culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Ineke van 't Spijker -- Exegesis as a cultural framework -- Variants, Arians, and the trace of Mark : Jerome and Ambrose on "neque fi lius" in Matthew 24:36 / J.K. Kitchen -- The rabbinic legend of the Septuagint in Abraham ibn Daud's writings / Katja Vehlow -- Saul et David, premiers rois oints : l'interpretation de ces modeles royaux par deux exegetes carolingiens, Raban Maur et Angelome de Luxeuil / Caroline Chevalier-Royet -- La representation du pouvoir seculier chez Haymon d'Auxerre / Sumi Shimahara -- Trinity and christology in Haimo of Auxerre's Pauline commentaries / Ian Christopher Levy -- Factus est homo in animam uiuentem : anthropologie chretienne et psychologie dans l'exegese de Claude de Turin, ca. 827-828 / Pierre Boucaud -- The multiple meaning of scripture -- Spiritual exegesis and the church in Haimo of Auxerre's commentary on Isaiah / Elisabeth Megier -- Lectiones magistri anselmi : les commentaires d'Anselme de Laon sur le cantique des cantiques / Cedric Giraud -- The literal sense of scripture according to Rupert of Deutz / Wanda Zemler-Cizewski -- The literal and the spiritual : Richard of Saint-Victor and the multiple meaning of scripture / Ineke van 't Spijker -- "Closer to the hebrew" : Herbert of Bosham's interpretation of literal exegesis / Eva de Visscher -- ". . . mysteria magis delectant . . ." die exegese des zisterzienserabtes Isaak von Stella, ca. 1178 / Alexander Fidora -- Andrew of Saint-Victor and his Franciscan critics / Frans van Liere -- Twelfth-century biblical exegetes and the invention of literature / Robert A. …”
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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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A new critical approach to the history of Palestine : Palestine history and heritage project 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Thompson -- "To Be an Israelite and a Judean as I Want You to Be": Material Culture and Ethnicity during the Iron Age / Hani Nur El-Din -- Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape and Memory, and the Case of Lubya as Lieu De Memoire / Bo Dahl Hermansen -- Community Archaeology in Palestine: Protection, Preservation and Promotion of Archaeological Heritage Sites in Palestine / Iman Saca -- The Al-Nuweima Mosque: An Archaeological Perspective on Modern History / Andrew Petersen -- Archaeology as Anthropology (Bioarcheology) / Issa Sarie -- Mapping Palestine: Biblical and Rabbinic Perspectives / Philip Davies -- Land, People, and Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Christian Eyes / Mitri Raheb -- Judaism's Response to the Invention of the Homeland / Shlomo Sand -- The History of Israel. …”
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Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer /

Table of Contents: “…Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson -- Michael A. …”
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Autonomy and Judaism the individual and the community in Jewish philosophical thought /

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Vol. 1 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary / by Segal, Eliezer

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Vol. 3 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary / by Segal, Eliezer

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The Human Will in Judaism : The Mishnah’s Philosophy of Intention / by Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956-

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Is Judaism Democratic? : Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages /

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Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary / by Segal, Eliezer

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