Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 1998-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801858949
The notes for Volumes One and Two tell where legends appear and reappear, where versions differ and where they contradict each other. When legends have been the subject of learned interpretation or debate, Ginzberg provides guidance to the commentaries and disputants; when the legends are part of a larger controversy, he provides context.
Author : Michael Harvey Koplitz
Publisher : Michael Harvey Koplitz
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Parsha Chayei Sarah, Parsha Vayera, and Parsha Toldot are deeply examined in this volume using Semitic Bible Study Methods including an analysis of the language and culture.
Author : Dov Weiss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081224835X
Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age (70 CE-800 CE).
Author : Albrecht Berger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 311091106X
In the late 10th century, an anonymous author wrote the fictitious account of a religious dialogue between Archbishop Gregentios and the Jewish scribe Herban and included it in a life of Gregentios based on earlier sources, which indicate that he was a missionary in Yemen in pre-Islamic times. Albrecht Berger examines and translates these texts, and he presents a critical edition. Key Features first edition of a large proportion of the extant texts critical edition using all known manuscripts, including those which only recently have been discovered
Author : Emanuel Tov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004690026
Twenty-eight rewritten and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly published between 2019 and 2022 are presented in the fifth volume of the author's collected essays. They are joined by an unpublished study, an unpublished "reflection" on the development of text-critical research in 1970-2020 and the author's academic memoirs. All the topics included in this volume are at the forefront of textual research.
Author : Steven Fine
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004214712
The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah brings together an interdisciplinary and broad-ranging international community of scholars to discuss aspects of the history and continued life of the Jerusalem Temple in Western culture, from biblical times to the present. This volume is the fruit of the inaugural conference of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, which convened in New York City on May 11-12, 2008 and honors Professor Louis H. Feldman, Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University. Feldman is the doyen of modern scholarship on Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, focusing on the writings of Flavius Josephus. A beloved mentor to generations of Yeshiva University students and of scholars across the globe, Professor Feldman has taught at YU since 1955. "The articles are consistently of high quality. This book is highly recommended for any academic collection in Jewish studies." Jim Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University; President, Association of Jewish Libraries
Author : James L. KUGEL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674039769
From the creation and the tree of knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the promised land; James Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible.
Author : Angel Sáenz-Badillos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004663185
In July of 1998 the European Association for Jewish Studies celebrated its Sixth Congress in Toledo, with almost four hundred participants. In these Proceedings 169 papers and communications read during the conference have been collected . By and large, they offer a broad, realistic perspective on the advances, achievements and anxieties of Judaic Studies at the turn of the 20th century, on the eve of the new millennium. They represent the point of view of the European scholars, enriched with notable contributions by colleagues from other continents. One volume (ISBN 978-90-04-11554-5) includes papers dealing with Jewish studies on biblical, rabbinical and medieval times, as well as with some general subjects, such as Jewish languages and bibliography. A second volume (ISBN 978-90-04-11558-3) is dedicated to the Judaism of modern times, from the Renaissance to our days.
Author : Ronit Nikolsky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004469192
This book explores the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature, an important Jewish homiletic genre prevailing in late antiquity and early Byzantine Palestine. Originating in the culture of the study house, and addressing the synagogue audience, this literature allows us to follow the reception of the rabbinic culture in the wider Jewish society.
Author : Michael Harvey Koplitz
Publisher : Michael Harvey Koplitz
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This is a commentary on the first three parshim of the book of Genesis using Semitic Bible Study Methods.
