Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies: Doctoral Dissertations
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Item Metadata only A CRITICAL AND ANNOTATED TEXT OF JUDAH B. BENJAMIN ANAV'S COMMENTARY ON AL-FASI TO BEZA, FROM TWO MSS., WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON HIS LIFE, FAMILY AND WORKS /(Yeshiva University, 1951) NEUSTEIN, ABRAHAMItem Metadata only A CRITICAL EDITION OF 'MAALOTH HA-NIDOTH'(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1949) REGUER, MOSHE A.Item Metadata only A CRITICAL EDITION OF MAIMONIDES 'COMMENTARY TO THE MISHNA, KITAB AL SIRAJ,' TRACTATE 'BABA METZIA' (ARABIC TEXT AND HEBREW TRANSLATION)(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1949) SKAIST, SOLOMON N.Item Metadata only A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE RABED'S "COMMENTARY ON BAAL HA-MA'OR," TRACTATES "ROSH HA-SHANAH" AND "SUCCAH."(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1949) BERGMAN, BERNARDItem Metadata only A CRITICAL STUDY OF A COMMENTARY OF AL-FASI ON TRACTATE 'ROSH HA-SHANAH' BY RABBI JONATHAN BEN DAVID OF LUNEL(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1949) SINGER, JOSEPH I.Item Metadata only A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF DENMARK, 1622-1900(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1974) BAMBERGER, IB NATHANItem Metadata only A HISTORY AND SURVEY OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1959) ZAHAVY, ZEVItem Metadata only A STUDY OF JUDAH BEN JAKAR AND HIS MANUSCRIPT COMMENTARY TO THE PRAYERS(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1970) ORENSTEIN, WALTERItem Metadata only A STUDY OF THE NON-HALACHIC WRITINGS OF RABBI KOOK WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THEIR LITERARY ASPECTS. (HEBREW TEXT)(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1968) BE'ERY, YEHOSHUA B.Item Open Access Abraham Ibn Ezra to Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: A critical edition, translation, and supercommentary with an analytic introduction(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 2017) Frazer, Ezra; Cohen, Mordechai Z.Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra is the most prominent biblical exegete of the medieval Spanish school of peshat exegesis, which pursued the plain sense of Scripture on the basis of philology and reason. A true polymath, Ibn Ezra's writings demonstrate a mastery of Hebrew grammar, philosophy, astronomy, and astrology, as they were known in the Middle Ages. Ibn Ezra's travels through Christian Europe made him an important conduit for the transmission of knowledge from Islamic lands to Christian lands. This dissertation focuses on his commentaries to the final books of Minor Prophets: Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. An analytic introduction examines Ibn Ezra's relationship with the sources that influenced his commentaries to these books, as well as the influence of his commentaries on subsequent exegetes. It also examines several methodological aspects of Ibn Ezra's exegesis that are especially relevant to these books, such as the relationship between his two commentaries to Minor Prophets (the so-called "standard commentary" and "oral commentary") and his methods for calculating the chronology of the Persian Period. Lastly, it examines broader exegetical issues that arise in these books but are relevant to much of his biblical exegesis, including his methodology for interpreting prophecy and the significance that he attributes to certain nuances and irregularities of the biblical text. The analytic introduction is followed by my own English translation of Ibn Ezra's commentaries to Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, accompanied by a supercommentary to explain and analyze Ibn Ezra's comments. After my English translation and supercommentary, I present a Hebrew critical edition of these commentaries. The conclusions of this dissertation seek to situate Ibn Ezra's commentary within the tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation.Item Metadata only AKKADIAN AND UGARITIC LEXICOGRAPHY: A COMPARATIVE INQUIRY (MIDDLE EAST)(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983) MERLIS, MARK AARONThe purpose of this work will be to elucidate problematical Ugaritic vocables through the use of the Akkadian lexicon. Although scholars have utilized other Semitic tongues in attempts to explain difficult Ugaritic words, the two most popular languages for this exercise have been Hebrew and Arabic. I feel that Akkadian should be used to at least the same degree, if not to a greater one, than the above mentioned languages. The temporal element alone is enough to justify this assertion. Akkadian was the "lingua franca" of the Near East at the time the Ugaritic texts were written, i.e., the 14th and 13th centuries B.C.E. As is well known, texts in the Akkadian language have been found at Ugarit. There obviously must have been significant intercourse between speakers of Ugaritic and Akkadian.;The first step is to identify Ugaritic words of obscure or unclear meaning. There follows an analysis of the uncertainty surrounding the word and a discussion of previous suggestions made by scholars in the field. A search is then made of the Akkadian lexicon to find a cognate word related etymologically and perhaps with parallel semantic development. The meaning of this Akkadian word should be well established and several passages illustrating the meaning will be cited. Preferably, the word should be attested in Akkadian texts dating from the era of the Ugaritic texts, i.e. OB, SB, MA, MB, Amarna and be found in a context similar to that of the Ugaritic. We are not necessarily positing a direct Akkadian-Ugaritic connection, wherefore other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic will be examined for cognates to elucidate the history of the word and its position among the Semitic tongues. The acid test of our suggested meaning will come when we go back to the Ugaritic text or texts and see if it fits the context. The following Ugaritic words formed the core of this study: hswn, t'n, drqm, hpst, hrs, hr.Item Metadata only ALBANY JEWRY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY--HISTORIC ROOTS AND COMMUNAL EVOLUTION(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1970) RUBINGER, NAPHTALI J.Item Metadata only AMERICAN 'RESPONSA' AS A SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF AMERICA TO 1850(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1955) SHARFMAN, ISRAEL H.Item Metadata only AMERICAN JEWRY'S PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THE HOLOCAUST 1938-44: AN EXAMINATION BASED UPON ACCOUNTS IN THE JEWISH PRESS AND PERIODICAL LITERATURE(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1979) LOOKSTEIN, HASKELItem Metadata only American Zionist leaders and the Palestinian Arabs, 1898-1948(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991) Medoff, RafaelThis dissertation examines the evolution of the attitudes of American Zionist leaders towards the Palestinian Arabs during the years from the rise of organized American Zionism until the establishment of the State of Israel.;American Zionism developed in response to unique American political and social conditions which differed substantially from the conditions that influenced the development of European Zionism. Historians have shown that the American brand of Zionism became popular among American Jews primarily because the leaders of the American Zionist movement promoted a uniquely Americanized form of Zionism, known to many as "Palestinianism," which attracted American Jews by eliminating those aspects of traditional Zionist ideology that clashed with Americanism while emphasizing those aspects (such as philanthropy) that appealed to their sense of what was acceptable behavior for an American minority group.;One unexplored aspect of the "Palestinianism" phenomenon is the issue of American Zionist attitudes towards the Palestinian Arabs.;The evolution of American Zionist attitudes on the Arab question was shaped by a conflict within American Zionist thought between its "American" component and its "Zionist component," between the American ideals which led to Palestinianism and the more narrow Jewish interests which were necessary for the realization of Zionism.;Until now, scholars have assumed that the American Zionist leadership ignored the issue of Palestinian Arab opposition to Zionism. According to this assumption, Zionist leaders regarded Palestine as "a land without a people" and therefore were not concerned with the fate of the few local Arabs or the relationship between those Arabs and the Palestinian Jewish community. This dissertation contends that many American Zionist leaders were in fact extremely interested in the Arab issue, and discussed a wide range of ideas about how Zionism should relate to the Palestinian Arabs, ranging from establishing a binational Arab-Jewish state to persuading Arabs to emigrate from Palestine, and various options between those two extremes. Some of these ideas were the product of American Zionists' uniquely American perspective; some contradicted American ideals and were thus the subject of heated debate among American Zionists.Item Metadata only AN EMPIRICALLY VALIDATED DEFINITION OF LITERARY APPRECIATION(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1974) KORNFELD, GITA S.Item Metadata only AN EVALUATION OF THE LIFE OF ISAAC LEESER(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1955) BENNETT, EMANUELItem Metadata only AN INTRODUCTION TO 'MOSHAV ZEQENIM' AND A CRITICAL EDITION OF ITS FIRST PERICOPE. (HEBREW TEXT)(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1968) SORSCHER, MARVINItem Metadata only AN INTRODUCTION TO AND CRITICAL EDITION OF HILLEL OF VERONA'S 'TAGMULAT HA-NEFESH'(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1958) SHOR, SIMONItem Metadata only ANALYSIS OF THE SUGYOT OF THE 'OATH OF ADMISSION IN PART' (HEBREW TEXT)(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1971) STEINFELD, ZVI ARIE