Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications
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Maimonides on the Nature of Good and Evil.
(Cambridge UP, 2021-06)As is often the case with subjects in the labyrinthine work that is the Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides’ discussions of the concepts of good and evil are scattered throughout and often interspersed among other topics. ... -
"The Students Of Beit Shamai Stood Below and They Killed the Students of Beit Hillel:" A Call from Hazal for Mutual Respect in Times of Bitter Dispute.
(The Rabbi Isaac Elechanan Theological Center and the Center for Jewish History, Yeshiva University, 2021-07-18)One of the most astounding features of Hazal, the sages of the Mishnah and of both Talmudim, is their public willingness to discuss their most sensitive experiences, including their most public and bitter disputes. We ... -
A Portrait of Spinoza
Warren Zev Harvey wrote a bold and now famous paper over thirty years ago entitle "A Portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean," defending the dominant influence of the philosophy of the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses ... -
Maimonides on Courage
(Mohr Siebeck, 2015)This paper will specifically disclose how Maimonides crafts the specific virtue of courage and examine how he attempts to revive it as a central Jewish virtue. Maimonides describes three forms of courage: courage in its ... -
Spinoza on the Ethics of Courage and the Jewish Tradition
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Fear and awe in Maimonides' thought
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Herod’s Temple: an Ornament to the Empire.
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Die Geschichte von Juden und Samaritanen— Abgrenzung und Annäherung.
(Katholisches Bibelwerk e.V., 2021-02)The Samaritan community mostly had to fight to survive. Relations with the Jewish community were tense -- Until everything changed in the 19th century. -
Varieties of belief in medieval Ashkenaz: The case of anthropomorphism.
(Wayne State UP, 2008)From the larger perspective of medieval Jewish intellectual history, the range of views in Ashkenaz that we have traced with regard to anthropomorphism helps to diminish the “backward” image that has sometimes been ... -
“Said Rabbi Shimon: When I went to Rome, There I saw the Menorah…” Some Personal Reflections on the YU Center for Israel Studies’ Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project.
(Yeshiva University, 2012-07)Some Personal Reflections on the YU Center for Israel Studies’ Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project -
The Book of the Wars of the Lord (Num. 21:14–20): Philology and Hydrology, Geography and Ethnography.
(American Oriental Society, 2020-07)Num. 21:14 contains one of the most enigmatic phrases in the Pentateuch: אֶת־וָהֵב בְּסוּפָה . The usual interpretations of אֶת turn the phrase into gibberish because they require the presence of a verb, which is nowhere ... -
“He Said, He Said”: Repetition of the Quotation Formula in the Joseph Story and Other Biblical Narratives.
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2019)Repetition of the quotation formula ( ויאמר and the like) is a common literary device used in biblical narrative to signal discontinuity. The discontinuity often involves a pause in the discourse. Instead of—or in addition ... -
Between Liturgy and Social History: Priestly Power in Late Antique Palestinian Synagogues?
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Archaeology and the Search for Non-Rabbinic Judaism, from: Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology.
(Cambridge, 2005)This chapter explores the usable history of Jewish material culture in primarily American scholarship of the second half of the last century as a window into larger historiographic, communal and theological trends during ... -
Daf Yomi Daily Lecture Series
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Review of Lapin, --Rabbis as Romans: The Rabbinic Movement in Palestine, 100–400 CE--.
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2013-03) -
Understanding the Trajectory of Medieval Jewish Studies
(New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 2020)Much of the North American scholarship in medieval Jewish studies during the past four decades has not kept pace with this development. Israeli manuscript scholarship is at times so overwhelming that the ideas of history ... -
From Germany to Northern France and Back Again: A Tale of Two Tosafist Centres.
(London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ; Liverpool : in association with Liverpool University Press, 2018)"Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known, the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad, are poorly understood, and the rich variety of other regional Jewish identities is often ... -
The Best of Poetry...’: Literary Approaches to the Bible in the Spanish Peshat Tradition
(New York, NY: RIETS, Yeshiva University, 1995)Traditional Jewish biblical exegesis, spanning many centuries lands, offers a number of interpretive approaches to the Holy tures (kitvei ha-kodesh). Despite significant differences, the Midrash, the medieval French and ... -
Hesed: Divine or human? The syntactic ambiguity of Ruth 2:20.
(New York, NY : Michael Sharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Hoboken, NJ : distributed by Ktav, 1997., 1997)Clarity may be cherished by biblical interpreters; but ambiguity evokes their ingenuity, generating vibrant debate. Ruth 2:20, a turning point in the tale of two destitute widows who suddenly perceive a silver lining on ...
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