Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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A-coloring Consonants and Furtive Pataḥ in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic According to the Tiberian Masorah
(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ; באר-שבע : הוצאת הספרים של אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, 2009)Elisha Qimron’s תיארקמ תימרא is an important work that contains many thought-provoking discussions. In this note, I would like to address three questions raised, directly or indirectly, by his brief discussion of furtive ... -
Abraham ben David of Posquieres
(Chicago: Gitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000)Rabbi Abraham ben David of Posquieres (known as Rabad) was one of the most important and prolific rabbinic figures in southern France during the second half of the 12th century. Born in Narbonne, he founded and supported ... -
Addenda to ‘The Case for Fricative–Laterals in Proto–Semitic'
(Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1991)Fourteen works by Wolf Leslau are cited in The Case for Fricative-Laterals in ProtoSemitic (Steiner 1977; hereafter: Fricative-Laterals) - by far the most of any author. One of those fourteen, Lexique Soqotri, contains ... -
The Adjudication of Fines in Ashkenaz during the Medieval and Early Modern Periods and the Preservation of Communal Decorum.
(Yerushalayim : Bet midrash le-mishpaṭ ʻIvri, Faḳulṭah le-mishpatim, Uniṿersiṭat Tel-Aviv : Sifre Ṿahrman,, 2018)The Babylonian Talmud (Bava Qamma 84a–b) rules that fines and other assigned payments in situations where no direct monetary loss was incurred--or where the damages involved are not given to precise evaluation or ... -
Affricated Ṣade in the semitic languages.
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Agnon's Tales of the Land of Israel
(Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock, 2021)"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. ... -
Albounout "Frankincense" and Alsounalph "Oxtongue": Phoenician-Punic Botanical Terms with Prothetic Vowels from an Egyptian Papyrus and a Byzantine Codex
(Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2001)The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden, usually dated to the third century c.E. on paleographic grounds, contains a Semitic loanword that appears to have been overlooked by Semitists. In V/6, the word appears in ... -
The ’Aliyah of “Three Hundred Rabbis” in 1211: Tosafist Attitudes toward Settling in the Land of Israel
(Philadelphia : Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, [1910-, 1986-01)Quite often in the study of medieval Jewish history we find that an event which occurred in a particular country is recorded most comprehensively in a later source which emanates from a completely different area and ... -
Ancient Hebrew
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Anthropomorphism and rationalist modes of thought in medieval Ashkenaz: The case R. Yosef Bekhor Shor
(Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, c2002-, 2009)Medieval rabbinic scholarship had to contend with a series of biblical and Talmudic passages which suggest that God appeared in different guises or forms to prophets and other leading religious figures, in ways that ... -
The Appointment of Hazzanim in Medieval Ashkenaz: Communal Policy and Individual Religious Prerogatives
(Beer-Sheva : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2009)During the pre-Crusade period in medieval Ashkenaz, a cantor or prayer leader (hazzan, shaliah tsibbur)1 was considered to be not only an important communal functionary, but also a veritable respository of prayer. The ... -
Approaches to conversion in medieval European rabbinic literature: From Ashkenaz to Sefarad
(New York : The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press, 2015)Evidence for the successful conversion of non-Jews in Ashkenaz (northern France and Germany) during the High Middle Ages (1050-1300) can be found within the rabbinic literature of this period, an especially felicitous ... -
Approaches to Prophecy in Northern French Biblical Exegesis and the Thought of the German Pietists [Heb.]
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Approaching God aesthetically in modern Jewish thought
(Wiley, 2023-04)Drawing on the writings of the twentieth-century rabbi-philosopher Joseph Soloveitchik (1903-93), and in particular his observations on the nature and value of the aesthetic, this article sketches one element of a larger ... -
The Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
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The Aramaic Text in Demotic Script: The Liturgy of a New Year's Festival Imported from Bethel to Syene by Exiles from Rash.
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The ‘Aramean’ of Deuteronomy 26:5: Peshat and Derash
(Eisenbrauns, 1997)“The ideal reader treats the book as full of significance. . . . Ultimately, the holistic interpreter is animated by a respect for his cultural heritage that takes the form of a prejudice in favor of the ancient biblical ... -
The Arch of Titus in Color: Polychromy and the Spoils of Jerusalem.
(Jerusalem : Mekhon Megalim, 2017)From June 5 to 7, 2012 an international team of scholars led by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in partnership with the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma undertook a pilot study of ...
