Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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Capital punishment
(New York: Routledge, 2003)Medieval halakhists ruled, on the basis of talmudic sources, that the Jewish judiciary (lesser Sanhedrins) could not try capital cases unless the Great Sanhedrin was sitting in its chamber at the Temple. The death penalty ... -
The career of a neo-Babylonian court scribe.
(American Schools of Oriental Research, 2008)Ile i-Marduk, descendant of the Eppes-ili family, began work in the vicinity of Babylon as a member of a limited group of court scribes who recorded legal proceedings overseen by the Neo-Babylonian royal judges.1 Later in ... -
The case for adversarial yahad.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2009)The words yaḥad and yaḥdāw regularly denote the relationship between opponents in physical warfare. Evidence from Hebrew and Akkadian shows that they have a similar function in descriptions of legal disputes, as well. -
The Case for Fricative-Laterals in Proto-Semitic.
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Changing attitudes toward apostates in tosafist literature, late twelfth-early thirteenth centuries
(Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012)More than a half century ago, Jacob Katz published a pioneering study on the theme of “Yisra’el she-hata’, ’af ‘al pi she-hata’, Yisra’el hu’ (a Jew, even though he has sinned, remains a Jew).” According to Katz, this ... -
Charity
(New York: Routledge, 2003)Leading rabbinic figures emphasized the great importance that Judaism attached to giving charity, as well as the lengths to which individuals and communities must be prepared to go in the fulfillment of this precept. ... -
A Colloquialism in Jer. 5:13 from the Ancestor of Mishnaic Hebrew
(Oxford UP ; U Manchester, 1992)There is, therefore, every reason to view the occurrence of דבר in Jer. 5:13 as original and intentional. To insist that it is anachronistic and/or fortuitous is to ignore its distribution and to deny the artistry of the ... -
The commentary of Rabbi David Kimhi on Proverbs: A case of mistaken attribution.
(Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 2003)In his book The Commentaries on Proverbs of the Kimhi Family (Hebrew), F. Talmage attributes the commentary on Proverbs contained in MS Vatican Ebr. 89 to Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak).2 The manuscript itself ascribes authorship ... -
A Common Set of Trial Terms.
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011)The purpose of this article is to draw on the formulation of Neo-Babylonian trial records in order to identify a linguistically and conceptually parallel set of trial terms in Dtn 17:4, Jer 8:6 and Job 5:27. The Hebrew ... -
A comparative note on the demand for witnesses in Isaiah 43:9
(Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), 2010)Recent studies have demonstrated the particular value of Neo-Babylonian litigation records for elucidating matters of law in the Hebrew Bible, both in actual legislative passages and in Job’s metaphoric lawsuit.1 The ... -
Compensation for the study of Torah in medieval rabbinic thought
(NY: Peter Lang, 1989)As an inheritor of the legacy of the Geonim, whose academies developed extensive systems of support and fundraising, Andalusian Jewry was predisposed to providing financial support for its scholars.1 Jewish communities ... -
Compromise and Inclusivity in Establishing Minhag and Halakha: Contextualizing the Approach of R. Meir of Rothenburg
(Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019)In two places within the Talmudic corpus, the Amora R. Nahman bar Yizhaq enunciates the principle that a God-fearing person should seek to fulfill both positions in a halakhic dispute or debate: “One who fears Heaven ... -
Contradictions, Culture Gaps, and Narrative Gaps in the Joseph Story
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2020-10)Two of the questions raised by the Joseph story have attracted the attention of scholars for more than a century. Were Reuben and his brothers present or absent when Joseph was first acquired by traders? Was Joseph sold ... -
Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France,
(Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)More than a half century ago, Jacob Katz briefly sketched the attitudes that the Tosafists of northern France and Germany— and other related rabbinic decisors— displayed toward converts to Judaism. In doing so, he ... -
Daf Yomi Daily Lecture Series
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The dependence of Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak) on Rashi in his quotation of midrashic traditions.
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003-04)This article demonstrates that the 13th-century exegete Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak) relied on Rashi as a source for midrashic traditions, in addition to his known use of Rashi as a resource for exegetical interpretations. ... -
The Development and Diffusion of Unanimous Agreement in Medieval Ashkenaz
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2000)Any discussion of communal government in medieval Ashkenaz must take into account both the theoretical positions offered by rabbinic authorities and the actual practices of the communities. As is well-known, R. Jacob b. ... -
Did the Tosafists Embrace the Concept of Anthropomorphism?
(Alon Shvut: Tevunot Press, 2011)בקטע מבריק ואופייני על פרשנות האגדה בימי הביניים, כותב פרופ׳ תא-שמע ז״ל את המילים הבאות על האפשרות להגשמת האל אצל חכמי אשכנז: "רש״י וקדמוני אשכנז לא נרתעו כלל מאפשרות ההגשמה, שהם למדוה מפשטות הכתובים הרבים המניחים ציורי ... -
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.
