Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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The Emergence of the Synagogue
(New York University Press, 2018)A comparison of the first century Theodotus inscription from Jerusalem with the third century building at Dura Europos demonstrates the emergence of the synagogue as a dominant institution of Jewish life. The first, which ... -
Emphatic פ in the Masoretic Pronunciation of אַפַּדְֿנוֹ [Dan 11:45]
(Tel Aviv University, 1993)קשה להכריע אם, לפי גינזברג, הפ״אין של פרצוף היו סתם בלתי־מנושפרת או גם נחציות. סעד לאפשרות השנייה )וראייה נוספת לנחציות של הפ״א המיוחדת בדיאלקטים הארמיים הנוצריים( יש למצוא במאמר המוסגר בסוף הקטע. טענתו של גינזברג שם ... -
Esotericism and Magic in Ashkenazic Prayer during the Tosafot Period. [Hebrew]
([Tel-Aviv : Hotsaʼat ha-sefarim shel Universiṭat Tel-Aviv], 2015) -
Fear and awe in Maimonides' thought
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Fine, Steven. (2021). “They Remembered That They Had Seen It in a Jewish Midrash”: How a Samaritan Tale Became a Legend of the Jews. Religions 12: 635. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12080635
(MDPI, 2021-08-11)This article relates the transmission history of a single Samaritan text and its fascinating trajectory from a Samaritan legend into early modern rabbinic tradition, and on to nineteenth and early twentieth century Jewish ... -
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 ... -
From Proto-Hebrew to Mishnaic Hebrew: the history of "-akh" and "-ah".
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German Pietism In Northern France: The Case Of R. Isaac Of Corbeil
(New York, NY : Michael Sharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Hoboken, NJ : distributed by Ktav, 1997)The three major figures of German Pietism (Hasidut Ashkenaz), R. Samuel he-Hasid, his son R. Judah he-Hasid (d. 1217), and R. Judah's student R. Eleazar of Worms (d. ca. 1230), were all descended from the Qalonymides, ... -
Gershom ben Judah
(Chiacgo: Pitzroy Dearborn, 2000)Talmudic thought in medieval Ashkenaz effectively begins with Gershom ben Judah, or Rabbenu Gershom as he is usually called. He headed the academy at Mainz and composed a talmudic commentary (embellished by his successors ... -
“Getting Along” in Parkchester: A New Era in Jewish–Irish Relations in New York City 1940–1970.
(MDPI, 2018)Abstract: The history of conflict between New York City’s Irish Americans and east European Jews dates back to the close of the 19th century. They disputed over jobs, union memberships, housing, and frequently over ... -
Good and evil, truth and falsity: Maimonides and moral cognetivism.
(Universitätsverlag WINTER GmbH, 2002) -
Halakhah (Medieval Judaism).
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Halakhah and Metziut (Realia) in Medieval Ashkenaz: Surveying the Parameters and Defining the Limits
(Chur, New York : Harwood Academic Publishers, 2003)Even a cursory perusal of the literature of the rishonim brings the reader face to face with the ways in which medieval halakhists dealt with social realia that appeared, prima facie, to conflict with talmudic law. On ... -
Hashivotam ha-mishpatit shel ha-milim "ve-hugad le-kha" :Keriyah hadashah be-dev' 17: 2-7.
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“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 ... -
The Heading of the Book of the Words of Noah on a Fragment of the Genesis Apocryphon: New Light on a 'Lost' Work
(Brill, 1995-04)Nevertheless, the Words of Noah cannot be viewed as Noah's testament. The third-person references to Noah's sons in col. 12 (1. 13 "I and all my sons"; 1. 16 "I invited my sons") and elsewhere"' make it impossible ... -
Hebrew: Ancient Hebrew
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Herod’s Temple: an Ornament to the Empire.
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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 ...
