Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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Illuminating the path to Armageddon
(Harvard UP, 2016)For now, however, I point out the sophistication with which the Israeli religious Right has transformed the Zionist menorah. No longer a metaphor to be “returned,” the arch menorah is now a cipher for the messianic community ... -
The image of Christians in medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic literature
(NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)Recent scholarship has sought to characterize the way that Jews perceived Christians during the medieval period, focusing especially on polemical texts in which Jews shared their understanding of Christianity. 1 During ... -
Incomplete Circumcision in Egypt and Edom: Jeremiah (9:24-25) in the Light of Josephus and Jonckheere.
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Interpreting “The Resting Of The Shekhinah”: Exegetical Implications Of The Theological Debate Among Maimonides, Nahmanides, And Sefer Ha-Hinnukh.
(Brill, 2011)In this paper I would like to open a new aspect of this fertile division within Jewish learning by exploring its exegetical manifestations, i.e., how the opposing theological positions generated opposing interpretations ... -
Introduction
(New York : The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press, 2018)The intellectual and spiritual lives of Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik contain a series of seeming paradoxes. He was a great Torah giant whose views on Zionism did not accord with those of others of his stature; he was the ... -
Introduction. Jewish religious architecture : from biblical Israel to modern Judaism.
(Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2019)Jewish Religious Architecture' explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit. This volume stretches from the biblical Tabernacle to Roman Jerusalem, ... -
A Jewish Aramaic (Or Hebrew) 'Laissez‐Passer' from the Egyptian Port of Berenike
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Jewish Identity at the Limus: The Jews of Dura Europos between Rome and Persia.
(Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2011)Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman world has been a subject of sustained concern in recent years. The question of “Who was a Jew?” has interested both historians working within the traditions of Judaic studies struggling ... -
A Jewish theory of biblical redaction from Byzantium: Its rabbinic roots, its diffusion and its encounter with the Muslim doctrine of falsification.
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Judah he-Hasid and the Tosafists of Northern France
(Springer, 2021)Recent scholarship has suggested that teachings and practices of the German Pietists permeated Tosafist circles in the Rhineland and elsewhere in Germany. This study demonstrates that there were intellectual and ... -
Ketiv-Ḳere or Polyphony: The שׂ-שׁ Distinction According to the Masoretes, the Rabbis, Jerome, Qirqisānī, and Hai Gao
(Bialik Institute, Hebrew University, 1996)The ketiv-kere phenomenon is recorded, albeit only selectively (Yeivin 1980: § § 95,103) in an apparatus (the lists and marginal dotes of the Masorah), but it is not itself an apparatus. It is the set of all discrepancies ... -
Kol Nidre: Past, present and future.
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La matrice de l'interprétation talmudique
([Paris] : Liens qui libèrent ; [Arles] : Actes Sud, 2012)La Mishna (litt «enseignement» ou «repetition») est un code de loi composé, nous dit la tradition, par Rabbi Yehuda ha-Nassi («le Prince») vers 200 E.C. À l’inverse des midrashim, il ne se présente pas comme un commentaire ... -
The Lachish Ewer: An Offering and a Tribute
(Israel Exploration Society, 2016)Joseph Naveh’s Early History of the Alphabet is a magisterial survey. I learned an enormous amount from reading it and even more from auditing the author’s epigraphy class during a year that I spent at the Institute ... -
“The ‘Lemma Complement’ in Hebrew Commentaries from Byzantium and Its Diffusion to Northern France and Germany
(Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, 2011)The publication of a corpus of Byzantine Jewish texts from the Cairo Genizah by Nicholas de Lange2 has provided important new data for reconstructing the history of Jewish biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages. De Lange was ... -
Letting the facts get in the way of a good thesis: On interpreting R. Soloveitchik’s philosophical method.
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Levels of literacy in Ashkenaz and Sepharad, as reflected by the recitation of biblical verse found in the liturgy [Heb.]
(Jerusalem: Shazar, 2010)ידיעותינו בתחום ההיסטוריה החברתית של היהודים באירופה הנוצרית בימי הביניים התעשרו במשך העשורים האחרונים, במיוחד הודות למחקר שנערך בחומר ארכיוני חדש. 1 ואולם בתחומים מסוימים עדיין יש ספקות ופערים רבים. הראיות החלקיות שהובאו ... -
Lexicography: Biblical Hebrew.
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Library Book Talks: Shalom Holtz Book Lecture.
(NY: Yeshiva University Libraries., 2019-12-04)"In the Hebrew Bible and related ancient sources prayer is an opportunity to make one's case before divine judges. Prayers were formulated using courtroom or trial language, including demands for judgment, confessions, and ...
