Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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A Jewish Aramaic (Or Hebrew) 'Laissez‐Passer' from the Egyptian Port of Berenike
(University of Chicago Press, 2004-10) -
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 ... -
Linguistic Aspects of the Commentary to Ezekiel and the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Scrolls from Byzantium
(Academy of the Hebrew Language, 1995)A commentary on Ezekiel and the Minor Prophets written in Hebrew (with Greek glosses) by a Byzantine Rabbanite Jew named Reuel is preserved on fragments of two tenth-century scrolls (rotuli) from the Cairo Geniza. Its ... -
Linguistic Traces of Jewish Traders from Islamic Lands in the Frankish Kingdom
(Academy of Hebrew Language, 2011)The earliest extant rabbinic literature from Christian Europe contains Arabic loanwords: חלדרובא '(camel) hump', מעריפה 'non-Jewish trading partner', מערופא 'id.', and עמברא 'ambergris'. The last two words have an Aramaic ... -
Logic to Interpretation: Maimonides' Use of al-Fârâbî's Model of Metaphor.
(Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002- ; Brill, 2002)Maimonides' interests in language and interpretation converge in the exegetical sections of his Guide of the Perplexed, in which he often invokes the notion of metaphor (Ar. isti"ara; Hebr. hash'alah), a concept defined ... -
The London Medical Papyrus (1.101)
(Leiden: Brill, 2003)The London Medical Papyrus, usually dated to the late 18th dynasty (fourteenth century BCE), contains a number of short Semitic magical texts transcribed into hieratic syllabic script (Wreszinski 1912:150-152). Like magical ... -
Lord Amherst's Demotic Papyri and Lady Amherst's Mummy.
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A Lost Hebrew Verb and the Lost Tribes of Israel in a Lost Biblical Commentary from Byzantium
(Yeshiva University Press, 2020)This lost work – the earliest surviving peshaṭ commentary written outside of the Islamic empire – preserves a number of lost cultural artifacts of ancient and medieval Judaism: (1) a lost ancient Hebrew verb; (2) the ...
