Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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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 ... -
The Lost Meaning of Deuteronomy 33:2 as Preserved in the Palestinian Targum to the Decalogue
(Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2009)This essay is a sequel to a previous article by one of the present writers, which claims to recover the lost meaning of מימינו אשדת למו Deut 33:2.1 ...Weinfeld adduces much extrabiblical evidence ... -
Lulav versus *lu/law: A Note on the Conditioning of *aw > ū in Hebrew and Aramaic.
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Maimonides on Courage
(Mohr Siebeck, 2015)This paper will specifically disclose how Maimonides crafts the specific virtue of courage and examine how he attempts to revive it as a central Jewish virtue. Maimonides describes three forms of courage: courage in its ... -
Maimonides on the Nature of Good and Evil.
(Cambridge UP, 2021-06)As is often the case with subjects in the labyrinthine work that is the Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides’ discussions of the concepts of good and evil are scattered throughout and often interspersed among other topics. ... -
Maimonides' Disagreement with 'The Torah' in His Interpretation of Job.
(Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002- ; Brill, 2004)Maimonides is celebrated in Jewish intellectual history both as a bold innovator and vigorous champion of rabbinic tradition. The tensions implied by this combination emerge in his reading of Job in The Guide of the ... -
Maqlû I.73-121 and Trial Procedure.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)Abstract In the Akkadian anti-witchcraft ritual Maqlû, the incantation in i.73–121 exemplifies the theme of conducting adjudicatory proceedings against the witch in the divine courtroom. In particular, the patient’s ... -
“Ma‘aseh ha-Menorah” Agnon’s “Tale of the Menorah” between Buczacz and Modern Israel
(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. ...
