Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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Nedarim and ascetic vows in the worldview of Maimonides and Nahmanides
(RCA: Rabbinical Council of America / הסתדרות הרבנים באמריקה, 1990)בפרק ג׳ מהל׳ דעות ה״א, חוזר הרמב״ם לרעיון שכבר הציע בפרק רביע י של שמונה פרקים. אע״פ שיש כמה תכונות רעות המבקשות להטריד את האדם משך חייו, תגובת האדם צריכה להיות מתונה:¶ "שמא יאמר אדם הואיל והקנאה והתאוה והכבוד וכיוצא ... -
New Directions in the Study of Piyyut Composition in Germany during the High Middle Ages.
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New Light on the Biblical ‘Millo’ from Hatran Inscriptions.
([Ann Arbor, Mich., etc.] American Schools of Oriental Research., 1989-11)Hatran Aramaic ml' occurs in linguistic and archaeological contexts that establish that it corresponds to Hebrew millb(') and targumic Aramaic mlyt', and that it refers to some component of Hatra's circumvallation visible ... -
A New Perspective on Rashi of Troyes in Light of Bruno the Carthusian: Exploring Jewish and Christian Bible interpretation in eleventh-century Northern France.
(Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1970- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2017)Departing from the norm in eleventh-century Ashkenazic learning, Rashi advanced peshat (plain sense) interpretation as a yardstick to evaluate midrashic readings of scripture. While he drew upon Jewish sources such as the ... -
Northwest Semitic Incantations in an Egyptian Medical Papyrus of the Fourteenth Century B.C.E.
(University of Chicago. Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures., 1992)THE London Medical Papyrus, published seventy years ago by W. Wreszinski,' contains a number of short Northwest Semitic magical texts transcribed into hieratic syllabic script ("group writing").2 The only attempts I know ... -
Not just another contemporary Jewish problem a historical discussion of phylacteries
([New York] : Student Organization of Yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary,Yeshiva University, 1976)"And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hands and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. "1 Maimonides writes that contained in these words of the Torah are the injunctions to wear the phylactery of the ... -
Notes on the Semantic Fields of Papyrus and Service in Semitic and Egyptian
(Israel Exploration Society & Instittue of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021)It has long been accepted that Jewish Aramaic and MH נְיָר “papyrus” is derived from Akk. niāru, but the latter has no accepted etymology. Semitists have composed a number of Egyptian phrases containing ı͗ṯrw > יְאֹר “Nile” ... -
On the assessment of R. Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) and his literary oeuvre
(New York: Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board, 1994)IN THE EIGHT HUNDRED years since his birth, R. Moses b. Nabman (1194-1270) has come to be known as a major intellectual force in the medieval Jewish world, second perhaps only to Maimonides. Ram ban excelled as a ... -
On the assessment of R. Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) and his literary oeuvre
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On the Dating of Hebrew Sound Changes (☼Ḫ > Ḥ and ☼Ġ > ˓) and Greek Translations (2 Esdras and Judith).
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2005)Our study of Greek transcriptions of *h provides a tool for dating Greek translations of Hebrew books. The transcriptions in 2 Esdras, the canonical Greek translation of Ezra-Nehemiah, belong to the the second century ... -
On the Monophthongization of *ay to ī in Phoenician and Northern Hebrew and the Preservation of Archaic/Dialectal Forms in the Masoretic Vocalization
(GBPress- Gregorian Biblical Press, 2007)Until recently, the Phoenician reflex of *ay did not seem to warrant much attention. Van den Branden, Segert, and Friedrich & Röllig were content to give the reflex as ë and supply a few examples2. It is only in the last ... -
On the Nuances of Reading Tosafist Literature and Other Medieval Rabbinic Texts for Trends in Religious Observance
(Springer Nature, 2017-12)In recent years, historical scholarship has increasingly turned to the literature of the Tosafists and other medieval talmudists and halakhists in order to establish or support trends in religious observance among the ... -
On the origin of the Heder-Hadar alternation in Hebrew.
(Monographic Journals of the Near East / Afroasiatic Linguistics, 1974-03-25)The heder-hadar alternation is limited to nouns with final resonant, because resonants are particularly prone to acquisition of syllabicity, which, in turn, often leads to epenthesis. The construct forms of such nouns ... -
On the original structure and meaning of Mah Nishtannah and the history of its reinterpretation.
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On the Reanalysis of של
(Hebrew University, 1996)הבדל זה דומה להבדל שמצאנו במילת היחס את, אבל בכיוון ההפוך. במשנה , כמו במקרא, את מתנהגת כמו אל. את היא תיבה בפני עצמה והיא איננה משמיטה את הה״א של תווית היידוע, למשל "את השמים". אפשר שיש לראות בזה כתיב היסטורי. לעומת ... -
On the Rise and Fall of Canaanite Religion at Baalbek: A Tale of Five Toponyms
(Society of Biblical Literature [Society Publisher], 2009)In this article, I shall attempt to show that the rise and fall of Canaanite religion at Baalbek from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period can be traced with the help of five toponyms: (1) Mbk Nhrm (Source of the Two ... -
On the Rise and Fall of Canaanite Religion at Baalbek: A Tale of Five Toponyms .
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On the role of Bible study in medieval Ashkenaz
(Haifa : Haifa University Press ; Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England in association with Brandeis University Press, 1993)In one of his last published articles, Frank Talmage undertook to assess the extent of independent Bible study-in-the medieval Jewish world. 1 His approach was to compare and contrast biblical studies· in the Ashkenazic ... -
On the text and origin of Av Ha-Rahamim
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On the Use of Greek Translations in Dating the Shift from Targum Proto–Jonathan to Targum Yerushalmi in Ezekiel
(Brill ; Jerusalem: Magnes Press Hebrew University, 2019)It is generally believed that there was a shift in Eretz Israel from an Ur-targum to the Prophets (“Targum Proto-Jonathan”) to a later Palestinian offshoot (“Targum Yerushalmi”), whose precise character and origin are ...
