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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 ... -
[On] Joshua Blau, "An adverbial construction in Hebrew and Arabic" (1977).
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The Open Torah Ark: An Iconographic Type in Late Antique Rome and Sardis.
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A Paganized Version of Psalm 20:2-6 from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
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A Paganized Version of Psalm 20:2-6 from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
(American Oriental Society, 1983)IN 1944, Raymond Bowman announced his discovery that the mystery papyrus of the Pierpont Morgan Library's Amherst collection, a demotic papyrus unintelligible to demoticists, was "An Aramaic Religious Text in Demotic ... -
Papyrus Amherst 63: A New Source for the Language, Literature, Religion, and History of the Aramaeans
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 1995)We may recall that, according to II Kings 17:33, the people deported by the Assyrians to Samaria "worshipped the Lord, while worshipping their own gods", including, for example, Ashima of Hamath. However, the reliability ... -
Påṯaḥ and Qåmeṣ: On the Etymology and Evolution of the Names of the Hebrew Vowels
(GBPress- Gregorian Biblical Press, 2005)The פתח sign is well known, and for most of my life I have wondered at the fact that people read the t with a lenis pronunciation, when it ought to be fortis. Furthermore, most Jews read the word with the stress on the ... -
Påṯaḥ and Qåmeṣ: On the Etymology and Evolution of the Names of the Hebrew Vowels
(Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2009)בכלל פרסומיו המאלפים הרבים של פרום׳ אהרן דותן יש אחד שכותרתו פותחת במילים "פתחי חטפין". עליי להודות שכל אימת שביקשתי להשמיע כותרת זו בקול באתי במבוכה, שכן בושתי לגלות שוב ושוב שאינני יודע, פשוטו כמשמעו, כיצד יש להגות שתי ...
