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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 ... -
Petah davar. Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages (1992)
(ספריית "הילל בן־ח״ם הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, 1992)Preface to author's book (Hebrew) -
Philology as the Handmaiden of Philosophy in R. Saadia Gaon’s Interpretation of Gen 1:1
(Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, 1999)It seems reasonable to assume that Saadia, like Maimonides, held that time cannot exist without motion, and motion cannot exist without matter. Thus, the creation of the world within a temporal matrix would imply the ... -
The philosophical foundations of Soloveitchik's critique of interfaith dialogue.
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Phonemic Spelling and Scriptio Continua for Sandhi Phenomena and Glottal Stop Deletion: Proto-Sinaitic vs. Hebrew.
(University of Chicago Press, 2016)Orthographic depth is the name given to one of the criteria for classifying writing systems. One definition of this term is given by Henry Rogers: “In a writing system which is orthographically shallow, graphemes represent ... -
Poetic Forms in the Masoretic Vocalization and Three Difficult Phrases in Jacob’s Blessing: יתר שאת (Gen 49:3), 49:4 ( יצועי עלה), and 49:10 ( יבא שילה)
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A poet’s biblical exegesis.
(Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003-01)The Jewish Quarterly Review, XCIII, Nos. 3-4 (January-April, 2003) 533-556 Review Essay A POET'S BIBLICAL EXEGESIS1 Mordechai Z. Cohen, Yeshiva University Paul Fenton. Philosophie et exégèse dans le Jardin de la métaphore ... -
The Popularization of Jewish Legal and Customary Literature in Germanic Lands during the Thirteenth Century
(Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014)Coming on the heels of the eleventh century. during which the rabbinic literature produced by the leading Ashkenazic talmudic academies at Mainz and Worms was generally brief and oflen fragmentary, owing both to the ... -
A Portrait of Spinoza
Warren Zev Harvey wrote a bold and now famous paper over thirty years ago entitle "A Portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean," defending the dominant influence of the philosophy of the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses ... -
Postscript : Reflections after Twenty Years
(Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016-10-17)This Holy Place was a step in a journey that began in my teen years and has continued ever since. It reflects learning that commenced even before I entered the university and that continued as I—then a nice third-generation ... -
The Practices of the Land of Egypt (Lev. 18:3): Incest, ʿAnat, and Israel in the Egypt of Ramesses the Great
(Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2016)To my mind, the simplest, most straightforward answer is that the Israelites were in Egypt during Ramesses’s reign. Many of them––especially if they worked in Ramesses’s new residential capital––would have heard the title ... -
Prayer, Literacy, and Literary Memory in the Jewish Communities of Medieval Europe
(Philadelphia: Penn Press, 2011)Our knowledge and understanding of the popular history of the Jews in Christian Europe during the high Middle Ages has been significantly enriched in recent years, largely due to new archival research.1 Nonetheless, large ... -
Preface: Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism.
(Leiden: Brill, 2019)Jewish Religious Architecture is the first volume in a new series in Jews, Judaism, and the Arts inaugurated by Brill. Ilia Rodov of Bar Ilan University and I are the editors of the Jewish Art and Visual Culture section, ... -
Prefaces to paperback and hardcover editions & Acknowledgments
(Wayne State University, 2000)Prefaces to both paperback and hardcover editions of the author's work. -
Preservation, Creativity, and Courage: The Life and Works of R. Meir of Rothenburg
(New York, Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board [etc.], 1992)The rabbinic cultureof medieval Ashkenaz (northern France and Germany) produced a series of outstanding scholars who in turn led their students and communities in matters both spiritual and temporal. Four major studies ... -
Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Law and Legal Thought
(De Gruyter, 2020)The three major codes of Jewish law composed during the medieval period, Mishneh Torah by Maimonides (d. 1204, in Egypt), Arba’ah Turim by Jacob ben Asher (d. ca. 1340, in Spain), and Shulḥan ‘Arukh by Joseph Karo (d. ...
