Dans son chapitre sur les principaux Tossa¬fistes français du milieu du XIIIe siècle, Ephraim E. Urbach, eminent biographe des Tossafistes, cite en bonne place R. Yehiel ben Joseph de Paris et R. Tobia ben Eliahu de Vienne, ...

The purpose of this study is to clarify the initiatives through which an academy was opened in Ashkenaz during the Tosafist period.

R. Shem Tov ben Gaon, best known for his commentary to Maimonides' Mishneh Torah entitled Migdal Oz, was also the author of a number of kabbalistic treatises. 1 Among those extant is Baddei ha-Aron which deals primarily with ...

This study, however, will focus on Rashi’s distinctive use of the term ha-meshorer (“the poet”) to express his conception of a narrator or implied author, a literary construct, an imagined persona who ...

In addition to its pedagogic goals which included the further education of somewhat knowledgeable non-elites, Sefer ha-Ḥinnukh represents a proud and sustained effort to return to the way that substantive talmudic ...

In his pioneering study of Rashi's halakhic attitudes and posture toward Jews who had accepted Christianity either willingly or under duress, Jacob Katz argued that Rashi's interpretive expansion of the talmudic principle, ...

In the twentieth century, historical circumstance in the form of the Holocaust led to theodicy's returning to the forefront of the philosophical agenda, particularly in Jewish thought. As a result, post-Holocaust theology ...