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T. M. Johnstone. Harsusi Lexicon and English-Harsusi Word-List. London: OUP, 1977. Reviewed by Richard C. Steiner.
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Talmudic Studies.
(London: Cambridge University Press, 2018)The history and development of the study of the Oral Law following the completion of the Babylonian Talmud remain shrouded in mystery. Although significant Geonim from Babylonia and Palestine during the eighth and ninth ... -
A Talmudist’s Biblical Hermeneutics: A New Understanding of Maimonides’ Principle of Peshat Primacy.
(Ramat-Gan, Israel : Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, [2002-, 2012)The clarification of Maimonides’ peshat model does more than simply demonstrate his connection to the celebrated peshat school of Jewish interpretation; it reveals how he shatters hermeneutical barriers and ... -
Texts and their creators: Charting the innovations of the tosafists
(Jerusalem: Magnes, 2011)טענתו של אבי ליפשיץ, שהתוספות לתלמוד לא חוברו כיצירות העומדות בפני עצמן אלא נועדו לשמש השלמות או מעין העדות שוליים לתלמוד הבבלי, מעוררת מחשבה. הוא הדין ביחס למסקנתו, שהחיקוי העקבי של שיטת הריק התלמודי ושל הנמקותיו הוא ... -
Textual and Exegetical Notes to Nicholas de Lange, "Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah"
(Penn Press, 1998-07)Nicholas de Lange's Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah (1996) is a work of crucial importance for the history of biblical exegesis. Of the 305 pages of texts published here, 225 are from biblical commentaries. ... -
Textual and Exegetical Notes to Nicholas de Lange, "Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah.
(University of Pennsylavnia Press, 1998-07)Nicholas de Lange's Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah (1996) is a work of crucial importance for the history of biblical exegesis. Of the 305 pages of texts published here, 225 are from biblical commentaries. At ... -
Three Grievous Curses from the Aramaic Inscription from Bukān
(Academy of Hebrew Language, 2000)הכתובת מכילה שלוש־עשרה שורות של קללות הדומות לאלה הבאות בסוף הכתובות הארמיות מתל פחריה ומספירה. על כן הניחו החוקרים ששורות אלו הן רק החלק התחתון של הכתובת המקורית. החוקרים אף מסכימים שהכתובת נכתבה בסוף המאה השמינית ... -
"To go and marry any man that you please": A study of the formulaic antecedents of the rabbinic writ of divorce.
(University of Chicago Press, 2001-10)The most recent generation has witnessed growing scholarly interest in the relationship between Mesopotamian civilization and the much later world of Rabbinic Judaism. Y. Muffs's work on the Elephantine papyri amply ... -
The Torah Commentary of R. Moses of Coucy. [Hebrew]
(Jerusalem: Carmel, 2019)ר' משה בן יעקב מקוצי נודע בעיקר הודות ל'ספר מצוות גדול' (סמ"ג), שכתב בשנות הארבעים של המאה השלוש־עשרה. 1 הוא חיבר תוספות לכמה מסכתות והיה תלמידו של ר' יהודה ב"ר יצחק שירליאון (נפטר ב־ 1224 ), שהיה מתלמידי ר' יצחק (הר"י) ... -
The Torah Comments of Yeḥiel of Paris: Mediating between Peshat and Derash
(Beer Sheva : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2021)More than a century ago, Samuel Poznanski charted in great detail the decided turn in northern France to peshuto shel miqra (the plain meaning of scripture) that was embraced by Rashi (d. 1105) and several of his students ... -
Torah Study and Truth in Medieval Ashkenazic Rabbinic Literature and Thought
(Beer-Sheva : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2006)In a well-known passage in his commentary to 'Eruvin 13b, R. Yom Tov b. Abraham al-Ishvilli (Ritva, d. c. 1325) interprets the talmudic phrase characterizing the halakhic debates between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai, ... -
The Tosafist Oeuvre and Torah u-Madda
(New York: Yeshiva University, 1990)This paper seeks to answer two questions: (1) Were the Tosafists affected by or responsive to issues of a Torah u-Madda nature, and (2) How do Torah u-Madda approaches or methodologies inform and enlighten the study of Tosafot? -
Traces of esoteric studies in the tosafist period
(Jerusalem : World Union of Jewish Studies, 1994, 1993)The Tosafists of northern France and Germany were rabbinic scholars whose academic orientation was clearly talmudocentric. Despite the 'very full library of earlier Jewish literature which they had at their disposal, the ... -
Trinitarian and multiplicity polemics in the biblical commentaries of Rashi, Rashbam, and Bekhor Shor.
(Student Organization of Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University, 1979)The Old Testament was the single most important source for proof-texts in Jewish-Christian polemics of the High Middle Ages. Christians attempted to show that doctrines such as the Trinity and virgin birth were implicit ... -
The Two Sons of Neriah and the Two Editions of Jeremiah in the Light of Two Atbash Code-Words for Babylon
(Leiden: Brill, 1996-01)What, then, can we say about editor II? He lived in Babylonia during the exilie. He had knowledge of people and events in Jeremiah's life which went beyond the facts reported in edition I, and he had access to an entire ... -
Ṭaʿame ha-miṣvot in Medieval Ashkenaz
(Leiden: Brill, 2021)The search for taʿame ha-misvot (reasons for the commandments) in medieval Ashkenaz has received scant scholarly attention. Thus, for example, not a single Ashkenazic figure is found among the chapter headings of the ... -
Unanimity, Majority, and Communal Government in Ashkenaz During the High Middle Ages: A Reassessment
(New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1992)What emerges from our study of communal government in medieval Ashkenaz is that during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, discussions concerning adam }Jashuv, the power of the majority, and the prerogatives and ... -
Understanding the Trajectory of Medieval Jewish Studies
(New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 2020)Much of the North American scholarship in medieval Jewish studies during the past four decades has not kept pace with this development. Israeli manuscript scholarship is at times so overwhelming that the ideas of history ... -
Understanding the Uneven Reception of Rabbenu Tam’s Taqqanot
(De Gruyter, 2021)In Jewish Self-Government in the Middle Ages, which first appeared nearly a century ago, Louis Finkelstein gathered a full range of super-communal taqqanot (ordinances) that were enacted in medieval Europe. The fourth ... -
'Uve-derash' -- ha-Mivneh ha-du-kotvi be-ferushav shel Radak.
(Mosad Bialik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem., 2011)
