Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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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) -
Variation, Simplifying Assumptions and the History of Spirantization in Aramaic and Hebrew
(Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2007)Like all ancient historians, those of us who deal with the history of ancient languages are dependent on chance discoveries for the data with which we work. We are faced with enormous gaps in the historical record, and we ... -
Varieties of belief in medieval Ashkenaz: The case of anthropomorphism.
(Wayne State UP, 2008)From the larger perspective of medieval Jewish intellectual history, the range of views in Ashkenaz that we have traced with regard to anthropomorphism helps to diminish the “backward” image that has sometimes been ... -
Ve-af al pi she-hazal qiblu: peshat and halakhah in Radak's exegesis .
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Vowel Length in Hebrew: Descriptions and Theories from Jerome to Judah Halevy in the Light of Religious Polemics [Hebrew]
(Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2001)שני פולמוסים גדולים הפרו את הבלשנות העברית כבר מראשיתה. הפולמוס עם הקראים הבריח את רס״ג לעסוק במחקר הלשון: הוא טרח למצוא כללי תחביר וסגנון אשר יוכלו לשמש נשק נגד פירושיהם והשקפותיהם של הקראים ואף פיתח תאוריה לקסיקולוגית ... -
What did it Feel Like to Be a Jew? The Kosher Food Laws and Emotional Norms Among Ancient Jews
(Brill, 2022-02)Jewish observance of a set of legal practices constituted the most obvious distinction between Jew and Gentile in antiquity. Yet Jewish ritual practice did not only affect the ways in which Jews acted but also how they ... -
What Do They Study in Your Yeshivah? The Scope of Talmudic Commentary in Europe During the High Middle Ages
(NY: Yeshiva University Museum, 2005)At the start of the eleventh century, as the last of the great geonim were completing their oeuvre that consisted principally of responsa and halakhic monographs, leading scholars in Germany and North Africa, such as ... -
“When I Went to Rome… There I Saw the Menorah…” The Jerusalem Temple Implements during the Second Century c.e..
(The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2006)The interests of Eric M. Meyers stretch from the Bronze Age through the early Islamic period, from ancient Israel to the diaspora communities of late antique Italy, from literary to archaeological sources to the State ... -
When is a menorah "Jewish"?: On the complexities of a symbol during the age of transition
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 2015)My objective in this paper is to trace the trajectory of one element of the Jerusalem medallion: its menorah. I will begin by contextualizing the image as it appears in the Roman East during the centuries encompassed by ... -
When Yosa Meshita Took the Temple Menorah: A Rabbinic Legend.
(The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019)The rabbis of late antiquity were well aware that after the destruction of the Second Temple the most precious “sacred vessels” had been taken to Rome.1 Classical rabbinic literature records numerous legends of the destruction ... -
Where God Dwells: A Child’s History of the Synagogue.
(Los Angeles, Torah Aura Press, 1999)This book is published in commemoration of sacred realm: The emergence of the synagogue in the ancient world, an exhibition mounted by Yeshiva University Museum, February-December, 1996 -
Who is Carrying the Temple Menorah? Jewish Counter-Memory and the Arch of Titus Spolia Panel.
(Leiden: Brill, 2016)The Arch of Titus, constructed circa 81 CE under the emperor Domitian, commemorates the victory of the general, then emperor Titus in the Jewish War of 66–74 CE. Located on Rome’s Via Sacra, the Arch has been a “place of ... -
Whose battle? Whose victory?
(Yeshiva University, 2012-02-08)Discusses battle against Amalek and the collaboration between God and Israel. -
Why Bishlam (Ezra 4:7) Cannot Rest "In Peace": On the Aramaic and Hebrew Sound Changes That Conspired to Blot out the Remembrance of Bel-Shalam the Archivist.
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Why the Aramaic Script Was Called ‘Assyrian’ in Hebrew, Greek, and Demotic
(Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1993)In other words, Hitzig was basically right, except that he was basically unaware that it was the Egyptians who first applied the name of Assyria to Aram, and the term "Assyrian script" to the Aramaic script. The corresponding ... -
The Words מאה ‘100’ and מאתין ‘200’ in Derashot Based on Popular Dialects of Aramaic
(Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies, 1996)Rabbinic literature of all periods contains derashot based on Aramaic – not only literary Aramaic but also popular dialects of that language. This article deals with two derashot based on colloquial and dialectal forms of ...
