Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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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 ... -
Yaakov Elman, z"l: Collected Scholarship
(Academia.edu, 2022-06)Yaakov Elman z"l (1943-2018) Yeshiva University, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Faculty Member Rabbinic thought *Professor Elman passed away on July 29, 2018. This account is maintained by his ... -
Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
(The Metaphysics Research Lab Center for the Study of Language and Information Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4115, 2019) -
Yeshivot: Medieval
(Chicago: Gitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000)Every major Jewish center during the Middle Ages boasted a network of talmudic academies. The differences between the centers had to do mostly with the means by which these yeshivot were sustained, the relationship ... -
You Can't Offer Your Sacrifice and Eat It Too: A Polemical Poem from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
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Yuqaṭṭil, Yaqaṭṭil, or Yiqaṭṭil: D-Stem Prefix-Vowels and a Constraint on Reduction in Hebrew and Aramaic.
(American Oriental Society, 1980-10)The prefix-vowel of the Proto-Hebrew (and perhaps also the Proto-Aramaic) D-stem imperfect is not u or a, as is generally believed, but i. Evidence is adduced from the Babylonian reading tradition, and (for Proto-Hebrew ... -
דימון (Isa 15:9) and להמנות (Qoh 1:15): On Dialectal Wordplay and Nasal Spreading in the Bible
(Brill, 2021-05-14)Biblical punsters occasionally moved beyond the confines of Standard Biblical Hebrew, producing dialectal wordplay. In a number of cases, the nonstandard form is a phonological variant from another dialect. The best-known ... -
דת and עין: Two verbs masquerading as nouns in Moses' blessing (Deuteronomy 33:2, 28).
(Journal of Biblical Literature, 1996)Irregular spelling is not normally an obstacle to understanding the biblical text. Nevertheless, when the deviant spelling of a rare word coincides with the normal spelling of a common word, exegetes can be misled. I submit ... -
ויצלהו מידם: Proleptic Summaries, Conative Imperfects, and Harmonization in the Joseph Story and Other Biblical Narratives
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2021-12)Despite Rashbam’s solution, a good number of prominent source critics, from the eighteenth century to the present day, have followed Jerome in using the philologically flimsy conative interpretation of ו יַּ צַּלִהֵ וּ to ...
