Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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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 ...
