Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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Lord Amherst's Demotic Papyri and Lady Amherst's Mummy.
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A Lost Hebrew Verb and the Lost Tribes of Israel in a Lost Biblical Commentary from Byzantium
(Yeshiva University Press, 2020)This lost work – the earliest surviving peshaṭ commentary written outside of the Islamic empire – preserves a number of lost cultural artifacts of ancient and medieval Judaism: (1) a lost ancient Hebrew verb; (2) the ... -
The Lost Meaning of Deuteronomy 33:2 as Preserved in the Palestinian Targum to the Decalogue
(Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2009)This essay is a sequel to a previous article by one of the present writers, which claims to recover the lost meaning of מימינו אשדת למו Deut 33:2.1 ...Weinfeld adduces much extrabiblical evidence ... -
Lulav versus *lu/law: A Note on the Conditioning of *aw > ū in Hebrew and Aramaic.
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Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus: The impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner’s ‘History of the Second Temple’
(Brill, 2006)It is hardly a secret that Zionist ideology had a profound impact on Joseph Klausner’s historiographic enterprise. Even a superficial perusal of his works reveals a powerful Zionist commitment expressed in both rhetoric ... -
Maimonides on Courage
(Mohr Siebeck, 2015)This paper will specifically disclose how Maimonides crafts the specific virtue of courage and examine how he attempts to revive it as a central Jewish virtue. Maimonides describes three forms of courage: courage in its ... -
Maimonides on the Nature of Good and Evil.
(Cambridge UP, 2021-06)As is often the case with subjects in the labyrinthine work that is the Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides’ discussions of the concepts of good and evil are scattered throughout and often interspersed among other topics. ... -
Maimonides' Disagreement with 'The Torah' in His Interpretation of Job.
(Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002- ; Brill, 2004)Maimonides is celebrated in Jewish intellectual history both as a bold innovator and vigorous champion of rabbinic tradition. The tensions implied by this combination emerge in his reading of Job in The Guide of the ... -
Maqlû I.73-121 and Trial Procedure.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)Abstract In the Akkadian anti-witchcraft ritual Maqlû, the incantation in i.73–121 exemplifies the theme of conducting adjudicatory proceedings against the witch in the divine courtroom. In particular, the patient’s ... -
Marshmallows, ketchup, and redemption: How leaders manage expectations
(Jewish Lights Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company, 2016)So is everything that we all do, for we too are part of this long march toward redemption. As leaders in Jewish Life, we feel the need to push hard, very hard, to achieve our goals; we often feel that we do not have the ... -
“Ma‘aseh ha-Menorah” Agnon’s “Tale of the Menorah” between Buczacz and Modern Israel
(Wipf & Stock, 2021)"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. ... -
The mbqr at Qumran, the episkopos in the Athenian Empire, and the Meaning of lbqrʾ in Ezra 7:14: On the Relation of Ezra's Mission to the Persian Legal Project.
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The Meaning and Significance of New Talmudic Insights
(Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009)Tracing and appreciating the relationship (in terms of both the similarities and the changes) between the approaches of leading medieval Talmudic commentators (rishonim), and those of the commentators in the early ... -
Medieval rabbinic conceptions of the messianic age: The view of the tosafists
(Magnes Press, 2001)The Tosafists, who flourished in northern France and Germany during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, devoted the bulk of their studies to a critical reading of the talmudic corpus, and to the reconciliation ... -
The Menorah: Cult, History, and Myth Exhibiting the Past and Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations
(Leiden: Brill, 2018)La Menorà: Culto, Storia E Mito, The Menorah: Worship, History and Myth was a monumental exhibition mounted by the Vatican Museums and the Jewish Museum of Rome in the Spring of 2017. Bringing together many of the most ... -
The Menorah: Cult, History, and Myth Exhibiting the Past and Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations.
(Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2018-12)La Menorà: Culto, Storia E Mito, The Menorah: Worship, History and Myth was a monumental exhibition mounted by the Vatican Museums and the Jewish Museum of Rome in the Spring of 2017. Bringing together many of the most ... -
Menorahs in color: Polychromy in Jewish visual culture of Roman antiquity.
(Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2013)In recent years, polychromy has developed as a significant area of research in the study of classical art. This essay explores the significance of this work for interpreting Jewish visual culture during Roman antiquity, ... -
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives
(Vetus Testamentum, 2022)An important method of resolving contradictions in the Bible was developed by Saadia Gaon and Menasseh ben Israel based on the writings of Aristotle. It is rooted in the insight that failure to recognize linguistic ... -
Midrashic texts and methods in tosafist torah commentaries
(London: Littman Library, 2013)The relationship between biblical and talmudic studies in medieval Ashkenaz is rather complex, and a number of trenchant questions remain.1 From all that we know about the Tosafists, and as E. E. Urbach’s thorough treatment ...
