Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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The ‘Aramean’ of Deuteronomy 26:5: Peshat and Derash
(Eisenbrauns, 1997)“The ideal reader treats the book as full of significance. . . . Ultimately, the holistic interpreter is animated by a respect for his cultural heritage that takes the form of a prejudice in favor of the ancient biblical ... -
The Arch of Titus in Color: Polychromy and the Spoils of Jerusalem.
(Jerusalem : Mekhon Megalim, 2017)From June 5 to 7, 2012 an international team of scholars led by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in partnership with the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma undertook a pilot study of ... -
Archaeology and the interpretation of rabbinic literature : some thoughts.
(Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2006)The creative interaction of rabbinic texts with archaeology is fraught with both promise and danger. Building bridges between silent artifacts and the “Oral Torah” requires great care that neither type of evidence ... -
Archaeology and the Search for Non-Rabbinic Judaism, from: Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology.
(Cambridge, 2005)This chapter explores the usable history of Jewish material culture in primarily American scholarship of the second half of the last century as a window into larger historiographic, communal and theological trends during ... -
Art and Identity in Latter Second Temple Period Judaea : The Hasmonean Royal Tombs at Modi‘in.
(Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, Department of Judaic Studies., 2001-05-10)The hypothetical late Second Temple period Judaean with whom we began this discussion would have been stymied if asked for his opinions regarding “art.” Even still, our Judaean would certainly have known what he found ... -
Arthur Hyman, z"l: Scholarly publications (1965-2016)
(Academia.edu, 2022-06)Arthur (Aharon) Hyman ז״ל was born on April 10, 1921 (2 Nisan 5681), in Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the son of Isaac and Rosa (Weil) Hyman. In 1935, at the age of 14, three years before Kristallnacht, he ... -
Ascetic Eating Practices and Torah Study in the Pesaqim of R. Moses of Evreux and His Circle
(Beer-Sheva : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2021)Scholarship has noted that the Tosafists Moses b. Shne’ur of Evreux and his brother Samuel (d. c. 1255) endorsed a number of ascetic and pietistic behaviors that are similar to those found in Sefer Ḥasidim and other texts ... -
Ashkenanic messianic calculations from Rashi and his generation through the Tosafist period [Heb.]
(Jerusalem: Shazar, 2008)במאמרו החשוב על המשיחיות בימי הביניים, לפני כארבעים שנה, טען גרשון כהן שהמשיחיות הרבנית באשכנז היתה מתונה ושקטה בהשוואה לזו שבספרד. רבני אשכנז עסקו בחישובי הקץ, אך הם הציעו תאריכים רק על פי חלומות או גילויים אחרים של תאריכים ... -
Ashkenaz
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Ashkenaz, Reception of the Bible in
(Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008)Already in the period prior to the First Crusade and continuing through the Middle Ages, the text of the Bible served as an introduction to the reading and understanding of Hebrew for elementary-level students. In addition, ... -
Ashkenazic Talmudic Interpretation and The Jewish–Christian Encounter.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)This study looks anew at the interactions and possible in uences between the monastic and cathedral school masters in Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the leading contemporary scholars of the ... -
Ashkenazim
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Ashurbanipal and Shamash-shum-ukin: A Tale of Two Brothers from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
(J Gabalda & Cie Editeurs, 1985-01)This is the third of a series of articles dealing with the Aramaic text in demotic script, 2 and the most ambitious one to Our first article 3 (and parts of our second) 4 dealt with a short (8-line), simple passage, ... -
Assessing the (Non-)Reception of Mishneh Torah in Medieval Ashkenaz.
(New York, NY: Yeshiva University Press., 2020)Several studies published during the past two decades have sought to explain why Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah is hardly cited in the rabbinic literature of northern Europe at least until the mid-thirteenth century. This ... -
Attitudes toward childhood and children in medieval Jewish society
(Scholars Press, 1985)In 1960, Phillipe Ari8s published a controversial book entitled L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'ancien régime. 1 The book was translated into English in 1962 and entitled Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of ... -
Belief in the Talmud, wisdom and skills to survive a plague.
(Nextbook, 2020-07-16)While the current pandemic is unprecedented in its global reach, humanity has suffered plagues of lesser and greater severity throughout history. Jewish liturgy bears scars of that pain in its daily repeated pleading to ... -
Berger, David. “Review of ‘Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz’, by Elisheva Baumgarten.”
(Historical Society of Israel /החברה ההיסטורית הישראלית, 2017)בשנת 2004 פרסמה אלישבע באומגרטן ספר פורץ דרך הן בחקר המגדר של היהודים בימי הביניים הן בחקר ממדים חשובים של הנוהג העממי וההלכה: Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (בתרגומו העברי: אמהות וילדים בחברה ... -
The Best of Poetry...’: Literary Approaches to the Bible in the Spanish Peshat Tradition
(New York, NY: RIETS, Yeshiva University, 1995)Traditional Jewish biblical exegesis, spanning many centuries lands, offers a number of interpretive approaches to the Holy tures (kitvei ha-kodesh). Despite significant differences, the Midrash, the medieval French and ... -
Between Ashkenaz and Sefarad: Tosafist Teachings in the Talmudic Commentaries of Ritva
(New York : The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Jersey City, NJ : Distributed by Ktav Publishing, 2010)The extent to which leading rabbinic scholars of northern Europe (Ashkenaz) during the high middle ages were familiar with the writings of their counterparts in Spain (Sefarad) and points further east within the Moslem ... -
Between Liturgy and Social History: Priestly Power in Late Antique Palestinian Synagogues?
(Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 2005)
