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New Light on the Biblical ‘Millo’ from Hatran Inscriptions.
([Ann Arbor, Mich., etc.] American Schools of Oriental Research., 1989-11)Hatran Aramaic ml' occurs in linguistic and archaeological contexts that establish that it corresponds to Hebrew millb(') and targumic Aramaic mlyt', and that it refers to some component of Hatra's circumvallation visible ... -
A New Perspective on Rashi of Troyes in Light of Bruno the Carthusian: Exploring Jewish and Christian Bible interpretation in eleventh-century Northern France.
(Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1970- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2017)Departing from the norm in eleventh-century Ashkenazic learning, Rashi advanced peshat (plain sense) interpretation as a yardstick to evaluate midrashic readings of scripture. While he drew upon Jewish sources such as the ... -
The ninety-three Bais Yaakov girls of Cracow: History or typology
(Jason Aronson, 1992)Jewish martyrdom during the Holocaust is a tragic and emotionally charged issue for anyone examining Jewish life under Nazi rule. During the past generation, a number of accounts of both physical and spiritual martyrdom ... -
Northwest Semitic Incantations in an Egyptian Medical Papyrus of the Fourteenth Century B.C.E.
(University of Chicago. Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures., 1992)THE London Medical Papyrus, published seventy years ago by W. Wreszinski,' contains a number of short Northwest Semitic magical texts transcribed into hieratic syllabic script ("group writing").2 The only attempts I know ... -
Nostra Aetate after fifty years: Covenant and the election of Israel
(Lutterworth Press, 2017)The genesis of Nostra Aetate, no. 4 has generally been analyzed in the narrow context of its place in the history of Jewish-Catholic relations, and its passage has been credited in major part to the efforts of ... -
Not just another contemporary Jewish problem a historical discussion of phylacteries
([New York] : Student Organization of Yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary,Yeshiva University, 1976)"And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hands and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. "1 Maimonides writes that contained in these words of the Torah are the injunctions to wear the phylactery of the ... -
Notes on the Semantic Fields of Papyrus and Service in Semitic and Egyptian
(Israel Exploration Society & Instittue of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021)It has long been accepted that Jewish Aramaic and MH נְיָר “papyrus” is derived from Akk. niāru, but the latter has no accepted etymology. Semitists have composed a number of Egyptian phrases containing ı͗ṯrw > יְאֹר “Nile” ... -
On changing the text of Nahem: A study in tradition, truth and transformation
(Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary . The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series, 2014-08)For many centuries, close to two millennia, the overarching message of Tish‘ah be-Av posed no challenge to the Jew. For him or her, its basic themes and lessons reflected not only the distant past but also the reality ... -
On sustaining communal values: Leaders and their children
(Maggid Books, 2018)And, in thinking about the values to which my friend, Richard Joel, has devoted – and continues to devote – his life, I reflect on what are our Jewish “Mystic chords of memory,” the “mystic chords of memory” that stretch ... -
On the assessment of R. Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) and his literary oeuvre
(New York: Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board, 1994)IN THE EIGHT HUNDRED years since his birth, R. Moses b. Nabman (1194-1270) has come to be known as a major intellectual force in the medieval Jewish world, second perhaps only to Maimonides. Ram ban excelled as a ... -
On the assessment of R. Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) and his literary oeuvre
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On the Book ‘Alilot Devarim.
(Bar-Ilan UP, 1980)במאמרו זה מגסה המחבר להוכיח, בשיטת ווייס ודכוותיה, וכנגד גרץ ודעימיה, שרק על רקע איטלקי אפשר להבין את מהותו של הספר. למרות שלאחרונה נתברר שההכללה הרחבה של ווייס בנוגע לחיבורנו, על דבר בערותה ופיגורה של השכלת יהודי אשכנז ... -
On the Dating of Hebrew Sound Changes (☼Ḫ > Ḥ and ☼Ġ > ˓) and Greek Translations (2 Esdras and Judith).
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2005)Our study of Greek transcriptions of *h provides a tool for dating Greek translations of Hebrew books. The transcriptions in 2 Esdras, the canonical Greek translation of Ezra-Nehemiah, belong to the the second century ... -
On the image and destiny of gentiles in Ashkenazic polemical literature
(Academic Studies Press, 2010)The hostile attitude toward Christian society found in medieval Ashkenazic literature is quite well known, and hardly needs to be demonstrated. Expressions of bitter animosity toward Christianity and its adherents are ... -
On the Monophthongization of *ay to ī in Phoenician and Northern Hebrew and the Preservation of Archaic/Dialectal Forms in the Masoretic Vocalization
(GBPress- Gregorian Biblical Press, 2007)Until recently, the Phoenician reflex of *ay did not seem to warrant much attention. Van den Branden, Segert, and Friedrich & Röllig were content to give the reflex as ë and supply a few examples2. It is only in the last ... -
On the morality of the Patriarchs: Must biblical heroes be perfect?
(Ben Yehuda Press, 2006)But, while Rabbi Hirsch's position is closer to and resonates more fully with the assumptions of our culture, it too poses a significant challenge for it opens up the proverbial Pandora's box. Is it now appropriate to ... -
On the Nuances of Reading Tosafist Literature and Other Medieval Rabbinic Texts for Trends in Religious Observance
(Springer Nature, 2017-12)In recent years, historical scholarship has increasingly turned to the literature of the Tosafists and other medieval talmudists and halakhists in order to establish or support trends in religious observance among the ... -
On the origin of the Heder-Hadar alternation in Hebrew.
(Monographic Journals of the Near East / Afroasiatic Linguistics, 1974-03-25)The heder-hadar alternation is limited to nouns with final resonant, because resonants are particularly prone to acquisition of syllabicity, which, in turn, often leads to epenthesis. The construct forms of such nouns ... -
On the original structure and meaning of Mah Nishtannah and the history of its reinterpretation.
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On the Reanalysis of של
(Hebrew University, 1996)הבדל זה דומה להבדל שמצאנו במילת היחס את, אבל בכיוון ההפוך. במשנה , כמו במקרא, את מתנהגת כמו אל. את היא תיבה בפני עצמה והיא איננה משמיטה את הה״א של תווית היידוע, למשל "את השמים". אפשר שיש לראות בזה כתיב היסטורי. לעומת ...
