Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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The discipline of law and the subjectivity of spirituality
(RCA, 2021)The Shema: Spirituality and law in Judaism -
Disembodied souls: the Nefesh in Israel and kindred spirits in the ancient Near East, with an appendix on the Katumuwa Inscription.
(SBL Press, 2015)Biblical scholars have long claimed that the Israelites "could not conceive of a disembodied nefesh [soul]." In this book, Richard C. Steiner rejects that claim based on a broad spectrum of textual, linguistic, archaeological, ... -
Does the Biblical Hebrew Conjunction -ו Have Many Meanings, One Meaning, or No Meaning at All?
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2000)In summary, then, -ו is sometimes meaningful and sometimes meaningless. All of the meaningful instances can be viewed as having one and the same meaning, whether it be the full four-line truth table of the logical ... -
Does the Biblical Hebrew Conjunction -ו Have Many Meanings, One Meaning, or No Meaning at All?
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Dreams as a determinant of Jewish law and practice in northern Europe during the high middle ages
(Leiden: Brill, 2012)Jewish society in northern Europe (Ashkenaz) during the high Middle Ages has been characterized as decidedly halakhocentric—religious norms and rituals were meant to conform to authoritative texts of Jewish law. In ... -
Echoes of the Spanish Expulsion in Eighteenth Century Germany: The Baer thesis revisited
(New York American Jewish Congress, 1992)Yitzak Baer's A History of the Jews in Christian Spain is a magisterial presentation of the dramatic story of one of medieval Europe's most significant and colorful Jewries. Utilizing a vast array of Hebrew, Spanish and ... -
Editors' Introduction
(Maggid Books ; Michael Scharf Trust Fund of Yeshiva University, 2018)It is thus with a deep expression of hakarat hatov, "gratitude;' that we present these essays in honor of Richard M. Joel, a master Jewish leader and educator who has devoted his life to service for the Jewish people ... -
The Emergence of the Synagogue
(New York University Press, 2018)A comparison of the first century Theodotus inscription from Jerusalem with the third century building at Dura Europos demonstrates the emergence of the synagogue as a dominant institution of Jewish life. The first, which ... -
Emphatic פ in the Masoretic Pronunciation of אַפַּדְֿנוֹ [Dan 11:45]
(Tel Aviv University, 1993)קשה להכריע אם, לפי גינזברג, הפ״אין של פרצוף היו סתם בלתי־מנושפרת או גם נחציות. סעד לאפשרות השנייה )וראייה נוספת לנחציות של הפ״א המיוחדת בדיאלקטים הארמיים הנוצריים( יש למצוא במאמר המוסגר בסוף הקטע. טענתו של גינזברג שם ... -
Esotericism and Magic in Ashkenazic Prayer during the Tosafot Period. [Hebrew]
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Eulogy for Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein
(Hoboken: Ktav, 2018)We would all like to believe that Torah on the part of a believing Jew automatically brings with it a status of supreme righteousness. This certainly should be the case, and most probably is. Nonetheless, in a Jewish world ... -
Facing the truths of history
(Yeshiva University, 1998)In its 24 Teves 5754 issue, the English edition of the Yated Ne’eman published a brief biography of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler by one of his most devoted disciples in commemoration of the fortieth yahrtzeit of that ... -
The fate of the gentiles
(Nextbook, 2021)Why did Medieval Jews envision diving punishment of Christians at the end of days? Surprisingly, it's not just because Christians were always trying to kill them. -
Fear and awe in Maimonides' thought
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Fine, Steven. (2021). “They Remembered That They Had Seen It in a Jewish Midrash”: How a Samaritan Tale Became a Legend of the Jews. Religions 12: 635. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12080635
(MDPI, 2021-08-11)This article relates the transmission history of a single Samaritan text and its fascinating trajectory from a Samaritan legend into early modern rabbinic tradition, and on to nineteenth and early twentieth century Jewish ... -
Foreward [to Majesty and Humility]
(Urim, 2012)One such leader and teacher was Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the Rav. In his lifetime, Rabbi Soloveitchik was well-known and highly respected for his original mind and charismatic personality, his intimate knowledge of ... -
Foreward [to Memories of a Giant]
(Jerusalem : Urim ; Brookline, MA : The Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute ; Brooklyn, New York : Lambda Publishers, c2003., 2003)The Rabbi Soloveitchik Institute is pleased to join with Urim Publications in making this book available to all the Rav's students and admirers and to the broader public on the occasion of his tenth yahrtzeit. I have no ... -
Foreword [to Modern Orthodox Judaism: A documentary history]
(Jewish Publication Society of America ; University of Nebraska Press, 2016)There is much wisdom here, of course, but the worldview of Modern Orthodoxy argues that Amichai is wrong. At the end of the day, both the "arch from the Roman period" ( the tradition) and the "man who bought fruit and ... -
From Germany to Northern France and Back Again: A Tale of Two Tosafist Centres.
(London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ; Liverpool : in association with Liverpool University Press, 2018)"Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known, the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad, are poorly understood, and the rich variety of other regional Jewish identities is often ...
