Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies: Doctoral Dissertations
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Images of Torah from the Second Temple Period through the Middle Ages.
(2021-05)This dissertation investigates the religious phenomenon of the three images of Torah as a mediator between God and human beings which are manifest in Jewish and Christian sources from the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods ... -
Rav Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir on the Aramaic portion of Daniel edited from manuscripts and Cairo Geniza fragments with an introduction.
(1977)A hundred and fifty years ago, few of Rav Saadia Gaon's Arabic translations and commentaries were available to European scholars. The rediscovery of these lost works of R. Saadia began with the first traces of new interest ... -
When an American Jew produced: Judah David Eisenstein and the first Hebrew Encyclopedia
(2020-08)Between 1907 and 1913, Judah David Eisenstein (1854–1956), an amateur scholar and entrepreneurial immigrant to New York City, produced the first modern Hebrew encyclopedia, Ozar Yisrael. The Ozar was in part a traditionalist ... -
“What Power do we have over assailants today?”: Violence and Jewish Courts in High Medieval Europe
(2020-07)This study considers violent conflicts and their resolutions within the Jewish communities of Northern France and Germany during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Based primarily on Jewish legal sources, it places ... -
Abraham Ibn Ezra to Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Supercommentary with an Analytic Introduction
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 2017)Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra is the most prominent biblical exegete of the medieval Spanish school of peshat exegesis, which pursued the plain sense of Scripture on the basis of philology and reason. A true polymath, Ibn Ezra's ... -
The pragmatics of word order in biblical Hebrew: A statistical analysis
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2000)The majority of clauses in Biblical Hebrew prose have verb-first word order. Although the dominant order is verb-first, some clauses are inverted, with a fronted subject, object, or adverbial phrase. It is not clear why ... -
Debt collection in absentia: Halakhah in a mobile and commercial age
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1996)The Talmud reflects a predominantly agricultural and sedentary life style. Halakhic activities that presupposed physical presence operated efficiently in this world. The shift to a commercial and mobile society in the ... -
Radak's contribution to the tradition of figurative biblical exegesis
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1994)Scholarship of medieval Jewish exegesis often views figurative exegesis as a reflection of philosophical and polemical considerations. This study, however, evaluates the linguistic and literary perceptions reflected in ... -
Bernard Illowy and nineteenth century American orthodoxy
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991)The historiography of American Judaism has, to date, paid little attention to the religious and communal life of Jewish immigrants from Western and Central Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century. A survey of the ... -
American Zionist leaders and the Palestinian Arabs, 1898-1948
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991)This dissertation examines the evolution of the attitudes of American Zionist leaders towards the Palestinian Arabs during the years from the rise of organized American Zionism until the establishment of the State of ... -
Educational theory and practice in Ashkenaz during the high Middle Ages
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1987)This study of Ashkenazic education in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries examines the degree of communal involvement in the educational process as well as the economic and societal factors that affected this process. ... -
Studies in the Talmudic emendation of Tannaitic sources: An analysis of five terms of emendation in the Babylonian Talmud. [Hebrew and English text]
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1987)The phenomenon of text emendation of Tannaitic sources by Amoraim and the anonymous sugyah is attested to by the Babylonian Talmud in a wide number of cases. Various technical terms (hagahot) are used by the Talmud to ... -
PATTERNS IN GENESIS (BIBLE, EXEGESIS, MIDRASH, REDACTION, DOCUMENTARY HYPOTHESIS)
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1985)This study sought to establish that there are extensive verbal and thematic links between accounts within Genesis and between accounts in Genesis and those outside it. Rigorous methodological requirements were set to insure ... -
HALAKHOT PESUKOT ("HILKHOT R. YEHUDAI GAON"). (HEBREW TEXT)
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1984)This study deals with the book "Halakhot Pesukot" (=HP), the first legal compendium of the post-Talmudic era in Babylonia. The book was known under various titles, and achieved widespread popularity already in the middle ... -
AKKADIAN AND UGARITIC LEXICOGRAPHY: A COMPARATIVE INQUIRY (MIDDLE EAST)
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)The purpose of this work will be to elucidate problematical Ugaritic vocables through the use of the Akkadian lexicon. Although scholars have utilized other Semitic tongues in attempts to explain difficult Ugaritic words, ... -
POLEMICS OF REBIRTH: DAVID GORDON AND PROTO-ZIONISM, 1858-1886
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1983)Ha-Maggid, the first Hebrew newspaper in Eastern Europe, and its editor David Gordon influenced the development of proto-Zionism (1840-1881) and Hibbat Zion (1881-1896), the forerunners of Herzl's political Zionism. A ... -
ORTHODOX JUDAISM IN EARLY VICTORIAN LONDON 1840-1858
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1981)This thesis deals with the observance and philosophy of Orthodox Judaism in London during the years between 1840 and 1858. The issue addressed is whether religious developments in London during this time were parallel to ... -
THE ARAMAIC DIALECT OF NEDARIM
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1980)Not all of the Babylonian Aramaic which is recorded in the Talmud is of a homogeneous nature. There are major grammatical and lexical differences which set the Babylonian tractate of Nedarim apart from the remainder of the ... -
THE COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF MISHNAH "SOTAH"
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1980)Statement of Thesis. Mishnah represents an amalgamation of literary sources joined together in a logical fashion by its editor. A grasp of its literary structure will aid in the clarification of the text and, concomittantly, ... -
MAR BAR RAV ASHI AND HIS LITERARY CONTRIBUTION (HEBREW TEXT)
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1980)The period between the death of Rav Ashi (427 CE) and that of Rabina the latter, bar Rav Huna (500 CE) is still beset with serious historical and literary uncertainties. In addition, the very identification of the period's ...
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