The Biblical Law of Bailment in Its Ancient Near Eastern Contexts This study analyzes the biblical legal institution of bailment, wherein one person gives property to another person for a temporary period. Standing at the ...

This dissertation presents and contextualizes Hebrew liturgical poems (piyyut&dotbelow;im) that were recited in medieval European synagogues on H&dotbelow;anukka. It consists of two parts: analysis and corpus of texts. The ...

This study examines the legal concept of kavvanah, or "intention," and attempts to establish the history of how it was conceptualized and applied by the sages of the Babylonian Talmud (BT). Tracing developments relating ...

Contrary to the consensus of modern scholars who consider Joseph Albo to be an unoriginal philosopher who merely synthesized the views of his predecessors, philosophical originality can, in fact, be uncovered in his ...

The project of granting emancipation to the Jews of Central and Western Europe beginning in the late eighteenth century was predicated on a demonstration on their part of their worthiness of being granted citizenship. ...

R. Eliezer of Tukh's Tosafot Tukh on the Babylonian Talmud have served as the primary representative of the prolific Tosafist tradition of talmudic interpretation for almost three-quarters of a millennium. This dissertation ...

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 ...