Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies: Doctoral Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Rashi's commentary on the Book of Samuel: Critical edition and supercommentary
(Yeshiva University, 1987-05)ABSTRACT Rashi’s commentaries on the Prophets and Writings have not received the same scholarly attention as his Pentateuchal commentary. Numerous supercommentaries have been written on the latter while only a handful ... -
The internal administration of the second temple at Jerusalem
(Yeshiva University, 1970-06)This thesis is an attempt to present a composite picture of the internal priestly administration of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in its manifold aspects. After briefly surveying the status and establishing the centrality ... -
Putrid Fish and Citrons in the Garbage Heaps of Mata Meḥasia: Scent and Smelling in the Babylonian Talmud
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 2022-03)This dissertation examines attitudes towards scent and smelling in the Babylonian Talmud. I compare material in the Babylonian Talmud to Palestinian Tannaitic and Amoraic texts to determine what is new and unique. The ... -
Lo Yilbash as a Case Study in Halakhic Conceptions of Masculinity
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 2022-05)This study seeks to advance the Jewish gender studies field by utilizing halakhic texts concerning the biblical prohibition of cross-dressing as a case study in conceptualizing rabbinic masculinity. We begin by sketching ... -
First And Foremost, An American Congressman: The Holocaust-Era Activities of Rep. Sol Bloom
(ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, 2022-05)As chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, Sol Bloom (1870-1949) was arguably the most powerful Jew in Congress during the Holocaust. To the extent that historians discuss him at all, ... -
The Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence of Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman (Ramban)
(2022-01)Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman (Ramban) was an influential communal leader, biblical exegete, Jewish philosopher, kabbalist, poet, and halakhist. Ramban contributed extensively and profoundly to the whole range of these disciplines. ... -
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 ... -
Laws of Sabbath in Yehudah Hadassi's "Eshkol hak-Kofer".
(New York, NY: Bernard Revel Graduate School. Yeshiva University., 1974-09)This study deals with the encyclopedia text Eshkol hak—kofer written by the late twelfth century Karaite Judah Hadassi. This book includes a thorough compilation of Karaite halakhah, together with its ratlonale, the ... -
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 ...
