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Five Megilloth and Jonah-PR-Hebrew/English
by Ismar David  Publisher Comments These six short books of the Bible, each read in connection with a Jewish holy day, constitute a literature unto themselves--a poetic, spiritual, and literary treasure. This volume includes the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, and...
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Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah #47: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, King, Priest, Prophet: Positive Eschatological Protagonists of the Qumran Library
by Geza G. Xeravits Publisher Comments Among the newly published texts of the Qumran Library there are a good number with eschatological content. Some of these texts relate the eschatological activity of certain figures who seem to play an important role in the events of the eschaton. This...
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Judaism and Story: The Evidence of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)
by Jacob Beusner Publisher Comments In this close analysis of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, a sixth-century commentary on the Mishnah-tractate The Fathers (Avot), Jacob Neusner considers the way in which the story, as a distinctive type of narrative, entered the canonical writings...
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Is Scripture the Origin of the Halakhah?
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments Is Scripture the origin of the Halakhic system, which defines the norms of Judaism? At stake is not the starting point of discrete bits of legal data, but the origin of the comprehensive structure comprised by the Halakhic category-formations. As...
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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, #59: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, a Transparent Illusion: The Dangerous Vision of Water in Hekhalot Mysticism. a Source-Cri
by Christopher R. A. Morray-jones Publisher Comments In Jewish hekhalot mysticism, one who ascends to the heavenly temple may see something which looks like - but is not - water. Should he be deceived by this illusion, he betrays his unworthiness and exposes himself to retribution.<BR>Detailed...
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How the Halakhah Unfolds
by Jacob Neusner Synopsis This work follows the single tractate, Moed Qatan, in its passage through the principal documents of formative Judaismthe Mishnah (200 C.E.), Tosefta (300 C.E.), Yerushalmi (400 C.E.), and Bavli (600 C.E.). In acute detail, the study explores...
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Rabbinic Narrative; a Documentary Perspective; V.4: the Precedent and the Parable in Diachronic View.
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One to Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-compilations, and Rabbah-Midrash-compilations, respectively. Volume Four then sets forth the documentary history of each of the types...
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Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Lawrence H. Schiffman Publisher Comments This landmark reference work is the first of its kind. Featuring 450 articles by an international community of scholars it is the definitive account of what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls--their history, relevance, meaning, and the controversies that...
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Dissertation Series / Society of Biblical Literature #57: Holy Lives, Holy Deaths: A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers
by Antoinette Clark Wire Book News Annotation Wire (New Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary and Graduate Theological Union) presents and analyzes 129 stories about prophecy at birth, wondrous provision, prophets' signs, and martyrdom and vindication. She also draws conclusions about the...
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Brill Reference Library of Ancient Judaism, #11: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics
by Daniel Boyarin Synopsis Two major themes run through this fine collection of essays: the typological relation of rabbinic Judaism to Christianity, and the re-animation of a rabbinic Judaism that would not manifest some of the deleterious social ideologies and practices that...
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Ishmael on the Border: Rabbinic Portrayals of the First Arab (Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion)
by Carol Bakhos Publisher Comments This book examines Ishmael's conflicted portrayal over a thousand-year period and traces the shifts and nuances in his representation within the Jewish tradition before and after the emergence of Islam. In classical rabbinic texts, Ishmael is depicted in...
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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, #69: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Gegenwart Der Tradition: Studien Zur Judischen Literatur Und Kulturgeschichte
by Giuseppe Veltri Publisher Comments The book is concerned with questions inherent in the formation of the canon and the evaluation of Bible translations (the conception of a holy language, the question of the evaluation of the Septuagint and Aquila in the Middle Ages) and with studies in...
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Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah #50: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, the Worldly and Heavenly Wisdom of 4qinstruction
by Matthew J. Goff Publisher Comments South Asian religious art became codified during the Kua Period (ca. beginning of the 2nd to the mid 3rd century). Yet, to date, neither the chronology nor nature of Kua Art, marked by great diversity, is well understood. The Kua Empire was huge...
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Brill Reference Library of Judaism, #12: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, the Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments History provides one way of marking time, but there are others, like the Judaism of the dual Torah, set forth in the Rabbinic literature from the Mishnah through the Talmud of Babylonia, which tells the story of how a historical way of thinking about...
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Study of Talmudunderstanding
by A. H. Rabinowitz Publisher Comments In The Study of Talmud: Understanding the Halachic Mind, Rabbi Abraham Hirsch Rabinowitz, a distinguished scholar and author, explores halachahits fundamental principles, thought processes, and premisesby looking at it through the eyes of a...
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Resources for Biblical Study #14: The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
by C. D. Elledge Publisher Comments This brief yet thorough book highlights the most important contributions the Scrolls have made to the study of the Bible and charts new territory for future research into the Scrolls and the Qumran community. After reading The Bible and the Dead Sea...
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The End From the Beginning
by Avraham Gileadi Publisher Comments In the Book of Isaiah, the end of the world is foretold by events that occurred in the beginning, the future mirroring the past. Isaiah's literary structures make archetypes of Zion and Babylon and tell of a dramatic contest between good and evil.<P...
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The True Israel: Uses of the Names Jew, Hebrew, and Israel in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature
by Graham Harvey Publisher Comments This study of the use of the names 'Jew', 'Hebrew' and 'Israel' in ancient Jewish and early Christian literature - especially the Bible, Philo, Josephus, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament and Mishnah - defines the nature of Israel and Judaism in Antiquity....
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance, the Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance: Volume 1: The Non-Biblical Texts from Qumran
by Martin G., Jr. Abegg Publisher Comments This keyword-in-context concordance contains a new and consistent linguistic analysis of all the words found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. All keywords have an English translation and they are listed in alphabetical order rather than by verbal root, which...
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In the Rabbis Garden
by Gerald J. Blidstein Publisher Comments "In the Rabbi's Garden" is a contemporary reflection on the midrashic responses to the story of Adam and Eve. It interprets the midrashim that touch on the basic aspects of the human condition: guilt, responsibility, God, death, and sexuality--all rooted...
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