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Journal for the Study of Rabbinic Literature Edited By David Henshke October 2006 Paperback Danacode 110-10548 In Stock Price: $14.00Internet Price: $12.00
Co-published with Orot Israel College Press. A collection of articles on biblical exegesis and Jewish Bible commentators through the ages: inner-biblical interpretation, Second Temple exegesis, Targum Onkelos, rabbinic and medieval figures suc...
A collection of essays relating to the following areas of biblical research: biblical narrative, history, and historiography on the background of the Ancient Near Eastern texts and biblical theology.
The major medieval Karaite exegete, Yefet ben `Eli (Jerusalem, 10th century), wrote commentaries on the entire Hebrew Bible. His innovativeness and literary achievements had a formative effect on the development of medieval Jewish Bible exegesis...
This book offers a comprehensive study of the authority and status of the king in early rabbinic literature and analyses three concep-tions of kingship in biblical literature.The first approach denies kingship, maintaining that God is the King (...
Exploring Ta`aniot
Yerushalmi, Tractate Ta`anit - Forming and Redacting the Traditions By Nurit Beeri July 2009 Hardcover Danacode 110-20141 In Stock
The book is an interpretation of the creation, formation and redaction of tractate Ta`anit in the Palestinian Talmud. It explores the voices heard in the text: the quoted amora, the transmitter of the tradition, and the anonymous voice the stam...
This book deals with rabbinic enactments and prohibitions from the Second Temple period, designed to separate Jews from gentiles, from their practices and from their culture, e.g. the prohibitions of eating with a gentile, or partaking of a gent...
This book is based on the findings of a study on the existence of marketing activities and initiatives in Jewish society in Palestine during the Mishna and Talmud era. It includes a number of subjects relating to economic and marketing activitie...
This book traces the sources, history and development of a broad variety of customs associated with the Jewish life cycle, from birth to death. It draws upon a vast repertoire of sources, both literary and pictorial, Jewish and non-Jewish, and p...
In All Your Ways Know Him
The Concept of God and avodah begashmiyut in the Early Stages of Hasidism By Tsippi Kauffman May 2009 Paperback Danacode 110-20127 In Stock
This book explores models of avodah be-gashmiyut in nascent Hasidism and aims to determine how it provides a response to the tension between the halakhic demand for a certain manner of religious conduct and the immanentistic trends in the Hasidi...