A collection of essays relating to the following areas of biblical research: The Masoretic text, biblical Hebrew, rabbinical and medieval Jew- ish exegesis and biblical miscellany.
A collection of studies on Jewish law and Halakhah dealing with essential aspects of the law regarding subjects such as debt obligation of inheritance, death penalty for Noahides, laws of matrimony, and with halakhic issues from an historical a...
This book examines the foundations of Jewish Criminal Law. Part 1 deals with the structure of Jewish Criminal Law. Part 2 analyses those defenses to criminal liability that are fundamental to all systems, ignorance or mistake of law, self-defens...
A collection of 13 essays on one of Agnon`s greatest works, written by scholars representing different schools of thought in Hebrew literary criticism over the past 80 years. Co-published with Israel Matz Hebrew Classics and I. Edward Kiev Libra...
Collection of old and new articles on what is considered to be Bialik`s most poetic and aesthetic essay. Co-published with Israel Matz Hebrew Classics and I. Edward Kiev Library Foundation.
``On Duties`` (De Officiis), Cicero`s last philosophical work, has been the most popular of his philosophical writings from antiquity to the present day. It deals with situations in everyday life in which the individual has to make important, an...
Cicero here expounds on the theological views of the Epicurean, the Stoic, and the Academic schools of philosophy. The treatise is cast in the form of a dialogue, supposed to have taken place in 77 or 76 B.C.E. Translated from the Latin by Aviv...
On the Shoulders of Giants
The Debate between Moderns and Ancients in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Thought By Avraham Melamed January 2003 Hardcover Danacode 110-20068 Out of Stock
This book traces the development of the debate between moderns (Aharonim) and ancients (Rishonim) in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish thought, from Sa`adia Gaon to Spinoza. It concentrates on the evolution of the moderns` response to the authori...