Andrew Sharf, who died in 1990, is acknowledged as an outstanding authority on Byzantine-Jewish and Armenian history. The present volume contains 18 of his papers, classics in their field.
A critical edition of a large group of cultic love poems concerned with the love and sacred marriage of the divine couple, the gods of love and fertility, Dumuzi (Tammuz) and Inanna (Ishtar), together with introduction, English translation, phil...
Points of contact between rabbinic Judaism and Hellenistic Roman culture are examined. Greco-Roman Hellenistic motifs are discovered in rabbinic sources while authentically Hebrew-rabbinic magical formulae are shown to be present in Greek papyro...
An attempt to collect and interpret all Palestinian and rabbinic data pertaining to nautical matters and correlate them with contemporary literary and archaeological evidence. From the series ``Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Cul...
The Nominalistic Principle
A Legal Approach to Inflation, Deflation and Revaluation By Haim Z. Hirschberg January 1971 Hardcover Danacode 110-10162 Last Copies Price: $18.00Internet Price: $15.00
The theme of this volume is social differentiation relating to ethnic and religious diversity in Israeli society. The book examines the methods of narrowing the polarization in Israeli society that derives from these differences.
This book compiles over thirty years of study, during which the author has articulated and developed the concept of ``philosophic mysticism``, that is, the type of mysticism that grows out of rigorous philosophical reflection but clearly alludes...
A collection of studies dealing with various aspects of Jewish political life. The philosophical and structual elements of the Jewish polity in the Diaspora, political change in 20th-century Anglo and American Jewish communities, Jewish identity...
A monograph on one of the great scholars who was a central figure in the critical period following the destruction of the Second Temple. Emphasizing the impact of Rabbi Eliezer`s Halakhot, Professor Gilat vividly reconstructs the evolution of th...
This volume examines a crucial period in Roman economic history in the light of contemporary evidence drawn from the vast corpus of rabbinic literature. From the series ``Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture``.
This volume surveys the agrarian history of Palestine during the third and fourth centuries CE. It describes the various phases of transition from a rural economy based primarily on small peasant proprietorship to one dominated by the large esta...