Collected papers in honor of the poet Shin Shalom on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The seven lectures deal with the influence of Jewish mysticism on Hebrew poetry in medieval and modern times.
Photo-reproduction of the classic collection of 376 folksongs, printed in Yiddish with transliteration, originally published in St. Petersburg in 1901. This new edition, annotated and with an introduction by Dov Noy, is the first in a series of...
The book contains several Piyyutei Halakhah from the Festival Liturgy. The selection represents the Halakhot of different Jewish communities and their characteristic rituals.
Shirat Miqra
Biblical Poetics and Interpretation By Harold Fisch January 1993 Hardcover Danacode 110-10345 In Stock
Shirat Miqra argues on the basis of solid biblical and literary scholarship that biblical poetics is marked by an unusual tension between the aesthetic and non-aesthetic modes of discourse: it is "Poetry with a Purpose''. The author applies...
A critical edition with explanatory notes on both the standard and a newly-discovered com-mentary. Includes an accurate text of the two commentaries and extensive notes illuminating obscurities in Ibn Ezra`s commentaries and evaluating his origi...
These volumes add a new dimension to the study of ancient versions of Aramaic dialectology and of the history of Bible exegesis. With the assistance of Rimon Kasher. From the series "Sources and Studies'', the Institute for the Histo...
These volumes add a new dimension to the study of ancient versions of Aramaic dialectology and of the history of Bible exegesis. With the assistance of Rimon Kasher. From the series "Sources and Studies'', the Institute for the Histo...
Tosefta Atiqta, Pesah Rishon
Synoptic Parallels of Mishna and Tosefta Analyzed with a Methodological Introduction By Shamma Friedman January 2002 Hardcover Danacode 110-20053 In Stock
The author devotes 22 chapters to detailed synoptic comparisons between parallel passages in the Mishna and the Tosefta, and discusses the history of the laws of the Passover Seder. With an introduction on the relationship between the Tosefta a...
AWARD-WINNING BOOK!! A geographical-historical study of the religious kibbutz settlement from the time of its establishment until the foundation of the State of Israel. Co-published with Magnes Press, The Hebrew University.