The book includes studies and research on Agnon`s work in Germany between the years 1913 to1924, during which time his art earned its classic status. The studies deal also with the influence of the German world and its culture on his entire b...
investigates the ways in which the literature of the American Renaissance negotiates the ethical, theological, political, and aesthetic implications of the Bible’s entanglement in the mid-nineteenth-century debates over slavery. By examining th...
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...
Times of crisis are the making or unmaking of a leadership. The present volume examines this theme in great depth and variety, encompassing a time span from classical Athens to the second half of the 20th century, and moving through Europe, Asia...
The papers in this collection are divided into three groups according to the ways in which economic methods are applied. Part I uses the analytical tools of economics to enrich our understanding of’Jewish approaches to various activities and ’to...
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...
Conversion (giyyur), the way in which a gentile converts to the Jewish faith, has profound legal significance. This book is a comprehensive halakhic and legal research of conversion in Jewish law, and aims to reach a full understanding of its es...
The ``Historical Prologue``, an important, integral part of subordination treaties of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., has been known until now mainly from Hittite treaties. Its function in these treaties was to display the ju...
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``.
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...
In the Footsteps of Psychoanalysis 
Studies in Jewish Narrative 3 
Sartre: Existentialism and Romanticism
Bar-Ilan Law Studies 28-2
Encyclopedia of the Jewish Story 3
Mikra'ot Gedolot - 'Haketer' - Psalms II - small edition
Mikra'ot Gedolot - 'Haketer' - Samuel I & II- small edition
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