Derech Erez Zeira is a small Talmudic tractate embedded in Derech Erez Zuta. It deals with the norms of rabbinic etiquette. This volume comprises a translation and detailed commentary, including close textual and philological analysis, examinati...
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic was the language spoken and written by Jews in parts of what are now Iraq and Iran from the third to the tenth centuries C.E., corresponding to the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. During this period the major post-biblical...
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Contains the Aramaic vocabulary of the Jewish literary and epigraphic sources of Eretz Israel from the third century C.E. until the Arab Conquest, including Palestinian Talmud, Midrashim, Targumim and synagogue inscriptions. An index of all cite...
Judean Aramaic is the Aramaic dialect of the documents that were composed in Judea between c. 150 B.C.E.- 200 C.E. The texts in this dialect come from various sites in the Dead Sea region, the vicinity of Jerusalem, and from Tannaitic sources (M...
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A Literary Study of Midrashic Derivations and Puns By Moshe Garsiel January 1991 Hardcover Danacode 110-10302 In Stock Price: $33.00Internet Price: $28.00
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...
This study seeks to continue in the paths laid out by the earlier pioneers, adding lexical entries to Krauss’ work, analyzing morphological changes in the process of loaning from one language to another, examining dialectical characteristics, pa...
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...
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...