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 an...

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Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

The third volume in the series of R. Judah ibn Bal`am`s commentaries (second half of the 11th century in Spain), contains the commentary on Jeremiah. This unique vestige of the medieval Spanish scholar`s oeuvres, based on manuscripts from the F...

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Biblical Studies

The book deals with the influence of the Kabbalah on the Halakhah, liturgy and ritual customs, and the reaction of the rabbinic authorities to this phenomenon. The book also investigates the extent to which the kabbalistic instructions were acc...

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Jewish Thought

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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Linguistics

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...


Linguistics

Kenishta is a series devoted to the scholarly study of synagogue life. Since the destruction of the Second Temple until recent times, the synagogue has been the focus of Jewish life, serving both as a place for Jews to gather for prayer, and als...


Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

The David Yallin Jerusalem Prize for Education and Hokhmat Yisrael, 1985 A model analysis of Maimonidean legal thought and method, including, among other topics, attitudes towards the state and its purpose, sources of political authority, etc. D...


Jewish Thought

An Amora named Ravina is known to have been active, together with Rav Ashi, as one of the outstanding scholars of the late Babylonian Talmudic period. Some even attribute the redaction of the Talmud to them. Yet modern scholarship, like the clas...

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Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

A literary reading of seven stories about prophets from Samuel to Elisha combining three disciplines: close reading, form criticism and structural analysis. An appendix deals with the role of minor characters in the biblical narrative. Co-publi...

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Biblical Studies

The book surveys and examines the formation and development of the laws, concepts and principles that moulded Halakhah through the course of generations. Special attention is given to the dynamics of change and innovation in Halakhah, to its int...


Talmud and Rabbinic Literature