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Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin

Editors: Carol Bakhos, Alyssa M. Gray, editors

Publication Year: 2024

Issue Number : 372

The Formation of a Modern Rabbi: The Life and Times of the Viennese Scholar and Preacher Adolf Jellinek

Author: Samuel Joseph Kessler

Publication Year: 2022

Issue Number : 371

Legal Writing, Legal Practice: The Biblical Bailment Law and Divine Justice

Author: Yael Landman

Publication Year: 2022

Issue Number : 370

Going West : Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture

Author: Reuven Kiperwasser

Publication Year: 2021

Issue Number : 369

Animals and the Law in Antiquity

Editors: Saul M. Olyan, Jordan D. Rosenblum

Publication Year: 2021

Issue Number : 368

Studies in Rabbinic Narrative, Volume 1

Author: Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

Publication Year: 2021

Issue Number : 367

History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band

Author: William Cutter and David C. Jacobson

Publication Year: 2020

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The Birth of Doubt Confronting Uncertainty in Early Rabbinic Literature

Author: Moshe Halbertal

Publication Year: 2020

Issue Number : 366

Tangled Roots: The Emergence of Israeli Culture

Author: Israel Bartal

Publication Year: 2020

Issue Number : 365

Praying Legally

Author: Shalom E. Holtz

Publication Year: 2019

Issue Number : 364

Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen

Author: Michael L Satlow

Publication Year: 2018

Issue Number : 363

The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World

Editors: Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey Rubenstein

Publication Year: 2018

Issue Number : 362

Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible

Editors: Saul M. Olyan and Jacob L. Wright

Publication Year: 2018

Issue Number : 361

How America Met the Jews

Author: Hasia R. Diner

Publication Year: 2017

Issue Number : 360

When Texts Are Canonized

Author: Timothy H. Lim

Publication Year: 2017

Issue Number : 359

A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer

Authors: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Nathaniel Desrosiers, Shira L. Lander, Jacqueline Pastis, and Daniel Ullucci

Publication Year: 2015

Issue Number : 358

Worship, Women and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch

Author: John J. Collins, T. M. Lemos, and Saul M. Olyan

Publication Year: 2015

Issue Number : 357

The One Who Sows Bountifully: Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers

Author: Caroline Johnson Hodge, Saul M. Olyan, Daniel Ullucci, and Emma Wasserman

Publication Year: 2013

Issue Number : 356

Valuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, Especially the Elisha Cycle

Author: Julie Faith Parker

Publication Year: 2013

Issue Number : 355

Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World

Author: Matthew Neujahr

Publication Year: 2012

Issue Number : 354

Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud

Author: Richard Hidary

Publication Year: 2010

Issue Number : 353

Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture

Author: Michelle Levine

Publication Year: 2010

Issue Number : 350

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? French Jewry and the Problem of Church and State

Author: Zvi Jonathan Kaplan

Publication Year: 2009

Issue Number : 352

Tangled Up in Text: Tefillin and the Ancient World

Author: Yehudah Cohn

Publication Year: 2008

Issue Number : 351

Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext

Author: Anita Norich and Yaron Z. Eliav

Publication Year: 2008

Issue Number : 349

Josephus as an Historical Source in Patristic Literature through Eusebius

Author: Michael Hardwick

Publication Year: 2007

Issue Number : 128

Maimonides on Human Perfection

Author: Menachem Kellner

Publication Year: 2007

Issue Number : 202

On the Scales of Righteousness: Neo-Babylonian Trial Law and the Book of Job

Author: F. Rachel Magdalene

Publication Year: 2007

Issue Number : 348

Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in Their Interaction

Author: Jonathan Goldstein

Publication Year: 2007

Issue Number : 217

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The Commentary of Rabbi David Kimhi to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary

Author: Yitzhak Berger

Publication Year: 2007

Issue Number : 345

The Doctrine of the Divine Name: An Introduction to Classical Kabbalistic Theology

Author: Stephen G. Wald

Publication Year: 2007

Issue Number : 149

Torah and the Chronicler’s History Work

Author: Judson R. Shaver

Publication Year: 2007

Issue Number : 196

The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods

Author: Jeffery Rubenstein

Publication Year: 2007

Issue Number : BJS 302

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Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion

Author: Gary M. Beckman and Theodore J. Lewis

Publication Year: 2006

Issue Number : 346

The Time, Place, and Purpose of the Deuteronomistic History: The Evidence of “Until This Day”

Author: Jeffrey C. Geoghegan

Publication Year: 2006

Issue Number : 347

To Caesar What Is Caesar’s: Tribute, Taxes and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine (63 B.C.E–70 C.E.)

Author: Fabian E. Udoh

Publication Year: 2006

Issue Number : 343

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A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah

Author: Alyssa M. Gray

Publication Year: 2005

Issue Number : 342

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Discerning Parallelism: A Study in Northern French Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis

Author: Robert A. Harris

Publication Year: 2005

Issue Number : 341

From Rebuke to Consolation: Exegesis and Theology in the Liturgical Anthology of the Ninth of Av Season

Author: Elsie R. Stern

Publication Year: 2005

Issue Number : 338

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Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands

Author: Nancy Sinkoff

Publication Year: 2004

Issue Number : 336

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Rashbam’s Commentary on Deuteronomy: An Annotated Translation

Author: Martin I. Lockshin

Publication Year: 2004

Issue Number : 340

Ben Sira’s Teaching on Friendship

Author: Jeremy Corley

Publication Year: 2002

Issue Number : 316

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History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band

Author: William Cutter and David C. Jacobson

Publication Year: 2002

Issue Number : 334

Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich

Author: Theodore M. Vial and Mark A. Hadley

Publication Year: 2001

Issue Number : 329

Rashbam’s Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers: An Annotated Translation

Author: Martin I. Lockshin

Publication Year: 2001

Issue Number : 330

A History of the United Jewish Appeal, 1939–1982

Author: Marc Lee Raphael

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 34

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Ancient Judaism Debates and Disputes

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 64

Approaches to Ancient Judaism, Volume 5: Studies in Judaism and Its Greco-Roman Context

Author: William S. Green

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 32

Goodenough on the History of Religion and on Judaism

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 121

Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Courts, Testimony, and the Penal Code

Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 33

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The American Jewish Community: Social Science Research and Policy Implications

Author: Calvin Goldscheider

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 3

The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen

Author: Michael Zank

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 324

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The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, and Sources

Author: Lynn H. Cohick

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 327

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The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 326

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“A Wise and Discerning Mind”: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long

Author: Saul M. Olyan and Robert C. Culley

Publication Year: 2000

Issue Number : 325

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Women and Womanhood in the Talmud

Author: Shulamit Valler

Publication Year: 1999

Issue Number : 321

Hesed ve-emet: Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs

Author: Jodi Magness and Seymour Gitin

Publication Year: 1998

Issue Number : 320

Kol Nidre: Studies in the Development of Rabbinic Votive Institutions

Author: Moshe Benovitz

Publication Year: 1998

Issue Number : 315

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Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law and the Poetics of Sugyot

Author: Aryeh Cohen

Publication Year: 1998

Issue Number : 318

Some Jewish Women in Antiquity

Author: Meir Bar-Ilan

Publication Year: 1998

Issue Number : 317

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Rashbam’s Commentary on Exodus: An Annotated Translation

Author: Martin I. Lockshin

Publication Year: 1997

Issue Number : 310

The Echoes of Many Texts: Reflections on Jewish and Christian Traditions: Essays in Honor of Lou H. Silberman

Author: William Dever and J. Edward Wright

Publication Year: 1997

Issue Number : 313

The Elijah Legends and Jehu’s Coup

Author: Marsha White

Publication Year: 1997

Issue Number : 311

Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Baba Mesia

Author: Hayim Lapin

Publication Year: 1996

Issue Number : 307

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The Libes Briv of Isaac Wetzlar

Author: Morris M. Faierstein

Publication Year: 1996

Issue Number : 308

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From Balaam to Jonah: Anti-prophetic Satire in the Hebrew Bible

Author: David Marcus

Publication Year: 1995

Issue Number : 301

Tasting the Dish: Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality

Author: Michael L. Satlow

Publication Year: 1995

Issue Number : 303

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Sages, Stories, Authors and Editors in Rabbinic Babylonia

Author: Richard Kalmin

Publication Year: 1994

Issue Number : 300

The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary, Volume 1: To the End of Esther Chapter 1

Author: Eliezer L. Segal

Publication Year: 1994

Issue Number : 291

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The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary, Volume 2: To the Beginning of Esther Chapter 5

Author: Eliezer L. Segal

Publication Year: 1994

Issue Number : 292

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The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary, Volume 3: Esther Chapter 5 to End

Author: Eliezer L. Segal

Publication Year: 1994

Issue Number : 293

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Diasporas in Antiquity

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen and Ernest S. Frerichs

Publication Year: 1993

Issue Number : 288

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From Christianity to Gnosis and from Gnosis to Christianity: An Itinerary through the Texts to and from the Tree of Paradise

Author: Jean Magne

Publication Year: 1993

Issue Number : 286

The Jewish Family in Antiquity

Author: Shaye J. D. Cohen

Publication Year: 1993

Issue Number : 289

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The Theology of Nahmanides Systematically Presented

Author: David Novak

Publication Year: 1993

Issue Number : 271

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Balaam and His Interpreters: A Hermeneutical History of the Balaam Traditions

Author: John T. Greene

Publication Year: 1992

Issue Number : 244

Courageous Universality: The Work of Schmuel Hugo Bergman

Author: William Kluback

Publication Year: 1992

Issue Number : 245

Jewish Thought Adrift: Max Wiener (1882–1950)

Author: Robert S. Schine

Publication Year: 1992

Issue Number : 259

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The Mechanics of Change: Essays in the Social History of German Jewry

Author: Steven M. Lowenstein

Publication Year: 1992

Issue Number : 246

American Jews into the 21st Century: A Leadership Challenge

Author: Earl Raab

Publication Year: 1991

Issue Number : 8

Both Literal and Allegorical: Studies in Philo of Alexandria’s Questions and Answers on Genesis and Exodus

Author: David M. Hay

Publication Year: 1991

Issue Number : 232

Paul, the Temple, and the Presence of God

Author: David A. Renwick

Publication Year: 1991

Issue Number : 224

The Biblical Herem: A Window on Israel’s Religious Experience

Author: Philip D. Stern

Publication Year: 1991

Issue Number : 211

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The Book of the People

Author: William W. Hallo

Publication Year: 1991

Issue Number : 225

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Goodenough on the Beginnings of Christianity

Author: A. T. Kraabel

Publication Year: 1990

Issue Number : 212

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New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism, Volume 1: Religion, Literature, and Society in Ancient Israel, Formative Christianity and Judaism

Author: Jacob Neusner, Peder Borgen, Ernest S. Frerichs and Richard Horsley

Publication Year: 1990

Issue Number : 206

Philo’s Perception of Women

Author: Dorothy Sly

Publication Year: 1990

Issue Number : 209

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The Martyr’s Conviction: A Sociological Analysis

Author: Eugene Weiner and Anita Weiner

Publication Year: 1990

Issue Number : 203

Abraham Heschel’s Idea of Revelation

Author: Lawrence Perlman

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 171

Approaches to Ancient Judaism, Volume 6: Studies in the Ethnography and Literature in Judaism

Author: Ernest S. Frerichs and Jacob Neusner

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 192

Essays on Biblical Method and Translation

Author: Edward L. Greenstein

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 92

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Ethnic Survival in America: An Ethnography of a Jewish Afternoon School

Author: David Schoem

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 7

From Ancient Israel to Modern Judaism: Intellect in Quest of Understanding: Essays in Honor of Marvin Fox, Volume 1

Author: Ernest S. Frerichs, Jacob Neusner and Nahum M. Sarna

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 159

From Ancient Israel to Modern Judaism: Intellect in Quest of Understanding: Essays in Honor of Marvin Fox, Volume 2

Author: Ernest S. Frerichs, Jacob Neusner and Nahum M. Sarna

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 173

From Ancient Israel to Modern Judaism: Intellect in Quest of Understanding: Essays in Honor of Marvin Fox, Volume 3

Author: Ernest S. Frerichs, Jacob Neusner and Nahum M. Sarna

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 174

From Ancient Israel to Modern Judaism: Intellect in Quest of Understanding: Essays in Honor of Marvin Fox, Volume 4

Author: Ernest S. Frerichs, Jacob Neusner and Nahum M. Sarna

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 175

Goyim: Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta

Author: Gary Porton

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 155

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Philo’s Jewish Identity

Author: Alan Mendelson

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 161

Profiles of a Rabbi

Author: Bruce Chilton

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 177

Religious Writings and Religious Systems, Volume 2

Author: Ernest S. Frerichs, A. J. Levine and Jacob Neusner

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 2

The Law of Jealousy: The Anthropology of Sotah

Author: Adriana Destro

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 181

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The Legacy of Hermann Cohen

Author: William Kluback

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 167

The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount

Author: William Davies

Publication Year: 1989

Issue Number : 186

Approaches to Judaism in Medieval Times, Volume 3

Author: David R. Blumenthal

Publication Year: 1988

Issue Number : 134

Babylonian Witchcraft Literature

Author: I. Tzvi Abusch

Publication Year: 1988

Issue Number : 132

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Claude Montefiore and Christianity

Author: Maurice G. Bowler

Publication Year: 1988

Issue Number : 157

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Etymology in Early Jewish Interpretation: The Hebrew Names in Philo

Author: Lester L. Grabbe

Publication Year: 1988

Issue Number : 115

Oxen, Women, or Citizens: Slaves in the System of the Mishnah

Author: Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher

Publication Year: 1988

Issue Number : 143

Suburban Communities: The Jewishness of American Reform Jews

Author: Gerald L. Showstack

Publication Year: 1988

Issue Number : 5

The Book of the Pomegranate: Moses de Leon’s Sefer Ha-Rimmon

Author: Elliot R. Wolfson

Publication Year: 1988

Issue Number : 144

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Water into Wine and the Beheading of John the Baptist: Early Jewish-Christian Interpretation of Esther 1 in John 2:1–11 and Mark 6:17–29

Author: Roger David Aus

Publication Year: 1988

Issue Number : 150

A Conceptual Commentary on Midrash Leviticus Rabbah: Value Concepts in Jewish Thought

Author: Max Kadushin

Publication Year: 1987

Issue Number : 126

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Behind the Essenes: History and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author: Philip R. Davies

Publication Year: 1987

Issue Number : 94

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The Mishnaic Law of Blessings and Prayers: Tractate Berakhot

Author: Tzvee Zahavy

Publication Year: 1987

Issue Number : 88

American Jewish Fertility: Trends and Differentials in the Providence Metropolitan Area

Author: Calvin Goldscheider

Publication Year: 1986

Issue Number : 1

Cohen and Troeltsch: Ethical Monotheistic Religion and Theory of Culture

Author: Wendell S. Dietrich

Publication Year: 1986

Issue Number : 120

Jewish Presence in T. S. Eliot and Franz Kafka

Author: Melvin Wilk

Publication Year: 1986

Issue Number : 82

Studies in Islamic and Judaic Traditions, Volume 1

Author: William M. Brinner and Stephen D. Ricks

Publication Year: 1986

Issue Number : 110

The Human Will in Judaism: The Mishnah's Philosophy of Intention

Author: Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

Publication Year: 1986

Issue Number : 103

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Approaches to Judaism in Medieval Times, Volume 2

Author: David R. Blumenthal

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 57

Approaches to Modern Judaism

Author: Marc Lee Raphael

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 56

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Biblical Patterns in Modern Literature

Author: Nehama Aschkenasy and David H. Hirsch

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 77

Fear Not Warrior: A Study of ‘al tira Pericopes in the Hebrew Scriptures

Author: Edgar W. Conrad

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 75

From Philo to Origen: Middle Platonism in Transition

Author: Robert M. Berchman

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 69

Halakhah in a Theological Dimension

Author: David Novak

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 68

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Mishnah’s Division of Agriculture: A History and Theology of Sedar Zeraim

Author: Alan J. Avery-Peck

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 79

Prayers Alleged to be Jewish: An Examination of the Constitutiones Apostolorum

Author: David A. Fiensy

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 65

The Legal Methodology of Hai Gaon

Author: Tsvi Groner

Publication Year: 1985

Issue Number : 66

Approaches to Judaism in Medieval Times, Volume 1

Author: David R. Blumenthal

Publication Year: 1984

Issue Number : 54

Character and Context: Studies in the Fiction of Abramovitsh, Brenner, and Agnon

Author: Jeffrey Fleck

Publication Year: 1984

Issue Number : 45

Hermann Cohen: The Challenge of a Religion of Reason

Author: William Kluback

Publication Year: 1984

Issue Number : 53

Mysterious Encounters at Mamre and Jabbok

Author: William T. Miller

Publication Year: 1984

Issue Number : 50

Sparda by the Bitter Sea

Author: Jack Martin Balcer

Publication Year: 1984

Issue Number : 52

The Commerce of the Sacred: Mediation of the Divine Among Jews in the Graeco-Roman Diaspora

Author: Jack N. Lightstone

Publication Year: 1984

Issue Number : 59

Approaches to Modern Judaism, Volume 1

Author: Marc Lee Raphael

Publication Year: 1983

Issue Number : 49

Barukh Kurzweil and Modern Hebrew Literature

Author: James S. Diamond

Publication Year: 1983

Issue Number : 39

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Israeli Childhood Stories of the Sixties

Author: Gideon Telpaz

Publication Year: 1983

Issue Number : 40

Pharaoh’s Counsellors: Job, Jethro, and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition

Author: Judith Baskin

Publication Year: 1983

Issue Number : 47

Scrolls and Christian Origins: Studies in the Jewish Background of the New Testament

Author: Matthew Black

Publication Year: 1983

Issue Number : 48

Support for the Poor in the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Tractate Peah

Author: Roger Brooks

Publication Year: 1983

Issue Number : 43

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The Sanctity of the Seventh Year: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Shebiit

Author: Louis E. Newman

Publication Year: 1983

Issue Number : 44

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Two Treatises of Philo of Alexandria: A Commentary on De Gigantibus and Quod Deus sit Immutabilis

Author: John Dillon and David Winston

Publication Year: 1983

Issue Number : 25

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A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Kilayim

Author: Irving Mandelbaum

Publication Year: 1982

Issue Number : 26

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Ben Sira’s View of Women: A Literary Analysis

Author: Warren C. Trenchard

Publication Year: 1982

Issue Number : 38

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Handbook of Synagogue Architecture

Author: Marilyn Joyce Segal Chiat

Publication Year: 1982

Issue Number : 29

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Ideas in Fiction: Works of Hayim Hazaz

Author: Warren Bargad

Publication Year: 1982

Issue Number : 31

Scholastic Rabbinism: A Literary Study of the Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan

Author: Anthony Saldarini

Publication Year: 1982

Issue Number : 14

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The Creation of the World according to Gersonides

Author: Jacob J. Staub

Publication Year: 1982

Issue Number : 24

Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues

Author: Bernadette J. Brooten

Publication Year: 1982

Issue Number : 36

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Mishnah’s Theology of Tithing: A Study of Tractate Maaserot

Author: Martin S. Jaffee

Publication Year: 1981

Issue Number : 19

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The Priestly Gift in Mishnah: A Study of Tractate Terumot

Author: Alan J. Avery-Peck

Publication Year: 1981

Issue Number : 20

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Turning Point: Zionism and Reform Judaism

Author: Howard Greenstein

Publication Year: 1981

Issue Number : 12

Buber on God and the Perfect Man

Author: Pamela Vermes

Publication Year: 1980

Issue Number : 13