Strength to strength : essays in honor of Shaye J.D. Cohen
Brown Judaic studies ;
Bible
Bible. Old Testament
Bible. New Testament
Shaye J.D. Cohen : an appreciation / Signs of poetry past : literariness in pre-biblical Hebrew literature / Prohibited bodies in Leviticus 18 / The territoriality of YHWH in biblical texts / Jerusalem in Greek and Latin literature / No ancient Judaism / Early Jewish knowledge of Greek medicine / The problem of the hyphen and Jewish/Judean ethnic identity : the letter of Aristeas, the Septuagint, and cultural interactions / What did they see when they read the Genesis Apocryphon in the first decade after its publication? / The tetragrammaton in the Habakkuk Pesher / Laws pertaining to purification after childbirth in the Dead Sea scrolls / Philo and Jewish ethnicity / Josephus's "Samaias-source" / The two gentlemen of Trachonitis : a history of violence in Galilee and Rome (Josephus, Vita 112-113 and 149-154) / Why "common Judaism" does not look like Mediterranean religion / Paul's scriptures / Galatians 6:12 on circumcision and persecution / Early Rabbinic Midrash between Philo and Qumran / Charity as a negative obligation in early Rabbinic literature / Interspecies and cross-species generation : limits and potentialities in tannaitic reproductive science / Toward a history of Rabbinic powerlessness / Hair's the thing : women's hairstyle and care in ancient Jewish society / Three crowns / Ahiqar and Rabbinic literature
Guidelines for the ideal way of life : Rabbinic Halakhah and Hellenistic practical ethics / Some aspects of ancient legal thought : functionalism, conceptualism, and analogy / The role of disgust in Rabbinic ethics / The place of Shabbat : on the architecture of the opening Sugya of Tractate Eruvin (2a-3a) / An analysis of Sugyot containing the phrase Lo Savar Lah Mar in the Babylonian Talmud / Living on the edge : Jews, graffiti, and communal prayer in extremis / "Epigraphical Rabbis" in their epigraphical contexts / Palaestina Secunda : the geohistorical setting for Jewish resilience and creativity in late antiquity / Did Constantine really prohibit (all) "conversion to Judaism" in 329? : a re-reading of Codex Theodosianus 16.8.1 / Taming the Jewish genie : John Chrysostom and the Jews of Antioch in the shadow of emperor Julian / Reinventing Yavneh in Sherira's epistle : from pluralism to monism in the light of Islamicate legal culture / On medieval Jewish prophecy : from "Deus Vult" to "the will of the Creator" / Hitler and Antiochus, Hellenists and Rabbinerdoktoren : on Isaak Heinemann's response to Elias Bickermann, 1938 / Abel J. Herzberg's The memoirs of King Herod : the interaction between a tragic tyrant and his subjects / Study is greater, for study leads to action / Dicing and divination : new approaches to gambling in Jewish history / Bibliography on the writings of Shaye J.D. Cohen
Cohen, Shaye J. D., honouree.
Satlow, Michael L., editor.
Michael L. Satlow -- Edward L. Greenstein -- William K. Gilders -- Saul M. Olyan -- Isaiah M. Gafni -- Daniel Boyarin -- Pieter W. van der Horst -- Benjamin G. Wright -- Moshe J. Bernstein -- Timothy H. Lim -- Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Erich S. Gruen -- Tal Ilan -- Duncan E. MacRae -- Stanley Stowers -- Michael L. Satlow -- Martin Goodman -- Steven D. Fraade -- Gregg E. Gardner -- Rachel Rafael Neis -- Hayim Lapin -- Joshua Schwartz -- Burton L. Visotzky -- Richard Kalmin --
Catherine Hezer -- Yaakov Elman, Mahnaz Moazami -- Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- Judith Hauptman -- Karen B. Stern -- Jonathan J. Price -- Lee I. Levine -- Ross S. Kraemer -- Ari Finkelstein -- Yishai Kiel -- Ivan G. Marcus -- Daniel R. Schwartz -- Jan Willem van Henten -- Leonard Gordon -- Jonathan D. Cohen -- prepared by Menachem Butler.
edited by Michael L. Satlow.
Strength to strength : essays in honor of Shaye J.D. Cohen
