Jewish concepts of Scripture : a comparative introduction

Bible. Old Testament

Scriptures in Jewish tradition, and traditions as Jewish scripture / Concepts of scripture in the synagogue service / Concepts of scripture in Rabbinic Judaism : oral Torah and written Torah / Concepts of scripture in the schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael / Concepts of scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic world / Concepts of scripture in the School of Rashi / Concepts of scripture in Maimonides / Concepts of scripture in Nahmanides / Concepts of scripture in Jewish mysticism / Concepts of scripture in Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig / The Pentateuch as scripture and the challenge of biblical criticism : responses among modern Jewish thinkers and scholars / Concepts of scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann / Concepts of scripture in Moshe Greenberg / Concepts of scripture in Mordechai Breuer / Scripture and modern Israeli literature / Scripture and Israeli secular culture

Pursuing the text : studies in honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the occasion of his seventieth birthday

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;

Bible. Old Testament

Dead Sea scrolls

Creation, philosophy and spirituality: aspects of Jewish interpretation of Psalm 19 / 'Break in the middle of a verse': some observations on a Massoretic feature / Putting them in their place: geography as an evaluative tool / The 'Damascus' sect and Judaism / The eschatological temple(s) of 11Qt / Second thoughts on [dvk] and the Qumran synchronistic calendars / The deuteronomic character of 4Q252 / 4Q471: a case of mistaken identity? / Kann man als Jude auch Grieche sein? Erwägungen zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Pseudepigraphie / Sirach research since 1965: progress and questions / Josephus's portrait of Ehud / Josephus's use of Greek sources for biblical history / Philo, Grammatikē, and the narrative Aggada / The 'Antiochenes in Jerusalem', again / An Enochic citation in Barnabas 4.3 and the Oracles of Hystaspes / Is 'proselyte baptism' mentioned in the Mishnah? The interpretation of M. Pesahim 8.8 (= M. Eduyot 5.2) / Did the Amoraim see Christianity as something new? / What 'the rabbis' thought: a method and a result: one statement on prophecy in rabbinic Judaism / Ad verbum or ad sensum: the Christianization of a Latin translation formula in the fourth century / Dates in Sepher Yosippon / Responsa and rhetoric: on law, literature and the rabbinic decision / Bibliography of works by Ben Zion Wacholder

The Idea of Biblical Interpretation : essays in honor of James L. Kugel

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism,

Bible. Old Testament

Dead Sea scrolls.

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;

The Bible as it was. The conversion of Abraham to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / The alleged "hidden light" / Golden calf stories: the relationship of Exodus 32 and Deuteronomy 9-10 / Plumbing the depths: genre ambiguity and theological creativity in the interpretation of Psalm 130 / [Kol ha-adam] and the evaluation of Qohelet's Wisdom in Qoh 12:13, or, "The 'A is so, and what's more, B': theology of Ecclesiastes" / The symbolic significance of writing in ancient Judaism / Traditions of the Bible in Second Temple Judaism. Seven mysteries of knowledge: Qumran E/sotericism recovered / The contribution of the Qumran discoveries to the history of early biblical interpretation / Myth, history, and mystery in the Copper scroll / The concept of covenant in the Qumran scrolls and rabbinic literature / Open and closed eyes in the Animal apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90) / Before the fall: the earliest interpretations of Adam and Eve / The democratization of kingship in Wisdom of Solomon / The interpretive life of biblical texts from early Judaism to the present. Two powers in heaven; or, The making of a heresy / Iterated quotation formulae in Talmudic narrative and exegesis / Moses and the commandments: can hermeneutics, history, and rhetoric be disentangled? / The Alphabet of Ben Sira and the early history of parody in Jewish literature / Does Rashi's Torah commentary respond to Christianity? A comparison of Rashi with Rashbam and Bekhor Shor / Rashi and Ibn Ezra on the Hitpael: Peshat in the medieval disputes of Hebrew grammar / Paradise lost and traditional exegesis / A Nazi New Testament professor reads his Bible: the strange case of Gerhard Kittel / The hermeneutical significance of Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic readings

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