Approaches to Ancient Judaism, Volume VI

Text, Artifact, and Image

Rabbinic literature includes hundreds of stories and brief narrative traditions. These narrative ...

In biblical and other ancient Near Eastern sources prayer is an opportunity to make one's case be...

Support for the Poor in the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture

The Biblical Herem

The Law of Jealousy

Essays in this book honor Professor Shaye J. D. Cohen. Contributors address a range of topics foc...

Pharaoh's Counsellors

Sages, Stories, Authors, and Editors in Rabbinic Babylonia

Water into Wine and the Beheading of John the Baptist

Profiles of a Rabbi

Josephus as an Historical Source in Patristic Literature through Eusebius

The Babylonian Talmud (Bavli), the great compilation of Jewish law edited in the late Sasanian er...

New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism

Scholastic Rabbinism

Jack Lightstone's 'Commerce of the Sacred' remains an original and influential contribution to Ju...

The Human Will in Judaism

Rashbam's Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers

Maimonides on Human Perfection

Arguing that the writers of the Hebrew Bible recognized children as different from adults and sha...

Examines each rabbinic text or sequence of homilies in order to uncover specific value concepts w...

Rabbinic literature includes hundreds of stories and brief narrative traditions. These narrative ...

Oxen, Women, or Citizens?

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Mysterious Encounters at Mamre and Jabbok

The Babylonian Esther Midrash

From Philo to Origen

The Legacy of Hermann Cohen

In this new book Israel Bartal traces the history of modern Hebrew culture prior to the emergence...

This book is the first detailed and comprehensive study of taxation in Jewish Palestine in the Ea...

Women and Womanhood in the Talmud

Paul, the Temple, and the Presence of God

Fear Not Warrior

Essays in this book honor Professor Shaye J. D. Cohen. Contributors address a range of topics foc...

Approaches to Judaism in Medieval Times, Volume II

In the twelfth century CE, Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam), a pious and learned rabbi, wrote a bi...

Torah and the Chronicler's History Work

Babylonian Witchcraft Literature

The Mishnaic Law of Blessings and Prayers

Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue

Goyim

From Ancient Israel to Modern Judaism

Hesed Ve-Emet

Cohen and Troeltsch

The Babylonian Talmud (Bavli), the great compilation of Jewish law edited in the late Sasanian er...

From Balaam to Jonah

Tangled Up in Text