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9789004106987

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Jerusalem and Athens

Jacob Neusner

Neusner shows in this original study how philosophy, specifically, dialectical analysis, defines the logic of the Talmud of Babylonia's Gemara and guides the writers of the Gemara's compositions and the compilers of its composites in their analysis and amplification of some of the topical ...

€173.00$237.00

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9789004210172

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Sixteenth-Century Judeo-Spanish Testimonies

Annette Benaim

Through the analysis of transcribed verbal testimonies of the Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century a vision of Jewish Ottoman life as well as a deep understanding of the development of Judeo-Spanish can be appreciated.

€194.00$251.00

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9789004212206

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Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations, and Medical Astrology

Edited, translated and annotated by Shlomo Sela

This volume offers the first critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of seven astrological treatises by Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Book of Elections (3 versions); the Book of Interrogations (3 versions); and the Book of the Luminaries.

€145.00$188.00

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Handbook

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9789004112629

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Judaism in Late Antiquity 4. Death, Life-After-Death, Resurrection and The World-to-Come in the Judaisms of Antiquity

Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner

Thirteen foremost scholars describe the views of death, life after death, resurrection, and the world-to-come set forth in Scripture as a whole; distinct parts of Scripture such as Psalms and the Wisdom literature; apocalyptic and the non-apocalyptic pseudepigraphic literature, Philo; Josephus; ...

€203.00$282.00

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9789004233744

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The Jews in Calabria

Cesare Colafemmina, Bari University

This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Calabria from the end of the fourth century, where the first archaeological evidence of their presence appears, to 1541.

€182.00$236.00

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9789004189324

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Opening the Gates of Interpretation

Mordechai Z. Cohen

This study highlights the contributions of the great philosopher-talmudist Moses Maimonides to the rationalist, “plain sense” (peshat) tradition of Jewish Bible exegesis, assessing his place in the Geonic-Andalusian school and showing how he harnessed Greco-Arabic learning to open new ...

€101.00$140.00

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9789004243316

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The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference

Edited by Shlomo Simonsohn, Tel-Aviv University and Joseph Shatzmiller, Duke University

This volume contains the proceedings of the Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference, held at Tel Aviv University 3-5 January, 2010, on the occasion of the jubilee celebration of outstanding scholarship on the history of Italian Jewry.

€268.00$347.00

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Bibliographic Set

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9789004112544

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Ancient Synagogues (2 vols)

Edited by Dan Urman and Paul V.M. Flesher

This collection of over twenty essays brings together scholars from three continents to discuss the early synagogue. It addresses the questions of: When and where did the synagogue originate? What was its early distribution? What was its role in Judaism?

€152.00$216.00

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9789004191334

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From Persia with Love

Michael Wechsler

€101.00$140.00

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9789004234628

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The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919-‐1939

Ilse Josepha Lazaroms, Central European University

In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.