The clay lamps from ancient Sepphoris : light use and regional interactions by Lapp, Eric C.

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Israel's years of bogus grandeur : from the Six-Day War to the First Intifada by Rejwan, Nissim

Table of Contents: “…An Iraqi Muslim's lament -- Kishtainy writes back -- Kishtainy comes to Jerusalem -- Rabbi Petuchowski's predicament -- The American Council for Judaism -- Trude Weiss-Rosmarin and I -- Erosion -- All doors tightly shut -- To a friend who chose to adapt -- Oft-celebrated victory -- Soul mates -- U.S. …”
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Was 70 CE a watershed in Jewish history? : on Jews and Judaism before and after the destruction of the Second Temple

Table of Contents: “…Levine -- Legal midrash between Hillel and Rabbi Akiva : did 70 CE make a difference? / Paul Mandel -- Liturgy before and after the Temple's destruction : change or continuity / Esther G. …”
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Abraham's children : liberty and tolerance in an age of religious conflict

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Wrestling with the angel : literary writings and reflections on death, dying and bereavement by Koppelman, Kent L.

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Time, astronomy, and calendars in the Jewish tradition by Stern, Sacha

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on the astronomical chapters of Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer / Katharina Keim -- Some early Islamic and Christian sources regarding the Jewish calendar (9th-11th centuries) / François de Blois -- The Jewish calendar controversy of 921-22: reconstructing the manuscripts and their transmission history / Marina Rustow and Sacha Stern -- The Hebrew calendrical bookshelf of the early twelfth century: the cases of Abraham bar Ḥiyya and Jacob bar Samson / Ilana Wartenberg -- Scribal prerogative in modifying calendrical tables / Israel M. …”
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Studies in medieval Jewish poetry : a message upon the garden

Table of Contents: “…"I asked about a Ḥasid, not a ruler" : the Ḥasid as a ruler in the poetry of Rabbi Judah Halevi / Ephraim Hazan ; Le surnom amoureux dans la poésie liturgique de Pessaḥ de Judah Halevi / Eric Dahan.…”
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New Israel/New England : Jews and Puritans in early America by Hoberman, Michael

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Persecution, polemic, and dialogue : essays in Jewish-Christian relations by Berger, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Religion, nationalism, and historiography : Yehezkel Kaufmann's account of Jesus and early Christianity -- The "Jewish contribution" to Christianity -- Jewish-Christian relations : a Jewish perspective -- Reflections on conversion and proselytizing in Judaism and Christianity -- On Dominus Iesus and the Jews -- Revisiting "confrontation" after forty years : a response to Rabbi Eugene Korn -- Dabru Emet : some reservations about a Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity -- Jews, Christians and The passion.…”
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Redemption and resistance : the Messianic hopes of Jews and Christians in antiquity

Table of Contents: “…. / Oskar Skarsaune -- Syria and Mesopotamia : the shared term Malka Mshiḥa / Sebastian Brock -- Egypt / James Carleton Paget -- The West and North Africa / Wolfram Kinzig -- Material remains / David Noy -- The rabbis and Messianism / Philip S. Alexander -- Messianism in ancient Bible translations in Aramaic and Syriac / Robert P. …”
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Olam ha-zeh v'olam ha-ba : this world and the world to come in Jewish belief and practice

Table of Contents: “…"The end of the world and the world to come" : what apocalyptic literature says about the time after the end-time / Dereck Daschke -- Warriors, wives, and wisdom : this world and the world to come in the (so-called) apocrypha / Nicolae Roddy -- The afterlife in the Septuagint / Leonard Greenspoon -- Rabbi Akiva, other martyrs, and Socrates : on life, death, and life after life / Naftali Rothenberg -- Heaven on earth : the world to come and its (dis)locations / Christine Hayes -- Olam Ha-ba in rabbinic literature : a functional reading / Dov Weiss -- Dining in(to) the world to come / Jordan D. …”
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Secularism in question : Jews and Judaism in modern times by Katz, Ethan

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking Jews and secularism / Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz -- "Our Rabbi Baruch" : Spinoza and radical Jewish enlightenment / Daniel B. …”
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Knowledge and profanation : transgressing the boundaries of religion in premodern scholarship

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 The Sacred and the Profane in Art, Literature and Parody; Chapter 1 Lucian of Samosata on Magic and Superstition; Chapter 2 Rabbi Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Talmudic Parody of the Late Roman Hell (Yerushalmi Hagigah 2.2, 77d and Sanhedrin 6.9, 23c); Chapter 3 Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti's Call for Reform of Christian Art; Chapter 4 The Sacred Becomes Profane -- The Profane Becomes Sacred: Observations on the Desubstantialisation of Religious Discourse in the Early Modern Age…”
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The exegetical encounter between Jews and Christians in late antiquity

Table of Contents: “…Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 4:36 -- Chapter 8 -- Creating Women's Voices: Sarah and Tamar in Some Syriac Narrative Poems -- Chapter 9 -- Genesis 15 in Rabbinic and Patristic Interpretation -- Chapter 10 -- 'And Abraham Had Faith': But In What? Ephrem and the Rabbis on Abraham and God's Blessings -- Chapter 11 -- Abraham's Angels: Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 1819 -- Chapter 12 -- Keeping it in the Family? …”
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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects. by Woolfson, Shivaun

Table of Contents: “…Berl Glazer -- 'Do you know, there were four rabbis in my mother's family?'Fania Brantsovsky -- 'When the man came each Friday to deliver our newspapers and he was asked who was at the door, he would answer: "The bearer of culture"' ; Chasia Spanerflig -- 'We were taught that we have to be as strong …”
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American Jewish fiction by Lambert, Joshua N.

Table of Contents: “…Doctorow -- Double or nothing: a real fictitious discourse (1971) / Raymond Federman -- Jacob's son (1971) / Ben Field -- The pagan rabbi and other stories (1971) / Cynthia Ozick -- Edwin Mullhouse: the life and death of an American writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (1972) / Steven Millhauser -- My name is Asher Lev (1972) / Chaim Potok -- In the days of Simon Stern (1973) / Arthur A. …”
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American Jewish fiction by Lambert, Joshua N.

Table of Contents: “…Doctorow -- Double or nothing: a real fictitious discourse (1971) / Raymond Federman -- Jacob's son (1971) / Ben Field -- The pagan rabbi and other stories (1971) / Cynthia Ozick -- Edwin Mullhouse: the life and death of an American writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (1972) / Steven Millhauser -- My name is Asher Lev (1972) / Chaim Potok -- In the days of Simon Stern (1973) / Arthur A. …”
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Norman : the moderate rise and tragic fall of a New York fixer

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News from the new American diaspora and other tales of exile by Neugeboren, Jay

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Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches in History. by Safire, William

Table of Contents: “…Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie AntoinetteHenry Lee Remembers George Washington; Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams; Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog; Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns; Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man; Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll Speaks at His Brother's Grave; James Blaine of Maine Eulogizes Assassinated President Garfield; Jane Addams Praises George Washington; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Offers a Tribute to Lincoln; Will Rogers Eulogizes Woodrow Wilson.…”
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Microfoundations of Institutions by Haack, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Fairness as Microfoundation of Moral LegitimacyMethodology; Data Sources and Analysis; Findings: Framing of Fairness In and Around Regulatory Review Hearings; Period 1: 1960-1972 Oil Sands Challenges Conventional Oil; Period 2: 1973-1989 Federal Government Challenges Provincial Jurisdiction; Period 3: 1990-2010 Oil Sands Development Outpaces Conventional Oil, Causing Activists to Target Oil Sands' Environmental Practices; Discussion and Conclusion; References; From Cruise Director to Rabbi: Authoring the Agentic Self through Conventions of Narrative Necessity; Introduction; Theory…”
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"Go Out and Study the Land" (Judges 18:2) : Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel

Table of Contents: “…; The Artaxerxes Correspondence of Ezra 4, Nehemiah's Wall, and Persian Provincial Administration; Protection from Birds in the Book of Jubilees; Ancient Material in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eli'ezer: Basilides, Qumran, the Book of Jubilees; The Covenant with the Levites (Jer 33:21) in the Proto-Masoretic Text of Jeremiah in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls…”
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In God's name : genocide and religion in the twentieth century

Table of Contents: “…Sheetz-Nguyen -- Denial and defiance in the work of Rabbi Regina Jones / Katharina von Kellenbach -- A personal account / Gabor Vermes.…”
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Studies in Contemporary Jewry : Volume V: Israel: State and Society, 1948-1988. by Medding, Peter Y.

Table of Contents: “…Cohen, The Burden of Conscience: French Jewish Leadership During the Holocaust; Anne and Roger Cowen, Victorian Jews Through British Eyes; Mark Cowett, Birmingham's Rabbi: Morris Newfield and Alabama; Daniel J. Elazar, Israel: Building a New Society; Yoav Gelber, Lamah pirku et hapalmah? …”
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Jewish and Christian liturgy and worship : new insights into its history and interaction

Table of Contents: “…Petuchowski (1925-1910) : rabbi, scholar, ecumenist / Hans Hermann Henrix -- Crossing borders, the kedusha and the sanctus : a case study of the convergence of Jewish and Christian liturgy / Albert Gerhards -- pt. 2. …”
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A companion to Woody Allen

Table of Contents: “…Schuler: Disappearing act: the trick philosophy of Woody Allen -- Sander Lee: Love, meaning, and God in the later films of Woody Allen -- Monica Osborne: Hollywood rabbi: probing the never-ending questions of Woody Allen -- richard A. …”
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From Christianity to Judaism : Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro. by Kaplan, Yosef

Table of Contents: “…Doubt and Certainty; Orobio de Castro's Questions to Rabbi Moses Raphael d' Aguilar; Isaac Orobio and Juan de Prado: Intellectual Ferment in Sephardi Amsterdam; 7. …”
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Dispatches from Palestine : the rise and fall of the Oslo peace process by Usher, Graham, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…18 Fatah, Hamas and the Crisis of Oslo: Interviews with Marwan Barghouti and Ibrahim Ghoshah Fatah and the Peace Process: An Interview with Marwan Barghouti -- An Intifada of a Different Kind: An Interview with Ibrahim Ghoshah -- 19 Making Peace: an Interview with Yossi Beilin -- Beilin/ Abu Mazen Understandings -- Beilin/ Eitan National Accord -- Lebanon/ Syria -- 20 Believers in Blue Jeans: an Interview with Rabbi Aryeh Deri -- Shas -- Shas and the Arab Israeli Conflict -- Shas and the Palestinians -- Shas and the Haredim…”
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They Never Said It : a Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions. by Jr., Paul F. Boller

Table of Contents: “….; Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe; Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth; Prescott, William; The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion; Rabinovich, Rabbi Emanuel; Reagan, Ronald; Reed, John…”
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Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom : Psychological Healing Practices from the World's Religious Traditions. by Mijares, Sharon G.

Table of Contents: “…Jewish Spiritual Pathways for Growth and Healing; Introduction; Kabbalistic Paths of Healing; Balancing Yourself on the Tree of Your Life; The Three Strands of the Soul; Meditation and the Tree of Life; Returning to Your Soul: The Relationship Between Rabbi and Student; Community As Healer; Jewish Holidays: Holistic Days; Future Directions in Jewish Spirituality and Psychological Growth; Summary; NATIVE AMERICAN PSYCHOSPIRITUALITY; Chapter 5. …”
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Polin : Focusing on Galicia: Jews, Poles and Ukrainians 1772-1918. by Bartal, Israel

Table of Contents: “….), The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: A Historical Reader; Nehemiah Polen, The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto.…”
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Recognizing the stranger : recognition scenes in the Gospel of John by Larsen, Kasper Bro

Table of Contents: “…(18:28-19:16a) -- Death as arrival : God's recognition of Jesus -- Recognition and departure (John 20-21) -- John 20-21 : bridging the horizons -- The race to the empty tomb : acknowledging the absent one (20:10- ) -- Mary Magdalene and the Gardener-Rabbi (20:11-18) -- The disciples : recognizers on a mission (20:19-25) -- Jesus and recognizing Thomas (20:26-29) -- John 21:1-14 : community with the absent Jesus -- The reader as Anagnostes.…”
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Making history Jewish : the dialectics of Jewish history in Eastern Europe and the Middle East ; studies in honor of Professor Israel Bartal

Table of Contents: “…Part 2: Jews and Non-Jews -- 3 ""I Had No Brother Jew with Whom to Exchange Feelings"": Nineteenth-century Converts to Christianity Confront Their Jewish Identities -- 4 Kossuth Blessed by a Rabbi: The Metamorphosis of a Political Legend -- 5 ""The Great Sir, Unique Among His People"": Envisioning Jewish Unity and Leadership in East European Tributes to Sir Moses Montefiore -- 6 Nation or Religion? …”
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Jewish cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world

Table of Contents: “…(Gal 5:12): Circumcision and Emasculation in the Letter to the Galatians; Chapter 14 Rabbis and Romanization: A Review Essay; Chapter 15 Subversion and Subculture: Jewish Time-Keeping in the Roman Empire; Chapter 16 Elijah's Cave in Haifa: Whose Holy Site is this Anyway?…”
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The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

Table of Contents: “…; 2 Friends and Strangers/Poets and Rabbis: Negotiating a "Capuphalian" Philosophy of Religion; Response by Merold Westphal; Response by John D. …”
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Women and Water : Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law. by Wasserfall, Rahel

Table of Contents: “…Mystical Rationales for the Laws of Niddah by Sharon KorenRabbis, Physicians, and the Woman's/Female Body: The Appropriate Distance by Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann; II | The Ethnographic and Anthropological Tradition; Talking about Miqveh Parties, or Discourses of Gender, Hierarchy, and Social Control by Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper; "There's Blood in the House": Negotiating Female Rituals of Purity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel by Lisa Anteby; Community, Fertility, and Sexuality: Identity Formation among Moroccan Jewish Immigrants by Rahel Wasserfall.…”
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Shouting down the silence : a biography of Stanley Elkin by Dougherty, David C.

Table of Contents: “…Disney World and Alaskan Rabbis: A Masterpiece, a Flop, the Elkin Essay, and More Bad Medical News, 1983-88…”
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Sacred stories : religion and spirituality in modern Russia

Table of Contents: “…Breyfogle -- Divining the secular in the yiddish popular press / Sarah Abrevaya Stein -- Revolutionary rabbis : Hasidic legend and the hero of words / Gabriella Safran -- "A path of thorns" : the spiritual wounds and wandering of worker-poets / Mark D. …”
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Jewish studies at the crossroads of anthropology and history : authority, diaspora, tradition

Table of Contents: “…: authority, cultural identity, and the shaping of postwar American Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Rabbis and their (in)famous magic : classical foundations, medieval and early modern reverberations / J.H. …”
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The words of the wise are like goads : engaging Qoheleth in the 21st century

Table of Contents: “…Christianson""; ""Qohelet and the Rabbis""; ""Ruth Sandberg""; ""Ecclesiastes and the Reformers""; ""Al Wolters""; ""Sweet and Lawful Delights: Puritan Interpretations of Ecclesiastes""; ""Cristian G. …”
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