Yiddish & Jewish Culture

ISBN: 9780195151411
Published by : Oxford University Press
The most familiar Jewish texts to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity are biblical in nature. Although Jewish popular novels also flourished during this period they have traditionally been overlooked by scholars of both classical literature and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195151428
Published by : Oxford University Press
The most familiar Jewish texts to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity are biblical in nature. Although Jewish popular novels also flourished during this period they have traditionally been overlooked by scholars of both classical literature and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780140284911
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
This is the `astonishing story of Sabbatai Sevi, seventeenth-century rabbi, Kabbalist and probable manic depressive, who convinced large numbers of Jews throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa that he was their long-awaited Messiah... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004112858
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Series: AGAJU
Volume: XLVIII
A collection of 27 of Tessa Rajak's interdisciplinary essays, three of which are previously unpublished, which examine the ways in which Jewish communities were integrated into Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. Divided into three ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780391041332
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Series: AGAJU
Volume: XLVIII
A collection of 27 of Tessa Rajak's interdisciplinary essays, three of which are previously unpublished, which examine the ways in which Jewish communities were integrated into Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. Divided into three ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004120075
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Twelve papers, from the Fourth Orion International Symposium held in Jerusalem in 1999, focus on Jewish history from the perspective of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The papers examine specific historical events, including contrasting accounts of the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780275971403
Published by : Praeger Publishers
Sicker's interesting examination of the political history of Roman Judaea argues that the sole reason for Judaea's importance to Rome was its pivotal geographical position between Egypt and Mesopotamia. This, Sticker argues, is evidence that Ro... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781874774037
Published by : Littman Library
The Book of Tahkemoni , or wisdom, was the last great Hebrew work from medieval Spain. Composed around the year 1200 by Alharizi it presents a fluid mix of rhymed prose and verse, and it recounts fifty tales. These include biblical, philosophica... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198270348
Published by : Oxford University Press
Stern attempts to identify the social and historical processes that led to the adoption or rejection of various calendar systems, and to show how calendars could affect relations between various Jewish and non-Jewish communities. His discussion... .... Learn More