Yiddish & Jewish Culture

Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Jacob Neusner (Vols 1, 2 and 3) and his colleagues Alan Avery-Peck (Vol 2) and Bruce Chilton (Vol 3) have assembled an impressive team of scholars in producing what has become an invaluable reference work for the study of Judaism in Late Antiq... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900755481
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Yiddish
Volume: 3
For over a century Yiddish served as a major vehicle for expressing left-wing ideas and sensitivities. A language without country, an ‘ugly jargon’ despised by the assimilationist Jewish bourgeoisie and nationalist Zio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300074758
Published by : Yale University Press
A substantial book that tells the history and development of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period to the end of Late Antiquity. Drawing largely on archaeological and literary evidence, Lee Levine collates years of research into this single... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300106282
Published by : Yale University Press
A substantial book that tells the history and development of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period to the end of Late Antiquity. Drawing largely on archaeological and literary evidence, Lee Levine collates years of research into this single... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860786627
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
A collection of 15 papers studying various aspects of the Jews in the Roman Empire. Subjects include: civil justice in Palestine, the judgement of death for Herod's sons Jews in Roman Spain, ban on circumcision, the attitudes of Romans towards ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783525539927
Published by : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Series: ORBIS BIBLICUS ET ORIENTALIS
Volume: 178
A collection of four previously published articles on the relationship between the biblical text Daniel 7 and the religious troubles that marked the reign of Antiochus IV during the 2nd century BC. The articles discuss the contrast between anim... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781887829403
Published by : John Humphrey
Series: JRA Supplement
Volume: 40
A collection of 17 historical and art-historical papers, which originated at the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and at a conference at the Jewish Museum of New York, both in 1997. The papers are divided into six thematic ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520215924
Published by : University of California Press
Did Jesus regard himself as the Messiah? Knohl argues that he did, largely because of another messianic leader who had lived a generation earlier and is described in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is this evidence that occupies the main part of the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520234000
Published by : University of California Press
Did Jesus regard himself as the Messiah? Knohl argues that he did, largely because of another messianic leader who had lived a generation earlier and is described in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is this evidence that occupies the main part of the ... .... Learn More