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The articles presented here include studies in Rabbinics, Classical Hebrew linguistics, early Hebrew-Greek glossary, Hebrew manuscripts, Medieval and Modern Hebrew literature, Medieval and Early-Modern interpretation of Scripture, Medieval and Early-Modern Jewish philosophy, Hebrew book print in the 18th century, and Jewish Enlightenment. The articles cover a substantial part of the fields included in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and offer a fine example of the wealth and variety of the present day academic study of Hebrew, Judaism, and Jewish culture.
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Abraham ibn Ezra and the Twelfth-Century European Renaissance.- New Catalogues for Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts?.- An Early Hebrew-Greek Bible Glossary from the Cairo Genizah and its Significance for the Study of Jewish Bible Translations into Greek.- A Jewish Childbirth Amulet for a Girl.- The Riddle of the Baskets of 1726.- Laments at the Departure of a Sage.- The Treatise on the Patriarch Henoch by Johannes Drusius (1550-1616).- Unusual Verbal Forms in the Book of Proverbs and Semantic Disambiguation.- First Things First.- The Targumic Versions of the Martyrdom of Isaiah.- 'The Emperor of Poets'.- Philosophy and Kabbalah in the Eighteenth Century.- Buildings in the Love Poems by Yehuda Amichai.- A Note about Two Newly-Discovered Hebrew Quotations of Averroes' Works Lost in their Original Arabic Texts.- The Site of Adam's Tomb.- From Perush to Be'ur.- Love of One's Neighbour in Pinhas Hurwitz's Sefer ha-Berit.- The Value of Julius Guttmann's Die Philosophie des Judentums for Understanding Medieval Jewish Philosophy Today.- Moses Mendelssohn's Conception of Judaism.
Summary
The articles presented here include studies in Rabbinics, Classical Hebrew linguistics, early Hebrew-Greek glossary, Hebrew manuscripts, Medieval and Modern Hebrew literature, Medieval and Early-Modern interpretation of Scripture, Medieval and Early-Modern Jewish philosophy, Hebrew book print in the 18th century, and Jewish Enlightenment. The articles cover a substantial part of the fields included in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and offer a fine example of the wealth and variety of the present day academic study of Hebrew, Judaism, and Jewish culture.
