Liverpool University Press is pleased to inform you of the latest content in the Journal of Jewish Studies.
Liverpool University Press is pleased to inform you of the latest content in the Journal of Jewish Studies.
Published in partnership with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Journal of Jewish Studies is an internationally renowned, peer-reviewed academic journal for the promotion of research into all aspects of Jewish studies and the leading forum in the world for new findings and discussions of Jewish history, literature, and culture from Biblical times to the present day.
Articles in Volume 75, Issue 1 include a computational analysis of the special Talmudic tractates; a reassessment of Vespasian’s raids in the Jaffa region in 67 CE; Judeo-Syriac in late antiquity and the Middle Ages; a cross-homilies analysis of Tanhuma-Yelamdenu Aharei Mot; lost and found manuscripts of Targum; love and fear of God in the thought of Isaac of Corbeil; two Judeo-Spanish ‘Marrano’ hymns in the liturgy of the Jews of Cochin; the messianic idea and Zionism; and the image of the non-Jew in the responsa of David Zvi Hoffmann.
You will also find an extensive Book Reviews section.
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Table of contents
RESEARCH ARTICLES
A COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIAL TALMUDIC TRACTATES
JAKUB ZBRZEŻNY, DIMID DUCHOVNY, NOAM EISENSTEIN, LEE-AD GOTTLIEB, AND ESHBAL RATZON
VESPASIAN’S RAIDS IN THE JAFFA REGION RECONSIDERED
YOAV ARBEL
JUDEO-SYRIAC IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
SIAM BHAYRO
A CROSS-HOMILIES ANALYSIS OF TANHUMA-YELAMDENU AHAREI MOT
TOVA SACHER AND MOSHE LAVEE
LOST AND FOUND MANUSCRIPTS OF TARGUM
SHLOMI EFRATI
LOVE AND FEAR OF GOD IN THE THOUGHT OF ISAAC OF CORBEIL
JUDAH D. GALINSKY
TWO JUDEO-SPANISH ‘MARRANO’ HYMNS IN THE LITURGY OF THE JEWS OF COCHIN
PETER NAHON
THE SABBATEAN SYNDROME, THE MESSIANIC IDEA AND ZIONISM
YOSSEF CHARVIT
THE IMAGE OF THE NON-JEW IN THE RESPONSA OF DAVID ZVI HOFFMANN
EMMANUEL J. BLOCH
REVIEWS
F.L. CROSS, E. LIVINGSTONE AND ANDREW LOUTH (EDS), THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
ANDREW TEAL
BENJAMIN SCHLIESSER, JAN RÜGGEMEIER, THOMAS J. KRAUS AND JÖRG FREY (EDS), ALEXANDRIA: HUB OF THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
SARAH PEARCE
TIMOTHY H. LIM, THE EARLIEST COMMENTARY ON THE PROPHECY OF HABAKKUK
MICHAEL DEVRIES
AMSALU TEFERA AND LOREN T. STUCKENBRUCK (EDS), REPRESENTATIONS OF ANGELIC BEINGS IN EARLY JEWISH AND IN CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS
ALEXANDER MCCARRON
HOLLY MORSE, ENCOUNTERING EVE’S AFTERLIVES: A NEW RECEPTION CRITICAL APPROACH TO GENESIS 2–4
KATIE J. WOOLSTENHULME
REUVEN KIPERWASSER AND GEOFFREY HERMAN (EDS), EXPRESSIONS OF SCEPTICAL TOPOI IN (LATE) ANTIQUE JUDAISM
NORMAN SOLOMON
DANIEL J. LASKER, KARAISM: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OLDEST SURVIVING ALTERNATIVE JUDAISM
DANIEL FRANK
DAVID M. GITLITZ, LIVING IN SILVERADO: SECRET JEWS IN THE SILVER MINING TOWNS OF COLONIAL MEXICO
DOUGLAS B. ABRAHAM
AMY WILLIAMS AND BILL NIVEN, NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL MEMORIES OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT: EXHIBITIONS, MEMORIALS, AND COMMEMORATIONS
BARNABAS BALINT
STEVEN KEPNES (ED.), THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO JEWISH THEOLOGY
EMILY FILLER
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, to publish the Journal of Jewish Studies from 2024.
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, to publish the Journal of Jewish Studies from 2024.
The Journal of Jewish Studies is an internationally renowned, peer-reviewed academic journal for the promotion of research into all aspects of Jewish studies.
Published independently by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies until now, the Journal is the world’s leading forum for new findings and discussions of Jewish history, literature and culture from Biblical times to the present day. A large reviews section keeps readers in touch with recent publications.
The Journal appears twice a year in spring and autumn. The first issue under the new publishing agreement will be published in 2024 and will be fully available online on the Liverpool University Press website. Online access to the archive of the journal will be made available to all subscribers.
ISSN (print) 0022–2097, ISSN (online) 2056–6689.
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75th Anniversary Celebrations
The Journal is also celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Founded in 1948, it was conceived soon after the war by the Society for Jewish Study based in London and its first volume appeared in 1949. To mark the occasion a special online-only publication containing the first two issues is available to read for free on the LUP website for one month.
Contributions include articles by well-known scholars such as Travers Herford, Arthur Marmorstein, Jacob Teicher, Chaim Rabin, Edward Robertson, Cecil Roth, Samuel Krauss, and G. R. Driver.
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Call for Papers
The Editors take this opportunity to call for submission of papers. Papers from junior to senior scholars are most welcome, from the late biblical to the modern era. The aim will be to publish within one year only from the date of initial submission.
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“The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is looking forward to working with the Liverpool University Press to publish the Journal of Jewish Studies. We are confident that this new partnership with this prestigious academic press will allow our Journal to maintain its internationally recognised level of excellence and to publish groundbreaking research at the forefront of the multidisciplinary field of Jewish Studies”.
– Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
“We are absolutely delighted to be working with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies to publish the distinguished Journal of Jewish Studies from 2024. We know that scholars of Jewish Studies will continue to find it an extremely valuable resource.”
– Clare Hooper, Director of Journals Publishing at Liverpool University Press.