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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.
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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