A Hand-List of Rabbinic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections Taylor-Schechter New Series Series: Cambridge University Library Genizah Series (No. 5): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: The Taylor-Schechter New Series contains over 40,000 manuscript fragments that originated in the world famous Cairo Genizah. These fragments are extremely important for research, but students are hampered by the difficulties involved in identifying and gath... Details...

An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law (Publication / The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University #22): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Jewish Law has a long history stretching from the early period to the modern State of Israel, encompassing the Talmud, Geonic and later codifications, the Spanish Golden Age, medieval and modern response, and the Holocaust and modern reforms. This work is a... Details...

Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguit... Details...

Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This is a study of the ancient Jewish and Christian apocalypses involving ascent into heaven, which have received little scholarly attention in comparison to apocalypses concerned primarily with the end of the world. Recent developments like the publication... Details...

Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds: Accounting for Halakhic Difference in Selected Sugyot from Tractate Avodah Zarah: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: In this book, Hayes addresses the central concern in talmudic studies over the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c. 370 C.E.) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. 650 C.E.). Hayes... Details...

Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This is a comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and myth and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature (Midrash and Talmud) and in the classical work of medieval Jewish mysticism (the book of Zohar). Michael Fishbane provides a close study of th... Details...

Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in the Mishnah: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women. Both the ... Details...

Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study argues that the authors of Deuteronomy--a corpus of laws purportedly given to Israel through Moses--radically transformed ancient Israelite religion and society. Their new vision, says author Bernard Levinson, was completely without precedent and... Details...

Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments:Positioned at the boundary of traditional biblical studies, legal history, and literary theory, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation shows how the legislation of Deuteronomy reflects the struggle of its authors to renew late seventh- century J... Details...

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Volume XXXIX: Introduction and Indexes: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This volume provides a general overview of and introduction to the 38 volumes of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series published since 1951 by Oxford University Press. It contains a general description of the series and its editorial principles, as w... Details...