A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: An A to Z companion to 2,000 years of encounter between Judaism and Christianity, A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations is a pioneering work which explores and defines the many factors which characterise the historic and ongoing relationship between th... Details...

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...

A History of the Hebrew Language: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: History of the Hebrew Language is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day. Professor Sáenz-Badillos sets Hebrew in the context of the Northwest Semitic ... Details...

Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions Corpus and Concordance: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This second volume of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance provides a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of the numerous texts in ancient Hebrew apart from the Bible that have come to the attention of scholars in recent years. The new mater... Details...

Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World Toward a New Jewish Archaeology: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Art and Judaism explore the Jewish experience with art during the Greco-Roman period - from the Hellenistic period through the rise of Islam. It starts with the premise that Jewish art in antiquity was a ‘minority’ or ‘ethnic’ art and surveys ways t... Details...

Egypt and the Egyptians: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Egypt and the Egyptians is an entirely up-to-date and comprehensive view of ancient Egyptian religion and culture. Unlike other books, it blends Egyptology, history, anthropology and sociology to give the reader an appreciation of the breadth of the ancient... Details...

Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity The Reception of Enochic Literature: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on traditions about the fallen angels. In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the ‘sons of God’ of Gen 6:1–4 are accused of corruptin... Details...

How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: For the past two hundred years Biblical scholars have usually assumed that the Hebrew Bible was essentially written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods (the fifth-through-second centuries BCE). Recent archaeological evidence and insights from ... Details...

Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book collects all known Jewish inscriptions in Egypt between the third century BC and the sixth century AD. The entry on each inscription provides text, translation, bibliography and commentary. Hitherto, it has been necessary to refer to an older coll... Details...

Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book presents a linear history of Jewish martyrdom, from the Hellenistic period to the high Middle Ages. Following the chronology of sources, the study challenges the general consensus that martyrdom was an original Hellenistic Jewish idea. Instead, Je... Details...