Between Alexandria and Jerusalem The Dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic Culture: (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:Between Alexandria and Jerusalem examines the dynamics of Hellenistic and Jewish cultures. It begins by looking at the changes in mentality as reflected in papyri of Roman Egypt, the birth of a qualified audience looking for teachers and preachers and requiri... Details...

Biblical Ambiguities, Metaphor, Semantics and Divine Imagery: (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:Biblical Ambiguities poses as its central question: When we read a passage in the Hebrew Bible, how do we know whether the passage was meant literally or metaphorically? This study argues that our assumptions as to how language works influences the way we int... Details...

Death, Life-After-Death, Resurrection and The World-to-Come in the Judaisms of Antiquity: (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:Thirteen foremost scholars describe the views of death, life after death, resurrection, and the world-to-come set forth in the literary evidence for late antique Judaism. The volume covers the vie w of Scripture as a whole as against other Israelite writings;... Details...

Encyclopaedia of Judaism The Encyclopaedia of Judaism Volume IV (Supplement ONE): (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:The Encyclopaedia of Judaism provides a full and reliable account of Judaism, beginning in ancient Israelite times and extending to our own day. About Judaism, the religion, its diverse history, literature, beliefs past and present, observances and practices,... Details...

Encyclopaedia of Judaism The Encyclopaedia of Judaism Volume V (Supplement TWO): (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:The Encyclopaedia of Judaism provides a full and reliable account of Judaism, beginning in ancient Israelite times and extending to our own day. About Judaism, the religion, its diverse history, literature, beliefs past and present, observances and practices,... Details...

Encyclopaedia of Midrash - Biblical Interpretation in Formative Judaism: (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:The Encyclopedia of Midrash — Biblical Interpretation in Formative Judaism, provides a systematic account of biblical interpretation in Judaism, from well before the second century BCE through the end of the seventh century CE. While emphasizing the Rabbini... Details...

How the Talmud Works: (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:The Bavli, or Talmud of Babylonia, the foundation-document of Judaism, its law, theology, and exegesis of Scripture, sets forth an orderly world, resting on reason and tested by rationality, all in accord with consistent principles. The document in its cohere... Details...

Josephus' Contra Apionem - Studies in its Character and Context with a Latin Concordance to the Portion Missing in Greek: (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of papers on one of the most significant works of Flavius Josephus, by many of the leading scholars in current Josephus research. The collection, which includes a concordance by H. Schreckenberg of the Latin se... Details...

Josephus' Contra Apionem - Studies in its Character and Context with a Latin Concordance to the Portion Missing in Greek: (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:'Die weitere Josephus-Forschung wird auch diesem Band verpflichtet sein'. H.G.G., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1992. 'A ces 15 articles L.H. Feldman a ajouté une bibliographie commentée de Josèphe qui est une merveilleuse intro... Details...

Judaism in Late Antiquity, I, II, III: (Brill Academic Publishers) Publisher's Comments:Jacob Neusner (vols. 1, 2, and 3) and his colleagues Alan Avery-Peck (vol. 2) and Bruce Chilton (vol. 3) have assembled a stellar team of scholars in producing what has already become an essential reference work for the study of Judaism in Late Antiquity. Ori... Details...