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Contents
Preface
A Word about Abbreviations and Matters of Style
The Publications of Lawrence H. Schiffman (Compiled by Angiolillo and Blachorsky with the assistance of Schiffman)
Part 1. Biblical and Second Temple Period
Chapter 1. Probing the Jewish Setting of Matthew 11:25-30 (Angel)
Chapter 2. Demons and Dominion: Forcing Demons into the Divine Order in Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brand)
Chapter 3. Resistance and Appropriation: The Zoroastrian Context of the Book of Tobit (Brodsky)
Chapter 4. The Scholasticization of Religion: From Qumran to Ctesiphon (Elmanin collaboration withMoazami)
Chapter 5. The Power of Pain: A Literary Reading of the Wicked Priest's Death(s) in 1QpHab (Frisch)
Chapter 6. Concerning tsedaqah: Reexamining the Gospels' Teaching on Charity within the Larger World of Ancient Jewish Halakah (García)
Chapter 7. The Unfinished Scroll Reconsidered: 11Q19 Column 67 (Gross)
Chapter 8. The Early Study of Jewish Law in the Damascus Document: Solomon Schechter and Louis Ginzberg in Conversation and Conflict (Jassen)
Chapter 9. The Legacy of the Flood in the Book of Jubilees (Mermelstein)
Part 2. Rabbis, Other Jews, and Neighboring Cultures
Chapter 10. An Aramaic Power of Attorney from Ramla (1056) [T-S 13 J 114]: A Translation and Genizah Study (Brann)
Chapter 11. The Treason of Yosa Meshita (Genesis Rabba 65:27): A Rabbinic Reflection on the Fate of the Temple Lampstand (Fine)
Chapter 12. Radak's Engagement with Rabbinic Literature in His Sefer ha-Shorashim: Innovations in Light of His Predecessors' Approaches (Grunhaus)
Chapter 13. A Tale of Two or Three Witnesses: Witness Testimony in Greco-Roman, Qumranic, and Rabbinic Court Procedure (Hidary)
Chapter 14. A Creation Sui Generis: The Evolution of a Concept (Lev).
Chapter 15. "All Law Begins with Custom:" Rabbinic Awareness of Popular Practice and Its Implications for the Study of the Jews of Roman Palestine (Miller)
Chapter 16. The ʿEiruv and the Outsider: A Study in Urban Conditions in Roman Palestine (Mintz)
Chapter 17. Telling Retellings: Honi the Circle Maker and the Development of Rabbinic Narrative Discourse (Panken)
Chapter 18. A New Edition of Az nefesh kol ḥai, Yannai's Qedushta for Leviticus 4:1-35 (Rand)
Chapter 19. Jacob's Image: The History of a Late Antique Motif (Sivertsev)
Chapter 20. Civil and Uncivil Magic: Individual, Community, and Identity in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Curse Texts (Swartz)
General Index.
Contents
Preface
A Word about Abbreviations and Matters of Style
The Publications of Lawrence H. Schiffman (Compiled by Angiolillo and Blachorsky with the assistance of Schiffman)
Part 1. Biblical and Second Temple Period
Chapter 1. Probing the Jewish Setting of Matthew 11:25-30 (Angel)
Chapter 2. Demons and Dominion: Forcing Demons into the Divine Order in Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brand)
Chapter 3. Resistance and Appropriation: The Zoroastrian Context of the Book of Tobit (Brodsky)
Chapter 4. The Scholasticization of Religion: From Qumran to Ctesiphon (Elmanin collaboration withMoazami)
Chapter 5. The Power of Pain: A Literary Reading of the Wicked Priest's Death(s) in 1QpHab (Frisch)
Chapter 6. Concerning tsedaqah: Reexamining the Gospels' Teaching on Charity within the Larger World of Ancient Jewish Halakah (García)
Chapter 7. The Unfinished Scroll Reconsidered: 11Q19 Column 67 (Gross)
Chapter 8. The Early Study of Jewish Law in the Damascus Document: Solomon Schechter and Louis Ginzberg in Conversation and Conflict (Jassen)
Chapter 9. The Legacy of the Flood in the Book of Jubilees (Mermelstein)
Part 2. Rabbis, Other Jews, and Neighboring Cultures
Chapter 10. An Aramaic Power of Attorney from Ramla (1056) [T-S 13 J 114]: A Translation and Genizah Study (Brann)
Chapter 11. The Treason of Yosa Meshita (Genesis Rabba 65:27): A Rabbinic Reflection on the Fate of the Temple Lampstand (Fine)
Chapter 12. Radak's Engagement with Rabbinic Literature in His Sefer ha-Shorashim: Innovations in Light of His Predecessors' Approaches (Grunhaus)
Chapter 13. A Tale of Two or Three Witnesses: Witness Testimony in Greco-Roman, Qumranic, and Rabbinic Court Procedure (Hidary)
Chapter 14. A Creation Sui Generis: The Evolution of a Concept (Lev).
Chapter 15. "All Law Begins with Custom:" Rabbinic Awareness of Popular Practice and Its Implications for the Study of the Jews of Roman Palestine (Miller)
Chapter 16. The ʿEiruv and the Outsider: A Study in Urban Conditions in Roman Palestine (Mintz)
Chapter 17. Telling Retellings: Honi the Circle Maker and the Development of Rabbinic Narrative Discourse (Panken)
Chapter 18. A New Edition of Az nefesh kol ḥai, Yannai's Qedushta for Leviticus 4:1-35 (Rand)
Chapter 19. Jacob's Image: The History of a Late Antique Motif (Sivertsev)
Chapter 20. Civil and Uncivil Magic: Individual, Community, and Identity in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Curse Texts (Swartz)
General Index.