In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassion, in this corpus, comprised a hybrid of Hebrew, Greek, and Roman constructions; depending on the texts, they were a sp…
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Take a trip to Italy, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, and beyond to see how Hanukkah is celebrated around the world. Join the torch relay in Modi'in, Israel; the Ladino concert in Istanbul, Turkey; and the candle lighting on the beach in Sydney, Australia. Try the delicious and unusual rec…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's "compelling" ( The Economist) and "substantive" ( The Guardian ) autobiography, the newly reelected prime minister of Israel tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending …
This collection presents innovative research by scholars from across the globe in celebration of Gabriele Boccaccini's sixtieth birthday and to honor his contribution to the study of early Judaism and Christianity. In harmony with Boccaccini's determination to promote the study …
The series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies (DCLS)is concerned principally with research into those books of the Greek Bible (Septuagint) which are not contained in the Hebrew canon, and into intertestamentary and early Jewish literature from the period around the…
Compilation of no less than 100 powerful selections from a 2000 year tradition of Jewish literary responses to catastrophe. forming the Centerpiece of the volume are four chapters containing. Contemporaneous writings about the Holocaust.
Compilation of no less than 100 powerful selections from a 2000 year tradition of Jewish literary responses to catastrophe. forming the Centerpiece of the volume are four chapters containing. Contemporaneous writings about the Holocaust.
This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literatur…