HUCA VOLUME 94
The Polemic against Mysticism in Midrash Genesis Rabbah
David H. Aaron
“Two Are Better than One”: The Conceptual and Thematic Use of Numbers in Qoheleth
Katharine J. Dell and Tova Forti
“And Who Wrote Them?” (Bava Batra 14b-15a)
The List of Biblical Authors, its Sources, Principles, and Dating*
Eran Viezel
“The Fear of the Lord is Wisdom”?
A Consideration of Job 28 as Sarcastic Response to the Wisdom Tradition
Kyle R. Greenwood
Merciful, Shamefaced, and Kind:
Israel’s Character in y. Qiddushin 4:1 and b. Yevamot 79a
Kacie Klamm
“With Specious Contentions, He Cast Blemishes on His Holy Ones”: Abraham Ibn Ezra, Maimonides, and Nahmanides in Zecharyah ben Moshe’s Poetic Preface to Offering of Zeal
Eric Lawee.
Wandering Jews in England’s Green and Pleasant Land: Wissenschaft des Judentums in an Anglo-Jewish Context
Daniel Langton
HUCA VOLUME 93
1 The Missing Century: A Reevaluation of the Halakhic Connections between Palestine and Babylonia during the Fifth Century CE
Barak S. Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
2 “Arch”-Enemy: The Polemic against Titus in Benjamin of Tudela’s Sefer Masa’ot
Daniel Stein Kokin, Arizona State University
3 How Should We Read Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed? Clues From Al-Harizi’s Translation
Shalom Sadik, Ben-Gurion University
4 Reform or Necessary Change? The Attempt to Translate the Ketubah into Hebrew and the Reactions to It
Amichai Radzyner, Bar-Ilan University
5 Jewish Radicals: Zionism Confronts The New Left, 1967-1973: A Comparative Look
Tal Elmaliach, Editor; translated by Haim Watzman
Introduction
Tal Elmaliach, University of Haifa
Chapter 1
Americans for Progressive Israel: Radical Zionism in the United States, 1967–1973 Tal Elmaliach, University of Haifa
Chapter 2
Classic Socialist Zionism and the Emergence of Radical Socialist Zionism in France in the 1960s
Jennine (Levana) Frenk, Independent scholar, ‘Moreshet’ – Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Institute
Chapter 3
Zionism and the New Left: The Mordechai Anielewicz Brigade in Argentina in the 1960s
Sebastian Klor, University of Haifa
Chapter 4
Between Zionism and the New Left: Israeli Leadership and Society Confronting the Young Radical Left, 1967–1973
Anat Kidron, Tel-Hai College and the University of Haifa
Afterword
Chad Alan Goldberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
HUCA VOLUME 92
The תורה in רות – Notes on Judean Literary Onomastics
Jeffrey Cooley, Boston College
Trumpets and Shofarot in the War Scroll (1QM): Musical and Terminological Insights
Moshe Piamenta, David Yellin College of Education
Reckoning the End of Days – A Study in Yefet ben ‘Eli’s Biblical Exegesis
Meirav Adler-Akirav, Bar-Ilan University
The Two Different Endings of Sefer haMiddot
Seth (Avi) Kadish, Oranim Academic College of Education, University of Haifa
The Influence of Mendelssohn’s Commentary on Qohelet on Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Jewish Commentators in Eastern and Western Europe
Tova Ganzel, Bar-Ilan University
A Translation of and Introduction to Nokhum Borukh Minkov’s On the Edge
Jordan Finkin, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
HUCA Volume 91
Contents
1 Yalta – The Third Rib: Redaction and Meaning in Bavli Berakhot,
Chapter 7
Ido Hevroni, Shalem College; Kogod Research Center for
Contemporary Jewish Thought, Shalom Hartman Institute
53 An “Edge” in Space or an “Edge” in Time: The Commandment of
Pe’ah in Tannaitic Midrash Halakhah
Aaron Amit, Bar-Ilan University
77 “For Your Work Will Be Rewarded” – On the Development of the
Sign Tradition
Bracha Elitzur, Herzog College
127 Nafīs al-Dīn’s Samaritan-Arabic Translation of Thirteen Verses
from the “Song of Moses”
Ali Watad, Beit Berl College
157 The Earliest Published Yiddish Tehinnot (1590–1609)
Morris M. Faierstein, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University
of Maryland
207 The Societal Role of the Man of Spirit According to Martin Buber
Admiel Kosman and Yemima Hadad, Institut für Jüdische Theologie/
School of Jewish Theology, University of Potsdam
261 Leo Baeck’s “Individuum Ineffabile”
Introduced by David Ellenson and Paul Mendes-Flohr; translated by
Gabriel E. Padawer and Bernard H. Mehlman, with Alisa Rethy
HUCA Volume 90
Contents
ix A Note from the Editors of the Hebrew Union College Annual
1 Ezekiel 20: A New Redaction-Critical Analysis
David Frankel, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
27 Authorship, Attribution, and Authority: Jeremiah, Baruch, and the
Rabbinic Interpretation of Lamentations
Jason Kalman, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
University of the Free State, South Africa
89 Haredi Jewish Boys Choirs and the Performance of a Secure Future
Gordon Dale, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
113 Introduction to “The Making of Moses”
Mark Leuchter and Zev Farber
121 Moses the Transjordanian Prophet
Zev Farber, Project TABS – TheTorah.com; The Shalom Hartman Institute,
Jerusalem
141 Moses like David: Prototypes in the Deuteronomistic History
Alison L. Joseph, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
163 Moses Between the Pentateuch and the Book of the Twelve
Mark Leuchter, Temple University
185 The Apocalyptic Moses of Second Temple Judaism
Alexandria Frisch, Ursinus College
209 “A King and a Scribe like Moses”: The Reception of Deuteronomy 34:10
and a Rabbinic Theory of Collective Biblical Authorship
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, University of Michigan
227 “A Prophet Like Moses”? What Can We Know About the Early Jewish
Responses to Muḥammad’s Claims of Mosesness?
Shari L. Lowin, Stonehill College
257 The End of Moses
Rachel Havrelock,
HUCA Volume 89
Contents
1 The Jews of the South of France
Armand Lunel
Translated from the French by Samuel N. Rosenberg, with a foreword by
David A. Jessula
159 Conflicts between Neighbors in the Jewish Court: The Balance between
Justice and Harmony
Shlomo E. Glicksberg, Yeshiva College, Johannesburg
177 From Periphery to Center: Early Discussion of Resurrection in Medieval Jewish Thought
Eliezer Schlossberg and Dov Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University
197 – שלום רב וישע יקרב : Yehuda ha-Levi’s Epistle to Moshe ibn Ezra: A New Edition and Commentary
Michael Rand, University of Cambridge
221 Dynasties of Jewish Physicians in the Fatimid and Ayyubid Periods
Amir Mazor and Efraim Lev, University of Haifa
261 The Points in the Letters: Greek Philosophy in the Service of Medieval Jewish Linguistics
Jonathan Howard, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
HUCA Volume 88
Contents
1 The Battle of Beth Zechariah in Light of a Literary Study of 1 Maccabees 6:32–47
Amram Tropper, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
29 Was There a Separate Transmission of Tosefta Tohorot? Evidence from Rishonim and from Fragments of the Cairo and “European” Genizas
Binyamin Katzoff, Bar-Ilan University
55 The Art of the Chain Novel in B. Yoma 35b: Reconsidering the Social Values of the Babylonian Yeshivot
Shraga Bar-On, Shalom Hartman Institute and Shalem College, Jerusalem
89 You Must Rebuke Your Fellow!: Midrash Tanhuma’s Subversion of Bavli Arakhin 16b ˙
Matthew Goldstone, The Jewish Theological Seminary
113 Abraham ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Job 2:11: The Time and Place of Job and His Friends and the Composition of the Book of Job
Eran Viezel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
159 Maimonidean Controversies after Maimonides: The Egyptian Context
Elisha Russ-Fishbane, New York University
203 Discourses of Doubt: The Place of Atheism, Skepticism, and Infidelity in Nineteenth-Century North American Reform Jewish Thought
Daniel R. Langton, University of Manchester
255 The Cultural Zionism of Zeev Jawitz
Asaf Yedidya, Efrata College
297 Rhythm in Yemenite Cantillation: Masoretic Accents and Syllabic Time
Boris Kleiner, Tel Aviv University
HUCA, Volume 87
Contents
1 Scarlet and Harlots: Seeing Red in the Hebrew Bible
Scott B. Noegel, University of Washington
49 “And David Was Sitting in Jerusalem”:The Accounts in Samuel and Chronicles
Yossi Leshem, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion,
Jerusalem.
61 A Paradigm for Identifying the Use of Scriptural Allusion in Lemma-Based
Exegesis Within the Qumran Library Using 4QpPsa (4Q171) as an Example
David Katzin, UCLA
93 Philo’s Threefold Divine Vision and the Christian Trinity
Elad Filler, Ben-Gurion University
115 Did the Babylonian Sages Regard the Ammei-ha’Aretz
as Subhuman?
Jonathan A. Pomeranz, Stanford University
145 “Blessings of the Breasts”:Breastfeeding in Rabbinic Literature
Jordan Rosenblum, University of Wisconsin, Madison
179 The Impact of Purity Laws on Amoraic Laws Concerning Handling on the Sabbath
Yoel Kretzmer-Raziel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
203 Manuscript Fragments of Pesiqta Rabbati from the Cairo Geniza and European Collections
Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University
251 The “Anticipation Principle” in the Biblical Commentary of R. Joseph Bekhor Shor
Jonathan Jacobs, Bar-Ilan University
279 19th-Century Prague: Tradition, Modernization, and Family Bonds
Sharon Flatto, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY)