The Formation of the Talmud: Scholarship and Politics in Yitzhak Isaac Halevy’s Dorot Harishonim 3110709457, 9783110709452

The Formation of the Talmud: Scholarship and Politics in Yitzhak Isaac Halevy’s Dorot Harishonim 3110709457, 9783110709452

This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential

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Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory 9781463240264, 1463240260

This work is a study of Jewish cultural memory as exemplified by rabbinic midrash of the Amoraic period, the second thro

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Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory 9781463240271

This work is a study of Jewish cultural memory as exemplified by rabbinic midrash of the Amoraic period, the second thro

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Isaac Vossius (1618 - 1689): Between Science and Scholarship 9004186700, 9789004186705

Mostly remembered for his library and for his biblical criticism, Isaac Vossius (1618 - 1689) played a central role in t

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Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: Philosophy and the Arts 9781315805047

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Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation 9781501731778

Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters i

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Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud 9781618111128

Both the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud depict a wide range of sorrowful situations tied to every level of s

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“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship 9780674058491

Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Grafton and Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of legendary Ren

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Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century: The Dynamics of Recognition 9781107047, 1107047358, 1013044581

From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent state

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The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918 9780271062600

Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna School of Art History is the first book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in

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