Storytelling in the Bible

Licht, Jacob

Magnes Press, Hebrew University

History of the Jews in Aragon: Regesta and documents, 1213-1327 (Hispania Judaica) (French Edition)

Reference

Régné, Jean

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Prof. David Hartwig (Zvi) Baneth (1893-1973) was a prominent scholar in Jewish Studies and Medieval Islamic Philosophy. Prof. Baneth taught at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (since 1936) and laid the groundwork for the study of Judeo-Arabic, which was continued by his student, Prof. Joshua Blau. Prof. Baneth studied the religious thought of Jewish and Muslim scholars like Yehuda ha-Levi, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Bahya ibn Paquda and Maimonides.

Studia Orientalia memoriae D. H. Baneth dedicata

German reparations: A history of the negotiations

History

Sagi, Nana

Europe

Gives the background of Hebrew as a Semitic language, its vowels, consonants, roots, morphology, and syntax. There are chapters on Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Mishnaic Hebrew, and modern Israeli Hebrew. The latter includes the influences from Arabic, Yiddish and European languages. It is thus a complete history of the Hebrew language from its beginning until today.

A history of the Hebrew language

Edward Yechezkel Kutscher

The late Professor U. Cassuto had originally planned to write, in Hebrew, a monumental commentary on the Bible that would comprise a series of detailed expositions of the Book of Genesis, and less elaborate commentaries, consisting of one volume for each book, devoted to the remaining four books of the Pentateuch. It was also his intention to compose a compendious Introduction to the Torah as a whole, and a comprehensive commentary on the Book of Psalms. Unhappily the author died after completing only three of his commentaries (two on Genesis and one on Exodus). The present volume, A commentary on the Book of Exodus, is the last of the commentaries to be rendered into English. Cassuto's comments have a vivid quality seldom found in the exegetical writings of other Biblical expositors, who all too often prefer a jejune and lifeless approach to their subject. Cassuto succeeds in injecting a sense of dramatic excitement into his interpretations. Without neglecting the scientific data provided by archeological and philological research, he makes us conscious of the literary attributes of the Bible. Unlike the volumes dealing with the first two pericopes of Genesis, the present work does not separate the annotations from the Biblical text, but forms a continuous, unified commentary in which the Scriptural citations are interlinked with the exposition. The elements are so closely and artistically interwoven as to form a new literary entity not a text with notes, but a homogeneous expository work, which must rank among the finest modern contributions to the treasury of Biblical learning.

A Commentary on the Book of Exodus

Umberto Cassuto

This is the first in a series of comprehensive commentaries on the "Book of Genesis" that the late Professor Umberto Cassuto had planned as part of a magnum opus embracing the whole "Pentateuch" and also the "Book of Psalms". The aim of this commentary is to explain, with the help of an historico-philological method of interpretation, the simple meaning of the Biblical text, and to arrive, as nearly as possible, at the sense that the words of the Torah were intended to have for the reader at the time they were written.

From Adam to Noah: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis I-VI (Perry Foundation for Biblical Research)

Religion & Spirituality

Cassuto, Umberto

Christian Books & Bibles

The Bible from within: The method of total interpretation (Publications of the Perry Foundation for Biblical Research in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Weiss, Meir

This is the fifth volume in the 'Collected Works of the late Professor Shlomo Pines'. The studies reprinted in this volume have been divided into two categories. In the first part have been reprinted essays dealing with various topics in the history of religion in antiquity. The second part includes seminal studies published by Pines on aspects of Jewish Christianity.

Studies in the history of Jewish thought (The Collected works of Shlomo Pines)

Politics & Social Sciences

Shlomo Pines

Social Sciences

In a social-science framework, this book sheds light on the various aspects of the process of social integration and cultural adaptation of the new immigrants arriving in Israel in large numbers in the 1950s.

The experience of immigration: A literary perspective on immigration to Israel

Yehoshua S. Cohen

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