Shoshannat Yaakov : : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of Yaakov Elman /

Shoshannat Yaakov : : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of Yaakov Elman / / edited by Shai Secunda and Steven Fine.

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Shoshannat Yaakov honors Yaakov Elman, Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and celebrates Elman’s contributions to a broad range of disciplines within Jewish and Iranian studies. The fruits of Elman’s seminal project of bringing together of scholars of Iranian studies and Talmud in ways that...

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Superior document:The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, v. 35
TeilnehmendeR:
Elman, Yaakov.
Secunda, Shai.
Fine, Steven.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 35.
Physical Description:1 online resource (567 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Re-Presentation of ‘Biblical’ Legal Material at Qumran: Three Cases from 4Q159 (4QOrdinancesa) / Moshe J. Bernstein
  • Medieval and Modern Philology: Notes on the First Sugya of BT Nazir / Daniel Boyarin
  • What Must the Jew do to Help the Cooking? An Analytic Resolution to bAZ 38 / Shalom Carmy
  • Biblical Influence on Virgil / Louis H. Feldman
  • “For this Schoolhouse is Beautiful”: A Note on Samaritan ‘Schools’ in Late Antique Palestine / Steven Fine
  • Sorting Out the Wages of Adultery: Execution, Ordeal or Divorce / Shamma Friedman
  • “One Day David Went Out for the Hunt of the Falconers”: Persian Themes in the Babylonian Talmud / Geoffrey Herman
  • The Agonistic Bavli: Greco-Roman Rhetoric in Sasanian Persia / Richard Hidary
  • A Late Antique Babylonian Rabbinic Treatise on Astrology / Richard Kalmin
  • Redesigning Tzitzit in the Babylonian Talmud in Light of Literary Depictions of the Zoroastrian kustīg / Yishai Kiel
  • Irano-Talmudica II: Leviathan, Behemoth and the ‘Domestication’ of Iranian Mythological Creatures in Eschatological Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud / Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira
  • Learning from the Tāg: On a Persian Word for ‘Crown’ in Jewish Aramaic / Aaron Koller
  • The adwadād Offence in Zoroastrian Law / Maria Macuch
  • Qui coierit cum muliere in fluxu menstruo . . . interficientur ambo (Lev. 20:18): The Biblical Prohibition of Sexual Relations with a Menstruant in the Eyes of Some Medieval Christian Theologians / Evyatar Marienberg
  • ‘Until Tzadok Arose’ in the Damascus Document: Tzadoq and his Appointment as High Priest in Early Jewish Interpretation / Chaim Milikowsky
  • Astrology and the Head of the Academy / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
  • The Curving Shore of Time and Space: Notes on the Prologue to Pushkin’s Ruslan and Ludmila / James R. Russell
  • The Samaritans in Amoraic Halakhah / Lawrence H. Schiffman
  • Parva—a Magus / Shai Secunda
  • Religious Actions Evaluated by Intention: Zoroastrian Concepts Shared with Judaism / Shaul Shaked
  • Hairy Meat? On Nērangestān, Chapter 47.1–20 / Prods Oktor Skjærvø
  • Yefet in the House of Shem: The Influence of the Septuagint Translation of the Scroll of Esther on Rabbinic Literature / Joseph Tabory
  • Scripture Versus Contemporary (Interpretive) Needs: Towards a Mapping of the Hermeneutic Contours of Zoroastrianism / Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina
  • סעודת ליל הסדר: בין הלל להגדה דוד הנשקה
  • להגדרתם של קרבן יחיד ושל קרבן ציבור צבי אריה שטיינפלד.

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