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Product Description: Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award)Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon...read more

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9780520286207 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M.

By Yossef Schwartz (editor)

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9789004254169 | Brill Academic Pub, December 19, 2013, cover price $345.00

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Product Description: This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century...read more
By Resianne Fontaine (editor)

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9789004229310 | Bilingual edition (Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 2013), cover price $209.00 | About this edition: This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century.

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Product Description: This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century...read more
By Alexander Fidora (editor)

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9789004229327 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 2013, cover price $222.00 | About this edition: This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century.

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Product Description: The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism. The Geonim, for whom this era is named, were the heads of the ancient talmudic academies of Babylonia. They gained ascendancy over the older Palestinian center of Judaism and were recognized as the leading religious and spiritual authorities by most of the world’s Jewish population...read more

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9789990137798 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $0.02
9780300070477 | Yale Univ Pr, January 21, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism.

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9780300189322 | Updated edition (Yale Univ Pr, April 9, 2013), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism.

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Product Description: A challenging look at two great Jewish philosophers, and what their thinking means to our understanding of God, truth, revelation and reason.Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) is Jewish history's greatest exponent of a rational, philosophically sound Judaism...read more

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9781580234115 | 1 edition (Jewish Lights Pub, October 1, 2009), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A challenging look at two great Jewish philosophers, and what their thinking means to our understanding of God, truth, revelation and reason.

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9780691125718 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 27, 2007, cover price $49.95

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9781400827961 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $32.95

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9780742545175 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 15, 2007, cover price $84.00

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9780742545182 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 15, 2007, cover price $36.00

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Product Description: Discussing Cultural Influences contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. In a series of seven essays, presented here for the first time, the authors challenge the reader's assumptions about Judaism in the Second Temple period, late antiquity, and the early medieval era...read more
By Rivka Ulmer (editor)

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9780761835165 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 15, 2007, cover price $46.99 | About this edition: Discussing Cultural Influences contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition.

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Product Description: The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors...read more

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9780195176742 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 30, 2005, cover price $115.00

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9780195315943 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 7, 2006, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised.

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By Jay Michael Harris (editor)

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9780674018075 | Bilingual edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 6, 2005), cover price $55.00

By Daniel H. Frank (editor)

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9780521652070 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $130.00

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9780521655743 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $44.99

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Product Description: The Jewish Middle Ages were not, as was once supposed, full of 'doom, gloom and pedantry'. Medieval Hebrew manuscripts testify to stunning theology, super-rational exegesis, and interesting notions of language usage. There are unexpectedly 'modern' interpretations of the Hebrew Bible in Spain and France and exciting fragments from the Cairo Genizah, including a prayer to be recited by medieval pilgrims to Jerusalem...read more

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9780521010474 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Jewish Middle Ages were not, as was once supposed, full of 'doom, gloom and pedantry'.

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Product Description: This volume contains eleven original studies, ten in English and one in Hebrew, by some of the most established scholars of Judaica and young newcomers as well. Like the studies in the previous two volumes in the series, those in this new volume shed important light on the Jewish cultural experience across a vast geographic expanse, and over many centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Isadore Twersky (editor)

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9780674851931 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1985, cover price $28.50
9780674851924 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Hardback book (no dust jacket) titled STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE.

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9780674003781 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 15, 2001, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: This volume contains eleven original studies, ten in English and one in Hebrew, by some of the most established scholars of Judaica and young newcomers as well.

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Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: The Jewish World in the Middle AgesAuthor: Bloomberg, Jon IrvingPublisher: Ktav Pub IncPublication Date: 2000/06/01Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 00034049 (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780881256840 | Ktav Pub Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book annotation not available for this title.
9789990101188 | Ktav Pub Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $0.02

By Joseph Dan (editor), Klaus Herrmann (editor), Johanna Hoornweg (editor) and Manuela Petzoldt (editor)

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9783161470448 | Mohr Siebrek Ek, August 1, 1999, cover price $180.00

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9780815627784 | Syracuse Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $49.95

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9780815627791 | Syracuse Univ Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.95

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This work studies the rite of passage that a Jewish boy would go through in medieval times when he began his schooling at the age of five. The rite is analyzed from different perspectives, making use of pictorial, narrative, legal, poetic, and ethnographic sources, as well as firsthand accounts.

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9780300059984 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This work studies the rite of passage that a Jewish boy would go through in medieval times when he began his schooling at the age of five.

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9780300076585 | Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780691073439 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $72.50

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9780691017228 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 24, 1997), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages.

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Product Description: Based on a Hebrew document written in the Middle Ages recording Jewish arguments against Christianity as expressed at that time. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By David Berger (introduced by)

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9781597401913 | Acls History E-Book Project, December 28, 1899, cover price $91.00 | About this edition: Based on a Hebrew document written in the Middle Ages recording Jewish arguments against Christianity as expressed at that time.

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9781568219196 | Reprint edition (Jason Aronson Inc, April 1, 1996), cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Based on a Hebrew document written in the Middle Ages recording Jewish arguments against Christianity as expressed at that time.

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