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Strength to strength : essays in appreciation of Shaye J.D. Cohen / edited by Michael L. Satlow.

Contributor(s): Cohen, Shaye J. D [honouree.] | Satlow, Michael L [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Brown Judaic studies: no. 363.Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xiv, 714 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781946527110; 1946527114; 9781946527127; 1946527122Subject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish | Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., JewishDDC classification: 220.6 LOC classification: BS511.3 | .S767 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Shaye J.D. Cohen : an appreciation / Michael L. Satlow -- Signs of poetry past : literariness in pre-biblical Hebrew literature / Edward L. Greenstein -- Prohibited bodies in Leviticus 18 / William K. Gilders -- The territoriality of YHWH in biblical texts / Saul M. Olyan -- Jerusalem in Greek and Latin literature / Isaiah M. Gafni -- No ancient Judaism / Daniel Boyarin -- Early Jewish knowledge of Greek medicine / Pieter W. van der Horst -- The problem of the hyphen and Jewish/Judean ethnic identity : the letter of Aristeas, the Septuagint, and cultural interactions / Benjamin G. Wright -- What did they see when they read the Genesis Apocryphon in the first decade after its publication? / Moshe J. Bernstein -- The tetragrammaton in the Habakkuk Pesher / Timothy H. Lim -- Laws pertaining to purification after childbirth in the Dead Sea scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Philo and Jewish ethnicity / Erich S. Gruen -- Josephus's "Samaias-source" / Tal Ilan -- The two gentlemen of Trachonitis : a history of violence in Galilee and Rome (Josephus, Vita 112-113 and 149-154) / Duncan E. MacRae -- Why "common Judaism" does not look like Mediterranean religion / Stanley Stowers -- Paul's scriptures / Michael L. Satlow -- Galatians 6:12 on circumcision and persecution / Martin Goodman -- Early Rabbinic Midrash between Philo and Qumran / Steven D. Fraade -- Charity as a negative obligation in early Rabbinic literature / Gregg E. Gardner -- Interspecies and cross-species generation : limits and potentialities in tannaitic reproductive science / Rachel Rafael Neis -- Toward a history of Rabbinic powerlessness / Hayim Lapin -- Hair's the thing : women's hairstyle and care in ancient Jewish society / Joshua Schwartz -- Three crowns / Burton L. Visotzky -- Ahiqar and Rabbinic literature / Richard Kalmin --
Guidelines for the ideal way of life : Rabbinic Halakhah and Hellenistic practical ethics / Catherine Hezer -- Some aspects of ancient legal thought : functionalism, conceptualism, and analogy / Yaakov Elman, Mahnaz Moazami -- The role of disgust in Rabbinic ethics / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- The place of Shabbat : on the architecture of the opening Sugya of Tractate Eruvin (2a-3a) / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- An analysis of Sugyot containing the phrase Lo Savar Lah Mar in the Babylonian Talmud / Judith Hauptman -- Living on the edge : Jews, graffiti, and communal prayer in extremis / Karen B. Stern -- "Epigraphical Rabbis" in their epigraphical contexts / Jonathan J. Price -- Palaestina Secunda : the geohistorical setting for Jewish resilience and creativity in late antiquity / Lee I. Levine -- Did Constantine really prohibit (all) "conversion to Judaism" in 329? : a re-reading of Codex Theodosianus 16.8.1 / Ross S. Kraemer -- Taming the Jewish genie : John Chrysostom and the Jews of Antioch in the shadow of emperor Julian / Ari Finkelstein -- Reinventing Yavneh in Sherira's epistle : from pluralism to monism in the light of Islamicate legal culture / Yishai Kiel -- On medieval Jewish prophecy : from "Deus Vult" to "the will of the Creator" / Ivan G. Marcus -- Hitler and Antiochus, Hellenists and Rabbinerdoktoren : on Isaak Heinemann's response to Elias Bickermann, 1938 / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Abel J. Herzberg's The memoirs of King Herod : the interaction between a tragic tyrant and his subjects / Jan Willem van Henten -- Study is greater, for study leads to action / Leonard Gordon -- Dicing and divination : new approaches to gambling in Jewish history / Jonathan D. Cohen -- Bibliography on the writings of Shaye J.D. Cohen / prepared by Menachem Butler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Shaye J.D. Cohen : an appreciation / Michael L. Satlow -- Signs of poetry past : literariness in pre-biblical Hebrew literature / Edward L. Greenstein -- Prohibited bodies in Leviticus 18 / William K. Gilders -- The territoriality of YHWH in biblical texts / Saul M. Olyan -- Jerusalem in Greek and Latin literature / Isaiah M. Gafni -- No ancient Judaism / Daniel Boyarin -- Early Jewish knowledge of Greek medicine / Pieter W. van der Horst -- The problem of the hyphen and Jewish/Judean ethnic identity : the letter of Aristeas, the Septuagint, and cultural interactions / Benjamin G. Wright -- What did they see when they read the Genesis Apocryphon in the first decade after its publication? / Moshe J. Bernstein -- The tetragrammaton in the Habakkuk Pesher / Timothy H. Lim -- Laws pertaining to purification after childbirth in the Dead Sea scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Philo and Jewish ethnicity / Erich S. Gruen -- Josephus's "Samaias-source" / Tal Ilan -- The two gentlemen of Trachonitis : a history of violence in Galilee and Rome (Josephus, Vita 112-113 and 149-154) / Duncan E. MacRae -- Why "common Judaism" does not look like Mediterranean religion / Stanley Stowers -- Paul's scriptures / Michael L. Satlow -- Galatians 6:12 on circumcision and persecution / Martin Goodman -- Early Rabbinic Midrash between Philo and Qumran / Steven D. Fraade -- Charity as a negative obligation in early Rabbinic literature / Gregg E. Gardner -- Interspecies and cross-species generation : limits and potentialities in tannaitic reproductive science / Rachel Rafael Neis -- Toward a history of Rabbinic powerlessness / Hayim Lapin -- Hair's the thing : women's hairstyle and care in ancient Jewish society / Joshua Schwartz -- Three crowns / Burton L. Visotzky -- Ahiqar and Rabbinic literature / Richard Kalmin --

Guidelines for the ideal way of life : Rabbinic Halakhah and Hellenistic practical ethics / Catherine Hezer -- Some aspects of ancient legal thought : functionalism, conceptualism, and analogy / Yaakov Elman, Mahnaz Moazami -- The role of disgust in Rabbinic ethics / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein -- The place of Shabbat : on the architecture of the opening Sugya of Tractate Eruvin (2a-3a) / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- An analysis of Sugyot containing the phrase Lo Savar Lah Mar in the Babylonian Talmud / Judith Hauptman -- Living on the edge : Jews, graffiti, and communal prayer in extremis / Karen B. Stern -- "Epigraphical Rabbis" in their epigraphical contexts / Jonathan J. Price -- Palaestina Secunda : the geohistorical setting for Jewish resilience and creativity in late antiquity / Lee I. Levine -- Did Constantine really prohibit (all) "conversion to Judaism" in 329? : a re-reading of Codex Theodosianus 16.8.1 / Ross S. Kraemer -- Taming the Jewish genie : John Chrysostom and the Jews of Antioch in the shadow of emperor Julian / Ari Finkelstein -- Reinventing Yavneh in Sherira's epistle : from pluralism to monism in the light of Islamicate legal culture / Yishai Kiel -- On medieval Jewish prophecy : from "Deus Vult" to "the will of the Creator" / Ivan G. Marcus -- Hitler and Antiochus, Hellenists and Rabbinerdoktoren : on Isaak Heinemann's response to Elias Bickermann, 1938 / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Abel J. Herzberg's The memoirs of King Herod : the interaction between a tragic tyrant and his subjects / Jan Willem van Henten -- Study is greater, for study leads to action / Leonard Gordon -- Dicing and divination : new approaches to gambling in Jewish history / Jonathan D. Cohen -- Bibliography on the writings of Shaye J.D. Cohen / prepared by Menachem Butler.

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