| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 532 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jaqueline S. du Toit, Jason Kalman, Hartley Lachter, Vanessa R. Sasson -- Of sons and students / David, Jonathan, Daniel Levy -- Text, texture, context, pretext : biography of a professor, educator, mentor, researcher / Deborah Abecassis -- Body of work -- Diviners in high places : on interpreting the night skies of the ancient Near East / Andrea D. Lobel -- Hate in early rabbinic traditions / Joel Gereboff -- Naming names : the meaning and significance of disputes and the use of attributions to named authorities in Mishnah / Jack N. Lighstone -- A Cairo Genizah fragment of Genesis Rabbah from the collection of McGill University / Jason Kalman and students of 135-535A : exegetical Midrash (McGill University, 2000) -- Between narrative and exegesis : [myd] in Midrash Genesis Rabbah / Shawn Zelig Aster -- Stories of excess : Abraham and Vessantara / Vanessa R. Sasson -- Taking stock of the text(s) of Rashi's Torah commentary : some twenty-first century considerations and the case for Leipzig I / Yedida Eisenstat -- The Earth is only for the strong : interpretations of b. Sanhedrin 58b in high medieval Europe / Jesse Abelman -- Radak's preemptive exegesis : concealed and revealed polemic in the Book of Kings / Bryna Jochaved Levy -- The Maharshal and two inverted "nun"s / Sholom Eisenstat -- An anonymous commentary on the ten Sefirot : text and translation / Hartley Lachter -- David Zvi Hoffmann versus Julius Wellhausen on the age of the Day of Atonement / Carla Sulzbach -- Fixing God's Torah in small caps : children's Bibles, Bible scholarship, and contemporary Judaism / Jaqueline S. du Toit -- Out of the caves and under glass : the politics of exhibiting the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jason Kalman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2019) |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Hermeneutics
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013769
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
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Judaism -- History.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
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Hermeneutics
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Judaism
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Rabbinical literature
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Levy, Barry B., 1945- honouree.
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Du Toit, Jaqueline S., editor.
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Kalman, Jason, 1974- editor.
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Lachter, Hartley, 1974- editor.
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Sasson, Vanessa R., editor
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| ISBN |
9780878201655 |
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0878201653 |
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