Studies in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture Presented to Albert van der Heide on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Title:
Studies in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture Presented to Albert van der Heide on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Author:
Baasten, Martin F. J. editor.
ISBN:
9781402062025
Physical Description:
X, 321 p. online resource.
Series:
Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought ; 12
Contents:
Abraham ibn Ezra and the Twelfth-Century European Renaissance -- New Catalogues for Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts? -- An Early Hebrew-Greek Bible Glossary from the Cairo Genizah and its Significance for the Study of Jewish Bible Translations into Greek -- A Jewish Childbirth Amulet for a Girl -- The Riddle of the Baskets of 1726 -- Laments at the Departure of a Sage -- The Treatise on the Patriarch Henoch by Johannes Drusius (1550–1616) -- Unusual Verbal Forms in the Book of Proverbs and Semantic Disambiguation -- First Things First -- The Targumic Versions of the Martyrdom of Isaiah -- ‘The Emperor of Poets’ -- Philosophy and Kabbalah in the Eighteenth Century -- Buildings in the Love Poems by Yehuda Amichai -- A Note about Two Newly-Discovered Hebrew Quotations of Averroes’ Works Lost in their Original Arabic Texts -- The Site of Adam’s Tomb -- From Perush to Be’ur -- Love of One’s Neighbour in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Berit -- The Value of Julius Guttmann’s Die Philosophie des Judentums for Understanding Medieval Jewish Philosophy Today -- Moses Mendelssohn’s Conception of Judaism.
Abstract:
The articles presented here include studies in Rabbinics, Classical Hebrew linguistics, early Hebrew-Greek glossary, Hebrew manuscripts, Medieval and Modern Hebrew literature, Medieval and Early-Modern interpretation of Scripture, Medieval and Early-Modern Jewish philosophy, Hebrew book print in the 18th century, and Jewish Enlightenment. The articles cover a substantial part of the fields included in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and offer a fine example of the wealth and variety of the present day academic study of Hebrew, Judaism, and Jewish culture.
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Electronic Access:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6202-5