Motifs in Literature -- Judas the Maccabee’s Dream (2 MACC. 15:11-16) and the Egyptian King’s Sickle sword -- I Enoch 56.7 -- How Plutarch Gained his Place in the Tosefta -- A Hebrew Hymn of Praise for a High-priestly Rabbinic Martyr: A Note on the Relationship between the Synagogue Liturgy and Rabbinic Literary Culture -- The Rechabites in Ma‘aseh Alexandros and in the Medieval Ben Sira -- History and Demography -- Once Again on Yael and the Aphrodisias Inscription -- The Jews of Ancient Sicily -- Cosmas of Prague and the Western Migration of Jews to Poland -- Medieval and Renaissance Thought -- Maimonides’ Disagreement with ‘The Torah’ in His Interpretation of Job -- From Digression to Compilation: Samuel ibn Tibbon and Immanuel of Rome on Genesis 1:11, 1:14, and 1:20 -- An Unexpected Source of Meir Aldabi’s Shevile Emunah -- The Image of the Black in Yohanan Alemanno’s Hai ha-‘Olamim: Additional Evidence -- Neutral or Natural Relater? Some Remarks on Rabbi Leone da Modena’s Historia de Riti Hebraici -- Haskalah -- What’s in a Name? Conceptions of Hebrew as Reflected by the Titles of Hebrew Grammars -- ‘Biqqure ha-‘Ittim Are the First Fruits …Which Include Some Nice Things and Matters of Knowledge and Benefit’: The Hebrew Periodical of the Haskalah in Galicia -- Within Orthodoxy -- The Magic of Halakhah.A Study in the Ritual of Washing Hands in the Morning after Rising as Described in the Shulhan ‘Arukh (OH 4) -- From Frankfurt to Jerusalem: Horev School. A Special Approach in the Israeli Religious School System.