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'An important voice' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

Contents of Volume 59, Issue 2, Autumn 2008

Adiel Schremer
‘The Lord Has Forsaken the Land’: Radical Explanations of the Military and Political Defeat of the Jews in Tannaitic Literature
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Jodi Magness
The Arch of Titus at Rome and the Fate of the God of Israel
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Finn Damgaard
Brothers in Arms: Josephus’ Portrait of Moses in the ‘Jewish Antiquities’ in the Light of His Own Self-Portraits in the ‘Jewish War’ and the ‘Life’
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Nikos Kokkinos
The Foundation of Bethsaida-Julias by Philip the Tetrarch
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Matthew E. Gordley
Creation Imagery in Qumran Hymns and Prayers
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Tamar Zewi
Nominal Clauses in the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Lea Himmelfarb
The Link Between the Jewish–Christian Polemic and the Masorah Notes in Rashi’s Bible Commentary
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Daphne Freedman
Pseudepigraphy in the ‘Zohar’
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BOOK REVIEWS

Robert Gordon
The God of Israel
Reviewer: H. G. M. Williamson
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Oded Lipshits, Gary N. Knoppers, Rainier Albertz
Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century BCE
Reviewer: Nina L. Collins
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M. Bockmuehl, J. Carleton Paget
Redemption and Resistance. The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
Reviewer: Michael A. Knibb
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Susan Brayford
Genesis
Reviewer: J. M. Dines
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L. LiDonnici, A. Lieber
Heavenly Tablets. Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism
Reviewer: Michael E. Stone
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Andrea M. Berlin
Gamla, I. The Pottery of the Second Temple Period
Reviewer: Kathleen Warner Slane
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Yaakov Y. Teppler
Birkat haMinim. Jews and Christians in Conflict in the Ancient World
Reviewer: Stefan C. Reif
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Alexander Samely
Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought. An Introduction
Reviewer: Catherine Hezser
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Richard Kalmin
Jewish Babylonia Between Persia and Roman Palestine
Reviewer: Helen Spurling
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David Milson
Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine. In the Shadow of the Church
Reviewer: Nicholas de Lange
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Maureen Bloom
Jewish Mysticism and Magic. An Anthropological Perspective
Reviewer: Ann Conway-Jones
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B. L. Sherwin
Kabbalah. An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
Reviewer: Frederico Dal Bo
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M. Kellner
Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism
Reviewer: Frederico Dal Bo
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D. J. Halperin
Sabbatai Zevi. Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah
Reviewer: Frederico Dal Bo
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M. Altshuler
The Messianic Secret of Hasidism
Reviewer: Frederico Dal Bo
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R. Elior
The Mystical Origins of Hasidism
Reviewer: Frederico Dal Bo
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Dvora Bregman
The Golden Way. The Hebrew Sonnet During the Renaissance and the Baroque
Reviewer: Susan L. Einbinder
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M. B. Biskupski, A. Polonsky
Polish-Jewish Relations in North America
Reviewer: Tobias Brinkmann
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Roni Stauber
The Holocaust in Israel Public Debate in the 1950s
Reviewer: William D. Rubinstein
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Fred Skolnik
Encyclopaedia Judaica , vols 1-22, hard-copy set
Reviewer: Jonathan G. Campbell
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Fred Skolnik
Encyclopaedia Judaica , vols 1-22, electronic version
Reviewer: Jonathan G. Campbell
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Lester L. Grabbe
Ancient Israel. What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
Reviewer: Charlotte Hempel
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Emanuel Tov
The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library
Reviewer: Charlotte Hempel
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David Flusser
Judaism of the Second Temple Period , volume 1: Qumran and Apocalypticism
Reviewer: Charlotte Hempel
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William Loader
Enoch, Aramaic Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality. Attitudes Toward Sexuality in Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees
Reviewer: Betsy Halpern-Amaru
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Theodore L. Steinberg
Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages
Reviewer: Nicholas de Lange
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Daniel Lasker
Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages
Reviewer: Nicholas de Lange
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Peter Cole
The Dream of the Poem. Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Reviewer: Nicholas de Lange
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Joseph Dan
Kabbalah. A Very Short Introduction
Reviewer: Daniel Davies
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Books Received
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