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Contents of Volume 60, Issue 2, Autumn 2009

Jonathan V. Dauber
‘Pure Thought’ in R. Abraham bar Hiyya and Early Kabbalah
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Martin Goodman
Religious Variety and the Temple in the Late Second Temple Period and its Aftermath
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Aron Pinker
Qohelet 6:9—It Looks Better than it Tastes
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Joan E. Taylor
‘Roots, Remedies and Properties of Stones’: The Essenes, Qumran and Dead Sea Pharmacology
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Naftali S. Cohn
Rabbis as Jurists: On the Representation of Past and Present Legal Institutions in the Mishnah
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Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Sexualising the Evil Inclination: Rabbinic ‘Yetzer’ and Modern Scholarship
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Itamar Kislev
The Relationship between the Torah Commentaries Composed by R. Abraham Ibn Ezra in France and the Significance of this Relationship for the Biographical Chronology of the Commentator
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Avraham (Rami) Reiner
Rabbinical Courts in France in the Twelfth Century: Centralisation and Dispersion
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BOOK REVIEWS

Øystein Lund
Way Metaphors and Way Topics in Isaiah 40-55
Reviewer: H. G. M. Williamson
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Hélène Nutkowicz
L'homme face à la mort au royaume de Juda: Rites pratiques et représentations
Reviewer: Alan Millard
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Stephanie Dalley
Esther’s Revenge at Susa: From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus
Reviewer: Jonathan Stökl
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Tessa Rajak
Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers
Reviewer: Judith Lieu
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Alex P. Jassen
Mediating the Divine: Prophecy and Revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism
Reviewer: Julie A. Hughes
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Hillel Newman, Ruth Ludlam
Proximity to Power and Jewish Sectarian Groups of the Ancient Period: A Review of Lifestyle, Values, and Halakhah in the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran
Reviewer: Charlotte Hempel
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Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert, Jürgen Zangenberg
Qumran: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Archaeological Interpretations and Debates
Reviewer: Charlotte Hempel
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Tessel M. Jonquière
Prayer in Josephus
Reviewer: Eileen M. Schuller
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Naomi G. Cohen
Philo’s Scriptures: Citations from the Prophets and Writings. Evidence for a Haftarah Cycle in Second Temple Judaism
Reviewer: Ellen Birnbaum
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Magnus Zetterholm
The Messiah in Early Judaism and Christianity
Reviewer: Roland Deines
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Eric F. Mason
‘You are a Priest Forever’: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Reviewer: John J. Collins
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Serge Ruzer
Mapping the New Testament: Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis
Reviewer: George J. Brooke
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Stefan Reif
Problems with Prayers: Studies in the Textual History of Early Rabbinic Liturgy
Reviewer: Ruth Langer
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Katharina Bracht, David S. du Toit
Die Geschichte der Daniel-Auslegung in Judentum, Christentum und Islam: Studien zur Kommentierung des Danielbuches in Literatur und Kunst
Reviewer: Heinz-Dieter Neef
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Richard Alston, Samuel N. C. Lieu
Aspects of the Roman East: Papers in Honour of Professor Fergus Millar FBA
Reviewer: Joan E. Taylor
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Accordance 8 Bible Software. Jewish Collection
Reviewer: John Starr
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Reviewer: John Starr
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James H. Charlesworth
Jesus and Archaeology
Reviewer: Simon Gathercole
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A. Maman, S. E. Fassberg, Y. Breuer
Sha̔arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Languages Presented to Moshe Bar-Asher
Reviewer: Martin F. J. Baasten
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S. Shepkaru
Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds
Reviewer: William Horbury
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Julius Heinrich Petermann
The Great Treasure or Great Book Commonly Called ‘The Book of Adam’: The Mandaeans’ Work of Highest Authority , with a New Introduction by Charles Häberl
Reviewer: Steven E. Fassberg
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S. D. Goitein, Mordechai Akiva Friedman
India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (‘India Book’)
Reviewer: Stefan C. Reif
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Marina Rustow
Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimide Caliphate
Reviewer: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
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Jonathan Elukin
Living Together Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish–Christian Relations in the Middle Ages
Reviewer: Pinchas Roth
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Dean Phillip Bell
Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Community
Reviewer: Tobias Brinkmann
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Marc Zvi Brettler
How to Read the Jewish Bible
Reviewer: Stefan C. Reif
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Dale F. Launderville
Spirit and Reason: The Embodied Character of Ezekiel’s Symbolic Thinking
Reviewer: P. J. Harland
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Sebastian Brock
An Introduction to Syriac Studies , revised 2nd edn
Reviewer: John G. Snaith
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Giṭṭin—Scheidebriefe (Übersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi III/5)
Reviewer: Catherine Hezser
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Joseph Alobaidi
The Book of Daniel: The Commentary of R. Saadia Gaon: Edition and Translation
Reviewer: Ronny Vollandt
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Gilbert Dahan, Élie Nicolas
L’Expulsion des juifs de France 1394
Reviewer: Miri Rubin
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Robert Paul Magocsi, Ivan Pop
Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture , revised and expanded edition
Reviewer: Yeshayahu A. Jelínek
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David A. Brenner
German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka’s Kitsch
Reviewer: Bram Mertens
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Books Received
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