Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Mo'ed - Annual for Jewish Studies" <moed AT beitberl.ac.il>]

Mo'ed - Annual for Jewish Studies

The Center for Jewish Culture at Beit Berl College is pleased to announce the 
publication of Volume 18 (2008) of Mo'ed - Annual for Jewish Studies (New 
Series 6). This is the sixth volume of Mo'ed, which both continues and 
replaces our previous annual, Mehqere Hag - A Journal of Jewish Culture.
Mo'ed is a refereed annual devoted to all branches and periods of Jewish 
Studies, and welcomes original contributions in these fields in both Hebrew 
and English. Mo'ed publishes English abstracts of all the Hebrew articles, 
including review essays, and vice versa. These abstracts may be viewed at our 
website. 'Guidelines for Contributors" appear at the beginning of each volume 
of Mo'ed. Referees are chosen from among scholars, both Israeli and foreign, 
specializing in the fields to which the articles pertain.
You are invited to submit/renew your subscription to the new series. A 
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The contents of Vol. 18 are listed below.


English Section

Shlomo E. Glicksberg     The Tree as a Hazard: the Evolvement of a Halakhah   
  

Remy Landau               A Rapid Search for All the Day Counts in Any Hebrew 
Year Span

 

Book Reviews

Lawrence Besserman    On: Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses: A 
Translation with

                                       Commentary

Athalya Brenner            On: David. E. S. Stein (ed.), The Contemporary 
Torah: A Gender-

                                       Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS 
Translation

English Abstracts

 

Hebrew Section

Gali Dinnur                  The Story of Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:1-16): The 
Supreme Value of

                                    Human Life

Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg      Was Lot a Good Host? 

Hanan Eshel                 Forty Years of Research on the Temple Scroll 
(11QTemple)

Yaakov Y. Teppler        "Do not Give the Minim an Occasion to Cavil": The 
Temple in the Jewish-Christian Polemic during the Tannaitic Period

Yair Schlein                  Achnai's Stove as a Sort of Tragedy

Abraham O. Shemesh   "That a Person Might Use the Skins of His Father and 
Mother as

                                    Spreads": The Uses of Human Skin in 
Ancient Material Culture

Yehoshafat Nevo          Redeeming the Shekhinah and the Jewish People 
according to R. Ze'ev of Zhitomir

Oded Shay                    Botanical Museums and Collections in Late 
Ottoman Palestine: A Stratum of Zionist Activities in Modern-Day Scientific 
Research

Rema Manor                 The Addressor's Position in Expository Texts

 

Book Reviews

Victor A. Hurowitz        On: International Review of Biblical Studies, 
Volume 52 (2005-2006), ed. Bernhard Lang

Oded Lipschits              On: Yonina Dor, The Theme of the Foreign Women in 
Ezra-Nehemiah (Hebrew)

Harry Fox                     On: Shilamit Valler and Shalom Razabi, Small 
Talk in the Babylonian Talmud

Gad Sagiv                     On: Marcin Wodziński, Haskalah and Hasidism in 
the Kingdom of Poland: A History of Conflict

Shalom Carmy              On: Reuven Gerber, The Enlightenment Revolution

Michael Feige               On: Yossi Dahan and Henry Wasserman (eds.), To 
Invent a Nation

Eli Yassif                      On: Dan Ben-Amos (ed.), Folktales of the 
Jews. Vol. 1: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion

Hebrew Abstracts

 

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