Studies in Hebrew Language and Jewish Culture (eBook) von Martin F.J. Baasten

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 (15501616).- 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 Adams Tomb.- From Perush to Beur.- Love of Ones Neighbour in Pinhas Hurwitzs Sefer ha-Berit.- The Value of Julius Guttmanns Die Philosophie des Judentums for Understanding Medieval Jewish Philosophy Today.- Moses Mendelssohns Conception of Judaism.

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.