Gives a detailed analysis of etymological issues: citations of sources and translations chronologically and semantically arranged, Hellenistic, Roman and juristic papyrological sources compared, phonology and morphology of rabbinic Graecitas and its dialectological characteristics. So unusual and rich a treatment is not to be found in any earlier rabbinic lexicon
מילון זה מגיש בפני קהל המלומדים , העוסקים בתחומים שונים, ספר ייעוץ בסיסי ומפורט על המונחים המשפטיים מיווני—
The present collection of articles covers a wide range of topics including Aramean history, Aramaic language, literature and paleography. New texts in Egyptian Aramaic, Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, and the modern Aramaic dialect of the Kurdish Jews are published here for the first time.
This book will be of value to all those interested in the history of the Ancient Near East, Semitic languages, and Jewish Studies.
Conversion (giyyur), the way in which a gentile converts to the Jewish faith, has profound legal significance. This book is a comprehensive halakhic and legal research of conversion in Jewish law, and aims to reach a full understanding of its essence. The work encompasses the entire body of halakhic literature and reviews the actual employment of the principles of proselytism as discussed in the Responsa literature.
English edition of the Hebrew book Proselytism: Halakhah and Practice
Points of contact between rabbinic Judaism and Hellenistic Roman culture are examined. Greco-Roman Hellenistic motifs are discovered in rabbinic sources while authentically Hebrew-rabbinic magical formulae are shown to be present in Greek papyrological material.
From the series ``Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture``.
An attempt to collect and interpret all Palestinian and rabbinic data pertaining to nautical matters and correlate them with contemporary literary and archaeological evidence.
From the series ``Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture``.
Co-published with Brill, Leiden.
A monograph on one of the great scholars who was a central figure in the critical period following the destruction of the Second Temple. Emphasizing the impact of Rabbi Eliezer`s Halakhot, Professor Gilat vividly reconstructs the evolution of the Halakhah since then.
From the series ``Bar-Ilan Studies in Near
Eastern Languages and Culture``.
מונוגרפיה על דמות מרכזית בעולם התורה של ארץ-ישראל, בתקופת המעבר הגורלית
שלאחר חורבן בית שני. תקופה זו עמדה בסי–
This volume examines a crucial period in Roman economic history in the light of contemporary evidence drawn from the vast corpus of rabbinic literature.
הספר מתאר את המצב המוניטרי בארץ-ישראל במאה השלישית והרביעית על רקע
האינפלציה באימפריה הרומית.
בסדרת ``מחקרי בר-אילן במזרח התיכון ובתרבותו``.
This volume describes the major ``rites of passage`` of the Jewish life cycle. From
birth, through circumcision, to marriage, divorce, sickness, death and mourning, Daniel Sperber presents detailed descriptions of the major customs attending these events. These customs are examined in light of their original sources, their integration and evolution in varying Jewish communities, and the popular explanations given for their practice, both historically and today.
This book draws on the whole spectrum of rabbinic literature, comparing its stories and explanations with folk beliefs of other cultures throughout the world. Sperber makes use of a wide range of resources - medieval and modern, legal, folkloristic, anthropological and literary - in his discussion of customs, proving that Jewish communities were never isolated from their environment. He also examines in depth the earliest origins of many of our well-known and commonly practiced Jewish customs.
This book makes use of iconograp
A study of the geo-historical distribution of all the loan types as well as of the individual clauses used in the Old Babylonian loan con-tract (c. 1900-1600 B.C.E). It is shown that loan types as well as individual formulas have a limited geographical and historical distribution. Further, it is shown that changes that occur during the lifespan of a formula, e.g., changes of interest rate or modes of guaranteeing loans, are also bounded historically and geographically.
From the series ``Bar-Ilan Studies in Near
Eastern Languages and Culture``.
ספר זה בוחן את התפוצה הגאוגרפית וההיסטורית של סוגי חוזי המלווה המסופוטמי
The Yerushalmi Talmud continues to be one of the most important and most neglected books on the Jewish bookshelf. The book ``Exploring Ta`aniot`` examines one of its tractates from a literary point of view. Based on the assumption that the Yerushalmi Talmud, as we know it, is a result of a redacting process, this study analyses the characteristics of this process.
The book comprises two parts: Chapters 1-3 deal with the voices heard in the Talmudic tradition, and the remaining chapters delve into the redaction itself.
The first chapter focuses on the sayings of the amoraim according to their generations. It describes a connection between the language they used and the subjects they dealt with, in a process of changes from Mishnaic Hebrew in the first two generations to the mixture of languages, dominated by Syrian Aramaic, in the last two generations.
The two voices examined in chapters 2 and 3 are anonymous. The author tries to distinguish between the voice inherent to any given t
