Beloved David -- advisor, man of understanding, and writer : a festschrift in honor of David Stern / edited by Naftali S. Cohn and Katrin Kogman-Appel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohn, Naftali S., author, editor.

Kogman-Appel, Katrin, author, editor.

Contributor:

Stern, David, 1949- honouree.

Series:

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 373.

Brown Judaic studies ; number 373

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.

Bible.

Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Talmud.

Jewish literature--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Hebrew literature--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 752 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2024]

Summary:

"An exploration of Jewish literary creativity honoring David Stern. This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1, contributors consider texts as literature, as cultural products, and as historical documents to demonstrate the many ways that early Jewish, rabbinic, and modern secular Jewish literary works make meaning and can be read meaningfully. Part 2 focuses on exegesis of specific biblical and rabbinic texts as well as medieval Jewish poetry. Part 3 examines medieval and early modern Jewish books as material objects and explores the history, functions, and reception of these material objects. Contributors include Javier del Barco, Elisheva Carlebach, Ezra Chwat, Evelyn M. Cohen, Naftali S. Cohn, William Cutter, Yaacob Dweck, Talya Fishman, Steven D. Fraade, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Martha Himmelfarb, Marc Hirshman, Tamar Kadari, Israel Knohl, Susanne Klingenstein, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jon D. Levenson, Paul Mandel, Annett Martini, Jordan S. Penkower, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Seth Schwartz, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Peter Stallybrass, Josef Stern, Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Elliot R. Wolfson, Azzan Yadin-Israel, and Joseph Yahalom." -- from back cover.

Contents:

Joseph's enslavement of the Egyptians: theological and literary dimensions and the difference they make / Jon D. Levenson

Pseudepigrapha, Authorship, and the anthological temper in Second Temple Judaism / Annette Yoshiko Reed

Affect and Ritual in the Mishnah / Naftali S. Cohn

Quotation, Ha'omer davar beshem omro, and the very idea of intellectual property in rabbinic Judaism / Josef Stern

The Jews and the Decian persecution, 250 CE / Seth Schwartz

The different senses of polysemy / Azzan Yadin-Israel

Messages from the emperor: the interpretive and rhetorical functions of four Meshalim in Vayikra Rabbah / Moshe Simon-Shoshan

Apophasis and the parabolic garment of truth in Moses Maimonides and Meister Eckhart / Elliot R. Wolfson

The importance of matter in Profet Duran's Ma'aseh Efod and in Catalan Jewish thought / Talya Fishman

Biography as battleground: R. N. N. Rabbinovicz (1835-1888), author of Diqduqe Sofrim / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer

An exchange of letters between Gershom Scholem and Judah Goldin / Yaacob Dweck

Representing experience: Yehuda Amichai carries the Mashal forward / William Cutter

Suffering God, suffering Messiah, and biblical variants / Israel Knohl

The Mishnah and its society: the case of tractate Ta'anit / Steven D. Fraade

The story-cycle in Bavli Shabbat 127b / Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

A provocative passage in Midrash Psalms and the history of the Jewish book / Marc Hirshman

The eschatological calendar of Sefer Zerubbabel / Martha Himmelfarb

Al-Ḥarizi's prayer to Moses / Raymond P. Scheindlin

Editors and editions of Diwan Yehuda ha-Levi / Joseph Yahalom

Solomon b. Samuel Halevy: a Genizah scribe in the court of Maimonides / Ezra Chwat

On the typology of medieval Hebrew Bibles: new insights / Javier del Barco

A tale of two regions: between Castile and Catalonia / Dalia-Ruth Halperin

Imagining the lost temple: the brothers Joshua and Shem Tov Ibn Gaon / Sarit Shalev-Eyni

Codex Warsaw 258: a one-volume library / Tamar Kadari

The Art of the Schottenstein Italian Mahzor of 1441: a preliminary study / Evelyn M. Cohen

The erasable Ten Commandments: the decalogue as wax tablets / Peter Stallybrass

Material memory: aspects of Jewish communal recordkeeping in early modern Ashkenaz / Elisheva Carlebach

What the glosses are telling us: Latin and German commentaries within the Erfurt Bible Codex MS or. fol. 1212 / Annett Martini

In the workshop of a scholar and anthologist: the search for the Jerusalem Talmud and the evolution of the first edition of Ein Ya'aqov, ca. 1516 / Paul Mandel

The influence of Kabbalah on the rabbinic Bible of Venice 1525 / Jordan S. Penkower

Grooming Yiddish for print: from vernacular beginnings to the craftsmanship of Elia Levita and Michael Adam in 1541 and 1546 / Susanne Klingenstein

The bookcases of the Sullam family: dynamics of book collecting in Mantua, ca. 1600 / Katrin Kogman-Appel

Ben Porat Yosef: the figure of Joseph in the folklore and art of Sephardic Jewry and the Jews of Muslim lands / Shalom Sabar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

ISBN:

9781951498986

1951498984

9781951498979

1951498976

OCLC:

1437801143