Mezukak Shivatayim : Studies in Jewish Life and Literature in Honor of Bernard Septimus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breuer, Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Septimus, Bernard, 1932-.

Rabbinical literature.

Jewish philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Septimus, Bernard, 1932-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2026.

Summary:

The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus's writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture, Jewish thought and literature, and Jewish communities in their Christian and Muslim contexts from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Rabbinic Cultures and Communities

1. "The 12th Century Controversy Over Sefer ha-Maʾor: A Cultural Misunderstanding That Went Unnoticed"

2. Hassagot: A Neglected Genre and Its Place in Jewish Biblical Scholarship in Late Medieval Byzantium

3. The Engulfing Flood: Rhetoric, Law and Precedent in a Renaissance Italian Responsum

4. Shatzmiller Reconsidered: Images of Jewish Usury in Renaissance Italy*

5. A Jewish Critique of Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Notes on the Old Spanish Bible of Moshe Arragel

6. The Significance of Aura Perception for the Community of Sixteenth-Century Safed

7. The Limits of Holocaust Commemoration: Why No Fast Day Was Established

Jewish Thought and Literature

8. The Holy Land in Early Karaite Exegesis

9. For Whom Did Saadia Gaon Write His Commentaries on the Torah?

10. Maimonides on Conviction (iʿtiqād) and Faith/Trust (īmān, emunah)

11. Maimonides and Intellectual Humility

12. Kabbalah and the Controversy over Philosophic Study (1304-1306)

13. Cats, Dogs, and Sefer Malchiel: Referent and Plausible Explanation in Medieval Midrashic Literalism

14. Creative Exegesis in Immanuel of Rome's Cut-and-Paste Patchwork Commentary on Ecclesiastes

15. Halakhah, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Three Early Hasidic Works.

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ISBN:

0-674-30425-X

0-674-30426-8

9780674304260

OCLC:

1579270177