To fix Torah in their hearts : essays on biblical interpretation and Jewish studies in honor of B. Barry Levy /

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Imprint:Cincinnati, Ohio : Hebrew Union College Press, [2018]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12343728
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Other authors / contributors:Levy, Barry B., 1945- honouree.
Du Toit, Jaqueline S., editor.
Kalman, Jason, 1974- editor.
Lachter, Hartley, 1974- editor.
Sasson, Vanessa R., editor.
ISBN:9780878201655
0878201653
9780878201648
0878201645
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2019).
Other form:Print version: 9780878201648 0878201645
Table of Contents:
  • Of sons and students
  • Text, texture, context, pretext: biography of a professor, educator, mentor, researcher
  • Body of work
  • Diviners in high places: on interpreting the niht skies of the ancient Near East
  • Hate in early Rabbinic traditions
  • Naming names: the meaning and significance of disputes and the use of attributions to Named authorities in Mishnah
  • A Cairo Genizah fragment of Genesis Rabbah from the collection of McGill University
  • Between narrative and exegesis [Hebrew word] in Midrash Genesis Rabbah
  • Stories of excess: Abraham and Vessantara
  • Taking stock of the text(s) of Rashi's Torah commentary: some twenty-first century considerations and the case for Leipzig I
  • "The earth is only for the strong": interpretations of b. Sanhedrin 58b in High Medieval Europe
  • Radak's preemptive exegesis: concealed and revealed polemic in the Book of Kings
  • The Maharshal and two inverted 'nuns'
  • An anonymous commentary on the ten Sefirot: text and translation
  • David Zvi Hoffmann versus Julius Wellhousen on the Age of the Day of Atonement
  • Fixing God's Torah in small caps: children's Bibles, Bible scholarship, and contemporary Judaism
  • Out of the caves and under glass: the politics of exhibiting the Dead Sea Scrolls.