Jewish Studies 55 (2020)

Full Table of Contents

Abstracts

List of Articles:

Michael Schneider z”l – The Liturgical Roots of the Kabbalistic Concept of ‟Unification”

Eliyahu Rosenfeld – “One Must Speak with Silence”: The Function of Silence in Virginity Claim Stories from the Babylonian Talmud

Richard Hidary – The Talmud as Rhetorical Exercise: Progymnasmata and Controversiae in Rabbinic Literature

Eli Gurfinkel – The Order and Structure of the List of the Maimonidean Principles: Between Form and Meaning

Hagay Shtamler – “The Course of Ideas in Israel” as a Response to Wissenschaft des Judentums”

Book Reviews:

Uziel Fuchs – Review of Yaacov Sussmann, Oral Law Taken Literally: The Power of the Tip of a Yod, Jerusalem: Magnes, 2019

Tamar Kadari – Review of Marc Hirshman, Midrash Kohelet Rabbah 1-6: A Critical Edition, Jerusalem: Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, 2016