Jewish Studies 56 (2021)

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HEBREW SECTION
Yuval Fraenkel – Between Man and Place: The Holy Man and the Temple in Stories about Ḥoni Ha`meagel, and R. Ḥanina Ben Dosa

Yosef Marcus – The Status of Persons with Physical Defects in Tannaitic Literature: A New Analysis

Michael Avioz – “It is Known that the Stag eats Snakes”: Examining the Scientific Knowledge Drawn Upon by Medieval Jewish Interpretations of Psalms 42

Abraham David – Flavius Josephus’s Writings in Sixteenth Century Jewish Historiography: The Case of Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah of Gedalyah Ibn Yaḥya

Chen Avizohar-Hagay and Yuval Harari – ‘For a Woman in a Hard Labor’: A Compilation of Magic Recipes to Deal with Labor Difficulties

Ben Landau Spinoza and the “Ecole de Paris” 161

ENGLISH SECTION

Israel Knohl – The Original Version of the Priestly Creation Account and the Religious Significance of the Number Eight in the Bible and in Early Jewish MysticismIn his influential study on Jewish mysticism, Gershom