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The contributors and editors dedicate this volume of research to Professor Stefan C. Reif on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Together these twenty papers reflect our appreciation for his exemplary scholarship and lifelong commitment to acquaint our world with the theological and cultural riches of Jewish Studies.This collection reflects the breadth of Prof. Reif's interests insofar as it is a combination of Second Temple studies and Jewish studies on the roots of Jewish prayer and liturgy which is his main field of expertise. Contributions on biblical and second temple studies cover Amos, Ben Sira, Esther, 2 Maccabees, Judith, Wisdom, Qumran Psalms, and James. Contributions on Jewish studies cover nuptial and benedictions after meals, Adon Olam, Passover Seder, Amidah, the Medieval Palestinian Tefillat ha-Shir, and other aspects of rabbinic liturgy.Moreover, the regional diversity of scholars from Israel, continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland and North America mirrors Stefan's travels as a lecturer and the reach of his publications. The volume includes a foreword of appreciation and a bibliographic list of Professor Reif's works.

Prayer --- Judaism. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Prayer. --- Second Temple studies. --- liturgy. --- rabbinic Judaism.

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"In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern western world? Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because they were unusually well-prepared for it by their religion--in particular, Rabbinic Judaism, or the Judaism of the rabbis. Rooted in the Talmud, this form of Judaism instilled in Jews key values that paved the way for success in modern western society: autonomy, freedom of thought, worldliness, and education. The book carefully analyses the evolution of these four values over the past two thousand years in order to demonstrate that they had a longer and richer history in Jewish culture than in western culture. The book thus disputes the common assumption that Rabbinic Judaism was always an obstacle to Jews becoming modern. It demonstrates that while modern Jews rejected aspects of Rabbinic Judaism, they also retained some of its values, and these values in particular led to Jewish success. Written for a broad range of readers, Jews, Judaism, and Success provides unique insights on the meaning of success and how it is achieved in the modern world."--

Jews --- Judaism. --- Success --- Values --- Jewish ethics. --- Civilization. --- Religious aspects --- Talmud. --- Einstein. --- Freud. --- Golda Meir. --- Jewish achievement. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish success. --- Jews. --- Marx. --- Rabbinic Judaism. --- education. --- jewish culture in the western world. --- modern Jews. --- success. --- values of Judaism.

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Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources--archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin--she challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development. Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Of these, rabbinic Judaism was the most successful, becoming the classical form of the religion. Through ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers, Peskowitz re-examines this critical moment in Jewish history and presents a feminist interpretation in which gender takes center stage. She shows how notions of female and male were developed by the rabbis of Roman Palestine and why the distinctions were so important in the formation of their religious and legal tradition. Rabbinic attention to women, men, sexuality, and gender took place within the "ordinary tedium of everyday life, in acts that were both familiar and mundane." While spinners and weavers performed what seemed like ordinary tasks, their craft was in fact symbolic of larger gender and sexual issues, which Peskowitz deftly explicates. Her study of ancient spinning and her abundant source material will set new standards in the fields of gender studies, Jewish studies, and cultural studies.

Sex in rabbinical literature --- Women in rabbinical literature --- Textile crafts in rabbinical literature --- Rabbinical literature --- Sex role --- Judaism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Women in the Talmud --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Sex in rabbinical literature. --- Textile crafts in rabbinical literature. --- Women in rabbinical literature. --- History and criticism. --- Judaism. --- challenges traditional assumptions. --- classic form of religion. --- critical moment in jewish history. --- destruction of jerusalem temple. --- feminist interpretation. --- judaisms historical development. --- new incarnations of judaism. --- rabbinic judaism. --- rabbis of roman palestine. --- study of ancient spinning. --- understanding of early rabbinic judaism.

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In late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape its own identity. In The Jewish Jesus, Peter Schäfer reveals the crucial ways in which various Jewish heresies, including Christianity, affected the development of rabbinic Judaism. He even shows that some of the ideas that the rabbis appropriated from Christianity were actually reappropriated Jewish ideas. The result is a demonstration of the deep mutual influence between the sister religions, one that calls into question hard and fast distinctions between orthodoxy and heresy, and even Judaism and Christianity, during the first centuries CE.

Messiah --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- History of doctrines. --- History. --- Relations --- Christianity --- Adam myth. --- Adam. --- Baby Messiah. --- Babylonian Jewry. --- Babylonian Jews. --- Babylonian Talmud. --- Bavli. --- Book of Revelation. --- Christian Messiah. --- Christianity. --- Christians. --- Christological interpretations. --- Daniel exegesis. --- David Apocalypse. --- Elohim. --- Enoch-Metatron. --- Ephraim. --- Gentiles. --- God's Son. --- God-Father. --- God-Son. --- God. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hekhalot literature. --- Holy Spirit. --- Israel. --- Jerusalem Talmud. --- Jewish Messiah. --- Jewish faith. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Lesser God. --- Messiah. --- MessiahЋing David. --- Metatron. --- New Testament. --- Palestinian Judaism. --- Palestinian midrash. --- Rav Idith. --- Roman Empire. --- Torah revelation. --- YHWH. --- Young God. --- ancient Judaism. --- angels. --- contemporary Judaism. --- creation story. --- creation. --- divine figure. --- divine power. --- divine powers. --- expiatory suffering. --- family background. --- heresy. --- heretics. --- late antiquity. --- makro-anthropos. --- midrashim. --- old God. --- orthodoxy. --- pagans. --- rabbinic Judaism. --- rabbinic identity. --- rabbinic literature. --- rabbis. --- redemption. --- suffering Messiah. --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Religion

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Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Looking at how Jewish settlements in the early modern period were linked to one another in fascinating ways, he shows how Jews were communicating with each other and were more aware of their economic, social, and religious connections than ever before. Ruderman explores five crucial and powerful characteristics uniting Jewish communities: a mobility leading to enhanced contacts between Jews of differing backgrounds, traditions, and languages, as well as between Jews and non-Jews; a heightened sense of communal cohesion throughout all Jewish settlements that revealed the rising power of lay oligarchies; a knowledge explosion brought about by the printing press, the growing interest in Jewish books by Christian readers, an expanded curriculum of Jewish learning, and the entrance of Jewish elites into universities; a crisis of rabbinic authority expressed through active messianism, mystical prophecy, radical enthusiasm, and heresy; and the blurring of religious identities, impacting such groups as conversos, Sabbateans, individual converts to Christianity, and Christian Hebraists. In describing an early modern Jewish culture, Early Modern Jewry reconstructs a distinct epoch in history and provides essential background for understanding the modern Jewish experience.

Europe -- Intellectual life. --- Jewish learning and scholarship -- Europe. --- Jews -- Europe -- History. --- Jews -- History -- 70-1789. --- Jews -- Intellectual life. --- Jews -- Social networks -- Europe -- History. --- Judaism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800. --- Judaism -- History Judaism -- Europe -- History Rabbis -- Biography. --- Rabbis -- Biography. --- Jews --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Judaism --- Rabbis --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Intellectual life --- History --- Social networks --- Doctrines --- Intellectual life. --- History. --- Europe --- Juifs --- Judaïsme --- Vie intellectuelle --- Histoire --- Learning and scholarship --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Religion --- Religions --- Semites --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Antinomianism. --- Apologetics. --- Apostasy. --- Ashkenazi Jews. --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Cecil Roth. --- Christian Hebraist. --- Christian culture. --- Christianity and Judaism. --- Christianity. --- Conversion to Judaism. --- Converso. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Cultural history. --- Culture and Society. --- David Nieto. --- David Sorkin. --- Early modern Europe. --- Early modern period. --- Eastern Europe. --- Enthusiasm. --- Excommunication. --- Exegesis. --- Frankism. --- Gershom Scholem. --- Haskalah. --- Hebrew language. --- Heinrich Graetz. --- Heresy. --- Historiography. --- Ideology. --- Isaac Luria. --- Isaac Orobio de Castro. --- Isadore Twersky. --- Italian Jews. --- Italian Renaissance. --- Jacob Frank. --- Jacob Katz. --- Jewish Christian. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish mysticism. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Jonathan Israel. --- Judaism. --- Kabbalah. --- Land of Israel. --- Literature. --- Lithuania. --- Lurianic Kabbalah. --- Luzzatto. --- Medievalism. --- Menasseh Ben Israel. --- Mercantilism. --- Messiah in Judaism. --- Messianism. --- Minhag. --- Modernity. --- Moses. --- Moshe Idel. --- Narrative. --- Neoplatonism. --- New Christian. --- Notion (ancient city). --- Orthodoxy. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Periodization. --- Pharisees. --- Philosophy. --- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. --- Printing. --- Protestantism. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic Judaism. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religion. --- Responsa. --- Richard Popkin. --- Sabbateans. --- Safed. --- Schatz. --- Scholem. --- Secularization. --- Seminar. --- Sephardi Jews. --- Solomon ibn Verga. --- Spinozism. --- Spirituality. --- Syncretism. --- The Other Hand. --- Theology. --- Thirty Years' War. --- Uriel da Costa. --- Western Europe. --- Western culture. --- Writing. --- Yiddish.