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Bridging Worlds

Poetry and Philosophy in the Works of Immanuel of Rome

Dana W. Fishkin

A radical revisitation of Immanuel of Rome’s celestial tour, Mahberet Ha-Tofet Ve-ha-‘Eden.

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Published: June 2023
ISBN: 9780814350362
$94.99
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Published: June 2023
ISBN: 9780814350355
$44.99
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Published: June 2023
ISBN: 9780814350379

Sepher Yosippon

A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel

Translated and Introduced by Steven B. Bowman

The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.

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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349441
$99.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349434
$49.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349458

Brothers from Afar

Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe

Ephraim Kanarfogel

Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought.

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Published: December 2020
ISBN: 9780814340288
$89.99
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Published: December 2020
ISBN: 9780814348246
$36.99
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Published: December 2020
ISBN: 9780814340295

Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Explores Jewish criminals—alleged and actual—in Medieval Europe and how they’ve been shaped by society.

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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814345597
$89.99
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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814348239
$46.99
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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814345603
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101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition

Ulrich Marzolph

A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.

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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347744
$99.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347737
$49.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347751

Tales in Context

Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France

Rella Kushelevsky
With a historical epilogue by Elisheva Baumgarten

A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim.

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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814342718
$84.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814342725

On the Margins of a Minority

Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Translated by Haim Watzman

Explores social additudes towards individuals on the margins of medieval European Jewish society.

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Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339312
$49.99
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Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9780814339329
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The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz

Ephraim Kanarfogel

Examines the intellectual proclivities of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenazic rabbinic culture as a whole.

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Published: December 2012
ISBN: 9780814330241
$64.99
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Published: December 2012
ISBN: 9780814338025

The En Yaaqov

Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus

Marjorie Lehman

Examines the origins of the En Yaaqov in the tumultuous medieval period and the motivations of its creator, exiled Spanish rabbi Jacob ibn Habib.

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Published: December 2011
ISBN: 9780814334805
$52.99
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Published: December 2011
ISBN: 9780814335963

Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics

Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Edited by Daniel Frank and Matt Goldish

Examines dissent from rabbinic Judaism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period to consider it as a category within the history and culture of the Jewish people.

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Published: May 2008
ISBN: 9780814332375
$52.99
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Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages

Ephraim Kanarfogel

Paperback edition of a favorite text on the literary creativity and communal involvement in the production of the Tosafist corpus.

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Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814333686
$26.99
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Published: June 2007
ISBN: 9780814336533

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals

Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah

Joel Hecker

Examining the mystical practices associated with food in zoharic kabbalah and the ways they inform us about the kabbalistic experience of embodiment.

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Published: April 2005
ISBN: 9780814350935
$29.99
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Published: April 2005
ISBN: 9780814331811
$94.99
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Published: April 2005
ISBN: 9780814340035

"Peering Through the Lattices"

Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period

Ephraim Kanarfogel

Kanarfogel makes available for the first time many passages produced by lesser known tosafists and rabbinic figures and integrates the findings of earlier and contemporary scholarship, much of it published only in Hebrew. "

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Published: May 2000
ISBN: 9780814325315
$42.99
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Published: May 2000
ISBN: 9780814339947

A Middle English Anthology

Edited by Ann S. Haskell

A reissue of the popular 1969 volume, this anthology includes a wide variety of selections from Middle English literature.

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Published: August 1985
ISBN: 9780814317983
$29.99