American Academy for Jewish Research. Proceedings Vol. L 1983.

New York City: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1983. Hardbound. Octavo, gray cloth with black lettering with minor soiling, xxiv, 183 pp., soiling to the rear endpaper, a few ink-stamps. Good. Item #80637

Articles are "The Life of Menashe of Ilya (1767-1831)," Isaac E. Barzilay, "Rabbinic Responses to Catastrophe: From Continuity to Discontinuity," Baruch M. Bokser, "The Date of the Book of Jubilees," Joanathan A. Goldstein, "The 'Waw Conversive': From Eblaite to Hebrew," Cyrus H. Gordon, "The Illustrated Midrash in the Dura Synagogue Paintings: A New Dimension of the Study of Judaism," Joseph Gutmann, "Kima and the Flood in Seder Olam and B.T. Rosh ha-Shana: Stellar Time-Reckoning and Uranography in Rabbic Literature," Chaim Milikowsky, "'Immortality - Yes; Resurrection - No!': Nineteenth-century Judaism Struggles witha Traditional Belief," Jakob J. Petuchowski, "Doctors and Medical Practices in Germany around the Year 1200: The Evidence of Sefer Asaph," Joseph Shatzmiller, "The Tsarist Mishneh Torah: A Study in the Cultural Politics of the Russian Haskalah," Michael Stanislawski.

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