The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature 9780814347058, 9780814350829, 9780814347041

Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature 3030663329, 9783030663322

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespe

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Mysticism in Twentieth-Century Hebrew Literature 9781618111036

Challenging the notion that Jewish mysticism ceased to exist in the Hassidic enclaves of early nineteenth century Europe

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The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature 9789004387065

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The Folktale in the Old Testament 9781474266598, 9781474231602, 9781474231619

Gunkel’s classic work of 1917 is a systematic investigation of the Old Testament in the light of the then emerging princ

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Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature 9780292799264

Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integ

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Infant Weeping in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Greek Literature (Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible) 9781575064635, 9781575064642, 1575064634

Those who have spent time within earshot of a crying baby know the stress this sound can induce. Considerable scientific

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Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature 9780815650553, 9780815632597

John Brinckerhoff Jackson theorized the vernacular landscape as one that reflects a way of life guided by tradition and

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Unveiling Eve: Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature 9780812203592

"Rosen wears her vast learning lightly and well. She brings to bear on the texts an enormous erudition in the vario

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Infant Weeping in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Greek Literature 9781575064642

Those who have spent time within earshot of a crying baby know the stress this sound can induce. Considerable scientific

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Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West

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