Association for Jewish Studies
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A Jewish Bestiary
Fabulous Creatures from Hebraic Legend and Lore
Mark Podwal
The Road Taken
An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible
Seymour (Sy) Gitin
Kabbalah and Sex Magic
A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy
Marla Segol
The Prophetic Quest
The Stained Glass Windows of Jacob Landau, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
David S. Herrstrom and Andrew D. Scrimgeour
Camels in the Biblical World
Martin Heide and Joris Peters
Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem (1995-2010)
Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron
Times of Transition
Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period
Edited by Sylvie Honigman, Christophe Nihan, and Oded Lipschits
Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania
Alexander Avram
Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran
Bruce McComiskey
Friendship in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
Edited by Lawrence Fine
The Objects That Remain
Laura Levitt
Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch
Edited by L. S. Baker Jr., Kenneth Bergland, Felipe A. Masotti, and A. Rahel Wells
Drawing on Religion
Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels
Ken Koltun-Fromm
Identity in Persian Egypt
The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine
Bob Becking
Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel
A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements
Philip Zhakevich
Judaism, Race, and Ethics
Conversations and Questions
Edited by Jonathan K. Crane
Divine Doppelgängers
YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes
Edited by Collin Cornell
The Nun in the Synagogue
Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel
Emma O’Donnell Polyakov
The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua
Yael Halevi-Wise
David, Messianism, and Eschatology
Ambiguity in the Reception History of the Book of Psalms in Judaism and Christianity
Edited by Erkki Koskenniemi and David Willgren Davage
Son of God
Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity
Edited by Garrick V. Allen, Kai Akagi, Paul Sloan, and Madhavi Nevader
Harlot or Holy Woman?
A Study of Hebrew Qedešah
Phyllis A. Bird
Jewish Literary Cultures
Volume 2, The Medieval and Early Modern Periods
David Stern
Judging the Judges
A Narrative Appraisal Analysis
Mary L. Conway
A New Look at Atonement in Leviticus
The Meaning and Purpose of Kipper Revisited
James A. Greenberg
Hebrew Melodies
Heinrich Heine, Translated by Stephen Mitchell and by Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by Mark Podwal, and Foreword by Elisheva Carlebach
A Concise History of Ancient Israel
From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era
Bernd U. Schipper, Translated by Michael Lesley
Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible
A Lexicon of Language Contact
Benjamin J. Noonan
The Book of Sarah
Sarah Lightman
Life Support
Invitation to Prayer
Judith Cohen Margolis
Polemical Encounters
Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers
Jews in China
Cultural Conversations, Changing Perceptions
Irene Eber, and Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Hellerstein
You Shall Know that I Am Yahweh
An Inner-Biblical Interpretation of Ezekiel’s Recognition Formula
John F. Evans
Ecological Solidarities
Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World
Edited by Krista E. Hughes, Dhawn B. Martin, and Elaine Padilla
The Human Spirit
Beginnings from Genesis to Science
Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle
Enemies and Friends of the State
Ancient Prophecy in Context
Edited by Christopher A. Rollston
The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
Samantha Baskind
Bearing Yhwh’s Name at Sinai
A Reexamination of the Name Command of the Decalogue
Carmen Joy Imes
The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations
An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives
Robert D. Miller II
“Like a Lone Bird on a Roof”
Animal Imagery and the Structure of Psalms
Tova L. Forti
The Cultural and Religious Creativity of Ancient Israel
The Collected Essays of George E. Mendenhall
Edited by Gary Herion and H. B. Huffmon
Mosaics of Faith
Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land
Rina Talgam
Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America
Samantha Baskind
Art of Estrangement
Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain
Pamela A. Patton
The Monk’s Haggadah
A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim
Edited by David Stern, Christoph Markschies, and Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Avodah
Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur
Translated and edited by Michael D. Swartz and Joseph Yahalom
Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art
Ben Schachter
The Aroma of Righteousness
Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
Deborah A. Green
Chaim Potok
Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition
Edited by Daniel Walden
Contested Treasure
Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon
Thomas W. Barton
Reality’s Fugue
Reconciling Worldviews in Philosophy, Religion, and Science
F. Samuel Brainard
Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
Heath D. Dewrell
"Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?"
A Grammatical Tribute to Professor Stephen A. Kaufman
Edited by Hélène M. Dallaire, Benjamin J. Noonan, and Jennifer E. Noonan
“Did I Not Bring Israel Out of Egypt?”
Biblical, Archaeological, and Egyptological Perspectives on the Exodus Narratives
Edited by James K. Hoffmeier, Alan R. Millard, and Gary A. Rendsburg
A Rhetorical Conversation
Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature
Jordan D. Finkin
Jewish Literary Cultures
Volume 1, The Ancient Period
David Stern
Once@9:53am
Terror in Buenos Aires
Ilan Stavans, Marcelo Brodsky, and with an afterword by Ilan Stavans
A Handbook of Biblical Hebrew
Edited by W. Randall Garr, and Edited by Steven E. Fassberg
Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean
Edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert G. Morrison
Abraham in Medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Art
Edited by Colum Hourihane
Imagining the Kibbutz
Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film
Ranen Omer-Sherman
Early Judaism
Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Millennium
Martin S. Jaffee
An Inch or Two of Time
Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms
Jordan D. Finkin
The Development of God in the Old Testament
Three Case Studies in Biblical Theology
Markus Witte
The Jeselsohn Collection of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea
Ada Yardeni
Infant Weeping in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Greek Literature
David A. Bosworth
Literary Motifs and Patterns in the Hebrew Bible
Collected Essays
Shemaryahu Talmon
The Names of Yemenite Jewry
A Social and Cultural History
Aharon Gaimani
Jewish Bible Theology
Perspectives and Case Studies
Edited by Isaac Kalimi
Built by Wisdom, Established by Understanding
Essays on Biblical and Near Eastern Literature in Honor of Adele Berlin
Edited by Maxine L. Grossman
Moses Mendelssohn
Enlightenment, Religion, Politics, Nationalism
Michah Gottlieb, and Charles H. Manekin
Shaping the Middle East
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an Age of Transition 400–800 C.E.
Edited by Kenneth G. Holum, and Hayim Lapin
Argentina, Israel, and the Jews
Peron, The Eichmann Capture and After
Raanan Rein
Jews and Muslims in the Islamic World
Edited by Bernard Dov Cooperman, and Zvi Zohar
Philosophers and the Jewish Bible
Edited by Charles H. Manekin, and Robert Eisen
Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible
Collected Studies
Shemaryahu Talmon
Pleasant Are Their Names
Edited by Aaron Demsky
Biblical Translation in Context
Edited by Frederick W. Knobloch
Freedom and Moral Responsibility
General and Jewish Perspective
Edited by Charles H. Manekin
The Jews of Italy
Memory and Identity
Edited by Barbara Garvin, and Bernard Dov Cooperman
The Shame of Survival
Working Through a Nazi Childhood
Ursula Mahlendorf
Issues in the Acquisition and Teaching of Hebrew
Edited by Avital Feuer, Sharon Armon-Lotem, and Bernard Dov Cooperman
Jews, Antiquity, and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
Edited by Hayim Lapin, and Dale Martin
Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine
Edited by Hayim Lapin
A Life in Jewish Education
Essays in Honor of Louis L. Kaplan
Edited by Jack Fruchtman
Jewish Literature and History
An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Edited by Eliyana R. Adler, and Sheila E. Jelen
Land and Community
Geography in Jewish Studies
Edited by Harold Brodsky
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