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• About the authors
• Contents
• List of photos
• A time for dancing : a suite of festive dances by Tirza Sapir / Shlomit Ofer
• Hebrew secularism and Kibbutz festivities / Mooky Tsur
• Dance in a Kibbutz movement : a social, educational and artistic affirmation / Naomi Bahat-Ratzon
• Collection of dances within the yearly cycle: Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, Hanukkah, Tu Bishvat, Purim, Passover, Memorial days, Independence Day, Shavuot.

• Introduction--
• 1. Biblical evidence for marriage gifts--
• 2. Postexilic evidence for marriage gifts--
• 3. Anthropology and the study of marriage gifts--
• 4. The social structure of ancient Israel from Iron I to the Babylonian exile--
• 5. The social structure of Palestine in the Second Temple Period-- Final analysis and conclusions-- Appendix: marriage gifts among Judeans living in Babylonia during the 6th century BCE.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

T. M. Lemos traces changes in the marriage customs of ancient Palestine over the course of several hundred years. The most important of these changes was a shift in emphasis from bridewealth to dowry, the latter of which clearly predominated in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Whereas previous scholarship has often attributed these shifts to the influence of foreign groups, Lemos connects them instead with a transformation that occurred in Palestine's social structure during the very same period. In the early Iron Age, Israel was a kinship-based society with a subsistence economy, but as the centuries passed it became increasingly complex and developed marked divisions between rich and poor. At the same time, the importance of its kinship groups waned greatly. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that draws heavily on anthropological research, cultural theory, archaeological evidence, and historical-critical methods, Lemos posits that shifts in marriage customs were directly related to these wider social changes.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• The author
• Literary activity
• Sefer Koʼaḥ ha-avanim (On the virtue of the stones)
• The source(s) of Sefer Koʼaḥ ha-avanim (On the virtue of the stones)
• The critical edition of Sefer Koʼah ha-avanim
• Abbreviations and symbols
• Text and translation
• Comparative table
• The Koach ha-avanim in its French context: Romance and Latin terms and sources
• The language
• Lexical and graphical problems
• Lexical aspects
• Graphical aspects
• conventions of transliteration
• The sources
• Lexical commentary on the Romance and latin terms
• Berakhyah's sources
• Tables of the sources
• Anglo-Norman source texts
• Latin source texts
• Hebrew-French/Latin/Greek glossary
• French/Latin-Hebrew glossary
• Greek-Hebrew glossary.

The lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernacular languages. The Jewish tradition, missing a particular lapidary literature of its own, absorbed non-Jewish works like that of Marbode. Several Anglo-Norman Marbode translations could be identified as the main source of the present edited Hebrew lapidary Koa? ha-Avanim, written by Berakhyah Ben N.