Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book. Their problematic relation seems to indicate that there is more that divides than unites these religions. The present volume will show that there is an intricate web of relations between the texts of these three religious traditions. On many levels readings and interpretations intermingle and influence each other. Studying the multifaceted history of the way Hebrew texts were read and interpreted in so many different contexts may contribute to a better understanding of the complicated relation between Jews, Christians and Muslims. These studies are dedicated to Dineke Houtman honouring her work as professor of Jewish-Christian relations.
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• List of figures
• Hebrew texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim surroundings / Klaas Spronk and Eveline van Staatduine-Sulman
• Hebrew texts in Jewish surroundings
• Converted demons : fallen Angels who repented / Johannes C. de Moor
• Jephthah and Saul : an intertextual reading of judges 11 : 29-40 in comparison with rabbinic exegesis / Klaas Spronk
• Two women, one god and the reader : theology in four recensions of Hannah's song (1 Samuel 2 : 1-10) / Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman
• Between hermeneutics and rhetorics : the parable of the slave who buys a Rotten fish in exegetical and homiletical midrashim / Lieve Teugels
• The beauty of Sarah in Rabbinic literature / Tamar Kadari
• David's strengths and weaknesses in the Targum of the Psalms / Geert W. Lorein
• From 'writtenness' to 'spokenness' : Martin Buber and his forgotten contemporaries on colometry / F.J. Hoogewoud
• Imitating Dutch protestants : Jewish educational literature on the Biblical history from the 19th and the first half of the 20th century / Cees Houtman
• Hebrew texts in Muslim and Christian surroundings
• Jewish influences upon Islamic storytelling : the example of David and Bathsheba / Marcel Poorthuis
• Elazar ben Jacob of Baghdad in Jewish liturgy / Wout van Bekkum
• Midrash bereshit rabbah in Christian bindings : a newly discovered medieval ashkenazic manuscript fragment from jena / Andreas Lehnardt
• Martin Luther-precursor of modern antisemitism? / Hans-Martin Kirn
• 'You are constantly looking over my shoulder' : the influence of the relationship between Franz rosenzweig and Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy on the gritlianum and on the star of redemption / Harry Sysling
• Local leadership in the galilee : ʻAbd Allāh Salman Saleh Khayr (1906-1971) / Gert van Klinken
• Hebrew texts in Jewish and Christian surroundings
• Finding pearls : Matthew 13 : 45-46 and Rabbinic literature / Eric Ottenheijm
• 'You Christians are being Led astray!' some notes on the dialogue of athanasius and zacchaeus / Pieter W. van der Horst
• 'Stay here with the Ass' : a comparing exegetical study between Cyril's fifth festal letter and Rabbinic exegesis in babylonian Talmud and genesis Rabbah 56 : 1-2 / Leon Mock
• The voice of community : Jewish and Christian traditions coping with an absurd commandment (Deut 21 : 18-21) / Michael C. Mulder
• Noachide laws : a viable option as an alternative for full conversion to judaism? / Simon Schoon
• Hebrew texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim surroundings
• A queen of many colours / Magda Misset-van de Weg
• Index of sources.

"שנה היא 2048 ומדינת ישראל בראשותו של אמיר אביצור נמצאת במשבר החמור ביותר שידעה במאה שנות קיומה. ראש הממשלה נאבק על שמירת היחסים עם ארה"ב, אשר מאיימת להצטרף להצעה בריטית-צרפתית להקים מנדט או"ם בשטחים הכבושים. מדינת ישראל ניצבת בפני דילמה קשה ואכזרית: לסגת לגבולות 67 ולהפקיר מיליון יהודים, או להגן עליהם ולהצית מלחמה מול העולם. כצעד לקראת ארה"ב, בכנסת מתקבלת ההחלטה על חוק "פינוי-פיצוי" המיועד לישראלים המתגוררים בשטח "סי", אך בעקבותיו פורץ מרד מתנחלים קיצונים שבמהרה מתגלגל למלחמת אזרחים עקובה מדם. מזימות חדשות נרקמות וסודות ישנים מתגלים, אך בעוד האדמה בוערת, אמיר אביצור מוצא עצמו מתאהב ברוני ורדי, המעניקה לו נחמה ותקווה. האם יצליח להציל את מדינתוהאם האהבה תנצחהאם לא ניתן לבטוח בו. זהו ספרו השני והמרתק של זלמן שפירא, אשר מהווה המשך לספרו אבודים במזרח התיכון, הטרגדיה החדשה של בני ישראל (הוצאת פרדס, 2012). לאחר שבספרו הראשון המחבר חילק את תולדות מדינת ישראל לשלוש רפובליקות: הראשונה שהתקיימה עד 1967, השנייה שבאה לאחר כיבוש השטחים והשלישית שעלולה להגיע בעתיד. ברומן פוליטי זה הוא מתבונן אל הרפובליקה השלישית הלאומנית-דתית במלאת מאה שנה ללידתה של מדינת ישראל."--מן הכריכה האחורית
Story of love, hate and war.

"מה העניק את ההילה לצנחנים בגבעת התחמושת ובכותל והצניע את חלקן של יחידות אחרות בסיפור המערכה על ירושליםאילו סכנות איימו על העיר העבריתאיזה פער נוצר בין התכנון המקורי לביצוע בשטחמדוע בכלל פרצה המלחמה בין ישראל לבין ירדןאיך הושג הניצחון המזהיר ובאיזה מחיר67', ירושלים, מלחמה הוא פרי מחקר ממושך הנשען בין השאר על מסמכים שנחשפים לראשונה ועל ראיונות עומק עם יותר מ־ 230 מפקדים, לוחמים ובני משפחות שכולות, ומביא את סיפור המערכה ששינתה את פניה של ישראל יותר מכל אירוע אחר מאז תש"ח ועד ימינו. הספר שזור גילויים חדשים בתחום הדיפלומטי, המדיני והצבאי. במבט נוקב, אמיץ ונטול פניות ד"ר גדעון אביטל־אפשטיין בוחן תפיסות ומיתוסים שהתקבעו בתודעה הלאומית." -- back cover.

• Preface Abbreviations Genenral Introduction Organization and Contents Arabic to Hebrew Translations The Introductions Zodiacal Signs and Planetary Dignities The Astronomical Content of Mishpetei ha-Mazzalot and Reshit Hokhmah Authorship, Date, and Place of Composition Ibn Ezra's Other Introductions to Astrology Transmission of the Texts Manuscripts Used for the Critical Editions of Reshit Hokhmah and Mishpetei ha-Mazzalot Editorial and Translation Principles Editorial Changes with Respect to the Previous Editions Part One: Book of the Beginning of Wisdom by Abraham Ibn Ezra Hebrew Text and English Translation Part Two: Notes to the Book of the Beginning of Wisdom Part Three: Book of the Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs by Abraham Ibn Ezra Hebrew Text and English Translation Part Four: Notes to the Book of the Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs Part Five: Appendices 1. Manuscripts 2. Abu Ma'shar - Kitab al-mudkhal al-kabir 3. Kitab al-mudkhal (Al-Qabisi) and Kitab al-thamarah (Centiloquium) 4. Planets and Horoscopic Places 5. The lots of the Twelve Places 6. Hebrew-Arabic Technical Glossary 7. English-Hebrew Glossary (Reshit Hokhmah) 8. English-Hebrew Glossary (Mishpetei ha-Mazzalot) 9. Hebrew-English Index to the English-Hebrew Glossaries 10. Authorities and Sources (Reshit Hokhmah) 11. Authorities and Sources (Mishpetei ha-Mazzalot) 12. Index of Technical Terms and Biographical Notes Bibliography Index.
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The present volume offers a critical edition of the Hebrew texts, accompanied by English translation and commentary of Reshit Hokhmah (Beginning of Wisdom) and Mishpetei ha-Mazzalot (Judgments of the Zodiacal Signs) by Abraham Ibn Ezra (ca. 1089-ca. 1161). The first, the summa and by far the longest of his astrological works, the target of the most cross-references from the rest of that corpus and the most influential, enjoyed the widest circulation among Jews in the Middle Ages and after. The second, by contrast, is the most obscure. It is never referred to elsewhere by its author and is the only work for which Ibn Ezra's authorship must be substantiated. Reshit Hokhmah and Mishpetei ha-Mazzalot were written in order to explain concepts common to the various branches of astrology that Ibn Ezra addressed elsewhere and to elucidate the worldview that underlies astrology. These two treatises are the richest and most varied with regard to the astrological information they present. Reshit Hokhmah and Mishpetei ha-Mazzalot also exemplify the close collaboration between astronomy and astrology in medieval science and are the two components of Ibn Ezra's astrological corpus with the most extensive, comprehensive, and significant astronomical content.
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The Arts in Israel in the 21st Century.

• Biblical Hebrew linguistics : perspectives on data and method / Adina Moshavi and Tania Notarius
• Linguistic change through the prism of textual transmission : the case of Exod 12:9 / Noam Mizrahi
• All is not lost : linguistic periodization in the face of textual and literary pluriformity / Aaron Hornkohl
• Aramaic influence and inner diachronic development in Hebrew inscriptions of the iron age / Yigal Bloch
• The linguistics of writings systems and the gap in the Hebrew scribal tradition / William Schniedewind
• The second-person non-negated jussive in biblical Hebrew and ancient northwest semitic / Tania Notarius
• Participant tracking, positioning and the pragmatics of biblical narrative / Frank H. Polak
• Nominal and verb-second clauses not introduced by waw : a text-linguistic classification / Gregor Geiger
• Verticality in biblical Hebrew parallelism / David Toshio Tsumura
• The infinitive absolute and topicalization of events in biblical Hebrew / Galia Hatav
• Clause combining in the song of Moses (Deut. 32:1-43) : an example of archaic biblical Hebrew syntax / Bo Isaksson
• The syntactic pattern : qtol [arrow]weyiqtol and the expression of indirect command in biblical Hebrew / Lina Petersson
• The scope of negation inside and outside of the biblical Hebrew prepositional phrase / Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé
• The locative alternation in biblical (and modern) Hebrew / Edit Doron & Keren Dubnov
• Corpus-driven valence : give and the meaning of natan (ntn) in Genesis / Nicolai Winther-Nielsen.

"In recent decades, the study of biblical Hebrew has profited enormously from the application of methodologies derived from general linguistics. During the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Adina Moshavi and Tania Notarius organized sessions devoted to exploring new developments in biblical Hebrew linguistics, bringing together many of the world's experts in the field. The papers in this volume are based on research presented at those sessions, along with additional articles specifically written for this volume. The essays included here address topics in philology, language contact, text-linguistics and linguistic pragmatics, syntax, and applied linguistics. The collection showcases biblical Hebrew linguistics as a dynamic and innovative endeavor that is making important contributions to the study of the Bible, Hebrew language, and modern linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.