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Carl S. Ehrlich, Sara R. Horowitz (Eds.) Premodern Jewish Studies

A Handbook

Series: De Gruyter Reference January 2023 English, Approx. 400 pp., 20 fi g.

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The essays in this volume provide the development over the last three decades in the eld of premodern Jewish studies. International experts on the First Temple Period, the Second Temple Period, the Rabbinic Period, and the Medieval Period explore major trends and current debates in scholarship through the lenses of history, religion, literature, and art, as well as the questions that will animate the eld in the foreseeable future.

Premodern Judaism; art; Jewish literature; religious studies

Carl S. Ehrlich and Sara R. Horowitz, York University, Toronto, Canada. Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig

Thy Father’s Instruction

Reading the Nuremberg Miscellany as Jewish Cultural History

Series: Studia Judaica 79 December 2021 English, XXII, 615 pp., 257 fi g.

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The Nuremberg Miscellany is a unique work of scribal art, rich with paint and powdered gold. It was penned and illustrated in southern Germany in 1589 by Eliezer b. Mordechai the Martyr. The book is a compilation of religious Hebrew texts, which was probably created as a father’s wedding gift to his son. The text and the naïve illustrations are a treasure of Jewish lore and a veritable re ection of contemporary life of an af uent Jewish family.

Southern Germany; Jewish Art and Visual Culture; Nuremberg Miscellany; Jewish History

Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig, GoldsteinGoren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Annett Martini

›Arbeit des Himmels‹

Jüdische Konzeptionen rituellen Schreibens in der europäischen Kultur des Mittelalters

Reihe/Series: Studia Judaica 115 Mai/May 2022 Deutsch/German, XI, 336 S./pp., 79 Abb./fi g.

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Diese Studie beschäftigt sich mit Konzeptionen des rituellen Schreibens von Torarollen im pluralistischen Kontext der europäischen Kultur Frankreichs und Deutschlands vom 11. bis 14. Jahrhundert. Auf Grundlage von in der Forschung bislang kaum wahrgenommenen Quellen behandelt die Autorin Modi kationen und Innovationen hinsichtlich zentraler Aspekte der Herstellung der heiligen Schriftrollen vor dem Hintergrund der christlichen Umweltkultur.

Hebrew Scrolls; Medieval Writing Culture; Jewish Ritual Writing; Ashkenazi Tradition

Annett Martini, Freie Universität Berlin.

Dagmar Börner-Klein (Hrsg./Ed.)

Jalkut Schimoni

Rabbinische Bibelauslegung im Mittelalter

[Yalkut Shimoni: Rabbinical Biblical Interpretation in the Middle Ages]

Dagmar Börner-Klein (Hrsg./Ed.)

Jalkut Schimoni zu Kohelet

Übers. v./Transl. by Beat Zuber

August/August 2022 Deutsch/German, XI, 206 S./pp.

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Der Jalkut Schimoni ist ein Sammelwerk rabbinischer Auslegungen zur gesamten hebräischen Bibel. Unerforscht ist, nach welchen Kriterien die Auslegungen ausgewählt wurden und ob das Werk als umfassendes Nachschlagewerk für exegetische Fragen, zur Verbindung von Bibelauslegung in Talmud und Midrasch oder zur Reform der rabbinischen Auslegungstradition konzipiert wurde. Die Übersetzung des Werkes ist ein erster Schritt, diese Fragen zu beantworten.

Kompilationsliteratur; Midrasch; Talmud; Bibelauslegung

The Yalkut Shimoni compiles rabbinical interpretations of the entire Hebrew bible. We do not know the criteria for selecting the interpretations, nor whether the book was conceived as a comprehensive exegetical reference work to be linked to biblical interpretations in the Talmud and Midrash or for reforming the rabbinical interpretive tradition. The translation of this work is a rst step toward answering these questions.

Dagmar Börner-Klein, Universität Düsseldorf, und Beat Zuber, Neudorf, Schweiz.

Übers. v./Transl. by Beat Zuber

August/August 2022 Deutsch/German, XII, 365 S./pp.

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Dagmar Börner-Klein (Hrsg./Ed.)

Jalkut Schimoni zum Hohenlied

Übers. v./Transl. by Beat Zuber

Mai/May 2022 Deutsch/German, XI, 195 S./pp.

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Naomi Janowitz

Acts of Interpretation

Ancient Religious Semiotic Ideologies and Their Modern Echoes

Series: Religion and Reason 66 May 2022 English, X, 160 pp.

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Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics best explains the “performativity” of ancient religious verbal and non-verbal signs such as divine names, signs only partially understood by ancient authors. Sign meaning is always dependent on uid processes of interpretation. Examples are drawn from ancient Israelite and late antique divine representations, apostle Paul’s linguistic letter/spirit model, Christian debates representing the deity, and Burning Man.

Interpretation; semiotics; ritual

Naomi Janowitz, University of California, Davis CA, USA.

Georges Tamer (Ed.)

The Concept of Human Rights in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 2 December 2022 English, Approx. 180 pp.

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The second volume of the new series Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses points out the roots of the concept of “human rights” in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It shows how far the universal validity of “human rights” opposes in some crucial points with religious traditions. The aim of KCID is to establish an archeology of religious knowledge to create a new conceptual platform of mutual understanding among religious communities.

Human rights; interreligious discourse; interreligious dialogue

Georges Tamer, University of ErlangenNuremberg. Christoph Böttingheimer, Wenzel Maximilian Widenka (Eds.)

The Concept of Economy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 9 December 2022 English, Approx. 180 pp.

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The present volume of “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses”, an “archeology of religious knowledge” investigates the both fascinating and contentious concept of the environment throughout the thinking of the three major monotheistic religions. It ventures forth into the threefold history of thought, the fundamental believes and the current controversies surrounding the most profound relation humans have with the world surrounding them.

Interreligious dialogue; work; justice; fi nances

Christoph Böttigheimer and Wenzel Maximilian Widenka, KU Eichstätt, Germany.

Christoph Böttingheimer, Wenzel Maximilian Widenka (Eds.)

The Concept of Environment in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 10 December 2022 English, Approx. 180 pp.

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No topic is more current than that of the environment. Yet the theme is almost as old as the human approach to questions about the conditions that surround us. The book assembles the intellectual, theological and philosophical history of the concept of “Environment” in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Communalities und Differences between the three traditions are examined, as well as past and current controversies.

Interreligious dialogue; ecology; creation; Laudato si

Christoph Böttigheimer and Wenzel Maximilian Widenka, KU Eichstätt, Germany. Judith Frishman, Thorsten Fuchshuber (Eds.)

Samuel Hirsch

Philosopher of Religion, Advocate of Emancipation and Radical Reformer

Series: Studia Judaica 97 September 2022 English, Approx. 300 pp.

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Rabbi Samuel Hirsch is one of the most important transnational Jewish Reform theologians and philosophers of religion of the 19th century. He remains a key gure for understanding the contemporaneous debates in Western Europe and the United States on questions of Jewish emancipation, Jewish identity, the compatibility of religion, state and society, the relationship between particularism and universalism as well as the critique of antisemitism.

Reform Judaism; 19th century; Luxembourg; philosophy of religion

Judith Frishman, Leiden University, The Netherlands, and Thorsten Fuchshuber, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Philipp Mertens

Dietrich Bonhoe er und Abraham J. Heschel

Zwei Konzeptionen relationalen Denkens im biographisch-werkgenetischen Vergleich

Reihe/Series: Religiöse Positionierungen in Judentum, Christentum und Islam 1 August/August 2022 Deutsch/German, XVI, 500 S./pp.

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Erstmals wird hier der protestantische Pastor und Widerstandskämpfer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) mit dem jüdischen Religionsphilosophen und Aktivisten Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972) biographisch-werkgenetisch verglichen. Der Autor zeigt, wie beide aus der (Hebräischen) Bibel und persönlicher Frömmigkeit ein stark relationales Denken ableiten und mit rationalem Denken versöhnen, was sie schließlich in prophetisch-praktischen Aktivismus führt.

Bibelhermeneutik; Abraham J. Heschel; Dietrich Bonhoe er; Christlich-jüdischer Dialog

This volume is the rst to compare the biographies and work genesis of the Protestant pastor and resistance ghter Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and the Jewish religious philosopher and activist Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972). The author shows how both drew their heavily relational thinking from the (Hebrew) bible and personal piety, and reconcile it with rational thinking, which ultimately led them to engage in prophetic practical activism.

Hermeneutics; Christian-Jewish Dialog; (Hebrew) Bible; Intellectual History

Philipp Mertens, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.