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Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen

Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen

 

 

Publishers Description

The essays in Strength to Strength honor Shaye J. D. Cohen across a range of ancient to modern topics. The essays seek to create an ongoing conversation on issues of identity, cultural interchange, and Jewish literature and history in antiquity, all areas of particular interest for Cohen. Contributors include Moshe J. Bernstein, Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Cohen, Yaakov Elman, Ari Finkelstein, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Steven D. Fraade, Isaiah M. Gafni, Gregg E. Gardner, William K. Gilders, Martin Goodman, Leonard Gordon, Edward L. Greenstein, Erich S. Gruen, Judith Hauptman, Jan Willem van Henten, Catherine Hezser, Tal Ilan, Richard Kalmin, Yishai Kiel, Ross S. Kraemer, Hayim Lapin, Lee I. Levine, Timothy H. Lim, Duncan E. MacRae, Ivan Marcus, Mahnaz Moazami, Rachel Rafael Neis, Saul M. Olyan, Jonathan J. Price, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Michael L. Satlow, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Daniel R. Schwartz, Joshua Schwartz, Karen Stern, Stanley Stowers, and Burton L. Visotzky.

Features:

  • A full bibliography of Cohen’s published works
  • An essay on the contributions of Cohen

Table of Contents

Shaye J. D. Cohen: An Appreciation
Signs of Poetry Past
Prohibited Bodies in Leviticus 18
The Territoriality of YHWH in Biblical Texts
Jerusalem in Greek and Latin Literature
No Ancient Judaism
Early Jewish Knowledge of Greek Medicine
The Problem of the Hyphen and Jewish/Judean Ethnic Identity
What Did They See When They Read the Genesis Apocryphon in the First Decade after Its Publication?
The Tetragrammaton in the Habakkuk Pesher
Laws Pertaining to Purification after Childbirth in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Philo and Jewish Ethnicity
Josephus’s “Samaias-Source”
The Two Gentlemen of Trachonitis
Why “Common Judaism” Does Not Look like Mediterranean Religion
Paul’s Scriptures
Galatians 6:12 on Circumcision and Persecution
Early Rabbinic Midrash between Philo and Qumran
Charity as a Negative Obligation in Early Rabbinic Literature
Interspecies and Cross-species Generation
Toward a History of Rabbinic Powerlessness
Hair’s the Thing
Three Crowns
Ahiqar and Rabbinic Literature
Guidelines for the Ideal Way of Life
Some Aspects of Ancient Legal Thought
The Role of Disgust in Rabbinic Ethics
The Place of Shabbat
An Analysis of Sugyot Containing the Phrase Lo Savar Lah Mar in the Babylonian Talmud
Living on the Edge
“Epigraphical Rabbis” in Their Epigraphical Contexts
Palaestina Secunda
Did Constantine Really Prohibit (All) “Conversion to Judaism” in 329?
Taming the Jewish Genie
Reinventing Yavneh in Sherira’s Epistle
On Medieval Jewish Prophecy
Hitler and Antiochus, Hellenists and Rabbinerdoktoren
Abel J. Herzberg’s The Memoirs of King Herod
Study Is Greater, for Study Leads to Action
Dicing and Divination
Bibliography of the Writings of Shaye J. D. Cohen
Index

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ISBN: 9781946527127 (hardcover); 9781946527110 (paperback)

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