Journal of Jewish Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Jewish Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Who were the Jewish ‘magicians’ behind the Aramaic incantation bowls?2
One journal, one decade, 3,797,592 words: computational analysis of HaTzfira’s discourse (1874–1883)1
The impact of the diaspora on family life in the Yishuv (1920–1948)1
The letter of Isaac the Blind to Nahmanides and Jonah Gerondi in its historical context1
The exegetical function of the Qur̓ān in the Christian-Arabic Pentateuch1
Sanctuaries and battlefields: two worlds of Judaism and two orthodox feminisms1
A human sui generis: Philo’s Life of Moses0
The female authorship of Babylonian Jewish incantation bowls0
The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and ChristianityAitkenJamesPatmoreHector M.Rosen-ZviIshayThe Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and ChristianityCambridge University PressCambridge, 2021, viii, 370
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with CommentaryAlterRobertThe Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary3 volsW.W. NortonNew York and London, 2019, 3500, £90.00ISBN 978-0-39329-249-70
Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age SpiritualityHussBoazMystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age SpiritualityOxford University Pr0
Rabbinic–Muslim jurisprudence in medieval Andalusia0
Witch-hunt or women’s oppression? The secularization and re-enchantment of the witches of Ashkelon tale by contemporary spiritualities’ leaders0
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary CultureKrakowskiEveComing of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary CulturePrinceton Universi0
Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and RighteousnessGrayAlyssa M.Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and RighteousnessRoutledgeLondon, 2019, 224, £96.00ISBN 978-1-13859-996-0
Jewish Treasures from Oxford LibrariesAbramsRebeccaMerchán-HamannCésarJewish Treasures from Oxford LibrariesBodleian Library PublishingOxford, 2020, xii, 308, £35.00ISBN 978-1-85124-502-40
Jews and Crime in Medieval EuropeShoham-SteinerEphraimJews and Crime in Medieval EuropeWayne State University PressDetroit IL, 2020, xi, 439, $44.99ISBN 978-0-81434-823-90
Intercepting missionaries: Jacob Sapir and Beta Israel contacts with Ottoman Jerusalem0
‘From my flesh I behold God.’ Circumcision and deconstruction: traces of Jacques Derrida0
The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the HolocaustAnthonyElizabethThe Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the HolocaustWayne State University PressDetroit MI, 2021, 288, $36.99ISBN 978-0
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its FaithsBartonJohnA History of the Bible: The Book and Its FaithsAllen LaneLondon, 2019, xvii, 613, £25.00ISBN 978-0-24100-391-60
Rabbenu Tam. Interpretation, Halakhah, Controversy (in Hebrew)ReinerAvraham (Rami)Rabbenu Tam. Interpretation, Halakhah, Controversy (in Hebrew)Bar-Ilan University PressRamat Gan, 2021, 503, ₪130.00IS0
Abraham Abulafia's mysticism of divine flux0
Reassessing exilarchal authority between Sasanian and early Islamic rule0
A forgotten variety of religious Zionism: the thought of Shmuel Alexandrov0
The representation of spoken Hebrew in Eretz-Israeli fiction 
films from the 1930s0
Kabbalah for beginners? Moses Cordovero’s early œuvre0
In pursuit of a hapax: divergent interpretations of the root s-k-t0
Israel in Egypt: The Land of Israel as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval PeriodSalvesenAlisonPearceSarahFrenkelMiriamIsrael in Egypt: The Land of Israel as Concept and R0
Jewish–Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretical Narratives of the Babylonian TalmudSiegalMichal Bar-AsherJewish–Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretical Narra0
Amsalu Tefera and Loren T. Stuckenbruck (eds), Representations of Angelic Beings in Early Jewish and in Christian Traditions0
Daughters in the Hebrew Bible; Narrative Desire and the Book of Ruth; Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as a Femme Fatale: The Lost SeductionRussawKimberly D.Daughters in the Hebrew BibleLexington Book0
Maskilic families in the Ottoman Empire0
Interpreting and Living God’s Law at Qumran. Miqṣat Maʿaśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT). Introduction, Text, Translation and Interpretative EssaysKratzReinhard G.Interpreting and L0
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Hiding complexes in fortified sites of the Bar Kokhba war0
Jacob as ‘the prophet’ in Nahmanides’ commentary0
A Roman army veteran in the Sepphoris necropolis0
Benjamin Schliesser, Jan Rüggemeier, Thomas J. Kraus and Jörg Frey (eds), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World0
David M. Gitlitz, Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico0
A tale of two baraitot: the Western Galilee borders of the rabbis in archaeology and texts0
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The Qur’an’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the OriginsZellentinHolgerThe Qur’an’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the OriginsRoutledgeAbingdon, 2019, ix, 358, £0
Classical Ethiopic: A Grammar of Ge'ezTropperJosefHasselbach-AndeeRebeccaClassical Ethiopic: A Grammar of Ge'ezEisenbraunsUniversity Park PA, 2021, x, 430, $69.95ISBN 978-1-57506-841-10
Amy Williams and Bill Niven, National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport: Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations0
The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian WorldChazanRobertThe Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian WorldCambridge University PressCa0
The Hebrew epithalamium in late antiquity: new evidence 
from the Cairo Genizah and beyond0
A cross-homilies analysis of Tanhuma-Yelamdenu Aharei Mot0
Aramaic: A History of the First World LanguageGzellaHolgerAramaic: A History of the First World LanguageWilliam B. EerdmansGrand Rapids MI, 2021, xii, 359, $70.00ISBN 978-0-80287-748-20
Queen Berenice: A Jewish Female Icon of the First Century CEIlanTalQueen Berenice: A Jewish Female Icon of the First Century CEBrillLeiden, 2022, ix, 218, €110.00ISBN 978-9-00451-103-30
Timothy H. Lim, The Earliest Commentary on the Prophecy of Habakkuk0
The relationship between manuscripts A, B, D and the marginal readings of manuscript B of Ben Sira0
Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic LiteratureStrassfeldMaxTrans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic LiteratureUniversity of California PressOakland CA, 2022, ix, 248, $29.95ISBN 90
A Pottage of Lentils: Mutual Perceptions of Christians and Jews in the Age of Reconciliation (in Hebrew)Ben JohananKarmaA Pottage of Lentils: Mutual Perceptions of Christians and Jews in the Age of Re0
Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, Volume 4: The Ptolemaic Period (323 BCE–30 BCE)HachamNoahIlanTalFikhmanItzhakCorpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, Volume 4: The Ptolemaic Period (323 BCE–30 BCE)De Gruyter / Magne0
Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past; Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory; Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: 0
Leopold Zunz: Creativity in AdversitySchorschIsmarLeopold Zunz: Creativity in AdversityUniversity of Pennsylvania PressPhiladelphia PA, 2016, xii, 329, $69.95ISBN 978-0-81224-853-10
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval EuropeTartakoffPaolaConversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval EuropeUniversity of Pennsylvania PressPhiladelphia PA, 2020, ix, 2480
The Temple Scroll: 11Q19, 11Q20, 11Q21, 4Q524, 5Q21 with 4Q356a and 4Q365 Frag.23SchiffmanLawrence H.GrossAndrew D.The Temple Scroll: 11Q19, 11Q20, 11Q21, 4Q524, 5Q21 with 4Q356a and 4Q365 Frag.23Bril0
Between Thought and Deed: Intention in Talmudic JurisprudenceStrauch SchickShanaBetween Thought and Deed: Intention in Talmudic JurisprudenceBrillLeiden, 2021, xii, 178, €112.00ISBN 978-9-00443-303-80
Medieval scribal procedures for writing the Tetragrammaton0
The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist IdeologyBergaminPeterThe Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist IdeologyI.B. TaurisLondon, 2020, x, 262, £85.00ISBN 9780
The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900–1270CohenMordechai Z.The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense o0
The Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1700–1750FeinerShmuelThe Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1700–1750Indiana University PressBloomington IN, 2020, xiii, 541, $95.00I0
The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to TextMandelPaulThe Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to TextBrillLeiden, 2017, xviii, 405, €147.00ISBN 978-9-00415-314-10
Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First MillenniumButtsAaron MichaelGrossSimchaJews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First MillenniumMohr SiebeckTübingen, 2020, xii, 0
God’s Body: The Anthropomorphic God in the Old Testament; Performing Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible; The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans; Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel: A Study of Biblical Hebrew0
Aviv barley and calendar diversity among Jews in eleventh-century Palestine0
In Search of the Hebrew People: Bible and Nation in the German EnlightenmentIlanyOfriIn Search of the Hebrew People: Bible and Nation in the German EnlightenmentIndiana University PressBloomington IN,0
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What did the Rabbis know about grammar? Exegesis and grammatical gender in late antiquity0
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A Dead Sea Scrolls fragment with the name of Aristobulus0
The motivations behind E.H. Lindo’s The History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal0
‘Slay them Not’: Twelfth-Century Christian–Jewish Relations and the Glossed PsalmsStoneLinda M.A.‘Slay them Not’: Twelfth-Century Christian–Jewish Relations and the Glossed PsalmsBrillLeiden, 2019, xi0
God: An AnatomyStavrakopoulouFrancescaGod: An AnatomyPicadorLondon, 2021, xx, 583, £25.00ISBN 978-1-50986-733-20
Moroccan Jewish shoemaking under European colonialism (1912-39)0
In Memoriam Fergus Millar0
Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early ModernityGondosAndreaKabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early ModernityState University0
The Commentary on Chronicles Attributed to RashiViezelEranThe Commentary on Chronicles Attributed to Rashiin HebrewMagnes PressJerusalem, 2019, viii, 457, $35.00ISBN 978-9-65493-512-80
The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents: Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyond Syntax; Basics of Hebrew AccentsParkSung JinThe Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents: Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyond SyntaxCa0
Defective spelling in manuscripts of the Mishnah: a proposed explanation0
Affinities between the yoṣerot of Saadya Gaon and Shelomo Suleiman al-Sanjari: a window onto the Gaon’s early career0
Sacred and non-sacred: divine names in early rabbinic traditions0
Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures: Studies in Honour of Daniel J. LaskerKrinisEhudBashirNabihOffenbergSaraSadikShalomPolemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewis0
Vespasian’s raids in the Jaffa region reconsidered0
Continuity and innovation in architectural depictions of the Jerusalem Temple0
Complete AramaicReymondEric D.Complete AramaicJohn Murray PressLondon, 2021, xviii, 326, £39.99ISBN 978-1-47362-776-50
Brothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval EuropeKanarfogelEphraimBrothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval EuropeWayne State Uni0
Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual VariantsParryDonald W.Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual VariantsBrillLeiden, 2020, xiv, 509, €160.00ISBN 978-9-00441-059-60
Giovanni Battista Iona's Hebrew translation of the four Gospels0
F.L. Cross, E. Livingstone and Andrew Louth (eds), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church0
R. El̔azar son of R. Šim̔on the thief catcher ( bB. Metz. 83a–84a)0
You can’t go home again: the Bavli’s story of Honi’s big sleep as inversion of the Yerushalmi’s account0
Love and fear of God in the thought of Isaac of Corbeil0
Two Judeo-Spanish ‘Marrano’ hymns in the liturgy of the Jews of Cochin0
Hebrew between Jews and ChristiansStein KokinDanielHebrew between Jews and ChristiansDe GruyterBerlin, 2023, vi, 358, €87.99ISBN 978-3-11033-863-80
Steven Kepnes (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology0
The Oxford Handbook of the SeptuagintSalvesenAlison G.LawTimothy MichaelThe Oxford Handbook of the SeptuagintOxford University PressOxford, 2021, xvii, 791, £110.00ISBN 978-0-19966-571-60
‘Joshua Son of Nun and the Seven Angels’: a Hebrew lamella from the Wolfe Collection0
Reuven Kiperwasser and Geoffrey Herman (eds), Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism0
Neither insiders nor outsiders: the German National Library and the Jews before 19330
Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish AntiquityHicks-KeetonJillArguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish AntiquityOxford University PressNew0
A computational analysis of the special Talmudic tractates0
Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland: Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and Religious LeadershipHoltschneiderHannahJewish Orthodoxy in Scotland: Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and Religious LeadershipEdinburgh University PressE0
The Land is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the RenaissanceBernsAndre D.The Land is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the RenaissanceUniversity of Pennsylvania PressPhiladelphia 0
A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. Second revised and expanded editionSokoloffMichaelA Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Per0
The Damascus Document; The Community Rules from Qumran: A CommentaryFraadeSteven D.The Damascus DocumentOxford University PressOxford, 2021, xiv, 191, £65.00ISBN 978-0-19873-433-8HempelCharlotteThe Co0
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Aseneth’s TransformationHartvigsenKirsten MarieAseneth’s TransformationDe GruyterBerlin, 2018, xii, 246, £72.50ISBN 978-3-11036-337-10
A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760MillsSimonA Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the O0
A Pious Belligerence: Dialogical Warfare and the Rhetoric of Righteousness in the Crusading Near EastShacharUri ZviA Pious Belligerence: Dialogical Warfare and the Rhetoric of Righteousness in the Cru0
Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe: A New Perspective on an Exegetical RevolutionCohenMordechai Z.Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Euro0
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Babatha's first marriage contract: hiding in plain sight0
Job’s Body and the Dramatised Comedy of MoralisingSouthwoodKatherine E.Job’s Body and the Dramatised Comedy of MoralisingRoutledgeLondon and New York, 2021, xi, 190, £120.00ISBN 978-0-36746-257-40
The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian ContextSecundaShaiThe Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and i0
Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Two Commentaries on Megilat Esther. An Annotated Critical EditionMishalyAyalaZiporMoshe A.Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Two Commentaries on Megilat Esther. An Annotated Critical EditionBar-Ila0
How many verbal patterns are there in Hebrew? From Sibawayh to Judah Ḥayyūj and Abraham ibn Ezra0
Arendt and Deutscher on heresy and identity0
The Bible and Jews in Medieval SpainRothNormanThe Bible and Jews in Medieval SpainRoutledgeAbingdon, 2021, xv, 468, £140.00ISBN 978-0-36789-841-00
Encoding and decoding secret signs in the stories of Rabbi Joseph Hayyim of Baghdad0
Genesis According to the Syriac Peshiṭta Version with English TranslationMorrisonCraig E.BalzarettiClaudioPozzobonMirkoKirazGeorge A.BaliJosephGenesis According to the Syriac Peshiṭta Version with Eng0
The ʾāšām bûr (אשׁם בור): early-medieval Karaites, Leviticus 5:18b and the Masoretic text0
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The Matriarchs in Genesis RabbahWoolstenhulmeKatieThe Matriarchs in Genesis RabbahBloomsbury T&T ClarkLondon, 2022, 276, £95.00ISBN 978-0-56769-573-40
Herod’s golden eagle on the Temple gate: a reconsideration0
David Zvi Hoffmann’s (1843–1921) commentary on the Pentateuch in the context of German-Jewish Orthodoxy’s struggle over the dogmatic principles of Torah0
A lost homily on Gehenna and repentance in Midrash Tehillim0
The study of Hebrew synonyms in the early Haskalah period0
Failing to remember: afterlives and Stolpersteine in the Nordic region0
R. Nachman of Tshe’erin’s Kuntres Inyan ha-Hishtahut0
Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the ‘Guide of the Perplexed’; Maimonides’ ‘Guide of the Perplexed’ in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the TwentiethDe SouzaIgor H.Rewr0
Mutual responsibility in Kabbalistic thought – ethics, theology and gender0
The Bakhtinian chronotope in the destruction narrative in the Fathers of Rabbi Nathan B0
Kill the hen that crows like a cock: animal encounters in Old Yiddish0
A hidden nusach: the linguistic literacy of the Maharam Lublin0
Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner’s writings on religion in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s0
Translation and Style in the Old Greek Psalter: What Pleases Israel’s GodJonesJennifer BrownTranslation and Style in the Old Greek Psalter: What Pleases Israel’s GodBrillLeiden, 2021, xi, 289, €124.000
Daniel J. Lasker, Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism0
The image of the non-Jew in the responsa of David Zvi Hoffmann0
The trilingual Hebrew/Aramaic/Judeo-Greek glossary from MS Vat. ebr. 4230
Physical and economic aspects of the earliest Septuagint papyri0
Heidegger and His Jewish ReceptionHerskowitzDaniel M.Heidegger and His Jewish ReceptionCambridge University PressCambridge, 2021, 356, £75.00ISBN 978-1-10884-046-00
Jewish Biblical Exegesis from Islamic Lands: The Medieval PeriodPolliacMeiraBrenner-IdanAthalyaJewish Biblical Exegesis from Islamic Lands: The Medieval PeriodSBL PressAtlanta GA, 2019, xvii, 365, $490
Holly Morse, Encountering Eve’s Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approach to Genesis 2–40
Chabad discourse on rationales for the commandments: Derekh mitsvotekha0
Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I: Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and IslamReevesJohn C.ReedAnnette YoshikoEnoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I: Sources from Judaism,0
Lost and found manuscripts of Targum0
Judeo-Syriac in late antiquity and the Middle Ages0
Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 1RubensteinJeffrey L. Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 1Brown Judaic StudiesProvidence RI, 2021, xxvi, 417, $29.00ISBN 978-1-95149-879-50
The Sabbatean syndrome, the messianic idea and Zionism0
Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish ClassicLaweeEricRashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Clas0
R. Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on Isaiah 40–66. An Annotated Critical Edition, with textual variants from all existing manuscripts and the editio princeps, references and introduction (in Hebrew)Haa0
Scribal Practice, Text and Canon in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Memory of Peter W. FlintCollinsJohn J.Geyser-FouchéAnandaScribal Practice, Text and Canon in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Memory 0
Gershom Scholem’s ‘laments project’ and the question of gender0
‘Even God Cannot Change the Past’: Reflections on Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology; Theophanic ‘Type-Scenes’ in the Pentateuch: Visions of YHWH; Apocalypse, Prophecy, 0
Seeking Out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 BCE–400 CE); Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Late AntiquitySafraiZe’ev0
Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis: The Evangelical Missionary Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth CenturyRudermanDavid B.Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis: The Evangelical0
The date and provenance of the Aramaic Targum to Canticles0
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