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Volume 40 - November 2016

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Michael Fishbane. The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of Songs. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2015. 400 pp.

Yael Shemesh . Mourning in the Bible: Coping with Loss in Biblical Literature. Tel Aviv: Ha-kibbutz Ha-me'uḥad, 2015. 424 pp. (Hebrew).

Jacob L. Wright . David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 271 pp.

Benjamin D. Sommer. Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 419 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Joshua Ezra Burns . The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 304 pp.

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Katell Berthelot, Joseph E. David, and Marc Hirshman, eds. The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 464 pp.

Book Reviews: Rabbinics

Jane L. Kanarek. Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 212 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Gregg E. Gardner . The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 235 pp.

Book Reviews: Rabbinics

Julia Watts Belser. Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 239 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Reuven Hammer . Akiva: Life, Legend, Legacy. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society and University of Nebraska Press, 2015. 243 pp.

Book Reviews: Rabbinics

Daniel Boyarin. A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 178 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Christine Hayes . What's Divine about Divine Law? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 412 pp.

William Horbury . Jewish War under Trajan and Hadrian. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 501 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Elisheva Baumgarten. Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 334 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Alex P. Jassen . Scripture and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 298 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Thomas W. Barton. Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015. 312 pp.

David Nirenberg. Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 341 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Adam Kolman Marshak . The Many Faces of Herod the Great. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015. 400 pp.

Stuart S. Miller . At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds: Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Ritual Purity among the Jews of Roman Galilee. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. 342 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Daniel Jütte. The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets. Translated from the German by Jeremiah Riemer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 431 pp.

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Volume 40 - November 2016

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Book Reviews: Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras