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Volume 44 - November 2020

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Julia Rhyder. Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 134. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. xxi + 484 pp.

Isaac Kalimi. Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 315 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi. Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. viii + 333 pp.

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Yosef Ofer. The Masora on Scripture and Its Methods. Translated by Michael Glatzer. Fontes et Subsidia ad Bibliam pertinentes (FoSub) 7. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. ix + 286 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Naomi S. S. Jacobs. Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink. A Commentary. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 148. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xxii + 274 pp.

Paula Fredriksen. Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. xii + 319 pp.

Chaim N. Saiman. Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law. Library of Jewish Ideas 13. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. xiv + 296 pp.

Eyal Ben-Eliyahu. Identity and Territory: Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. xii + 158 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

T. M. Rudavsky. Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Science, Rationalism, and Religion. The Oxford History of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 305 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Philip Church. Hebrews and the Temple: Attitudes to the Temple in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 171. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 615 pp.

Hagith Sivan. Jewish Childhood in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 443 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Jonathan Decter. Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 387 pp.

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Judith H. Newman. Before the Bible: The Liturgical Body and the Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiii + 178 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Nathan P. Devir. New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2017. 310 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Rella Kushelevsky. Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma‘asim in Medieval Northern France. With a historical epilogue by Elisheva Baumgarten. Translations by Ruchie Avital and Chaya Naor. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. 816 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Era

James Loeffler. Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 384 pp.

Kirsten Fermaglich. A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 256 pp.

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Eric Lawee. Rashi's Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 478 pp.

Rena N. Lauer. Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 292 pp.

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Rachel Kranson. Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv + 232 pp.

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Volume 44 - November 2020

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

Book Reviews: Judaism in Antiquity and Rabbinics

Book Reviews: Biblical Studies

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: Modern Era

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Book Reviews: Modern Era