Book Reviews: Jewish History and Culture in Late Antiquity
David Goodblatt. Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 260 pp.
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- 10 November 2008, pp. 397-400
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Michael Satlow. Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xii, 340 pp.
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- 10 April 2008, pp. 177-180
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Martha Himmelfarb. A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2006. 270 pp.
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Mark R. Cohen. Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. xi, 287 pp. - Mark R. Cohen. The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii, 226 pp.
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- 10 April 2008, pp. 180-182
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James L. Kugel. The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and his Children. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii, 278 pp.
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Elisheva Baumgarten. Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi, 275 pp.
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- 10 April 2008, pp. 182-185
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Stefanie B. Siegmund. The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xxiv, 624 pp.
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- 10 April 2008, pp. 185-187
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Hayim Lapin. Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001. 227 pp.
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- 10 November 2008, pp. 404-407
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Eyal Regev. Sectarianism in Qumran: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. xviii, 438 pp.
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- 10 November 2008, pp. 407-409
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Kenneth Stow. Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters: Continuity in the Catholic-Jewish Encounter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xx, 316 pp.
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- 10 April 2008, pp. 188-190
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Book Reviews: Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander. Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi, 246 pp.
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- 10 November 2008, pp. 410-411
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Menachem Kellner. Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism. Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006. xix, 343 pp.
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Carol Bakhos. Ishmael on the Border: Rabbinic Portrayals of the First Arab. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. viii, 207 pp.
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Judith Tydor Baumel. The “Bergson Boys” and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy. Trans. Dena Ordan. Foreword by Moshe Arens. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
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- 10 April 2008, pp. 193-195
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Richard Kalmin. Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 285 pp.
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Uri Bialer. Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israel's Foreign Policy, 1948–1967. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiv, 241 pp.
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Matthew Kraus, ed. How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World?Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006. vii, 217 pp. - Rivka Ulmer, ed. Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. viii, 248 pp.
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- 10 November 2008, pp. 418-421
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Eric Goldstein. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii, 307pp.
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Tamar Katriel. Dialogic Moments: From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2004. viii, 384 pp.
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W. David Nelson. Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai. Translated into English, with Critical Introduction and Annotation. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2006. xxx, 398 pp.
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- 10 November 2008, pp. 421-424
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