Zutot 2001 [Paperback]

The 2001 yearbook aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. It covers Jewish Culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines - literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history - and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.

Bible.A Note on the Root ZQN in the Hebrew Bible; A. Brenner. Sacred Spaces in the Book of Daniel; S. Levy.Greek and Roman World.Contextualising Greek Chronicles; S. Pearce. Cleopatra the Physician; J. Geiger. Were the Rabbis Troubled by Witches? L. Mock. Maria Alchemista, the First Female Jewish Author; P.W. van der Horst. A Gold Votive Medallion in the Jewish Museum, London; N. de Lange.PIYYUT.Hearing and Understanding Piyyut in the Liturgy of the Synagogue; W.-J. van Bekkum. Intertextual Polyphony: Scriptural Presence(s) in a Piyyutim Cycle by Yoseph Ibn Abitur; Y. Granat. 'Rashi' and Early Ashkenazi Piyyut; A. van der Heide. Isaac ha-Gorni and the Troubadour Persona; A. Brener. The captions 'fi wazn' and 'fi lahn' in Strophic Poetry; U. Haxen.Jewish Thought.Religious Polemics in a Philosophical Encyclopedia: Judah ha?Cohen on 'The Chosen People'; R. Fontaine. Athens in Jerusalem. On the Definition of Jewish Philosophy; R. Munk.Booklore.Some Remarks on the Date and Original Price of a Rare Iberian Hebrew Incunable; A.K. Offenberg. On an Unknown Appellation of Jerusalem from the Ottoman Period; M. Levy?Rubin, R. Rubin.History.Passion at the Periphery: The Contexts of a Clandestine Converso Conjunction; M. Goldish. Abraham Hayim ben Zvi Hirsh Braatbard. A Hebrew type-setter in Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century; R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld. Bridging the Gaps - Reflections on the Trial of a Court Jew and a Modern Concept of Jewish History in Germany; R. Ries. Viewing the Jewish Masses: Elƒ2