Zutot 2002 [Paperback]

The yearbook Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and, though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions.

Antiquity:On Jewish Metronymics in the Graeco-Roman Period; J.J. Price. His Days Shall be One Hundred and Twenty Years: Genesis 6:3 in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity; P.W. Horst.Poetry and Piyyut:Qumran Poetry and Piyyut: Some Observations on Hebrew Poetic Traditions in Biblical and Post-Biblical Times; W.-J.van Bekkum A New Rahat by Saadia Gaon; T. Beeri. Lyric and Liturgy in the Gabiriolian Tradition; J. Yahalom. A Muwashshah from the Genizah; A. Schippers. Flora and Fauna in Medieval Piyyut-Commentary; E. Hollender.Middle Ages:Why Medieval Hebrew Studies? Some Thoughts on Stefan C. Reif's Inaugural Lecture; I.E. Zwiep. A Letter of Greetings to R. Hayyim ben Hanan'el ha-Dayy?n from the Geniza; P.B. Fenton. Abraham ibn Ezra: Between Tradition and Philology; A. S?enz-Badillos. From Jacob or Esau? to Has the Messiah Come? Controversies between Jews and Christians as Reflected in Bible Exegesis; H. Trautner-Kromann.Maimonides:Logic to Interpretation: Maimonides' Use of al-F?r?b?'s Model of Metaphor; M.Z. Cohen. Four Implicit Quotations of Philosophical Sources in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed; G. Freudenthal. More on Maimonides on Music; E. Seroussi.Books and Manuscripts:The Greek Glosses of the Fitzwilliam Museum Bible; N.de Lange. An Early Hebrew Manuscript from Byzantium; J. Olszowy-Schlanger. Abraham ibn Daud and the Midrash ha-Hokhmah: a Mini-Discovery; R. Fontaine. A Hidden Treasure in the Athias Cabinet, or Quid Novum in Armariolo Athii; A.K. Offenberg. An Unknown Passover Haggadah by Joseph ben David of Leipnik in the Library of Blickling Hall; E.G.L. Schrijver.Modern and Contemporary:The Problems of Jewish Studies; M. Goodman. The TwililC!