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Scholarship

Cover of The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492
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The Cho­sen Few: How Edu­ca­tion Shaped Jew­ish His­to­ry, 70 – 1492
Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
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Mes­sian­ism, Secre­cy and Mys­ti­cism: A New Inter­pre­ta­tion of Ear­ly Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
Laura Arnold Leibman
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Jew­ish The­ol­o­gy and World Religions
Alon Goshen-Gottstein and Eugene Korn, eds.
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Fresh Fruit & Vin­tage Wine: Ethics and Wis­dom of the Aggada
Yitzchak Blau
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Bukha­ran Jews and the Dynam­ics of Glob­al Judaism
Alanna E. Cooper
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Russ­ian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917 – 1920
Oleg Budnitskii; Timothy J. Portice, trans.
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Dynam­ic Belong­ing: Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Col­lec­tive Identities
Harvey E. Goldberg, Steven M. Cohen, and Ezra Kopelowitz, eds.
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Race, Rights, & Recog­ni­tion: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture since 1969
Dean J. Franco
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The Jew­ish Jesus: How Judaism and Chris­tian­i­ty Shaped Each Other
Peter Schäfer
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Between Chris­t­ian and Jew: Con­ver­sion and Inqui­si­tion in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391
Paola Tartakoff
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Sto­ries of the Law: Nar­ra­tive Dis­course and the Con­struc­tion of Author­i­ty in the Mishnah
Moshe Simon-Shoshan
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Mai­monides & Spin­oza: Their Con­flict­ing Views of Human Nature
Joshua Parens
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The Jew­ish Anno­tat­ed New Tes­ta­ment: New Revised Stan­dard Version
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds.
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The Sages: Char­ac­ter, Con­text and Cre­ativ­i­ty; Vol. II: From Yavneh to the Bar Kokh­ba Revolt
Binyamin Lau; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
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Essen­tial Read­ings on Jew­ish Iden­ti­ties: Lifestyles & Beliefs: Analy­ses of the Per­son­al and Social Diver­si­ty of Jews by Mod­ern Scholars
Stanford Lyman, ed.
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The Five Books of Moses: A Trans­la­tion with Commentary
Robert Alter
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