Zutot 2002

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.

Contenu

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-Dayyân from the Geniza; P.B. Fenton. Abraham ibn Ezra: Between Tradition and Philology; A. Sáenz-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-Fârâbî'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 Twilight between Scholarship and Mysticism; J.H. Laenan. Soirée bei Kohn: Jewish Elements in the Repertoire of Hermann Leopoldi; N.G. Jacobs. The Writer Who Wrote More than He Meant to Write: On Arthur Miller's Broken Glass; B. Baanders. Corrigenda: Gruschka, R. and M. Aptroot. Offenberg, A.K.