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From: "Rachel Elior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ha-Safran]: New books -a message from Rachel Elior
I am delighted to inform about two new books
The first one is: Creation and Re-Creation in Jewish Thought - Festschrift
in Honor of Joseph Dan on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, Edited
by Rachel Elior and Peter Schafer, Tubingen 2005 ISBN 3-161487 * see table
of contents below
http://www.mohr.de/t/n4304_e.htm
The second one is: Derech HaRuach Sefer haYovel leEliezer Schwid (=The Path
of the Spirit, The Eliezer Schweid Jubilee Volume): Jerusalem Studies in
Jewish Thought, volumes XVIII- XIX. edited by Yehoyada Amir. Department of
Jewish Thought, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem 2005
ISBN
965-7147-03-4 http://www.vanleer.org.il/heb/EventDetails.asp?EventId=452
Best wishes
Rachel Elior
FS Dan,
Contents
English Section
Introduction................................................................................................................................
1
Philip S. Alexander
The Talmudic Concept of Conjuring (Ahizat Einayim) and the Problem of the
Definition of Magic (Kishuf) 7
Dan Ben-Amos
On
Demons..............................................................................................................................
27
Peter Schaefer
From Cosmology to Theology. The Rabbinic Appropriation of Apocalyptic
Cosmology.............. 39
Margarete Schlaeter
The Creative Force of a Hermeneutic Rule. The Principle There is No Earlier
and Later in the Torah in Midrashic and Talmudic
Literature...................................................................................................................
59
Bernard McGinn
Selective Affinities. Reflections on Jewish and Christian Mystical
Exegesis................................... 85
Klaus Herrmann
An Unknown Commentary on the Book of Creation (Sefer Yezirah) from the
Cairo Genizah and Its Re-Creation Among the Haside
Ashkenaz..............................................................................................................
103
Herbert A. Davidson
The First Two Positive Commandments in Maimonidesâ List of the 613
Believed to Have Been Given to Moses at
Sinai.............................................................................................................................................
113
Annelies Kuyt
Hasidut Ashkenaz on the Angel of Dreams. A Heavenly Messenger Reflecting or
Exchanging Mans Thoughts 147
Haym Soloveitchik
The Midrash, Sefer Hasidim and the Changing Face of
God.................................................... 165
Eli Yassif
The Medieval Saint as Protagonist and Storyteller. The Case of R. Judah
he-Hasid................... 179
Gerold Necker
Circle, Point and Line. A Lurianic Myth in the Puerta del
Cielo............................................... 193
Marc Saperstein
Ein Li Eseq ba-Nistarot . Saul Levi Morteiras Sermons on Parashat
Bereshit..................... 209
Giuseppe Veltri
The East in the Story of the Lost Tribes. Creation of Geographical and
Political Utopias......... 249
Aviezer Ravitzky
Covenant of Faith or Covenant of Fate? Competing Orthodox Conceptions of
the Secular Jews 271
Avinoam Rosenak
Halakhah, Thought and the Idea of Holiness in the Writings of Rabbi Chaim
David Halevi......... 309
Kimmy Caplan
Absolutely Intellectually Honest. A Case-Study of American Jewish Modern
Orthodox Historiography 339
Saverio Campanini
A Case for Sainte-Beuve. Some Remarks on Gershom Scholemâs
Autobiography.................... 363
Eric Jacobson
Ahavat Yisrael. Nationhood, the Pariah and the
Intellectual....................................................... 401
Hebrew Section
Introduction.............................................................................................................................
1*
Yair Zakovitch
Genesis Exegesis - Genesis- Psalms- Job-
Psalms.................................................................... 7*
Rachel Elior
You Have Chosen Enoch from Among Human Beings: Enoch The Scribe of
Righteousness and the Scroll's Library of The Priests the Sons of
Zadok.............................................................................................
15*
David Weiss Halivni
Restitution of the
Bible...........................................................................................................
65*
Avigdor Shinan
"He Created all for His Glory": The Creation of the World and its Purpose
in Light of the 'The Marital Blessing of the
Grooms'................................................................................................................................
75*
Avraham Grossman
Women in the Teachings of the German
Pietists......................................................................
85*
Giulio Busi
The Early Kabbalistic Exegesis on the Book of
Contemplation................................................. 97*
Moshe Hallamish
The Utterance and the Holiness as Reflected in the Laws of the
Sabbath................................ 103*
Jacob Elbaum and Chava Turniansky
The Moral of the Householders: The Book âSam Hayimâ by Avraham
Ashkenazi Apteiker from Ludmir 111*
Hagit Matras
Creation and Re-creation: A Study in âSifrei Sgulot uârfuotâ (Charm
books)........................... 147*
Joseph Hacker
The History of the Study of Kabbalah and its Dissemination in Saloniki in
the 16th Century..... 165*
Raya Haran
The Redemption of the World or the Annihilation of the World: Restitution
in Hasidism........... 181*
Arnold J. Band
Secularization of the Sacred: Forms of Inter-textual Expression in a Poem
by Yehuda Amichai 193*
Hamutal Bar Yosef
Personal Inter-relations as a Mystical Aspiration in Hebrew Zionistic
Literature...................... 197*
Miri Kubovy
Exile in the Motherland: "Katzchen" and "Ephraim", Two Stories of Yoel
Hofmann................ 225*
Naama Ben Shahar
Bibliography..........................................................................................................................
239*
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