Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Revival and the Oral Legacy of Hebrew Some Observations / Shelomo Morag -- Judaeo-Arabic Studies after a Century of Genizah Research / Joshua Blau -- Three Views Regarding the Gender of Biblical Nouns in the Writings of Medieval Hebrew Grammarians / Luba Charlap -- Saadia Gaon—A Master Linguist / Aron Dotan -- La Traduction du Coran en Hebreu Par J. Riveline (Remarques Sur la Forme et le Contenu) / Mohamed Elmedlaoui -- El Primer Día de la Creación Según el Tsene-Rene de Jacob Ben Isaac Ashkenazi de Janow / Joan Ferrer -- Shir Ha-Shirim Rabbah en la Geniza de Cambridge / Luis Girón Blanc -- La Versión Española de Maqre Dardeqe / Benjamin Hary and María Angeles Gallego -- Lexical Analysis of the Copper Scroll from the Perspective of Mishnaic Hebrew / Francisco Jiménez Bedman -- The Early Karaite Grammatical Tradition / Geoffrey Khan -- Trends of Foreign Influence on Modern Hebrew / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald -- Yiddish is Alive and Well and Living at …? Ethnolinguistic Vitality Research & Attitudes Towards Yiddish use in London / Carole A. Shaw -- El Griego Rabínico y el Judeo-Griego Fuentes Primeras y Estado Actual de la Investigación / Sifra Sznol -- La Acentuación Masorética en Amós y su Relación Con la División Oracional y la Estructura Poética del Texto / Fco. Javier del Barco -- Joshua, Judaism, and Genocide / Carl S. Ehrlich -- Will the Real Moses Please Step Forward (An Interpretation of the Exodus Story) / Claire Gottlieb -- Abraham Firkovich, the Aleppo Codex, and its Dedication / Tapani Harviainen -- Grammar, Meaning, Theology Medieval Hebrew Lexicographers on the Verb Nissa / Albert van der Heide -- Textual Tradition of Targum Jonathan to Isaiah / Alberdina Houtman -- The Book of Esther "…and she Touched the Top of the Scepter...." / Shimon Levy -- Lot's Choice: Paradise or Purgatory? / Meir Lubetski -- Jeremiah's Concept of Covenantal Relationship / Rabbi Albert Plotkin -- Medieval Oriental Exegesis on the Character of Jacob in Hosea 12 / Meira Polliack -- Conceptos a Través de los Cuales se Desarrolla la Hermenéutica del Targum de Ezequiel / Josep Ribera-Florit -- Isaac Abravanel's "Lost" Commentary on Deuteronomy / Benjamin Richler -- Semántica y Sintaxis del Paralelismo en el Libro de Isaías / Guadalupe Seijas de los Ríos Zarzosa -- The Tenses in the Targum of Jeremiah / Floris Sepmeijer -- "Hasta Que Venga Shylh " (GN 49,10) en los Principales Exponentes de la Exégesis Judía Medieval / Miguel Ángel Tábet -- Sintaxis del Verbo Hebreo Bíblico Nuevas Tendencias / Luis Vegas Montaner -- Fifty Years of Research on the Dead Sea Scrolls and its Impact on Jewish Studies / Florentino García Martínez -- Algunos Apuntes Sobre Los Proverbios Siriacos de Menandro / Juan José Alarcón Sainz -- La Terminologie de la Loi à L'Epoque du Second Temple, Archeologie D'Un Vocabulaire Occulle de L'Anachronisme du Terme "Halakha" / Jacqueline Genot-Bismuth -- Interpretation and Authority a History of Sotah / Lisa Grushcow -- Hezekiah as King Messiah Traces of an Early Jewish-Christian Polemic in the Tannitic Tradition / Mireille Hadas-Lebel -- The Mythological Background of the Wisdom of Solomon / A. Peter Hayman -- Pappus and Lulianus in Jewish Resistance to Rome / William Horbury -- AIōn in Philo of Alexandria Biblical "Time" and Philosophical "Eternity" / Heleen M. Keizer -- "Therefore they Ordained to say it in Aramaic" Some Remarks on Language and Style of the Kaddish / Andreas Lehnardt -- Vayyiqra Rabba Through History a Project to Study its Textual Transmission / Chaim Milikowsky and Margarete Schlüter -- Two Cardinal Laws in Pretannaitic Times? Some Observations About a Tannaitic Tradition and its Foundation in Biblical Texts / Matthias Millard -- La Mujer en Qohelet Rabbah / Carmen Motos -- La Propuesta de Paz de los Rabinos Una Lectura Sincrónica de la Tradición / Miguel Pérez Fernández -- Tosefta Sotah Síntesis de un Estudio / Olga I. Ruiz Morell -- New Perspectives on the Origins of Aggadat Bereshit the Witness of a Geniza Fragment / Lieve Teugels -- El Vidduy de Sem Ṭob Ardutiel / Amparo Alba Cecilia -- ‘ABD Al-Karim Al-Magili un Paralelo Magrebí a los Acontecimientos de 1066 en Granada / Esperanza Alfonso -- Between Spain and the East the Poetic Works of David Ben Ha-Nassi / Tova Beeri -- The Varieties of Literal Devices in a Medieval Midrash Seder Eliyahu Rabba, Chapter 18 / Ulrich Berzbach -- The Poet's Attitude in the Hebrew Poetry of Spain Between Convention and Allusion / Aviva Doron -- Hebrew Letters of Old Castile in the Cairo Genizah / Edna Engel -- Saadya Gaon on Music Melody or Rhythm? / Ulf Haxen -- The Reception of Hekhalot Literature in Yohanan Alemanno's Autograph Ms. Paris 849 / Klaus Herrmann -- Movimientos Antijudíos en los Territorios Cacereños de la Corona, Nobleza y Orden Militar de Alcántara 1476-1491 / Marciano de Hervás -- Narrative Exegesis in Ashkenas and Zarfat the Case of Piyyut -Commentary / Elisabeth Hollender -- Impuestos Reales Sobre los Judíos de Navarra / José L. Lacave -- The Jews of Muslim Spain and the Maghrib Al-Wansharisi's Collection of Fatwâs as a Source for Jewish Social History / Matthias B. Lehmann -- Recepción de la Filosofía Sefardí en la Latinidad Medieval IBN Gabirol y Maimónides / Celina A. Lértora Mendoza -- The Life of Matityah ben Mosheh The Author of Begidat haZeman & Ahituv veTsalmon (Spain, Languedoc, Aix en Provence, 15 th Century) / Zvi Malachi -- Les Particularites de la Communaute Juive de Syracuse (Sicile) a la Fin du XIV e Siecle / Vittorio Morabito -- La Versión Hebrea de Calila y Dimna de Ya'Ä‚qob Ben El'Azar / Angeles Navarro Peiro -- The Sefer Haḥayyim in its Latin-Christian Environment / Gerold Necker -- La Obra Respuestas a Los Impostores , Atribuida a Profiat Duran / José-Vicente Niclós -- Nuevos Datos Sobre Las Sinagogas de la Comunidad Judía de Girona / Sílvia Planas i Marcé -- Ṭodros Frente a Ṭodros Dos Escritores Hebreos de Toledo en el Siglo XIII / Ángel Sáenz-Badillos -- Gli Ebrei di Sicilia Alla Luce Delle Fonti Notarili del XV Secolo / Angela Scandaliato -- The Hebrew Poets of Christian Spain and the Arabic Literary Heritage / Arie Schippers -- Medieval Stylistic as Stylistic Exegesis Gate 33 of Sefer Tahkemoni and Lamentations 2 / David Simha Segal -- AlKulliyyat The General Introduction to Tanhum haYerushalmi's Commentary on the Bible / Hadassa Shy -- El Diwān de Å  e Lomoh de Piera Estado de la Cuestion / Judit Targarona Borras -- La COntradicción del Hereje de Isaac Ben Polgar / Carlos del Valle -- New Clues from an Encounter With Old Spanish / Joseph Yahalom -- Classical Knowledge in Bonafoux's Hebrew Translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae / Irene E. Zwiep -- The Impact on Jewish Studies of a Century of Genizah Research / Stefan C. Reif -- Resources in Jewish Studies on Your Home Computer / Edith Lubetski -- Consolidated vs Dispersed Collections the Case for an Interdisciplinary Approach / Judith Nadler -- A New Genizah for the New Century Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in the European Archives the new Findings of Girona / Mauro Perani -- S'ridei Schocken —"Einbandfragmente" of Hebrew Incunabula and Postincunabula at the Schocken Institute for Jewish Research / Silke Schaeper.

In July of 1998 the European Association for Jewish Studies celebrated its Sixth Congress in Toledo, with almost four hundred participants. In these Proceedings 169 papers and communications read during the conference have been collected . By and large, they offer a broad, realistic perspective on the advances, achievements and anxieties of Judaic Studies at the turn of the 20th century, on the eve of the new millennium. They represent the point of view of the European scholars, enriched with notable contributions by colleagues from other continents. One volume (ISBN 978-90-04-11554-5) includes papers dealing with Jewish studies on biblical, rabbinical and medieval times, as well as with some general subjects, such as Jewish languages and bibliography. A second volume (ISBN 978-90-04-11558-3) is dedicated to the Judaism of modern times, from the Renaissance to our days.

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