Zutot 2004

MOTIFS IN LITERATURE. Judas the Maccabee’s Dream (2 Macc. i:ii-i6) and the Egyptian King’s Sickle Sword; J.W. van Henten. I Enoch 56.7; H. Jacobson. How Plutarch Gained his Place in the Tosefta; H. Zellentin. A Hebrew Hymn of Praise for a High-priestly Rabbinic Martyr: A Note on the Relationship between the Synagogue Liturgy and Rabbinic Literary Culture; R.S. Boustan. The Rechabites in Ma’aseh Alexandros and in the Medieval Ben Sira; R. Nikolsky.-
HISTORY AND DEMOGRAPHY. Once Again on Yael and the Aphrodisias Inscription; T. Ilan. The Jews of Ancient Sicily; P.W. van der Horst. Cosmas of Prague and the Western Migration of Jews to Poland; J. van Straten.-
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE THOUGHT. Maimonides’ Disagreement with ‘The Torah’ in His Interpretation of Job; M.Z. Cohen. From Digression to Compilation: Samuel ibn Tibbon and Immanuel of Rome on Genesis 1:11, 1:14, and 1:20; J.T. Robinson. An Unexpected Source of Meir Aldabi’s Shevile Emunah; R. Fontaine. The Image of the Black in Yohanan Alemanno’s Hai ha‘Olamim: Additional Evidence; A. Melamed. Neutral or Natural Relater? Some Remarks on Rabbi Leone da Modena’s Historia de Riti Hebraici; R. Arnold.-
HASKALAH. What's in a Name? Conceptions of Hebrew as Reflected by the Titles of Hebrew Grammars; I.E. Zwiep. ‘Biqqure ha-’Ittim Are the First Fruits . . . Which Include Some Nice Things and Matters of Knowledge and Benefit’: The Hebrew Periodical of the Haskalah in Galicia; M. Pelli.-
WITHIN ORTHODOXY. The Magic of Halakhah: A Study in the Ritual of Washing Hands in the Morning after Rising as Described in the Shulhan ‘Arukh (OH 4); L. Mock. From Frankfurt to Jerusalem: Horev School. A Special Approach in the Israeli Religious School System; D. Niederland.