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Year:
2017
Catalog number :
45-647063
Pages:
331
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700 gr.
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Paperback

Jewish Studies 52

Journal of The World Union of Jewish Studies

Synopsis

“Jewish Studies" is published annually by the World Union of Jewish Studies (WUJS) and provides an outlet for the publication of articles, studies, documents and various other contents in Jewish studies. The journal publishes articles in Hebrew and in English, which undergo a review process. The journal focuses on studies of a methodological programmatic nature and reviews various areas of Jewish studies. The journal was first published in 1971 under the title "Newsletter of the World Union of Jewish Studies". Since 1996 it is published in its current form as "Jewish Studies - Journal of the World Union of Jewish Studies". In addition to articles, the journal publishes a section for recent WUJS news and publications, as well as reviews of new books published in the various fields of Jewish studies.

Articles in this volume:

ENGLISH SECTION
Michael Schneider - Seventy Names and Seventy Books: Fourth Ezra and Hekhalot Literature
Don Karr - Notes on the Study of Merkabah Mysticism and Hekhalot Literature in English
ABSTRACTS
HEBREW SECTION

Ithamar Gruenwald - Aftertoughts on the Study of the Merkavah Literature
Shraga Bar-On - “The Lord of All” and “The Creator of the and Yakir Paz World”: Aleinu le-Shabeach as an Anti-Binitarian Prayer
Israel Knohl - The Chariot, the Righteous Man and Satan: Towards Resolving the Puzzle of Sefer HaBahir
Gideon Bohak - Neologisms in Hekhalot Literature
Yaron Zini - The Different Layers of Hekhalot Literature: Results of Linguistic Research
Tzahi Weiss - The God of Israel—a Prince before God: The Sources and the Meaning of an Early Medieval Jewish Mythical Tradition
Joseph Dan - From Hekhalot Rabbati to the Hekhalot of the Zohar: The Depersonalization of the Mysticism of the Divine Chario
Moshe Idel - The Heikhalot Literature, the Ecstatic-Mystical Model and their Metamorphose