AJS Review
Volume 22, Number 1 • 1997

Table of Contents

Articles

TAL ILAN
The Quest for the Historical Beruriah, Rachel, and Imma Shalom

RENE LEVINE MELAMMED
He Said, She Said: A Woman Teacher in Twelfth-Century Cairo

SHAUL MAGID
From Theosophy to Midrash: Lurianic Exegesis and the Garden of Eden

Review Essays

Lawrence H. Schiffman. Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls:
The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity,
the Lost Library of Qumran
MOSHE J. BERNSTEIN

Irving Jacobs. The Midrashic Process
JOSHUA LEVINSON

Book Reviews

David Marcus. From Balaam to Joseph:
Anti-Prophetic Satire in the Hebrew Bible
SCOTT NOEGEL

Herbert J. Levine. Sing Unto God a New Song:
A Contemporary Reading of the Psalms
DANIEL GROSSBERG

Hector Avalos. Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East:
The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel
SCOTT NOEGEL

Lawrence M. Wills. The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World
LEONARD J. GREENSPOON

Menahem Stern. Hasmonean Judaea in the Hellenistic World:
Chapters in Political History
DAVID GOODBLATT

Tal Ilan. Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine:
An Inquiry into Image and Status
ADELE REINHARTZ

Jeffrey L. Rubinstein. The History of Sukkot
in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods
ALAN J. YUTER

N. A. von Uchelen. Chagigah: The Linguistic Encoding of Halakah
HARRY FOX

John Y. B. Hood. Aquinas and the Jews
MARTIN YAFFE

Idit Dobbs-Wettstein. Maimonides and St. Thomas on the Limits of Reason
DAVID BURRELL

Yochanan Silman. Philosopher and Prophet: Judah Halevi, the "Kuzari,"
and the Evolution of His Thought
DAVID H. FRANK

David Novak. The Election of Israel: The Idea of the Chosen People
ALLAN ARKUSH

Marc A. Weiner. Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination
GEORGE JOCHNOWITZ

Christoph Gassenschmidt. Jewish Liberal Politics in Tsarist Russia,
1900-1914: The Modernization of Russian Jewry
HENRY ABRAMSON

Daniel Carpi. Between Mussolini and Hitler:
The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia
DAVID WEINBERG

Lance J. Sussman. Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism
GERALD SORIN

Michael Ragussis. Figures of Conversion:
"The Jewish Question" & English National Identity
NANCY HENRY

Robert Liberles. Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History
DEBORAH DASH MOORE

Anthony Julius. T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form
JACOB KORG

Collected Studies

Books Received

Hebrew Article