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	AJS Review Volume 26, Number 1 • April 2002 Table of Contents Articles Arthur Green Shekhinah, The Virgin Mary, and the Song of Songs 1 Marian and Ramón F. Sarraga Sephardic Epitaphs in Hamburg's Oldest Cemetery: Poetry, Riddles, and Eccentric Texts 53 Review Essays Norbert M. Samuelson Maimonidean Scholarship at the End of the Century 93 Book Reviews BIBLE Paul Heger. The Three Biblical Altar Laws LISBETH S. FRIED 109 Steven L. McKenzie. King David: A Biography Marti J. Steussy. David: Biblical Portraits ofPower Baruch Halpern. David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King ADELE BERLIN 111 Uriel Simon. The JPS Bible Commentary: Jonah JAMES S. ACKERMAN 117 Benjamin Uffenheimer. Early Prophecy in Israel BENJAMIN D. SOMMER 120 Eugene Ulrich. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible LEONARD GREENSPOON 121 M. P Weitzman. The Syriac Version of the Old Testament: An Introduction JOHN DAVID BROLLEY 123 ANCIENT HISTORY, RABBINICS, JEWISH LAW Shaye J. D. Cohen. The Beginnings ofJewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties GARY G. PORTON 125 Marc (Menahem) Hirshman. Torah for the Entire World MARTIN S. JAFFEE 127 Jeffrey Rubenstein. Talmudic Stories Shulamit Valler. Women and Womenhood in the Talmud MOSHE SIMON 129 Menachem Elon, Bernard Auerbach, Daniel D. Chazin, and Melvin Sykes. Jewish Law (Mishpat Ivri): Cases and Materials MICHAEL J. BROYDE AND ANGELA RICCETTI 131 MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN HISTORY Jeremy Cohen. Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity IRVEN M. RESNICK 133 S. D. Goitein. A Mediterranean Society: An Abridgement in One Volume NORMAN A. STILLMAN 137 Abraham David. To Come to the Land: Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel Abraham David. In Zion and Jerusalem. The Itinerary of Rabbi Moses Basola (1521-1523) ELISHEVA CARLEBACH 141 MEDIEVAL THOUGHT Moshe Hallamish. An Introduction to the Kabbalah DAVID S. ARIEL 140 Sarah Stroumsa. The Beginnings of the Maimonidean Controversy in the East: Yosef Ibn Shim `on's Silencing Epistle Concerning the Resurrection of the Dead ALBERT D. FRIEDBERG 141 MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN CULTURE Y. Tzvi Langermann. The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages Y.Tzvi Langermann and Snait Gissis, eds. Science in Context, Special Issue Steven Harvey, ed. The Medieval Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy (2000) TAMAR RUDAVSKY 143 Renee Levine Melammed. Heretics or Daughters of Israel: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile JUDITH R. BASKIN 148 Yitzhak (Eric) Zimmer. The Fiery Embers of the Scholars JOSEPH DAVIS 151 EARLY MODERN CULTURE Don Harrán. Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua JOSHUA R. JACOBSON 152 MODERN HISTORY Keith H. Pickus. Constructing Modern Identities: Jewish University Studies in Germany, 1815-1914 SHULAMIT MAGNUS 155 Henry Abramson. A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 OLGA LITVAK 157 Vicki Caron. Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942 SANFORD GUTMAN 159 Eli Faber. Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight HAROLD BRACKMAN 162 Arthur Goren. The Politics and Public Culture of American Jews ALAN MITTLEMAN 164 Eliezer Bashan. The Anglican Mission and Moroccan Jewry in the Nineteenth Century MICHAEL M. LASKIER 165 MODERN LITERATURE Moshe Pelli. Kinds of Genre in Haskalah Literature: Types and Topics LEV HAKAK 168 Hayyim Nahman Bialik. Random Harvest: The Novellas of Bialik JAMES B. ROSENBERG 170 Ruth Kartun-Blum. Profane Scriptures: Reflections on the Dialogue with the Bible in Modern Hebrew Poetry MARC BERNSTEIN 172 Stephen Katz. The Centrifugal Novel: S. Y. Agnon's Poetics of Composition WILLIAM CUTTER 175 S. Lillian Kremer. Women s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination RACHEL FELDHAY BRENNER 178 Kadya Molodowsky. Paper Bridges: Selected Poems LEAH ZAZULYER 180 David Patterson. Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary LINDA RAPHAEL 183 Nahma Sandrow, ed. God, Man, and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation Robert Skloot, ed. The Theater of the Holocaust MICHAEL TAUB 185 Daniel Schwarz. Imagining the Holocaust YONA SHAPIRA 188 MODERN THOUGHT Allison E Coudert. The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-98) DAVID B. RUDERMAN 194 Norman Lamm. The Religious Thought of Hasidism MORRIS FAIERSTEIN 196 Eugene Borowitz and Frances Weinman Schwartz. The Jewish Moral Virtues Aaron Levine. Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics Byron Sherwin. Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century ELLIOT DORFF 198 David R. Blumenthal. The Banality of Good and Evil SAMUEL P OLINER 202 Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, eds. Contemporary Jewish Theology: A Reader MASSIMO GUILIANI 204 Norbert Samuelson. A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star Ernest Rubenstein. An Episode of Jewish Romanticism: Franz Rosenzweig's Star ROBERT GIBBS 206 MODERN CULTURE Alvin Goldfarb and Rebecca Rovit, eds. Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust ROBERT SKLOOT 209 Vivian Mann. Jewish Texts on the Visual Arts Catherine Soussloff. Jewish Identity in Modern Art History JACOB NEUSNER 211 Steven J. Zipperstein. Imagining Russian Jewry David G. Roskies. The Jewish Search for a Usable Past MICHAEL STEINLAUF 213 COLLECTED STUDIES 219 BOOKS RECEIVED 233