AJS Review
Volume 27, Number 1 • 2003

Table of Contents

Articles

Marc Brettler
The Copenhagen School: The Historiographical Issues

Ram Ben-Shalom
Between Official and Private Dispute: The Case of Christian Spain and Provence in the Late Middle Ages

Glenda Abramson
No Way Out: Brenner and the War
 
Review Essays

Jonathan Klawans
Rethinking Leviticus and Rereading Purity and Danger
 
Book Reviews

Issac Kalimi. The Book of Chronicles: Historical Writing and Literary Devices
Marc S. Brettler

Judith M. Hadley. The Cult of the Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess
Gary Beckman

Abraham Tal. A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic
Gary A. Rendsburg

Nili Sacher Fox. In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah
Hermann Michael Nieman

Lee I. Levine. The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years
Steven Fine

Eric H. Cline. The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age
Neil Asher Silberman

Eleazar Kallir. Qedushta’ot for Shavu‘ot [Hymni Pentecostales]
Wout Jac. van Bekkum

Alon Goshen-Gottstein. The Sinner and the Amnesiac: The Rabbinic Intervention of Elisha Ben Abuya and Eleazar Ben Arach
Jeffrey Rubenstein

Avi Sagi and Zvi Zohar. Circles of Jewish Identity: A Study in Halakhic Literature
Marc B. Shapiro

Zefira Entin Rokéah, ed. and trans. Medieval English Jews and Royal Officials: Entries of Jewish Interest in the English Memoranda Rolls, 1266-1293
William Chester Jordan

Robert Chazan. God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives
David Malkiel

Nathan Katz. Who are the Jews of India?
Brian Weinstein

Sara Japhet. The Commentary of Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) on the Book of Job
Mordechai Z. Cohen

Moshe Halbertal. Between Torah and Wisdom: Rabbi Mena?em ha-Meiri and the Maimonidean Halakhists of Provence
Gregg Stern

Moshe Hallamish. The Kabbalah in Liturgy, Halakhah, and Custom
Joel Hecker

Diane Lobel. Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experiences in Judah Ha-Levi’s Kuzari
Daniel J. Lasker

Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, editors. The Jewish Political Tradition
Gordon M. Freeman

Elinoar Bareket. Fustat on the Nile: The Jewish Elite in Medieval Egypt
Arnold Franklin

Vera Basch Moreen. In Queen Ester’s Garden: An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature
Herbert H. Paper

Immanuel Etkes. Ba‘al Hashem: The Besht—Magic, Mysticism, Leadership
Allan Nadler

Daniel M. Swetschinski. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
Miriam Bodian

Jeffrey A. Grossman. The Discourse on Yiddish in Germany: From the Enlightenment to the Second Empire
Neil G. Jacobs

Gulie Ne’eman Arad. America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism
Daniel Soyer

Marc Gopin. Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking
Moshe Cohen

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi. Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination
James S. Diamond

Yael S. Feldman. No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women’s Fiction
Nehama Aschkenasy

Gershon Shaked. Modern Hebrew Fiction
Alan Mintz

Leora Batnitzky. Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered
Zachary Braiterman

Harold I. Saperstein. Witness from the Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980
Jeffrey S. Gurock

Susan Sered. What Makes Women Sick? Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society

Susan Martha Kahn. Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel
Ruti Kadish

Mitchell B. Hart. Social Sciences and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity
Ira Katznelson

Hadassa Kosak. Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1904
Maxine S. Seller

Michael Berkowitz. The Jewish Self-Image in the West
Richard I. Cohen

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