Harris Jay Edited (6 results)

ISBN 0-671-23065-4. Hardback. First Printing. Very good condition book in a Very good condition dustjacket. Tight sound unmarked copy.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, paper covers, 237-468, 58 pp. Articles are "The Motif of Blood and Procreation in Franz Rosenzweig," Haggai Dagan, "The Recption of the Shulhan 'Arukh and the Formation of Ashkenazic Jewish Identity," Joseph Davis, "Two Cases of Adultery and the Halakhic Decision-Making Process,' Edward Fram, "'Arab Chains' and 'The Good Things of Sepharad': Aspects of Jewsh Exile," Marc Saperstein and Nancy Berg. Hebrew article is "From Openness to Insularity," Yaron Harel.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, paper covers, 199-374 pp. Articles are "Spiritual Exercises in Rabbinic Culture," Jonathan Schofer, "'Designation is Significance': An Analysis of the Conceptual Sugya in bsan 47b-48b," Leib Moscowitz, "Martyrdom, Emotion and the Work of Rtual in R. Mordecai Joseph Leiner's Mei Ha-Shiloah," Don Seeman, "The Maskil, The Convert, and the Agunah: Joseph Perl as a Historian of Jewish Divorce Law," Nancy Sinkoff.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, paper covers, iv, 192, 24 pp. Articles are "Joseph Soloveitchik and Immanuel Kant's Mitzvah-Aesthetic," Zachary Braiterman, "Religious Affirmation and Historical Criticism in Heschel's Biblical Interpretation," Jon D. Levenson, "Between Law and Society: Mahariq's Responsum on 'The Ways of the Gentile,'" Jeffrey R. Wolf, Review Essays and Book Reviews.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, paper covers, 240 pp. Articles are "Shekhinah, The Virgin Mary, and the Song of Songs," Arthur Green, "Sephardic Epitaphs in Hamburg's Oldest Cemetery" Poetry, Riddles, and Eccentric Texts," Marian and Ramon F. Sarraga.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, paper covers, 220 pp. Articles are "Preface," Jay Harris, "Introduction: Recrating the Canon," Nechama Aschkenazy, "The Bible and Israeli Identity," Anita Shapira, "Modern Midrash: The Biblical Canon and Modern Lterature," Gershon Shaked, "Israeli Drama and the Bible: Kings on the Stage," Glenda Abramson, "'A People That Dwells Alone'? Toward Subversion of the Fathers' Tongue in Israeli Women's Fction," Yael S. Feldman, "Sentient Dogs, Liberated Rams, and Talking Asses: Agnon's Biblical Zo, or Rereading 'Tmol Shilshom,'" Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, "'And a Small Boy Leading Them': The Child and the Biblcal Landscape in Agnon, Oz, and Appelfeld," Nehama Aschkenazy, "The Figure of Moses in Modern Hebrew Poetry," Malka Shaked, "Jew, Zionist, Hebrew, or Israeli? Transformations in the Identity of Jacob in the Novels of Benjamin Tamuz and Meir Shalev," Chaya Shacham, "Biblical Allusions in Modern and Postmodern Hebrew Literature," Avraham Balaban, "From Myth to History," A.B. Yehoshua.