JQR 115.2 is now available, online and in print.
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Christian Stadel identifies a Syriac source for a passage in the Aramaic Scroll of Antiochus, thereby characterizing the text as a more complex composition than previously assumed.
JQR 115.1 is now available, online and in print.
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JQR 114.4 is now available, online and in print.
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Elyashiv Cherlow brings new light to the provenance of a passage of the Jerusalem Talmud based on newly identified Cairo Geniza manuscript fragments.
JQR 114.2 is now available, online and in print.
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Hanan Mazeh dissects a key passage in the Palestinian Talmud concerning land ownership that shows rabbis using the law—Jewish and Roman—to grapple with competing claims to territory. This essay is FREE to read and download without a subscription through July 15, 2024.
JQR 114.1 is now available, online* and in print.
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JQR debuts a new look! The journal has been redesigned inside and out, reflecting our legacy of producing the best in Jewish studies past and present.
JQR 113.4 is now available, online and in print.
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JQR 113.3 is now available, online and in print.
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Barry Wimpfheimer shows that the Mishnah stacks legal couplets like building blocks to produce ever-richer conceptual understandings and train the reader to mine it for such meaning.
The city serves as the stage for much of Jewish history. For a host of historical, demographic, and economic reasons, Jews have often been city-dwellers, and even when not, the association of the Jewish with the urban has kept a hold on the imagination of Jews and gentiles alike. The city looms large as part of the horizon of Jewishness, beginning even from the urbanization of the early rabbinic movement in Roman Palestine.
JQR 113.2 is now available, online and in print.
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Jonathan Kaplan’s research note suggests that tannaitic legends about Serah, the long-lived daughter of the patriarch Asher, derive from much earlier tradition, likely Second Temple–era in origin.