New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2022
JQR 112.3 is now available, online* and in print.
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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2022
JQR 112.1 is now available, online* and in print.
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Simcha Gross and Avigail Manekin-Bamberger introduce Aramaic incantation bowls that draw on rabbinic and elite literary sources, forcing a reevaluation of the “popular” religion traditionally ascribed to the bowls.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Fall 2021
JQR 111.4 is now available, online* and in print.
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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Summer 2020
JQR 110.3 is now available, online* and in print.
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Moshe Simon-Shoshan shows how Rashi’s story about the death and downfall of a woman named Beruriah attests to the rabbis’ own anxieties about the place of women in halakhah.
Pandemic and Plague: Theological and Philosophical Reflections
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, JQR organized a blog forum that brought together four historians to reflect on past outbreaks of disease in Jewish history and their echoes today.
New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Winter 2020
Update: this issue is free online without a subscription through June 30, 2020.
JQR 110.1 is now available, online* and in print.
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Daniel Reifman uses semiotic theory to account for the fact that legal rationales play a relatively peripheral role in the construction of rabbinic legal discourse.
