New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2022
JQR 112.2 is now available, online* and in print.
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JQR 112.2 is now available, online* and in print.
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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.
JQR 111.4 is now available, online* and in print.
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Hair Dye
Wet Cat food
Bra, tights
Vodka
JQR 111.3 is now available, online* and in print.
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In Penn’s Libraries, one can find a particular battle-scarred volume. It is a large folio, rebound in old leather, damaged by fire, with margins cut, pages torn out, others stolen but then replaced, marked by a few clever patches to the parchment. There are marginal notes in a variety of inks and handwritings representing many generations of readers and amenders. It is a late thirteenth–early fourteenth-century Mahzor, or Jewish prayer book for the high holidays, originating from the German Rhineland.
JQR 111.2 is now available, online* and in print.
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Ayelet Hoffman Libson argues that the Tosefta’s novel institution of blessings over commandments served a legal and political function, denoting legal personhood and delineating the borders of the community.
JQR 111.1 is now available, online* and in print.
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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.
JQR 110.2 is now available, online* and in print.
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