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.
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.
JQR 113.1 is now available, online* and in print.
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JQR 112.3 is now available, online* and in print.
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What does one learn when we avoid the gravitational field of a book’s content in favor of all the bits of history preserved in a book’s form? There is a rich tradition of studying books as material objects, and indeed there is much to learn from books as books, from the technology and economics of the book trade, to the ways knowledge is shaped or altered by page layout, to the ways the circulation of ideas may be subject to such apparently secondary factors as trade routes or family networks.
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
