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This volume collects studies of classical Hebrew by one of the foremost scholars of this language in our time. Moshe Bar-Asher has published dozens of studies of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, spanning nearly three thousand years of texts and dialects. This volume presents 24 of them in English, dealing with the language of the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Rabbinic Literature.

Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University and long-time president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has published more than 200 articles and sixteen books and edited aboout 90 books and collections. The vast majority of his work has been accessible, however, only to specialists who read modern Hebrew or French. Bar-Asher's groundbreaking articles on the dialects of rabbinic literature are classics. In more recent years he has brought the same breadth and depth of grammatical knowledge, and philological acumen, to the study of older classical Hebrew texts,...

Der immerwährende Krieg - und wie er enden könnte

Von Generation zu Generation wird der Krieg in Palästina weitergetragen. Nach der jüngsten und schlimmsten Eskalation durch den Terrorangriff der Hamas macht sich Hoffnungslosigkeit breit: Wird das immer so weitergehen? Nein, sagt Moshe Zimmermann, der große liberale Historiker. 

Schonungslos - und nicht ohne Bitterkeit - benennt er zunächst die Schuldigen an der Katastrophe: Da ist die Hamas, die Gewalt als einziges Mittel der Politik sieht und Israel auslöschen will. Da sind aber auch die jüdischen Siedler, die...

An essential reference work for any thinking student of religion.

Innovative and provocative, Evolving Halakhah affirms the system of traditional Jewish law, Halakhah, as a developing and moral structure, flexible enough to accommodate the changing realities of each generation. In this accessible analysis of Halakhah, Moshe Zemer issues a clarion call to follow the ancient and modern principles of evolving Halakhah, which demands ethical deeds, the discovery of holiness in the Commandments, a critical approach to the Tradition, and responsibility of the...