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The Law of Agriculture in the Mishnah and the Tosefta
Translation, Commentary, Theology
Edited by Jacob Neusner• ISBN 90 04 14503 6• List price EUR 611.- / US$ 795.-• Special E-Bulletin Subscriber Price EUR 488.80 / US$ 636.00• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 79

This project presents in three volumes the Mishnah’s and the Tosefta’s first division, Zera‘im (Agriculture), organized in eleven topical tractates, together with a systematic history of the law of Zeraim in the Mishnah. To the exposition of the Halakhah on the chosen topic, the Mishnah-tractates are primary but complemented by the Tosefta’s presentation of its collection of glosses of the Mishnah’s law and supplements to that law.





Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts
The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions
Giuseppe Veltri• ISBN 90 04 14993 7• List price EUR 105.- / US$ 142.-• Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 109The book deals with the process of canonization of the Greek Torah; the use and abuse of the translation(s) of Aquila in Patristic and Rabbinic literature and the substitution of Aquila by Onkelos in Babylonian academies.

The Jews in Sicily, Volume 8 (1490-1497)
Shlomo Simonsohn• ISBN 90 04 15283 0
• List price EUR 199.- / US$ 269.-
• Studia Post Biblica, 48.3 The Jews in Sicily, 8

This volume is the sequel to the first seven volumes in the series Documentary History of the Jews in Italy, and covers the events during the rule of the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and Isabella, following the unification of Spain. This is the last volume of The Jews in Sicily based mainly on governmental sources, to be followed by additional volumes containing records culled from notarial deeds.

The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective
Part Two
Edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner• ISBN 90 04 15220 2• List price EUR 85.- / US$ 111.-• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 87

This second volume of a two-part project on the Mishnah displays a broad selection of approaches to the study of the Mishnah in the contemporary academy. The work derives from Israel, North America, and Europe and shows the intellectual vitality of scholarship in all three centers of learning. Because of the many viewpoints included here, this is the most representative selection of contemporary Mishnah-study available in any collection in a Western language.

Hermann Cohen's Ethics
Edited by Robert Gibbs
• ISBN 90 04 15318 7
• List price EUR 75.- / US$ 98.-
• Studies in European Judaism, 14

The essays assembled here represent the leading Hermann Cohen scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Israel. Emerging from their efforts is a new set of explorations both in Cohen’s own system and also in his relation to a wide-range of subsequent thinkers.

Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture
Edited by Benjamin H. Hary and Haggai Ben-Shammai• ISBN 90 04 15233 4• List price EUR 90.- / US$ 117.-
• Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 33

This volume contains selected, refereed papers from the ninth conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies held at Emory University, Atlanta, in 1999. There are articles on Jewish thought, philosophy and mysticism, language and linguistics, religious studies, intellectual and social history, law, biblical exegesis, and more. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of Judeo-Arabic society in the Middle Ages.