Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and
category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show …

Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God.
Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first …

In “And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism, Adam
Afterman offers an extensive study of mystical union and embodiment in Judaism. Afterman …

In the development of what might be called “self”-studies in the feld of Classics over the past
generation, a brief text by Cicero–his exposition in De Ofciis 1.105–25 of the four personae …

Philo of Alexandria influenced Patristic philosophers-theologians in a number of ways and to
a remarkable extent1, through the two interrelated channels of exegesis and theology. His …

Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis examines the centrality of" birth" in Jewish literature,
gender theory, and psychoanalysis, thus challenging the centrality of death in Western …

The study surveys the variety of concepts of time in Judaism, and especially in Kabbalah,
and addresses in more detail the concept of a super-temporal experience. While traditional …

Das Symposion resümiert Perspektiven auf die Allegorie im Anschluss an Benjamin und de
Man und entwickelt sie weiter. Die Allegorie wird dabei als Reflexion des Zeichens im …

Two verses about Moses in the Bible have been the subject of debate since the first century.
In Exodus 33: 20, God tells Moses that no one can see God and live, but Numbers 12: 8 says …

Abstract The Bacchae of Euripides was widely popular throughout antiquity. Its narrative
stages the arrival of Dionysus in Thebes and the conflict arising from the opposition of the …