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"Systematically reading Jewish exegesis in light of Homeric scholarship, this book argues that more than 2000 years ago Alexandrian Jews developed critical and... 
Civilization | Greek influences | Jews | Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish | Jewish learning and scholarship | Judaism | Hellenism | Alexandria (Egypt) Religion | History | Religion & beliefs | Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish | To 1500 | Bible | Egypt | Religion | O.T | Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D | Alexandria | Alexandria (Egypt)

Intellectual life | Historiography | Jews | Jewish learning and scholarship | Judaism | Identity | History

Science and the humanities | Civilization, Medieval | Middle Ages | Translating and interpreting | History | Transmission of texts | Learning and scholarship

Between 1550 and 1650, Italy's Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical heritage of the Andalusian... 
Intellectual life | Jews | History | Jewish learning and scholarship | 16th century | Italy | 17th century | literature | Italian jews

The rich history of the German rabbinate came to an abrupt halt with the November Pogrom of 1938. Many rabbis obtained visas and came to Britain and... 
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In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined-and continues to define... 
Judaism-Relations-Islam | Islamic Empire-Ethnic relations-Religious aspects | Civilization, Medieval-Religious aspects | Islam-Relations-Christianity | Orientalism-History | Jews-Islamic Empire-History | East and West | Islamic learning and scholarship-History | Islam-Relations-Judaism | Christianity and other religions-Islam | Jews | Islam | Islamic Empire | Religious aspects | Christianity and other religions | Judaism | Civilization, Medieval | Relations | Christianity | Orientalism | History

"Early Modern Jewry" boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines... 
Jews | Europe | Religion | Social networks | 70-1789 | Doctrines | Rabbis | History | Intellectual life | Early works to 1800 | Sociology | Jewish learning and scholarship | Judaism | Biography | HISTORY | Jewish

In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent... 
History | Jewish learning and scholarship | 1584-1654 | Intellectual life | Great Britain | England | Judaism | Influence | Selden, John | 17th century | Andrew Marvell | Henry Stubbe | Isaac Newton | James Harrington | Hebrew scholarship | Thomas Hobbes | Milton | Nathanael Culverwel | Talmud | Jonson

Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated... 
Jewish philosophy | Philosophy | Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers | History & Surveys | Religion | Judaism | HPCD | General | History | Jewish | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | PHILOSOPHY | 1632-1677 | Spinoza, Benedictus de

The Reformation transformed Christian Hebraism from the pursuit of a few into an academic discipline. This book explains that transformation by focusing on how... 
Judaism - Relations - Christianity - History - 16th century | English Literature | Sixteenth Century | Related Studies | Christianity | Hebraism | Seventeenth Century

Drawing on the great progress in Talmudic scholarship over the last century, this book is both an introduction to a close reading of rabbinic literature and a... 
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"During the Reformation, as Christian scholars demonstrated more interest in Hebrew language and the Jewish roots of European civilization, John Donne's prose... 
Donne, John, 1572-1631 Prose | Christian Hebraists | Donne, John, 1572-1631 Religion | History | Jewish learning and scholarship

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Intellectual life | Jewish scholars | Jewish learning and scholarship | Berlin, Naphtali Ẓevi Judah, 1817-1893 | Rabbis | History | Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., JewishHistory

"In thinking about which works of Jewish thought can and should be an essential part of every Jewish library, I conceived of the volume you hold in your hand.... 
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Civilization | Historiography | Greek influences | Jews | Jewish learning and scholarship | Judaism | Egypt HistoryHistoriography | Identity | History | 332-30 B.C | Egypt

Jewish philosophy | Judaism | Jewish learning and scholarship

From blogs to wikis to digitized editions of ancient texts now discoverable online, digital technology allows scholars to engage ancient texts in novel ways.... 
Bible Study and teaching | Judaism | Digital media | Study and teaching | Church history | Communication in learning and scholarship | Humanities | Information storage and retrieval systems | Bible | Data processing | Research | Technological innovations | Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Electronic information resources

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