Pesher Naḥum: Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature from Antiquity through the Middle Ages Presented to Norman (Naḥum) Golb.

Editor(s): Joel L. Kraemer, Michael G. Wechsler.

With the participation of Fred Donner, Joshua Holo, and Dennis Pardee.

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Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 66

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Pesher Naḥum honors Norman (Naḥum) Golb with twenty-five studies reflecting the breadth of his scholarly work in Hebraica, Judaica, Islamica, and Biblica. The volume brings together essays on Jewish history and literature from antiquity through the Middle Ages, with contributions on the Cairo Geniza, Judaeo-Arabic texts, biblical exegesis, Karaite thought, the Dead Sea Scrolls, medieval Jewish philosophy, historiography, codicology, and textual criticism.

The volume includes studies in English and Hebrew, together with a bibliography of Golb’s works and indexes of manuscripts, biblical references, classical and medieval works, and general subjects.

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Transliteration Tables
English Abstracts of the Hewbrew Articles
Preface
Bibliography of the Works Norman (Naḥum) Golb

Portrait of the Scholar. Joel L. Kraemer
A Jewish Wool Merchant in Tenth-Century Mosul Defends Resorting to “the Sages of the Nations”: An Early Encounter between Jewish Bible Exegesis and Graeco-Arab Philosophy. Haggai Ben-Shammai
Some Semantic Shifts in Medieval Judaeo-Arabic. Joshua Blau
Kippurim, Expiation, Purity, and Impurity: The Well of the Past and the Abyss of Oblivion. Rachel Elior
An Epistle on Esoteric Matters by David II Maimonides from the Geniza. Paul B. Fenton
Sending Funds to Judah ha-Levi. Mordechai A. Friedman
The Emergence and Development of Scholarship on Medieval Judaeo-Arabic in Spain. Maria Angeles Gallego
Food Commerce in Egypt as Portrayed in Eleventh-Century Geniza Letters. Moshe Gil
Gershom b. Judah and the Italian Roots of Early Ashkenazic Jewry. Joshua Holo
Carl Hermann Kraeling: A Reminiscence. Walter E. Kaegi
When Did the Palestinian Yeshiva Leave Tiberias? Benjamin Z. Kedar
“Many Days without the God of Truth”: Loss and Recovery of Religious Knowledge in Early Karaite Thought. Eve Krakowski
Adam and Eve or Adam and Noah? Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew Versions of the Same Books. Daniel J. Lasker
Historicizing Prophetic Literature: Yefet ben ‘Eli’s Commentary on Hosea and Its Relationship to al-Qumisi’s Pitron. Meira Polliack
Jewish Liturgical Divisions of the Torah and the English Chapter Division of the Vulgate Attributed to Stephen Langton. Paul Saenger
Biblical Hermeneutics in Abraham Bar Hayya’s Hiyya’s) “Book of Intercalation”: Reading Science and Philosophy into the Bible. Israel M. Sandman
Corporal Modesty in Judaism and Islam. Norman A. Stillman
An Aramaic Apocalypse (4Q246) and the Perils of Premature Consensus. Anthony J. Tomasino
Ten Newly Identified Fragments of Saadia’s Commentary on Esther: Introduction and Translation. Michael G. Wechsler
Murabba’at and the First Jewish Revolt. Michael O. Wise

Indexes
Plates

Hebrew Section

‘Aluqa as “Nothing” and Its Use in Polemics with the Karaites: A Study of Saadia’s Commentary on Proverbs 30:10–17. Nahem Ilan
Biblical Hebrew Names for Settlements, Countries, and Ethnic Groups in the Middle Ages. Elinoar Bareket
Ten Newly Identified Fragments of Saadia’s Commentary on Esther: The Judaeo-Arabic Text (with an Appendix Containing a Fragment of Judah ibn Bal’am’s Commentary on Esther). Michael G. Wechsler
The View of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Durative Nature of Universal Creation. Abraham Lipshitz
History and History‐Writing in Chronicles in the Light of Biblical, Ancient Near Eastern, and Graeco‐Roman Cultures. Isaac Kalimi