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American Jewish Life

Bolkosky, S. M. “Detroit’s Reactions to the Holocaust and the New Immigrants.” Judaism, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Summer 2000), pp. 309–321.

Greenspahn, F. E. “The Beginnings of Judaic Studies in American Universities.” Modern Judaism, Vol. 20. No. 2 (May 2000), pp. 209–225. [Review]

Holberg, A. S. “Betty Boop: Yiddish Film Star (Max Fleischer, David Fleischer).” American Jewish History, Vol. 87, No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 291–312.

Ancient World and Archaeology

Belayche, N. “Forget Jerusalem: The Pagan Transformation of Jerusalem into Aelia-Capitolina from the Second Century to the Fourth Century of the Common Era.” Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 158, No. 3–4 (July–December 1999), pp. 287–348. [Review] [French]

Hidiroglou, P. “Of Water and the Bath at Qumran: Considerations on the Importance of Water and Purification Ritual Practice in Ancient Israel.” Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 159, No. 1–2 (January–June 2000), pp. 19–47. [French]

Nikiprowetzky, V. “The Sabbath and Military Weaponry in the Ancient History of Israel.” Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 159, No. 1–2 (January–June 2000), pp. 1–17. [French]

Parente, F. “The Double Transmission, Philological and Ecclesiastical, of the Works of Flavius Josephus: A Contribution to the History of the Reception of His Works in the Christian World.” Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2000), pp. 3–51. [Italian] [Review]

Art, Music, and Film

Alexander-Knotter, M. “An Ingenious Device: Rembrandt’s Use of Hebrew Inscriptions.” Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 33, No. 2 (1999), pp. 131–159.

Hiller, C. “Survival Tactics (Jewish opera under the Nazis).” Opera, Vol. 51, No. 7 (July 2000), pp. 777–790.

Biblical and Rabbinic Literature

Aslanov, C. “The Judeo-Greek and Ladino Columns in the Constantinople Edition of the Pentateuch (1547): A Linguistic Commentary on Genesis I:1–5.” Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 158, No. 3–4 (July–December 1999), pp. 385–397.

Becker, U. “The Division of the Israelite Kingdom According to 1 Kings 12.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Vol. 112, No. 2 (2000), pp. 210–229. [German]

Berges, U. “The Servant in the Psalter: A Contribution on the Composition History of the Book of Psalms.” Biblica, Vol. 81, No.2 (2000), pp. 153–178.

Canas Reillo, J. M. “A Critical Edition and Analysis of Spanish Fragments of 1–2 Maccabees from the Vulgate Latin Version of the Bible: Two Fragmentary Text Specimens from the Vich Episcopal Museum and the Valvanera Bible.” Sefarad, Vol. 60, No. 1 (2000), pp. 19–41.

Carr, D. “Untamable Text of an Untamable God: Genesis and Rethinking the Character of Scripture.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible & Theology, Vol. 54, No. 4 (October 2000), pp. 347–362.

Day, P. L. “Adulterous Jerusalem’s Imagined Demise: Death of a Metaphor in Ezekiel 16.” Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 50, No. 3 (2000), pp. 285–309.

de Roo, J. C. R. “Was the Goat for Azazel Destined for the Wrath of God?” Biblica, Vol. 81, No. 2 (2000), pp. 233–242.

del Barco del Barco, F. J. “The Syntactic and Poetic Function of Accents in the Masoretic Text of the Book of Amos.” Sefarad, Vol. 60, No. 1 (2000), pp. 3–18. [Spanish]

Friedheim, E. “An Essenian Conception of Halakha According to Josephus and the Enigmatic Silence of Rabbinic Literature Regarding Talmudic Law.” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, Vol. 28, No. 4 (1999), pp. 465–488. [French]

Grelot, P. “Two Aramaic Piyyutim on Ancient Israelite Law in the Book of Exodus: Liturgical Poetry Written in the Palestinian Aramaic Vernacular.” Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 159, No. 1–2 (January–June 2000), pp. 49–61. [French]

Hurvitz, A. “Once Again: The Linguistic Profile of the Priestly Material in the Pentateuch and its Historical Age: A Response to J. Blenkinsopp.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Vol. 112, No. 2 (2000), pp. 180–191.

Janowski, B. “The One God of the Two Testaments: Basic Questions of a Biblical Theology.” Theology Today, Vol. 57, No. 3 (October 2000), pp. 297–324.

Katz, D. S. “Biblical Cantillation and Synagogue Music: A Review of Ancient Sources.” Musiktheorie, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2000), pp. 57–78. [German]

Lehmann, M. B. “Two Perceptions of Change in Judeo...