Books Received

Adamson, Peter, ed. Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Ager, Deborah, and M. E. Silverman, eds. The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Albera, Dionigi, and Maria Couroucli, eds. Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries. New Anthropologies of Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.

Alexander, Elizabeth Shanks. Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Allison, Dale C. et al., eds. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 6: Dabbesheth—Dreams and Dream Interpretation. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013.

Amador de los Rios, José. Los judíos de España: Estudios historicos, políticos y literarios. Pamplona: Urgoiti Editores, 2013.

Anderson, Robert T., and Terry Giles. The Samaritan Pentateuch: An Introduction to Its Origin, History, and Significance for Biblical Studies. SBL Resources for Biblical Study 72. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.

Aran, Gideon. Kookism: The Roots of Gush Emunim, Jewish Settlers’ Sub-Culture, Zionist Theology, Contemporary Messianism. [Hebrew.] Jerusalem: Carmel, 2013.

Ashton, Dianne. Hanukkah in America: A History. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Auerbach, Karen. The House of Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust. The Modern Jewish Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Azous, Paul. The American Balfour Declaration: The Origins of U.S. Support for Zionism, 1917–1922. Jacksonville, Fla.: Acaday Press, 2013.

Bair, Deirdre. Saul Steinberg: A Biography. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2012.

Baldermann, Ingo. Der Gott der Lebenden: Die Einzigartigkeit der biblischen Gotteserfahrung. Düsseldorf: Neukirchener Verlage, 2013.

Bauckman, Richard, James R. Davila, and Alexander Panayotov, eds. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, volume 1. Grand Rapids. Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2013.

Behar, Moshe, and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, eds. Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958. Tauber Institute Series for the Study for European Jewry. Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2013.

Bei, Gao. Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees during World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Bemporad, Elissa. Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk. A Helen B. Schwartz Book in Jewish Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2103.

Ben-Eliyahu, Eyal, Yehudah Cohn, Fergus Millar. Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity, 135–700 CE. Oxford: The British Academy [Oxford University Press], 2012.

Ben-Porat, Guy. Between State and Synagogue: The Secularization of Contemporary Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Berger, Pamela. The Crescent on the Temple: The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary. Studies in Religion and the Arts 5. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. David Remembered: Kingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2013.

Boer, Roland, and Fernando F. Segovia, eds. The Future of the Biblical Past: Envisioning Biblical Studies on a Global Key. SBL Semeia Studies 66. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.

Boes, Maria R. Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany: Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562–1696. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013.

Botticini, Maristella, and Zvi Eckstein. The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70–1492. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Boyarin, Jonathan. Jewish Families. Key Words in Jewish Studies. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2013.

Boys, Mary C. Redeeming Our Sacred Story: The Death of Jesus and Relations between Jews and Christians. Studies in Judaism and Christianity: Exploration of Issues in the Contemporary Dialogue between Christians and Jews. New York: Paulist Press, 2013.

Brown, Adam. Judging ‘‘Privileged’’ Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the ‘‘Grey Zone.’’ War and Genocide 18. New York: Berghahn, 2013.

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