In this Issue

Table of Contents

Articles

A Fragment of Abū Al-Faraj Hārūn's Al-Kitāb Al-Muštamil in Arabic Script

Nasir Basal
pp. 1-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0003
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Shem Ṭov Ben Isaac, Glossary of Botanical Terms, Nos. 1-18

Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching
pp. 21-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0010
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The Dedication of Polycharmos from Stobi: Problems of Dating and Interpretation

Ephrat Habas (Rubin)
pp. 41-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0016
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A Non-Rabbinic Law Rejected by the Tannaim

David Henshke
pp. 79-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0022
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Early Evidence for Steelmaking in the Judaic Sources

Dan Levene, Beno Rothenberg
pp. 105-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0028
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Notes

Konaxoλ and a Hebrew Liturgical Expression

Howard Jacobson
pp. 129-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0007
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Response to Chaim Milikowsky, "Further on Editing Rabbinic Texts," JQR 90 (1999) 137-149

Rivka B. Kern Ulmer
pp. 131-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0019
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A Judaeo-Arabic Candle-Lighting Prayer

Y. Tzvi Langermann
pp. 133-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0025
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Cyrus H. Gordon (1908-2001): A Giant Among Scholars

Gary A. Rendsburg
pp. 137-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0036
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Review Essays

Identifying Scholarship

Eleazar Gutwirth
pp. 145-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0012
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Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords in North-West Semitic (review)

Thomas Schneider
pp. 155-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0030
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Linguistic Peculiarities in the Aramaic Magic Bowl Texts (review)

Eljakim Wajsberg
pp. 167-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0002
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Reviews

No Way Out: The Politics of Polish Jewry 1935-1939 (review)

Gershon Bacon
pp. 175-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0009
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Smart Jews, The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence (review)

Benjamin Braude
pp. 180-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0015
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Ginzei Rosh Hashanah: Manuscript Fragments of Bavli Rosh Hashanah from the Cairo Genizah: A Facsimile Edition with a Codicological Introduction (review)

Robert Brody
pp. 182-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0021
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Studies in a Rabbinic Family: The de Botons (review)

J. H. Chajes
pp. 185-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0027
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Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women (review)

J. H. Chajes
pp. 188-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0033
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The Nazis' Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary, and: A Man for All Connections: Raoul Wallenberg and the Hungarian State Apparatus, 1944-1945 (review)

David Engel
pp. 193-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0000
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Avoda and ʿIbāda: Ritual and Liturgy in Islamic and Judaic Traditions (review)

Reuben Firestone
pp. 197-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0006
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ספר דברי הימי: כתיבה היסטורית ואמצעים ספרותײם [The Book of Chronicles: Historical Writing and Literary Devices] (review)

David A. Glatt-Gilad
pp. 200-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0013
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Theology, History, and Archaeology in the Chronicler's Account of Hezekiah (review)

David A. Glatt-Gilad
pp. 202-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0018
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"Why Ask My Name?" Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative (review)

Mayer I. Gruber
pp. 205-209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0024
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The Strange Woman: Power and Sex in the Bible (review)

Mayer I. Gruber
pp. 210-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0031
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The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook (review)

Jeffrey S. Gurock
pp. 216-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0035
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Kol Nidre: Studies in the Development of Rabbinic Votive Institutions (review)

Christine Hayes
pp. 219-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0004
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Jewish Poland: Legends of Origin. Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles (review)

Gershon David Hundert
pp. 222-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0011
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Assyrian Prophecies (review)

Theodore Kwasman
pp. 227-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0017
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Physics and Metaphysics in Ḥasdai Crescas (review)

Daniel J. Lasker
pp. 233-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0023
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Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (review)

Laura Levitt
pp. 237-242
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0029
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Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire (review)

Olga Litvak
pp. 243-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0034
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Profiles of a Lost World. Memoirs of East European Jewish Life before World War II (review)

Ezra Mendelsohn
pp. 247-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0001
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The Israelites in History and Tradition (review)

Anson F. Rainey
pp. 250-254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0008
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Hebrajskie inskrypcje na Śląsku XIII-XVIII wieku [Hebrew Inscriptions in Silesia in the 13th through 18th Centuries] (review)

Moshe Rosman
pp. 255-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0014
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Tora und Leben, Untersuchungen zur Heilsbedeutung der Tora in der frühen rabbinischen Literatur (review)

Clemens Thoma
pp. 258-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0020
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The Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commentaries and Pauline Letters (review)

Fred Weidmann
pp. 261-264
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0026
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Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: the Development of a Religious Institution (review)

Cana Werman
pp. 265-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0032
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Dissertations in Judaic Studies

pp. 269-270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0037
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Collected Essays

pp. 271-277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2001.0005
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