In this Issue

Table of Contents

Articles

Mystical Contemplation and the Limits of the Mind: The Case of Sheqel ha-Qodesh

Eitan P. Fishbane
pp. 1-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0030
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Correction

p. 27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0058
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Ketav Ha-Daʿat or Sefer Ha-Sekhel We-Ha-Muskalot: The Medieval Hebrew Translations of Al-Fārābī's Risālah Fīʾl-ʿAql. A Study in Text History and in the Evolution of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology

Gad Fruedenthal
pp. 29-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0039
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From Tiberias to Meḥoza: Redactorial and Editorial Processes in Amoraic Babylonia

Pinchas Hayman
pp. 117-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0048
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In Search of Jewish Musical Antiquity in the 18th-Century Venetian Ghetto: Reconsidering the Hebrew Melodies in Benedetto Marcello's Estro poetico-armonico

Edwin Seroussi
pp. 149-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0057
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About "Speaking" that Is not "Saying": A Survey of Verbs of Speech Production in Mishnaic Hebrew

Rivka Shemesh
pp. 201-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0008
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Death Twice over: Dualism of Metaphor and Realia in 12th-Century Hebrew Crusading Accounts

Shmuel Shepkaru
pp. 217-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0017
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Review Essay

Urkunden des Politeuma der Juden von Herakleopolis (144/3-133/2 v. Chr) (P. Polit. Jud.) (review)

Aryeh Kasher
pp. 257-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0026
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Reviews

Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult (review)

Marc Z. Brettler
pp. 269-271
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0035
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Must a Jew Believe Anything? (review)

Daniel H. Frank
pp. 272-275
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0044
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The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (review)

David Noel Freedman
pp. 276-279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0053
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מבוא למשפט העברי בימי התלמוד (Introduction to Jewish Law in Talmudic Times) (review)

Steven F. Friedell
pp. 280-285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0005
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Ritual and Morality: The Ritual Purity System and its Place in Judaism (review)

Christine Hayes
pp. 286-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0014
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של יהזדי ארץ-ישראל בתקופה הביזנטית שירת בני מערכא: שירים ארמײם (Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity) (review)

Ephraim Hazan
pp. 293-298
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0023
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Azariah de' Rossi: The Light of the Eyes (review)

Martin Jacobs
pp. 299-302
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0032
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Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche (review)

Martin Kavka
pp. 303-305
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0041
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Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland: Ein Schrei ins Leere?, and: Das Judenbild im Protestantismus des Deutschen Kaiserreichs: Ein Beitrag zur Mentalitätsgeschichte des deutschen Bürger-tums in der Krise der Moderne (review)

Alan Levenson
pp. 306-311
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0050
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Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (review)

Laura Levitt
pp. 312-313
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0001
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Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century (review)

Jack M. Sasson
pp. 314-316
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0010
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Passover in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Genesis: The Connection of Early Biblical Events with Passover in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan in a Synagogue Setting (review)

Joseph Tabory
pp. 317-319
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0019
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Sparks Amidst the Ashes: the Spiritual Legacy of Polish Jewry (review)

Joshua D. Zimmerman
pp. 320-323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0028
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Collected Essays

pp. 325-333
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0037
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Dissertations in Judaic Studies

pp. 335-341
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0046
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Books Received

pp. 343-350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2002.0055
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