In this Issue

Table of Contents

From the Editor

David M. Goldenberg
pp. ii-iv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0003
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Articles

The Use of Islamic Sources in Saadiah Gaon's Tafsīr of the Torah

David M. Freidenreich
pp. 353-395
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0009
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The Linguistic Significance of the Le'azim in Joseph Kara's Job Commentary

Kirsten A. Fudeman
pp. 397-414
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0015
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The Dependence of Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak) on Rashi in His Quotation of Midrashic Traditions

Naomi Grunhaus
pp. 415-430
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0021
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The Epistolary Story in Haskalah Literature: Isaac Euchel's "Igrot Meshulam"

Moshe Pelli
pp. 431-469
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0026
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Fientivity, Transitivity, and Stem Vowel Variation in Byzantine Piyyuṭ

Michael Rand
pp. 471-495
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0031
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אתא אגרתא ממערבא ("An Epistle Came from the West"): Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the Ties Between the Jewish Communities in the Land of Israel and Babylonia During the Talmudic Period

Zeʿev Safrai, Aren M. Maeir
pp. 497-531
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0001
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Review Essays

A Poet's Biblical Exegesis

Mordechai Z. Cohen
pp. 533-556
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0007
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The Image of the Black in Jewish Culture

David M. Goldenberg
pp. 557-579
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0013
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Restoring the Temple—Why and When?

Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
pp. 581-591
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0019
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Reviews

אל-מסדה: פנקס בית הדין של קהילת יהודי צנעא במאה ה-18 [Al-Misawwadeh: Bēth-Dīn (Court) Records of the Sanʿānī Jewish Community in the Eighteenth Century] (review)

Reuben Ahroni
pp. 593-596
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0024
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Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy and the Holocaust (review)

Susan Cohen
pp. 597-601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0029
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America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism (review)

Leonard Dinnerstein
pp. 602-604
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0034
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ספר דברי הימים: כתיבה היסטורית ואמצעים ספרותײם [The Book of Chronicles: Historical Writing and Literary Devices] (review)

Amos Frisch
pp. 605-608
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0005
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Priester und Leviten im achämenidischen Juda: Studien zur Kult- und Sozialgeschichte Israels in persischer Zeit (review)

Lester L. Grabbe
pp. 609-611
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0011
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Away from the Father's House: The Social Location of Naʿar and Naʿarah in Ancient Israel (review)

Mayer I. Gruber
pp. 612-615
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0017
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The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary (review)

Paul Hanebrink
pp. 616-618
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0022
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Franz Kafka: A Question of Jewish Identity. Two Perspectives (review)

Beth Hawkins
pp. 619-622
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0027
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Studies in Biblical Interpretation (review)

Shalom E. Holtz
pp. 623-624
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0032
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Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature (review)

Robin Judd
pp. 625-626
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0002
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The Ring of Myths: The Israelis, Wagner and the Nazis (review)

Marion Kant
pp. 627-628
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0008
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A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic (review)

Stephen A. Kaufman
pp. 629-630
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0014
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A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (review)

Arthur Kiron
pp. 631-635
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0020
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The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy (review)

Daniel J. Lasker
pp. 636-638
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0025
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Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman, and: Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible (review)

Heather A. McKay
pp. 639-642
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0030
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Truth to Tell: German Women's Autobiographies and Turn-of-the-Century Culture, and: Das Familiengedächtnis: Erinnerung im deutschjüdischen Bürgertum 1890 bis 1932 (review)

Guy Miron
pp. 643-647
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0000
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Medieval English Jews and Royal Officials: Entries of Jewish Interest in the English Memoranda Rolls, 1266-1293 (review)

Robin R. Mundill
pp. 648-652
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0006
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Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis. Volume Two: 85 Psalms and Job 4-14 (review)

Roberta Salvador
pp. 653-660
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0012
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Die Assumptio Mosis. Studien zur Rezeption massgültiger Überlieferung (review)

Stefan Schreiber
pp. 661-665
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0018
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Das "Gesetz" bei Philon von Alexandrien und Flavius Josephus, Studien zum Verständnis und zur Funktion der Thora bei den beiden Hauptzeugen des hellenistischen Judentums (review)

Bernd Schröder
pp. 666-667
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0023
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Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine (review)

Joshua Schwartz
pp. 668-674
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0028
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בבבל רבינא וחכמי דורו: עיונים בסדר הזמנים של אמוראים אחרונים [Ravina and Contemporary Sages: Studies in the Chronology of Late Babylonian Amoraim] (review)

Eliezer Segal
pp. 675-677
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0033
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A Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams in the Hebrew Bible (review)

Mark S. Smith
pp. 678-681
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0004
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Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts (review)

Abraham Tal
pp. 682-686
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0010
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אלעזר ברבי קליר: קדושתאות ליום מתן תורה [Elazar Qallir: Hymni Pentecostales] (review)

Wout Jac. van Bekkum
pp. 687-688
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2003.0016
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