Jewish Studies

The volume is a German translation of the Mishnah tractate »Ḥallah«, together with its Amoraic commentary (Gemara) of the Jerusalem Talmud. The tractate deals with the commandment of separating and offering the first produce from the »Bread of the Land« (Israel), defined by the rabbis as each bread-dough made of specific grain and prepared by an Israelite in the Land of Israel.

The Hebrew text of Jeremiah utilizes infelicitous or symmetric elements to produce puns demonstrating a contextual theme. While previous studies have largely ignored this type of pun in the Hebrew Bible, Josiah D. Peeler illustrates that it was a common device in ancient Near Eastern textual production.

Ancient and New Testament concepts of the human body, procreation, gender, and marriage differed fundamentally from contemporary understandings. Drawing on social history and intersectional analysis, this volume explores these differences within their original cultural contexts, revealing the diversity and otherness of New Testament texts rather than imposing modern categories upon them.

Analyzing the variant sequences of large text-blocks found in the ancient Greek version (G) and the Masoretic version of Proverbs, Joseph L. Justiss explores how ancient scribes creatively reworked and rearranged literary material for interpretive purposes and seeks to determine whether G's translator or G's source is the cause of the variant orders.