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.

What, how, and with whom we eat has been meaningful since antiquity. This volume offers interdisciplinary insights into ancient meal rituals, fasting, and dietary laws, and their influence today. It focuses on ethical, religious, and cultural interpretations in the context of food ethics and identity.

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.

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.