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"The Hellenistic period was a pivotal moment in the history of the Jewish priesthood. The waning days of the Persian empire coincided with the continued ascendance of the high priest and Jerusalem Temple as powerful political, cultural, and religious institutions in Judea. The Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran, only recently published in full, testify to the existence of a flourishing but previously unknown Jewish literary tradition dating from the end of Persian rule to the rise of the Hasmoneans. Throughout this book, Robert Jones analyzes how Israel's priestly institutions are represented in these writings, and he demonstrates that they are essential for understanding the Jewish priesthood at this crucial stage in its history"-- Provided by publisher.

"Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and many European lands transformed. Worship of "the gods" largely gave way to the worship of YHWH, the God of Israel, under Christianity and Islam, both developments of contemporary Judaism, after Rome destroyed Judaism's central shrine, the Jerusalem Temple, in 70 CE. But concomitant changes occurred within contemporary Judaism. The events of 70 wiped away well-established Judaic institutions in the Land of Israel, and over time the authority of a cadre of new "masters" of Judaic law, life, and practice, the "rabbis," took hold. What was the core, professional-like profile of members of this emerging cadre in the late second and early third centuries, when this group first attained a level of stable institutionalization (even if not yet well-established authority)? What views did they promote about the authoritative basis of their profile? What in their surrounding and antecedent sociocultural contexts lent prima facie legitimacy and currency to that profile? Geared to a nonspecialist readership, What Were the Early Rabbis? addresses these questions and consequently sheds light on eventual shifts in power that came to underpin Judaic communal life, while Christianity and Islam "Judaized" non-Jews under their expansive hegemonies." -- Provided by publisher.

• "Hazon Zion" : a Messianic-Zionist movement
• The main ideas of Kol ha-tor
• Does Kol ha-tor express a Messianic-Zionist doctrine held by the Vilna Gaon?
• Why did the disciples of the Gaon of Vilna immigrate to the Land of Israel?
• How did the Rivlinian myth take form?
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher's The great era
• The academic version of the Rivlinian myth
• Did Shlomo Zalman Rivlin receive the text of Kol ha-tor from Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin?
• Mossad ha-yesod : the Old Yishuv recast as the beginnings of Zionism
• Midrash Shlomo, and The Department for Training Young Orators
• Ha-Maggid doresh Zion : Rabbi Moshe Rivlin as a 'Zionist' leader
• Sefer ha-pizmonim : Yosef Yosha Rivlin as 'Messianic-Zionist visionary'
• Who was the author of Kol ha-tor?
• Shlomo Zalman Rivlin : the man and his literary motives
• The embrace of the Rivlinian myth and Kol ha-tor in religious-Zionist circles.

• Note on Place-Names and Translations
• Introduction
• 1. On the Threshold of Modernity: Jellinek's Early Years
• 2. Town and Gown: Jewish Leipzig and the Wissenschaft des Judentums
• 3. Breakthroughs in Scholarship: Jellinek's Studies on Kabbalah
• 4. Attraction to Rabbinic Innovation: Jellinek and Midrash
• 5. Divided Loyalties: Jellinek between Scholarship and Communal Leadership
• 6. A New Synagogue for a New Suburb: Jellinek in Vienna's Leopoldstadt
• 7. Tradition and Change in the Rabbinic Persona: Jellinek's Context and Innovations in Vienna
• 8. Major Themes in Jellinek's Sermons
• 9. Jellinek's Sermons: Justice, Care of the Stranger, and Ethical Universalism
• Conclusion
• Selected Bibliography of the Works of Adolf Jellinek.

Adolf Jellinek (1821-1893), the Czech-born, German-educated, liberal chief rabbi of Vienna, was the most famous Jewish preacher in Central Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. As an innovative rhetorician, Jellinek helped mold and define the modern synagogue sermon into an instrument for expressing Jewish religious and ethical values for a new era. As a historian, Jellinek made groundbreaking contributions to the study of the Zohar and medieval Jewish mysticism. The Formation of a Modern Rabbi discusses the ways in which Jellinek was emblematic of a new synagogue-based model of rabbi-as-scholar-preacher and returns Jellinek to the center of the Jewish nineteenth century-a world in which the role of rabbi, synagogue, and Jewish studies was being reinvented and renewed. -- Provided by publisher.

• V. 1. Imre Shefer: for Peter Schafer on the occasion of his 70th birthday
• PART I. The history of the Jews in antiquity. Was there a "common Judaism" after the destruction? / Seth Schwartz
• Was the ninth of Av observed in the Second Temple period? Reflections on the concept of continuing exile in early Judaism / Philip S. Alexander
• Can we read a historical text as a musical score? A new approach to polyphony and simultaneity in 1 Maccabees / Doron Mendels
• The Maccabaean martyrs in Jewish memory: Jerusalem and Antioch / Tessa Rajak
• Humbly second-rate in the diaspora? Philo and Stephen on the tabernacle and the Temple / Daniel R. Schwartz
• Wie romisch war das caput Iudaeae, die Colonia Prima Flavia Caesariensis? / Werner Eck
• Dirt and garbage in the ancient Jewish religious imagination and in daily life / Catherine Hezser
• Jews at the dice table: gambling in ancient Jewish society revisited / Joshua Schwartz
• Who is the brother of Jesus? On tripartite naming formulas in ancient Jewish and middle Aramaic inscriptions / David Goodblatt
• Reflections on Jewish identity in late antiquity / Nicholas de Lange
• PART II. History and theology of rabbinic Judaism. Moses and Adam as polyglots / Steven D. Fraade
• Burial: rules and practice in the Tannaitic period / Aharon Oppenheimer
• Cornering poverty: Mishnah Pe'ah, Tosefta Pe'ah, and the re-imagination of society in late antiquity / Gregg E. Gardner
• Adornment and gender in rabbinic Judaism / David Kraemer
• The emergence of the patriarchate in the third century / Lee I. Levine
• Biographical sketches in Genesis Rabbah / Maren R. Niehoff
• Greek wisdom in Babylonia / Moulie Vidas
• Aspects of judicial and legislative decision-making in the Talmudic legal discourse / Ronen Reichman
• Jerusalem fell after Betar: the Christian Josephus and rabbinic memory / Holger M. Zellentin
• The contested reception of The story of the ten martyrs in Medieval Midrash / Ra'anan S. Boustan
• The sacred text as a mental map: biblical and rabbinic "place" in medieval Jewish travel writing / Martin Jacobs
• PART III. Tradition and redaction in rabbinic literature. The first chapter of Berakhot: a compendium of mishnaic essentials / Gottfried Reeg
• Towards a digital critical edition of the Mishnah / Hayim Lapin
• Mekhilta de-R. Yishmael: some aspects of its redaction / Gunter Stemberger
• A synchronic and diachronic reading of Mishnah Shabbat 2:6: on the topic of why women die in childbirth / Judith Hauptman
• Towards the resolution of a terminological crux in the Talmud Yerushalmi / Leib Moscovitz Shemu'ata Kan
• Targum in the Babylonian Talmud / Richard Kalmin
• PART IV. Hekhalot and magical studies. Three-dimensional philology: some implications of the Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur / Michael D. Swartz
• Visions in Hekhalot literature: reflections on terminology / Annelies Kuyt
• Physiognomy and somatomancy: the ways that never crossed / Michael Meerson
• "He was Thoth in everything": why and when King Solomon became both Magister omnium physicorum and Master of magic / Yaacov Shavit
• Babylonian astrology in the Cairo Genizah / Gideon Bohak, Mark Geller
• How to use the Hebrew Bible to harm your neighbor: the use of biblical quotations in curse texts found in the Cairo Genizah / Dorothea M. Salzer
• Tefillat Rav Hamnuna Sava: Genizah fragments and medieval manuscripts / Gideon Bohak, Klaus Herrmann
• Torah ha-Mashiah in the context of apocalyptic traditions in Ashkenazi Hekhalot manuscripts / Ulrike Hirschfelder
• Non-european traditions of Hekhalot literature: the Yemenite evidence / Bill Rebiger.

• V. 2. PART V. Paths to the divine. Do/did the Jews believe in God? The skeptical ambivalence ofJewishh philosophy of religion / Giuseppe Veltri
• Benjamin the mystic (Ps 67:28 LXX) / William Horbury
• Interroga Matricem Mulieris: the secret life of the womb in 4 Ezra and Sethian cosmology / Eduard Iricinschi
• The messiah son of Joseph in ancient Judaism / Martha Himmelfarb
• Demiurg, saviour, or ...? Remarks on Platonic alternatives to gnostic conceptions of God and piety / Rainer Enskat
• How Athanasius, subject to Christian emperors, read John's apocalypse into his canon / Elaine Pagels
• Philo of Alexandria, Hasdai Crescas, and Spinoza on God's body / Carlos Fraenkel
• Conflicting views of the origins of evil in thirteenth-century kabbalah / Joseph Dan
• The female messiah: gender perspectives in kabbalistic eschatology and Christian soteriology / Gerold Necker
• PART VI. The birth of Judaism from the spirit of Christianity? When did rabbis become Pharisees? Reflections on Christian evidence for post-70 Judaism / Annette Yoshiko Reed
• Polishing the mirror: some thoughts on Syriac sources and early Judaism / Adam H. Becker
• Qabbalah, Deuterosis, andsemanticc incommensurability: a preliminary study / Azzan Yadin-Israel
• The Talmud in Jesus: how much Jewishness in Mark's Christ? / Daniel Boyarin
• Antipodal texts: B. Eruvin 21b-22a and Mark 7:1-23 on the tradition of the elders and the commandment of God / Shaye J.D. Cohen
• Jesus and Joshau ben Perahiah: a Jewish-Christian dialogue on magic in Babylonia / Tal Ilan
• Some notes on Jesus and his parents: from the New Testament Gospels to the Toledot Yeshu / John G. Gager, Mika Ahuvia
• Jesus and the clay birds: reading Toledot Yeshu in light of the infancy gospels / Sarit Kattan Gribetz
• Patriarchy and the motherhood of God in Zoharic Kabbalah and Meister Eckhart / Elliot R. Wolfson
• PART VII. Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages and beyond. Polysystem and Piyyut: the poetics of a Yotzer by R. Meshullam b. Qalonymos / Michael Fishbane
• "Like a camel carrying silk": initial considerations on the use of the Masorah in medieval Hebrew commentaries / Hanna Liss
• Meshal Qadmonim: a newly discovered Ashkenazic binding fragment of an unknown Maqama from the cathedral library of Freising, Germany / Andreas Lehnardt
• A Hebrew book list by Leon Modena / Yaacob Dweck
• Steinchen, Gras und Erdenstaub: Ursprung und Bedeutung judischer Friedhofbrauche / Peter Kuhn
• Rabbinic emissaries from Palestine and the making of a modern Jewish diaspora: a philanthropic network in the eighteenth century / Matthias B. Lehmann
• Learning about Jews in the classroom: a thirteenth-century witness, UCLA Library, Rouse MS 17 / William Chester Jordan
• Erhard von Pappenheim: a portrait of a hitherto unstudied early Christian hebraist / David Stern
• Johannes Reuchlin's lost polemical manuscript and the archetype of the Nizzahon Vetus: a reconstruction / Reimund Leicht
• Eine Wiedergeburt des Judentums aus dem Geist des Christentums: Schellings und Rosenzweigs spekulative Philologie der Unverfugbarkeit / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
• Has more than a century of Genizah research adjusted Jewish notions of scholarship, history, and identity? Some reflections and speculations / Stefan C. Reif.

• Sample Friday evening Shabbat service #1
• Sample Friday evening Shabbat liberal service #2
• Sample Saturday morning Shabbat service
• Havdallah introduction
• Havdallah service
• Masada service (Shacharit)
• Holocaust service
• Blessing over Sabbath candles
• Kiddush
• Blessing over the bread
• Grace after meals
• Index to songs
• Songs