English Language Publications

Contains the Aramaic vocabulary of the Jewish literary and epigraphic sources of Eretz Israel from the third century C.E. until the Arab Conquest, including Palestinian Talmud, Midrashim, Targumim and synagogue inscriptions.

Addenda to the first edition of The Jewish Life Cycle.

This book is an English translation of Albeck's important work, which first appeared in Hebrew in 1999, published by Bar-Ilan University Press.

This journal is a forum for the study and discussion of democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It was founded in order to rise to the challenges presented by the development of democracy in a young Israeli society. This public

This study explores how religious identity and academic excellence intersect, using Bar-Ilan University and religious universities around the world as models of religious paradigms.

This journal is a forum for the study and discussion of democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It was founded in order to rise to the challenges presented by the development of democracy in a young Israeli society. This public

This book presents telegrams sent to London by High Commissioner General Sir Alan Cunningham about the activities of the Jewish and Arab military organizations in Palestine from early 1947 to mid-May 1948.

This study adds lexical entries to Krauss’ work, analyzes morphological changes in loaning between languages, examines dialectical characteristics and patterns of corruption, and explains many misunderstood passages in rabbinic literature.

This journal is a forum for the study and discussion of democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It was founded in order to rise to the challenges presented by the development of democracy in a young Israeli society. This public

The book includes studies and research on Agnon's work in Germany between the years 1913 to1924, during which time his art earned its classic status. The studies deal also with the influence of the German world and its culture on his entire body of wor

investigates the ways in which the literature of the American Renaissance negotiates the ethical, theological, political, and aesthetic implications of the Bible’s entanglement in the mid-nineteenth-century debates over slavery. By examining the intersec

This journal is a forum for the study and discussion of democratic culture in general and Israeli democracy in particular. It was founded in order to rise to the challenges presented by the development of democracy in a young Israeli society. This public

This book traces the sources, history and development of a broad variety of customs associated with the Jewish life cycle, from birth to death. It draws upon a vast repertoire of sources, both literary and pictorial, Jewish and non-Jewish, and points to p

Times of crisis are the making or unmaking of a leadership. The present volume examines this theme in great depth and variety, encompassing a time span from classical Athens to the second half of the 20th century, and moving through Europe, Asia, and the

The papers in this collection are divided into three groups according to the ways in which economic methods are applied. Part I uses the analytical tools of economics to enrich our understanding of’Jewish approaches to various activities and ’to’provide i

This book compiles over thirty years of study, during which the author has articulated and developed the concept of ''philosophic mysticism'', that is, the type of mysticism that grows out of rigorous philosophical reflection but clearly alludes to a myst

The present volume deals mainly with the connections between Islam and Judaism in the spheres of philosophy and mysticism. It includes also articles on various subjects: ablution in Islamic Law, the appearance of Muhammad in Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa, a comme

Conversion (giyyur), the way in which a gentile converts to the Jewish faith, has profound legal significance. This book is a comprehensive halakhic and legal research of conversion in Jewish law, and aims to reach a full understanding of its essence. The

The ''Historical Prologue'', an important, integral part of subordination treaties of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., has been known until now mainly from Hittite treaties. Its function in these treaties was to display the justificatio

By way of an honest and riveting account of certain periods in his own life, the author reflects on the meaning of Jewish existence today, and on some of the outstanding problems that are still with us after the end of the 20th century.

Judean Aramaic is the Aramaic dialect of the documents that were composed in Judea between c. 150 B.C.E.- 200 C.E. The texts in this dialect come from various sites in the Dead Sea region, the vicinity of Jerusalem, and from Tannaitic sources (Mishna, Tos

Translated from the Hebrew: "Jewish Settlement in the Hebron Mountains and the Etzion Bloc".

A collection of 10 articles on a wide range of subjects especially concerning the Iberian diaspora, by distinguished scholars from Israel, Europe and the United States. A major contribution to the study of Jewish society and economy, and of the histor

This is the second volume of the author's iconotextual trilogy. Co-published with Harrassowitz Verlag.

Translated from the Hebrew "The Religious Kibbutz during the Mandate Period". Co-published with Magnes Press, The Hebrew University.

A collection of articles on theoretical and methodological problems, Israeli popular music, and others. Based on proceedings of the George Herzog International Forum for Socio-Musical Sciences.

A critical edition of a large group of cultic love poems concerned with the love and sacred marriage of the divine couple, the gods of love and fertility, Dumuzi (Tammuz) and Inanna (Ishtar), together with introduction, English translation, philological c

Five case studies of the reaction to political deviance in Israel provide the basis for a comparison with the situation in other countries, and the development of a new model of the rhetorical strategies used in the process of delegitimation.

An international group of distinguished psychologists, sociologists and educators presents original theoretical and applied chapters that enable enhanced understanding of hetero-geneous schools and provide ways of improving education for all children in t

Co-published with Harrassowitz Verlag.

A collection of articles written by renowned classical scholars in Israel and abroad, many of which address matters having to do with the Jews or the Land of Israel of the classical period.

As the debate over the readmission of the Jews to England reached its climax in 1655-1656, Prynne, distinguished already both as lawyer and publicist, proved himself to be the most formidable of all the antagonists of the Jews. Various aspects of his Shor

Andrew Sharf, who died in 1990, is acknowledged as an outstanding authority on Byzantine-Jewish and Armenian history. The present volume contains 18 of his papers, classics in their field.

A study of the geo-historical distribution of all the loan types as well as of the individual clauses used in the Old Babylonian loan con-tract (c. 1900-1600 B.C.E). It is shown that loan types as well as individual formulas have a limited geographical an

Points of contact between rabbinic Judaism and Hellenistic Roman culture are examined. Greco-Roman Hellenistic motifs are discovered in rabbinic sources while authentically Hebrew-rabbinic magical formulae are shown to be present in Greek papyrological ma

This volume examines a crucial period in Roman economic history in the light of contemporary evidence drawn from the vast corpus of rabbinic literature. From the series ''Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture''.

A collection of essays and articles dealing with various aspects of Israel-Diaspora relations. The contributors are well-known authorities on the subject from Israel and abroad, as well as spiritual leaders of Diaspora Jewish com-munities. The unifying th

Derech Erez Zeira is a small Talmudic tractate embedded in Derech Erez Zuta. It deals with the norms of rabbinic etiquette. This volume comprises a translation and detailed commentary, including close textual and philological analysis, examination of sour

A collection of 16 papers that constitute a major contribution to the study of the economic life and social development of the Jewish communities in the Mediterranean area before the Industrial Revolution.

An attempt to collect and interpret all Palestinian and rabbinic data pertaining to nautical matters and correlate them with contemporary literary and archaeological evidence. From the series ''Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture''.

What are the issues that tend to generate tension in Jewish political life? How have the consequent communal struggles been resolved in the past, and how are they treated today? The essays in this volume address these and allied questions by analysing var

A monograph on one of the great scholars who was a central figure in the critical period following the destruction of the Second Temple. Emphasizing the impact of Rabbi Eliezer's Halakhot, Professor Gilat vividly reconstructs the evolution of the Halakhah

Gives a detailed analysis of etymological issues: citations of sources and translations chronologically and semantically arranged, Hellenistic, Roman and juristic papyrological sources compared, phonology and morphology of rabbinic Graecitas and its diale

The present collection of articles covers a wide range of topics including Aramean history, Aramaic language, literature and paleography. New texts in Egyptian Aramaic, Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, and the modern Aramaic dialect of the Kurdish Jews are pub

A monograph based on archival sources that is focused on the apathetic - if not hostile -attitude of the American Christian communities over the rescue, relief and resettlement of non-Jewish refugees. Full details are given of all the principal relief org

Issued in honour of Leon Nemoy, scholar in Judeo-Arabic and Karaite studies, contains essays in Hebrew philosophy, literature and bibliography, Islamic studies and Karaite texts.

The author develops an ecological model and provides a map of a man-environment system on which the dynamics of the creative process can be plotted.

A collection of studies dealing with various aspects of Jewish political life. The philosophical and structual elements of the Jewish polity in the Diaspora, political change in 20th-century Anglo and American Jewish communities, Jewish identity in the St

This book contains definitive editions of three hymnal epics pertaining to Sulgi (c. 2094 -2047 B.C.E.), the most outstanding ruler of the Neo-Sumerian Ur III dynasty, together with an introduction and English translations. From the series ''Bar-Ilan S

The book is concerned with Hungarian-Jewish relations before and during the Second World War. Its center of focus is official Hungarian policy towards the Jews, and, particularly, anti-Jewish legislation enacted by successive Hungarian governments between

This study analyses the major factors that have influenced the music of contemporary Israeli composers. The book is richly illustrated with some 200 musical examples.

Awarded prize in competition for the beautiful Israeli book, 1981, Israeli Design Center. The first printed edition of the Latin text of a biblical commentary by Langton, exegete, statesman and preacher (c. 1190). A critical edition of this importa

This volume surveys the agrarian history of Palestine during the third and fourth centuries CE. It describes the various phases of transition from a rural economy based primarily on small peasant proprietorship to one dominated by the large estate, owned

Originally published 25 years ago in the periodical Tarbiz, the late Prof. E. Y. Kutscher's article has been inaccessible to the wider audience of Aramaic scholars who do not read Modern Hebrew. Based on manuscript evidence, Kutscher's study was the most

The theme of this volume is social differentiation relating to ethnic and religious diversity in Israeli society. The book examines the methods of narrowing the polarization in Israeli society that derives from these differences.

An empirical sociological research on the reactions of Israeli youth of the generation following the Holocaust to the Eichmann trial and to the Holocaust in general.

The original edition of this important Aramaic text dating to the late second century B.C.E. appeared in 1971. In this book a new edition of the text based on a re-reading of the photographs is presented along with an English translation. The language of