Το τρέχον τεύχος του JSIJ / The current issue of JSIJ

 Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal 19 (2020)

Special Josephus Issue

• Michael Avioz and Meir Ben Shahar,  "Editors’ Preface"
• Kenneth Atkinson, "Josephus's Use of Scripture to Describe Hasmonean Territorial Expansion"
• Meir Ben Shahar, "Dating the Destruction of the First Temple: Tradition and Interpretation in Josephus"
• Silvia Castelli, "Between Tradition and Innovation: Josephus's Description of the Tabernacle (Ant. 3.108-150) as an Improved Alternative to the Greek Bible"
• Jonathan Klawans, "Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning and Denying Innovation in Josephus"
• Étienne Nodet, "Josephus, 1 Maccabees, and Hanukkah"
• Ishay Rosen-Zvi, "Between Ethnos and Nomos: Josephus and the Goyim"
• Daniel R. Schwartz, "Hellenism, Judaism, and Apologetic: Josephus's Antiquities According to an Unpublished Commentary by Abraham Schalit"
• Jan Willem Van Henten, "Herod's Law Against Theft in its Literary, Legal, and Historical Contexts"

[Θερμές ευχαριστίες στον καλό συνάδελφο Michael Avioz για την είδηση] 

Τρία νέα άρθρα στο τρέχον τεύχος του JSIJ / Three new articles in the current issue of JSIJ

Jewish Studies: an Internet Journal 12 (2013)

• Ishay Rosen-Zvi, "The Rise And Fall of Rabbinic Masculinity"
• Yehudit Henshke, "Biblical Citations in the Mishna: A Characterization of the Biblical Text Witnesses in Medieval Byzantium"
• Ilana Sasson, "Masorah And Grammar as Revealed in Tenth Century Karaite Exegesis"

Ο Σαμψών ως Μεσσίας / Samson as Messiah

Στο ηλεκτρονικό περιοδικό Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal 11 (2012) έχει αναρτηθεί το άρθρο του Shimon Fogel, "Samson as Messiah - Another Look" (στα εβραϊκά), στο οποίο ο συγγραφέας εξετάζει την αντιμετώπιση του Σαμψών ως ενός αποτυχημένου Μεσσία σε μέρος της εβραϊκής ερμηνευτικής παράδοσης.
Παραθέτω την αγγλική περίληψη του άρθρου:

"This paper deals with Samson as Messiah. In some midrashic sources, especially those concerning Jacob’s blessing to Dan (Genesis 49:15-18), Samson is described as a failed messiah. Samson began some messianic activity but did not succeed in completing the task. Some of these sources are explicit, whereas others use motifs and terms that carry messianic connotations in rabbinic literature. Portraying Samson as a failed messiah should lead to a reevaluation of rabbinic ideas about messianism. The model reflected here is quite different from the common one: Samson is a lone military hero, not one who stands out for piety. The fact that Samson is not denounced for his messianic activity may point to a “soft” messianic model, in which the messiah is not a predestined redeemer, but a human being with potential to succeed that may or may not be fulfilled. The appendix deals with Samson’s messianism in the late midrashic literature attributed to R. Moses the Preacher (Provence, 11th century). There we find an explicit statement to the effect that the future messiah will be very similar to Samson. This fact reflects the important role that messianic issues occupy in this literature."

Το νέο τεύχος του JSIJ / The current issue of JSIJ

Από το ιστολόγιο PalαeoJudaica πληροφορούμαστε την κυκλοφορία του νέου τεύχος του Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal , τα άρθρα του οποίου μπορεί ο ενδιαφερόμενος αναγνώστης να βρει σε μορφή doc ή pdf πατώντας εδώ. Ειδικότερα τα άρθρα που δημοσιεύθηκαν μέχρι τώρα και τα οποία είναι είτε στα εβραϊκά είτε στα αγγλικά είναι:

• Michael Avioz, "On the Origins of the Term Nevi'im Rishonim" (εβραϊκά)
  
• Itzhak Hamitovsky, "Rabbi Meir and the Samaritans: The Differences Between the Accounts in the Yerushalmi and the Bavli"(εβραϊκά)
  
• Menachem Katz, "Collections of Halakha or Analytic Clarifications in the Babylonian Talmud?"(εβραϊκά)
  
• Moshe Lavee, "Welfare and Education vs. Leadership and Redemption: The Stories about Rabbi and Rabbi Hiyya as an Example of the Image of the Tannaitic Past in the Babylonian Talmud" (εβραϊκά)
  
• Yossi Erel, "Ramban’s Approach Toward the Plain Meaning of the Biblical Text vs. his Commitment to Halakha" (εβραϊκά)
  
• Chanan Gafni, "Hyperbolic Language in the Mishnah"(εβραϊκά)
  
• Aron Pinker, "On the Meaning of šgl" (αγγλικά)
  
• Ephraim Stulberg, "The Last Oral Torah? The Division of the Torah into ‘Aliyot" (αγγλικά)