Saturday, October 17, 2015

New open-access book from Brill: Heger, Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles

http://www.brill.com/products/book/women-bible-qumran-and-early-rabbinic-literature

Heger, Paul. Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 110. Leiden: Brill, 2014.


From the website:
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range of perspectives, as deduced from the texts of the three corpora. The volume discusses the related topics of divorce, polygamy, woman’s obligations to fulfill precepts, membership in the community, genealogy and attitudes toward sex, such as rejection of asceticism. Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature begins with an objective interpretation of the biblical narratives of the Creation and the Fall, the intellectual basis of Jewish attitudes toward women, and then analyzes the divergent interpretations of Qumran and the Rabbis, the grounds of their distinct doctrines and halakhot.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Open-access work by Emmanuel Tov

From AWOL, great news that updates earlier posts on this site about Tov's publications:

Sources: Books are presented here as they appear in public domain websites. In addition, Scribal Practices 1-2 and all the papers present PDF files of the manuscripts submitted to the respective publishers. In all these cases minute changes have been inserted in the printed versions. Words in pink refer to changes subsequent to the publication. 

Hebrew: The files included in this website were first recorded in different versions of MS-Word, and then converted to MS-Word 2004. In the wake of this conversion a few Hebrew word pairs now appear in the wrong order.

Books written or edited

Collected Papers 1999 - The Greek and Hebrew Bible

Collected Papers 2008 - Hebrew Bible, Greek Bible and Qumran

Reviews

Varia (the numbers refer to the bibliography )