From: jtspress [mailto:jtspr...@schocken-jts.org.il] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 8:54 AM To: 'listp...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu' Subject: New Publications by JTS Press
Dear Friends, We are introducing below a new Publication by JTS Press which may be of some interest to you. For orders and further details visit our website: http://www.schocken-jts.org.il/english/ 1. A Concordance of Amoraic Terms, Expressions and Phrases in the Yerushalmi, 3 Vols. Set / Moshe Assis(SCH-157) The Talmud Yerushalmi came to us full of textual errors and without traditional commentary. One way to correct this situation is through the study of the terminology of the Yerushalmi, which often is the key for interpreting a Talmudic sugyah. Thus, linguistic and semantic clarifications of Talmudic terms can assist the scholar in correcting faulty textual versions and enable him to come much closer to the original text of the Yerushalmi and to its accurate interpretation. The present three-volume Concordance provides scholars with a unique research tool to achieve these goals. 2. Talmudic Studies / Shamma Friedman (SCH-158) This volume collects 22 studies (20 in Hebrew and two in English) composed over the last four decades, by Shamma Friedman, well-known scholar of talmudic literature and languages. The studies are divided into five "gates", four comprising Hebrew studies, and the fifth English. Most of the articles deal with broad methodological issues, while some investigate specific questions, which also have general methodological implications. In the nine page Preface the author provides a new review of the subjects presented in the volume's five "gates". The first gate, devoted to investigation of the sugya (the basic talmudic literary unit), includes such established studies as "General Introduction to the Investigation of the Sugya", and "Some Structural Patterns of Talmudic Sugyot" alongside current update on the subject and reactions to recent ideas voiced on this pivotal issue. The content of the second gate on textual variants can be exemplified by the studies "On the Origin of Textual Variants in the Babylonian Talmud", "The Stemma for Textual Witnesses of TB Bava Metzia" and "A Typology of the Manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud Based upon Orthographic and Linguistic Features". The third gate, devoted to aggada, contains two methodological and programmatic studies, "Literary Development and History in the Aggadic Narrative of the Babylonian Talmud", and "History and Aggada: The Enigma of Dama Ben Netina". Studies on specific sugyot can be found in the fourth gate, among them uncovering transfer and reworking of sugyot with evidence of the lost original found in geonic literature, and the phenomenon of the proem sugya: "The First Sugya TB Bava Metzia III". Two Encyclopedia entries in English comprise the fifth gate, one dealing with the nature of talmudic baraytot ("Barayta"), and one attempting to define the genre talmud and describe its Babylonian representative:"Talmud (Introduction), Talmud Bavli". The studies have been reset in type, with internal references to the volume added, some updating, and detailed passage and subject indices. The geniza fragment on the cover of the volume symbolizes the survival and continuation of the Talmud over the ages. Shamma Friedman is the Benjamin and Minna Reeves Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Professor in the Talmud Department at Bar Ilan University (adjunct). 3. Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot He-hadash, Vol. IV / Shmuel Glick (SCH-159) A Bibliographic Thesaurus of Responsa Literature published from ca. 1470 - 2000 Index and Bibliography for Responsa Studies. Part one is a subject index of the first three volumes of Kuntress Ha-teshuvot with more than 12,000 entries focusing on halakhic-historical and biographical topics discussed in the previous volumes. Part two is a bibliography of responsa studies. This section contains information about a wide range of scholarly articles, studies, and monographs, in Hebrew and other languages, composed between 1823 and 2010. The genesis of this project and the records which follow originated with the collection of essays that Professor David Golinkin and I began compiling some ten years ago. Originally, we compiled a list of around 300 titles. Over the years, and thanks to all of those who have worked on the Responsa Bibliography Project, the list has grown to more than 2,430. --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: <http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html>http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: <http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html>http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage <http://www.JewishLibraries.org>http://www.JewishLibraries.org
