Contents I-XIII introduction 1-17 Division A: The Bible and Its World 18-56 Division B: History of the Jewish People 57-79 Division C: Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Law 80-93 Division C: Jewish Thought 94-154 Division D: Literatures

Between "Closure" and "Closeness" in the Tales of the Sages in Rabbinic

Literature

Tamas Turan (H)

The Destructive and Ruthless Observations of the Sages: The

Development of Aggaddic Motifs in Talmudic Literature

Boris Ostrer (H)

R. Johanan and Reish Lakish in a Gnostic Anecdote

PROGRAM

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503 Midrash and Folklore

Simeon the Righteous and the Nazirite: Perspectives on Introspection in

Talmudic Legends

Ruhama Weiss (H)

Tests of Kashrut: Sub-Groups of Repast-Assessment in the Talmud

“Transforming the Dream": Performative Speech in the Ritual of Hatavat

Halom

314 Early Rabbinic Literature

Chairperson: Shlomo Naeh

On the Sources of 'תרצע ימולשת'

New Sabbath Laws from Qumran

Why did Resurrection for the Dead Beat out Immortality for the Soul in

Rabbinic Judaism

Cana Werman (H)

The Wood Offering in Qumran and Tannatic Literature: Nature and

Date(s)

315 Literary Aspects of Rabbinic Literature

Chairperson: Tamar Kadari

Psychological Manipulation and Hidden Characters in Midrash: The Case

of Abraham the Apostate and Korah the Pharisee

Tsafi Sebba-Elran (H)

King Solomon and Asmodeus, Or: The Story of the Nightmare (Balahot)

King – Agadic Anthologies and Their Role in the Development of

Judaism As a Culture

The Inn As a Place of Violence and Danger in Rabbinic Literature

PROGRAM

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316 Tales of the Sages

A Recreation of the Book of Daniel’s Prophecy of the Four Kingdoms

Culled from Rabbinic Literature

Alon Goshen-Gotshtein (H)

Polemicomania 2 – Examining the Two Powers

Zedekiah and the Rabbit (Nedarim 65 a) Aggada and Halakhah

Chairperson: Yaakov Elboim

Kohelet Rabbah: Study in Redaction and Formation

Haggadat Megillat Esther (=Midrash Tanhuma to Esther)

Where Does Midrash "Shir HaShirim Rabbah" Begin?

"Solomon Asked to Admit the Ark of the Covenant to the Sanctuary":

The Editing of an Eretz Yisrael Legend in the Babylonian Talmud

318 Midrashim and Their Emendations – Session B

Chairperson: Jonah Fraenkel

Midrash and Emendation in Menachem b. Shlomo’s “Yalkut Sekhel Tov”

Lost Aggadic Midrashim Known from Ashkenazic Sources of the 13th

Century and Their Relationship to Cognate Compositions

Ezra Kehalani (H)

Creativity and Stylistic Innovation in the Midrash "Agadat Bereshit" [The

Legends of Genesis]

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Dina Stein

The Priestly Ur-Body: Reading Mishna Bechorot 7

The Semiotics of the Sexed Body in Rabbinic Literature

A certain matronita solicited R. Tzadok”: Eros of Power, Eros of

Resistance, in a Babylonian Talmudic Narrative (bKid 40a)

320 Israel and the Nations

Chairperson: Margarete Schlueter

Who is Like a "Donkey" (Gen. 22:5)?

The Concept of "Deuterosis" in Jewish-Christian Dialogue and

Controversy

Yuval Shahar (H)

The Smeering, Spoiling Samaritan: The Literary Characteristics and

Historical Roots of the Talmudic Anti-Samaritan Motif

321 Prayer – Session A

Chairperson: Ruth Langer

The Ritual of Northern France

The Early History of the "Al Ha-Nissim" Prayer on Hanukah

The Talmudic Early Morning Ritual: Reconstruction of the Mind and the

Body through Utterance of Birkhot Hashakhar (the Morning Blessings)

Ephraim-Bezalel Halivni (H)

“Now Everyone Says a Blessing Before and After the Torah Reading”:

Since When?

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Avigdor Shinan

The Birkat Haminim without Minim? The Aftermath of Christian

Censorship

Uri Ehrlich (H)

An Early Palestinian Version of the Shmone Esre and Its Bearing on

Birkat Ha-Da'at

Yehezkel Luger (H)

“Bless Us, Our Father, All of Us”

Legal Terminology in Liturgy

Chairperson: Moshe Asis

The Oral Nature of the Bavli in Geonic Times: Theory and Practice

The "Tosfeta" in Halachot Gedolot: A Contribution to its textual study

Admitting the Other? Rereading Rav Zemah Gaon's Responsa Regarding

Eldad Ha-Dani

Jehoshua Horowitz (H)

R. Mordechai's Attitude to the Geonim and His Manner of Halakhic

Determination

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Bernard S. Jackson

The Second Rule in Maimonides’ "Sefer Mitzvot" [Book of

Commandments]: Maimonides’ Approach to the Concept of 613

[Mitzvot] and to Midrash Halakhah

Parents' Obligations Toward Their Children: The Meaning of

Maimonides' Divergence from Talmudic Rulings

Shalem Yahalom (H)

The Connection Between Nahmanides and Sefer Hahashlamah

Chairperson: Eliezer Diamond

History and Authority in Agunah Research

Did the Inhabitants of Qumran Wear Rabbenu Tam's Tefillin?

What Did the Shu’m Regulation Really Say about Domestic Squabbles?

Witness Requirement in Property Cases: Qumranic Evidence of Ancient

Halakhah

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Israel Gilhut

Heresy and Apostasy Aa Legal Concepts of Rabbinic Law

Following the Majority: Biblical or Midrashic Text? An Example of the

Formation Process of Halakhic Rabbinic Exegesis

Yoel Kretzmer-Raziel (H)

Handling Vessels on the Sabbath

The Use of Real Estate for the Settlement of Claims in Jewish Babylonia

Outlines to the biography of Rabbi Yhonathan Eybechuetz

Chairperson: Jeffrey R. Woolf

Principle or Rule? The Transformation of the Maxim "There is no Earlier

and Later in the Torah" into a Middah, "by Means of Which the Torah Is

Expounded"

Exploring Rabbinic Methodologies: When Text, Law and Hermeneutics

Conflict

Aviram Ravitsky (H)

Talmudic Methodology and Scholastic Logic:The Commentary of R.

Abraham Elijah Cohen to the Thirteen Exegetical Principles

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Uziel Fuchs

The Biography and Teachings of Rabbi Yechiel of Paris

The Torah Commentary of R. Jacob Kanizel

Revisions and Recensions in Medieval Halakhic Literature: The Case of

R. Jeruham’s Meisharim

329 Medieval Commentaries – Session B

Chairperson: Yehuda Galinski

The Sources and Significance of the Ashkenazi Material in Ritva's

Talmudic Commentaries

Yoel Florsheim (H)

Nachmanides’ attitude to the T. Yerushalmi

The Sources of the "Shittah Mekubezet" to Kodashim in the Geniza

Commentaries on Rashi's Talmud Commentary

Chairperson: Menachem Elon

Misphat Ivri and the Shaping of the Legal System of Israel As a

Democratic Jewish State

Suzanne L. Stone (E)

New Directions for Jewish Law from the American Legal Academy

"Jewish Law" and "Talmudic Research": The Case of Asher Gulak

Correlations Between the Talmud and Mishpat Ivri in Asher Gulak’s

Studies

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Elihav Shochetman

Marking Forty Years of the Institute for Research in Jewish Law:

Projected Goals and Directions

Aviad Hacohen (H)

Unlawful Enrichment and Not in Jewish Law

Jewish Law in Israeli Courts: A Future Glimpse

Chairperson: Aviad Hacohen

The Impact of Increased Mobility on Halakhic Issues in the Medieval

Mediterranean World

Jay R. Berkovitz (E)

Civil Law and Justice in the Rabbinic Tribunales of 18th Century Metz

Private International Law As Reflected in the Halakhic Responsa of the

16th Century

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Gideon Libson

Israeli Civil Law and the Halakhah: Do They Dwell in Peaceful Harmony

in the Rabbinical Ecclesiastical Courts?

Benny Shmueli (H)

Law, Morality and Loving Your Neighbor: The Essence of the Proverb

"Love Your Neighbor As Yourself" in Jewish Law and Israeli Law

Floriane Chinsky (H)

Jewish Law: Flexible or Rigid? A Brief Review of Social Representations

of Halakhah for Modern-Day French Jews

Michael Corinaldi (H)

Conversion Procedures According to Jewish Law (Halakah) and Israeli

Law

342 Mishpat Ivri and Gender

Chairperson: Michael Corinaldi

Radical Feminism, Mishpat Ivri and the Israeli Legal System

Fertillity, Gender and Halakhah

Rabbinic Law in P.Yadin 21-22: A Widow's Rights to Self-Help

Chairperson: Yaakov Bazak

Marriage Agreements in Jewish Law

The Wife's Income from Labor in Jewish Law and Its Application in

Israeli Law

Elihav Shochetman (H)

A Husband’s Infidelity As a Basis for Divorce

PROGRAM

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344 Issues in Jewish Law – Session A

Can A "Jewish and Democratic State" Qualify As a Rawlsian "Decent"

State?

Yossi David (H)

For and Against Legal Analogies in Pre-Maimonidean Halakhic Thought

[Complete] Testimony but not Partial Testimony: A Chapter in the Laws

of Evidence

J. David Bleich (E)

Medical Malpractice and Jewish Law

Chairperson: Ya'acov Habba

An Unsuccessful Attempt to Commit an Offence

Trends in Talmudic Tort Law: A Study in the Law of the "Tooth" in the

Public Domain

Moshe Drori (H)

Causality in the Law of Damages ("Gerama" [Indirect Causation] and

"Mevatel Kiso Shel Haveiro" [Causing the Future Loss Profits]) in

Mishpat Ivri: The Implementation of Principles and Their Application to

the Israeli Public and Legal System

Ya'akov Shapira (H)

The Social Order versus Religious – Ethical Law: A Study of Two

Halakhot Concerning Theft

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Anita Shapira

Piety and Gender: Toward an Outline of the Spiritual Lives of Medieval

Jewish Women

Benjamin Brown (H)

Halakha and Religious Ethics: Creating a Conceptual Research Model

Deportation and Extermination: the Becoming and Representation of

Memory

Magda Teter (E)

Jewish Law and Canon Law: Dealing with the Other

Chairperson: Sara Japhet

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

PROGRAM

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Jewish Thought

Chairperson: Aviezer Ravizki

The Perennial Jewish Philosophy of Enlightenment in Relation to

Maimonides

Yosef Turner (H)

The Maimonedean Influence in Rabbi Haim Hirschenssohn's Political

Thought

Shalom Ratzabi (H)

The Political Teachings of Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan and the Political

Teachings of Maimonides

Jonathan Cohen (H)

Interpreting Maimonides’ Political Thought: The Contemporary

Relevance of the Strauss-Guttmann Debate

352 Teaching Mysticism in the Academy (Plenary Session)

Chairperson: Ron Margolin

New Approaches to Teaching Kabbalah in the Academy

The Construction of Jewish Mysticism and the Politics of Its Study

The Mystical Text and the Mysticism of the Text

The Culturo-Sociological Aspects of Research in Jewish Mysticism

PROGRAM

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353 Research in Magic and Its Academic Significance (Plenary Session)

Prolegomena to the Study of the Jewish Magical Tradition

Power in Context: Community, Gender and Nation in Magical Struggles

in Israel

J.H. Chajes (H)

Jewish Magic and the Anxiety of Influence

Chairperson: James A. Diamond

Philology in the Genizah: Current Research in the Friedberg Project

Intellectual Encounter in the Genizah: The Cataloguing of Philosophical,

Theological and Polemical Fragments

David Sklare

From the Work of the Center for the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Culture:

Biblical Quaestionae

Haggai Ben-Shammai (H)

The Karaite Library in Jerusalem: Its Creation in the 10th and 11th

Centuries and Reconstruction in the 21st Century Friedberg Genizah

Project

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355 Philo of Alexandria

Chairperson: Daniel Maoz

Monday (1 Aug 2005) 15:00 - 17:00 Room: 2717

Naomi G. Cohen (E)

Proverbs 8:22-23 in Philo and in Gen. Rabbah

The Meaning of the Word Ether in the Works of Philo Alexandrinus: The

Cosmological Background of Biblical Exegesis

Arkady Kovelman (E)

Jer. 9:22-23 in Philo and Paul

Philo's Universalistic Interpretation of Biblical Laws

Philo of Alexandria and the Conquest of Canaan

Maimonides and Hume

Why Did Maimonides Write the Mishneh Torah?

Maimonides on the Sabbath: From Divine Will to Natural Order

Chairperson: Eliezer Schweid

From Commentary to the Mishnah to The Guide of the Perplexed:

Transformation in Maimonides' Approach to Aggadah

Esty Eisenman (H)

The Sinaitic Revelation in Maimonides’ Thought

Elisha Ben Abuya As a Model of the Attitude of Modern Judaism to the

Feminine Alternative

Alfred L. Ivry (H)

Shim'on Rawidowicz and the Rambam

PROGRAM

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358 Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages – Session A

Creation or the Eternity of the World: An Original Compromise by Rabbi

Shmuel Ibn Tibbon

Yossi Marciano (H)

Rabbi Isaac from Shatabiah and "Shir HaShirim" [The Song of Songs] As

a Philosophical Dialogue

Mordecai Ostwald (H)

The "Hermeticist" Teachings of Rabbi Judan Moscato

Julius Guttmann and the Study of R. Joseph Albo's Thought

Chairperson: Ephraim Kanarfogel

Isaac Abarbanel, Neoplatonism and Gilgul Neshamot

Some Issues in the Political Ideology of Moshe Narboni According to His

Commentary on Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yakdhan

Luis Cortest (E)

Athens and Jerusalem in Moshe Almosnino's Regimiento de la vida

The Influences of Alfarabi on Moses Maimonides' Theory of Kingship in

Sefer Shoftim

PROGRAM

Chairperson: Gedalyah Nigal

Isaac of Acre's Conception of God’s Unity

Ascent of Light and Space in the Prayer Intention of Moses Cordovero