Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman (Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 35) (English and Hebrew Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004235442 ISBN 13: 9789004235441

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2012

Synopsis

Shoshannat Yaakov includes studies by leading scholars on Ancient Jewish and Iranian Studies and essays that combine both fields in the new discipline of Irano-Talmudica.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Shoshannat Yaakov" honors Yaakov Elman, Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and celebrates Elman s contributions to a broad range of disciplines within Jewish and Iranian studies. The fruits of Elman s seminal project of bringing together of scholars of Iranian studies and Talmud in ways that have transformed both disciplines, are well represented in this volume, together with scholarship that ranges from Second Temple Judaism to Late Antique Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Samaritanism and Christianity.

About the Author:

Shai Secunda, Ph.D. (2008), Yeshiva University, is Mandel Fellow at the Scholion Center for Interdisciplianary Jewish Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published articles on Rabbinic and Zoroastrian literature, and has recently completed a study entitled, Reading the Talmud in Iran.

Steven Fine is professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project. Fine's most recent monograph, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology (2005, revised edition 2010), received the Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9004235442
• ISBN 13: 9789004235441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 485
• Editor: Secunda Shai, Fine Steven