Anna Rosa Galiley, Der israelische Dichter Elazar Benyoëtz zwischen Deutsch und Hebräisch: Zweisprachigkeit als poetische Kraft. Walter de Gruyter, 2024

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The Life of Makarios the Roman (BHG 1004–1005i) and the Alexander Romance: Truth, Fiction and the Paradoxographic

Paradoxography and narratives of wondrous travels and adventure tread the borderline between truth and fiction. On the one hand, they lend importance to, for instance, eyewitness reports, while on the other, they portray distant, unknown a...

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Between Paradoxography and Aretalogy: The Jewish Scroll of Fasts

This article argues that the Jewish Scroll of Fasts (Megillat Taanit), an Aramaic calendar of 35 auspicious days or periods, is a paradoxographic composition. While its present form probably dates from the early Roman period, the text is l...

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Jewish Wit and Jewish Conservatism

This article examines the intellectual double life of Swiss-Jewish publicist Salcia Landmann, who achieved widespread literary acclaim while simultaneously maintaining a decades-long involvement with the German-speaking far right. Although...

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Abraham Rubin. Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography. University of Toronto Press, 2024

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The “Miracle-Mongers”: the Gospels at the Edges of Empire

This contribution proposes that the canonical gospels of the New Testament should be placed in direct conversation with paradoxographical writing. With their accounts of Jesus’ miraculous conception and birth, healings, and depictions of t...

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Jay Howard Geller. Die Scholems: Geschichte einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und für die deutsche Ausgabe bearbeitet von Ruth Keen und Erhard Stölting. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2020

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Scott Ury und Guy Miron, Hg. Antisemitism and the Politics of History. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2024

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Julian Timm. Der erzählte Antisemitismus: Das Narrativ der ,Jüdischen Weltverschwörung‘ von seinen literarischen Ursprüngen bis heute. Wallstein, 2023

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Elke Morlok. Kabbala und Haskala: Isaak Satanow (1732–1804) zwischen jüdischer Gelehrsamkeit, moderner Physik und Berliner Aufklärung. De Gruyter, 2022

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Steven B. Bowman, trans. Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel. Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology. Wayne State University Press, 2023

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Cook, Edward. Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Otto Zwierlein. Das ‚Bellum Iudaicum‘ des Ambrosius. De Gruyter, 2024

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David Frankfurter. Ich tötete einen Nazi. Erzählt und bearbeitet von Schalom Ben-Chorin, herausgegeben von Sabina Bossert und Janis Lutz. S. Marix Verlag, 2022

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Did Josephus write 4 Maccabees? Reconstructing the authorship debate through editions of the text.

In today’s scholarship, no one would question the fact that the author of 4 Maccabees is unknown. However, for many centuries the work was believed to have been written by Flavius Josephus. This article investigates when exactly in the lon...

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