Zutot 2002

Antiquity.- On Jewish Metronymics in the Graeco-Roman Period.- ‘His Days Shall Be One Hundred and Twenty Years’: Genesis 6:3 in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity.- Poetry and Piyyut.- Qumran Poetry and Piyyut: Some Observations on Hebrew Poetic Traditions in Biblical and Post-Biblical Times.- A New Rahat by Saadia Gaon.- Lyric and Liturgy in the Gabirolian Tradition.- A Muwashshah from the Genizah.- Flora and Fauna in Medieval Piyyut-Commentary.- Middle Ages.- Why Medieval Hebrew Studies? Some Thoughts on Stefan C. Reif’s Inaugural Lecture (1999).- A Letter of Greetings to R. Hayyim ben Hanan’el ha-Dayyân from the Genizah.- Abraham ibn Ezra: Between Tradition and Philology.- From ‘Jacob or Esau?’ to ‘Has the Messiah Come?’ Controversies Between Jews and Christians as Reflected in Bible Exegesis.- Maimonides.- Logic to Interpretation: Maimonides’ Use of al-Fârâbî’s Model of Metaphor.- Four Implicit Quotations of Philosophical Sources in Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed.- More on Maimonides on Music.- Books and Manuscripts.- The Greek Glosses of the Fitzwilliam Museum Bible.- An Early Hebrew Manuscript from Byzantium.- Abraham ibn Daud and the Midrash ha-Hokhmah: a Mini-Discovery.- A Hidden Treasure in the Athias Cabinet, or Quid Novum in Armariolo Athii.- An Unknown Passover Haggadah by Joseph ben David of Leipnik in the Library of Blickling Hall.- Modern and Contemporary.- The Problems of Jewish Studies.- The Twilight between Scholarship and Mysticism.- Soirée bei Kohn: Jewish Elements in the Repertoire of Hermann Leopoldi.- The Writer Who Wrote More than He Meant to Write: On Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass..- Corrigenda.- Gruschka, R. and M. Aptroot.- Offenberg, A.K..