Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One
Joseph’s Enslavement of the Egyptians
Pseudepigrapha, Authorship, and the Anthological Temper
Affect and Ritual in the Mishnah
Quotation, Ha’omer davar beshem omro, and the Very Idea of Intellectual Property
The Jews and the Decian Persecution
The Different Senses of Polysemy
Messages from the Emperor
Apophasis and the Parabolic Garment of Truth
The Importance of Matter
Biography as Battleground
An Exchange of Letters
Representing Experience
Part Two
Suffering God, Suffering Messiah, and Biblical Variants
The Mishnah and Its Society
The Story-Cycle in Bavli Shabbat 127b
A Provocative Passage in Midrash Psalms
The Eschatological Calendar of Sefer Zerubbabel
Al-Ḥarizi’s Prayer to Moses
Editors and Editions of Diwan Yehuda ha-Levi
Part Three
Solomon b. Samuel Halevy
On the Typology of Medieval Hebrew Bibles
A Tale of Two Regions
Imagining the Lost Temple
Codex Warsaw 258
The Art of the Schottenstein Italian Mahzor
The Erasable Ten Commandments
Material Memory
What the Glosses Are Telling Us
In the Workshop of a Scholar and Anthologist
The Influence of Kabbalah
Grooming Yiddish for Print
The Bookcases of the Sullam Family
Ben Porat Yosef