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Lawrence H. Schiffman, Qumran and Jerusalem : Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism ( Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010). With the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls come major changes in our understanding of these fascinating ancient texts and their ...

Arthur Hyman, James J. Walsh, Thomas Williams, Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions, Third edition (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2010). Since the appearance of its first edition in 1967, this work has become a classic. Indeed, it is now the…

David Berger, Cultures in Collision and Conversation: Essays in the Intellectual History of the Jews ( Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011). This volume addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered…