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Support for the poor in the mishnaic law of agriculture: tractate peah

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This study seeks to uncover Tractate Peah's meaning by explaining its laws as they were understood by their authors around 200 C.E. Brooks offers both …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Brooks, Roger (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Ben Sira's teaching on friendship

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The purpose of this study is to elucidate Ben Sira’s teaching on friendship within the religious and cultural context of his time, in view of …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Corley, Jeremy (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Early Rabbinic civil law and the social history of Roman Galilee: a study of Mishnah Tactate Baba' Mesi'a'

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This study focuses on tractate Baba Mesi‘a’ of the Mishnah, which deals primarily with contracts of various kinds. Lapin's book focuses both on the literary …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Lapin, Hayim (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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The biblical herem: a window in Israel's religious experience

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The Biblical Herem: A Window on Israel’s Religious Experience, was a groundbreaking, and controversial, examination of the herem, a biblical mode of declaring something (objects, …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Stern, Philip D. (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Talmud in exile: the influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the formation of Bavli

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This book is a targetted study engaging the widely known phenomenon that many tractates in the Babylonian Talmud exhibit broad similarities to their counterparts in …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Gray, Alyssa M. (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: studies in their interactions

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This is a collection of several of Goldstein's previously published articles. These articles deal with two themes that have animated much of Goldstein’s scholarly interests, …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Goldstein, Jonathan A. (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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A history of the Mishnaic law of agriculture: Kilayim: translation and exegesis

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This volume presents a translation and exegesis of Mishnah's Tractate Kilayim (Mixed Species) in an effort to discover the original meaning of the tractate. This …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Mandelbaum, Irving (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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The sanctity of the seventh year: a study of Mishnah Tractate Shebiit

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This study is a translation and exegesis of Tractate Shebiit (The Sabbatical Year) in Mishnah and in its corresponding document, Tosefta. The goal of this …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Newman, Louis (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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The human will in Judaism: the Mishnah's philosophy of intention

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This volume examines the role of intention in the Mishnah. What role does intention play in fulfillment of God's commandments according to the rabbis of …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Unreal City: Doug Rickard's Google Street View Photography

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American photographer Doug Rickard’s 2010 project “A New American Picture” represents the poorest neighborhoods in the United States as captured by Google Street View cameras. …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Comberg, Ella (creator)
Caplan, Lindsay (thesis advisor)
Neumann, Dietrich (reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Computer simulation
City planning
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Media studies
Interactive multimedia
Documentary photography
Google (Firm)
Rickard, Doug, 1968-
Computer art
Contemporary art
Gender studies
Urban History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Rosler, Martha
Whole earth catalog (New York, N.Y.)
Smart cities
Alternative mass media
Counterculture
Cybernetics
Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964
Technocracy
Steyerl, Hito
Rafman, Jon, 1981-
Marville, Charles, 1813-1879
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Feedback (Electronics)
Architecture Machine Group
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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The priestly gift of Mishnah: a study of tractate terumot

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This study systematically analyzes Tractate Terumot (heave-offerings) in the Mishnah and its corresponding document, the Tosefta. It provides a new translation of and commentary on …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Avery-Peck, Alan J. (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Talmud in exile: the influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the formation of Bavli

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The studies in this volume focus on individual Babylonian magical texts while developing an overall understanding of these texts as a whole. Part One follows …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Gray, Alyssa M. (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Handbook of Synagogue architecture

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Almost fifty years has passed since the publication of Marilyn J. Chiat’s Handbook of Synagogue Architecture (1982). Since then, there have been more finds and …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Chiat, Marilyn Joyce Segal (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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The history of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods

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This study analyzes the history of the festival of Sukkot during the second temple and rabbinic periods. While the Jerusalem temple stood, Sukkot was the …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Jeffrey L.
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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The Babylonian Esther Midrash: a critical commentary (volume 1: to the end of Esther chapter 1)

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This work, in three volumes, consists of a translation and critical commentary to folios 10b-17a of the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Megillah. The material contained therein …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Segal, Eliezer (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Talmud in exile: the influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the formation of Bavli

Description:
The studies in this volume focus on individual Babylonian magical texts while developing an overall understanding of these texts as a whole. Part One follows …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Gray, Alyssa M. (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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The idea of atonement in the philosophy of Hermann Cohen

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In The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen (2000), Michael Zank argues that the idea of atonement serves as a key for …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Zank, Michael (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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To Caesar what is Caesar's: tribute, taxes, and imperial administration in early roman Palestine

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In this book, Fabian E. Udoh offers an exhaustive study of all the sources relating to taxation in Roman Palestine. Udoh concludes that by the …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Udoh, Fabian E. (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Two treatises of Philo of Alexandria: a commentary on de gigantibus and quod deus sit immutabilis

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This is a detailed commentary on two paradigmatic books of the Jewish philosopher, Philo of Alexandria.
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Winston, David (author.)
Dillon, John (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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Halakhah in a theological perspective

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In Halakhah in a Theological Dimension, David Novak argues that Jewish law (halakhah) is grounded on a set of theological assumptions relating to the covenant …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Novak, David (author.)
Collection:
Program in Judaic Studies
Brown Judaic Studies Open Humanities Book Program
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