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The Aramaic Book of Ahiqar, an ancient instruction that combines a novella and set of wise sayings, was discovered among a cache of papyri dating to the 5th c. B.C.E. belonging to a community of Judeans on the southern Egyptian Nile...
This dissertation examines the role of musical training in scribal education and its implication for Ben Sira’s pedagogy. Chapter One surveys the scholarship regarding the function of hymns in the book of Sirach and their role in Ben...
This thesis explores the experiences of a South Florida klezmer ensemble known as the Holocaust Survivor Band. The group was co-founded by Saul Dreier, then an 89-year-old resident of Coconut Creek, Florida, and Reuwen "Ruby" Sosnowicz, ...
This dissertation explores the different ways in which early Jews understood demonic entities in their ancient and antique historical contexts. Unlike traditional scholarly studies which have often approached the topic primarily from the...
This study elucidates the interpretive strategies, compositional method, literary creativity, and ideological agendas of the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in adapting native textual traditions to form new and imaginative...
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