Responding to a new interest in thematic studies, the volume features essays by some of the leading scholars from the United States and Europe. In honor of Hors

Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood

This is a comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and myth and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature (Midrash and Talmud) and in the classical wor

This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

Although many scholars recognize literary similarities between Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah, defining the compositional relationship between these texts re