Brill Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman: 35 (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 35)

Shoshannat Yaakov honors Yaakov Elman, Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and celebrates Elman's contributions to a broad range of disciplines within Jewish and Iranian studies. The fruits of Elman's seminal project of bringing together of scholars of Iranian studies and Talmud in ways that have transformed both disciplines, are well represented in this volume, together with scholarship that ranges from Second Temple Judaism to Late Antique Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Samaritanism and Christianity. Review "The scholarship in this festschrift provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersection between Persian and rabbinic culture. An enlightening survey of the literature, it is a critical work not to be missed by any library with a focus on Middle Eastern studies." - Randall C. Belinfante, American Sephardi Federation, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, vol.3, no.3 From the Back Cover "Shoshannat Yaakov" honors Yaakov Elman, Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and celebrates Elman s contributions to a broad range of disciplines within Jewish and Iranian studies. The fruits of Elman s seminal project of bringing together of scholars of Iranian studies and Talmud in ways that have transformed both disciplines, are well represented in this volume, together with scholarship that ranges from Second Temple Judaism to Late Antique Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Samaritanism and Christianity. About the Author Shai Secunda, Ph.D. (2008), Yeshiva University, is Mandel Fellow at the Scholion Center for Interdisciplianary Jewish Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published articles on Rabbinic and Zoroastrian literature, and has recently completed a study entitled, Reading the Talmud in Iran. Steven Fine is professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project. Fine's most recent monograph, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology (2005, revised edition 2010), received the Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in 2009.