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JQR 116.2 is out with 5 new open access essays! Have you perused the table of contents yet?
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56911
Looking for Earth Day reading?
Try Sarah Abrevaya Stein's 2022 essay "The Queen of Herbs: A Plant’s-Eye View of the Sephardic Diaspora," which she describes as an "ethnobotanical, historical study" of the plant known as ruta graveolens, rue, or ruda.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
This week on the blog, we're reflecting on the origins of Jewish art history scholarship through the eyes of pathbreaking 20th century art historian Rachel Wischnitzer—as told in her own words, in JQR essays from 1922–1949.
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We know you're hungry for spring reading, so we dug deep into the JQR archives and harvested several essays on food and drink, all open access. We hope you enjoy this gastronomic tour from the Roman triclinium to the streets of New York, and everywhere in between!
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In our latest issue, Tanja Werthmann marshals late antique Eastern Syriac philosophy and theology and their reception in the Islamicate world to shed light on Maimonides’s via negativa.
Find out how and why Maimonides elevates silence to a form of spiritual practice:
muse.jhu.edu/article/991939
In JQR 116.1, Vered Noam investigates why primordial priestly figures in Second Temple Jewish culture who had all but disappeared from early rabbinic literature are celebrated in the High Holiday prayers.
Check out her essay!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
The Jewish Quarterly Review
Check out Elly Moseson's essay in our current issue, which "sheds new light on the complex role played by literature in the transformation of Hasidism from a small local phenomenon into a mass movement."
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Explore the beginnings of Jewish art history scholarship in JQR’s pages.
