Prooftexts

Volume 24
Number 1Winter 2004
Number 2Spring 2004
Number 3Prooftexts in Transition

CONTENTSVolume 24, Number 1Winter 2004




The Watcher at the Window: Cultural Poetics of a Biblical Motif
Don Seeman / 1

``But It Is Not So'': Toward a Poetics of Legal Narrative in the Talmud
Barry Wimpfheimer / 51

Hanagid on God and Men
Eddy M. Zemach / 87

The Currency of Yiddish: Ettinger's Serkele and the Reinvention of Shylock
Alyssa Pia Quint / 99

Reviews

The Matrix of Ancient Judaism
Yaron Z. Eliav / 116

Abstracts / 129
In Future Issues / 132

CONTENTSVolume 24, Number 2Spring 2004



A Myrtle in the Forest: Landscape and Nostalgia in Andalusian Hebrew Poetry
Jonathan P. Decter / 135

A Mad Dog's Attack on Secularized Hebrew: Rethinking Agnon's Temol shilshom
Todd Hasak-Lowy / 167

Reviews
Orality and Ideology in Rabbinic Judaism
Natalie B. Dohrmann / 199

Specular Images: Jews and Muslims in Al-Andalus
Tova Rosen / 206

"A Cage of Order": Recent Issues in Natan Alterman Scholarship
Chanita Goodblatt / 217

Margins and Minorities in the Modern Hebrew Canon
Nancy E. Berg
Adam Rovner / 240

Abstracts / 258

In Future Issues / 260

CONTENTSVolume 24, Number 3Fall 2004



Special Issue: Prooftexts in Transition
The Task of the Jewish Translator: A Valedictory Address
David G. Roskies / 263

Editing as Intellectual Community: A Retrospective Manifesto
Alan Mintz / 273

Articles
"Almost, at Times, the Fool": Abimelekh and Genesis 20
Tzvi Novick / 277

Lost Tribes: The Indian in American Hebrew Poetry
Michael Weingrad / 291

Review Essay
Encomia and Corrigenda: On Barbara Harshav's Translation of Temol shilshom
Avraham Holtz / 320

Reviews
Gender Studies and Medieval Hebrew Poetry
Matti Huss / 369

Poetry and History
Adena Tanenbaum / 386

When the Iron Curtain Was Raised
David Shneer / 400

Abstracts / 413

Indexes to Volume 24

In Future Issues / 418
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