Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The oral-cultural context of the Talmud Yerushalmi: Greco-Roman rhetorical paideia, discipleship, and the concept of oral Torah / Martin S. Jaffee
  • Between Byzantium and Islam: the transmission of a Jewish book in the Byzantine and early Islamic periods / Paul Mandel
  • Orality and the institutionalization of tradition: the growth of the Geonic Yeshiva and the Islamic Madrasa / Daphna Ephrat and Yaakov Elman
  • Transmission in thirteenth-century Kabbalah / Moshe Idel
  • Beyond the spoken word: oral tradition and written transmission in medieval Jewish mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson
  • Publication and reproduction of literary texts in medieval Jewish civilization: Jewish scribality and its impact on the texts transmitted / Malachi Beit-Arié
  • The sermon as oral performance / Marc Saperstein
  • From east to west: translating Y.L. Perets in early twentieth-century Germany / Jeffrey Grossman
  • The Kinnus project: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the fashioning of a "national culture" in Palestine / Israel Bartal
  • "Secondary intellectuals," readers, and readership as agents of national-cultural reproduction in modern Egypt / Israel Gershoni.