Books published by Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.

A study of the titles and roles of civil officials and functionaries in Israel and Judah during the monarchy, including key ministers of the central government, regional administrators, and palace attendants. It sets these Israelite and Judahite titles in their ancient context through extensive study of Egyptian, Akkadian and Ugaritic records.

When the Karaites successfully dissociated themselves from the Rabbanite Russian Jews with the creation of the Karaite Religious Consistory in 1837, the result was a schism within Judaism unprecedented since the rise of Christianity. This book sets this event in the context of the history of the Russian Karaites from their origins to the present.

First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which let the actors and witnesses of events speak for themselves. Marc Saperstein offers a new introduction and updated bibliography.

Based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995, the ten essays in this volume demonstrate the function and dynamic effect Jewish mythologies in social, political, and psychological life.

The Jewish struggle for survival as a spiritual entity after Jewish communal life began to disintegrate in the latter decades of the nineteenth century spawned a new tradition-a modern secular Hebraic cultural tradition. hese seventeen essays by Israel's esteemed literary critic, Gershon Shaked, explore the evolution of that new tradition.