16 Jan 91 JUDAIC STUDIES #61 1 Shevat 51 BS"D Judaic Studies is the newsletter of He'Asif, one of the Saf Projects. Edited by Y. Greenbaum. To send information, address it to judaica@taunivm. To obtain further information, send the command GET JUDAICA FILELIST as the first line in the text of mail to listserv@taunivm. CONTENTS 1) History Conference 2) Reference Workshop - date change 3) 4 Ezra; Mss & Religion 4) Jewish Quarterly Review 5) Masoretic Studies 1) History Conference From: Marc Cooper Date: Wed, 09 Jan 91 10:34:25 CST The 13th Mid-America Conference on History will be held 19 - 21 September 1991, in Springfield, Missouri. The conference welcomes proposals for papers and sessions in all areas of historical inquiry. Papers and/or proposals from Judaica participants are warmly encouraged. For more information contact: Worth Robert Miller Department of History Southwest Missouri State University Springfield, MO 65804 USA For inquiries concerning the community or special dietary needs contact me directly through the net. ============================================================ Marc Cooper - Southwest Missouri State University Bitnet - MAC566F @ SMSVMA ============================================================ 2) Reference Workshop - date change From: "Rita Lifton" Date: Thu, 10 Jan 91 14:41:23 PST In your most recent newsletter, you included an announcement of the upcoming Reference Workshop of the Association of Jewish Libraries New York Metropolitan Area Chapter. In the interim, the date has been changed from 2/11 to 2/25/91. We would appreciate your noting this change in a future issue. The particulars are as follows: Date: February 25, 1991 Place: Yeshiva University, 500 W. 185 St., NYC Main topic: Reference Sources on the Arab-Israeli Conflict Contact: Leah Adler - (212) 960-5382 Thank you. Sincerely yours, Rita Lifton, Publicity Coordinator, AJL-NYMA 3) 4 Ezra; Mss & Religion From: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 8:10 +0200 I am pleased to announce the publication of my Commentary on 4 Ezra in the Hermeneia series, published by Fortress Press in Minneapolis. It is the distillation of 20 years' work on this Jewish apocalypse. I am also able to announce the publication of my: Textual Commentary on the Armenian Version of 4 Ezra, published in the Septuagint and Cognate Studies serie{ of the Society of Biblical Literature, by Scholars Press in Atlanta. The Department of Comparative Religion of the Hebrew University will hold a Seminar on March 15 in Beit Belgia on: Manuscript Discoveries of the 20th Century and their Implications for the Study of Religion. Those requiring further information should contact me at the address STONE@HUJIVMS. Michael E. Stone 4) Jewish Quarterly Review From: Bonnie Blankenship Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 10:18 EDT The Jewish Quarterly Review, Volume 80, Nos.1-2 (pp.207-450) has just appeared. It consists of the following ariticles: "Isidore of Seville: His Attitude Towards Judaism and His Impact on Early Medieval Canon Law" by Bat-Sheva Albert. "The Expression of Joy as a Halakhic Problem in Rabbinic Sources" by Gary Anderson "Internal Restraints on Gezerah Shawah's Application" by Michael Chernick "In the Court of Ya'Qub Ibn Killis: A Fragment from the Cairo Genizah" by Mark R. Cohen and Sasson Somekh "The Suffering of the Righteous in Palestinian and Babylonian Sources" by Yaakov Elman "Times for Praising God: A Fragment of A Scroll from Qumran (4Q409)" by Elisha Qimron Also included is a review essay, The Bavli and Its Sources, by Harry Fox. In addition, there are more than 20 reviews of recently published books in the various fields of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. Copies of JQR are available from Eisenbrauns (Post Office Box 275, Winona Lake, Indiana 46590) at $25 ($35 institutional rate) per annum. JQR is published by the Annenberg Research Institute (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Bonnie L. Blankenship Managing Editor 5) Masoretic Studies From: MC THIEBAUT Date: Tue, 15 Jan 91 17:24:25 HFH En reponse a Martin J.Homan. Plusieurs membres de IOMS se sont deja mis a l'informatique. Ainsi, le professeur Revell de Toronto. Le professeur Aron Dotan de Tel Aviv est le responsable de l'edition des communications du dernier congres de IOMS. Il a commence a equiper son centre en Macintosh. Il travaille sur un projet qui s'appelle le Thesaurus de la Massora Tiberienne. Son electronic mail est: DOTAR at TAUNIVM Je fais moi-meme partie du laboratoire CATAB de l'universite de Lyon. Le CATAB est egalement equipe en Macintosh et possede une base de donnees bibliques assez large. Si vous voulez, je peux vous faire parvenir de plus amples details par mon electronic mail: CATAB at FRSUN12 Amicalement Philippe CASSUTO