Table of Contents

New and revised entries:

Abravanel Family
Aggadah
Alexander Schindler
Antisemitism
Asmodeus
Baby naming
Bar Ilan University.
Bar-Ilan, Meir
Bishul 'Akkum
Chosen People
Christianity
Cohen, Gerson D.
Covenant
Cyrus Adler
Demons
Disability
Ecokosher
Ecology
Education, Women's
Eliezer of Beaugency
Emanuel Rackman
Esther, Scroll
Eve
Fackenheim, Emil
Gay and Lesbian
Gikatilla, Mosheh
GLATT KOSHER
God
God, names of
Gottschalk, Alfred
Gush Emunim
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
HIDDUR MITSVAH
Holiness
Homosexuality
Ibn Ezra, Avraham
Ibn Ezra, Mosheh
Idolatry
Jakobovits, Immanuel
Jesus
Jewish Christians
Jewish Renewal
Kimhi Family
Lilith
Martyrdom
Midrashic Literature
Misrash
Monotheism
Noahic Laws
PARDES
Paul
peshat
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Proverbs, Book of
Purity and Impurity, Ritual
QITNIYYOT
Rabbinic Bible
Rabbis and Religious leaders, Women (non-orthodox)
Rashi
Religious Parties in Israel
Religious Parties in Israel
Religious Zionism
Samael
Samuel Belkin
Satan
Shomer Shabbat
Social Justice
Yeshiva University
Yom Ha-atsma'ut
Yom Ha-shoah
Yom Ha-zikkaron
Zionism

About the Author

Robert H. Smith Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Maryland and co-editor of the Jewish Study Bible. Dr. Berlin has published seven books as well as several volumes of Bible commentary and is a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.

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