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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herbert W. Basser is a Canadian scholar of religion and a Jewish theologian known for his work Studies in Exegesis: Christian Critiques of Jewish Law . Biography In 1963, he graduated from Yeshiva University with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. After several years as a mathematics teacher, he continued his studies at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada earning a Master of Arts in 1979 and a Ph.D. in 1983.
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Published Works
- Sifre: A Tannaitic Commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, Translated from the Hebrew with Introduction and Notes (1988) (30)
- Allusions To Christian and Gnostic Practises in Talmudic Tradition (1981) (29)
- The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-Based Commentary (2015) (15)
- [Chronic pancreatitis and diabetes]. (1969) (10)
- The Mind Behind the Gospels: A Commentary to Matthew 1–14 (2009) (7)
- Midrashic Interpretations of the Song of Moses (1984) (3)
- [Chronic pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus]. (1969) (3)
- Studies in Exegesis: Christian Critiques of Jewish Law and Rabbinic Responses, 70-300 C.E (2000) (3)
- Josephus as Exegete (1987) (3)
- The rabbinic attempt to democratize salvation and revelation (1983) (3)
- A Love for All Seasons: Weeping in Jewish Sources (2005) (2)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity (review) (2002) (2)
- History of Interpretation to Judges 5:4-5 (2005) (2)
- Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom (2006) (2)
- The Development of the Pharisaic Idea of Law as a Sacred Cosmos (1985) (2)
- Derretts "Binding" Reopened (1985) (1)
- Pesher Hadavar : The Truth of the Matter in Mémorial Jean Carmignac. Etudes Qumrâniennes. (1988) (1)
- Planting Christian Trees In Jewish Soil (2005) (1)
- Chernick's "Hermeneutical Studies in Talmudic and Midrashic Literatures" (1988) (1)
- Yona and Gruber on the Usages of Masoret (RRJ 2007, 10:2, pp. 210–220) (2008) (1)
- What Makes Exegesis Either Christian Or Jewish (2008) (1)
- Avon Gilyon (Document of Sin, b. Shabb. 116a) or Euaggelon (Good News)? (2010) (0)
- Index of Modern Authors (2015) (0)
- Biblical and Post-Biblical Sources (2015) (0)
- 17. Gospel and Talmud (2007) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: From Sermon to Commentary: Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia (2006) (0)
- Targum Studies, Vol. 1 Paul V. M. Flesher, editor Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. ix + 151 p (1994) (0)
- Sifra on Leviticus, According to Vatican Manuscript Assemani 66 with Variants from Other Manuscripts, Genizah Fragments, Early Editions and Quotations by Medieval Authorities. Volume 5 (1996) (0)
- Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law (review) (2009) (0)
- Fraade, "From Tradition to Commentary" (1993) (0)
- Benjamin Brown (2019) (0)
- Index Entries by Subject (2015) (0)
- Boyarin's "Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash" (1991) (0)
- WORD STUDIES IN RABBINIC HEBREW: IN MEMORY OF S. LIEBERMAN (2016) (0)
- Katz's Agenda, Chilton's Agenda, Basser's Agenda (2001) (0)
- The Unique Judicial Vision of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (2016) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul Michael Newton Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. ix + 169 (1986) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Jews: An Account of their Experience in Canada Erna Paris Toronto: Macmillan, 1980. Pp. 304 (1981) (0)
- Mishna Tractate Sheviʿit in the Reading-Tradition of Three Communities [Hebrew]Mishna Tractate Sheviit in the Reading-Tradition of Three Communities [Hebrew] (1995) (0)
- Janus Parallelism in Rabbinic Liturgical Poetry (2022) (0)
- Michael Chernick. Gezerah Shavah: Its Various Forms in Midrashic and Talmudic Sources . Lod: Haberman Institute for Literary Research, 1994. 274 pp. (Hebrew). (1996) (0)
- AN AESTHETIC USAGE OF SCRIPTURES IN THE ANCIENT RABBINIC LEGAL CODES (2002) (0)
- Superstitious Interpretations of Jewish Laws (1977) (0)
- Scripture. Since Chernick categorically believes that the types of midrashim in one Mekhilta are Akiban and in the other Yishmaelian, he does not correlate (2004) (0)
- VIII International Congress of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies: Chicago 1988 E.J. Revell, editor Masoretic Studies, 6 Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990. viii + 138 p (1994) (0)
- Did Rashi Notice a Janus Parallelism in Ezek 20:37? (2008) (0)
- From the Editors (2017) (0)
- The Meaning of ‘Shtuth’, Gen. R. 11 in Reference to Mt 5.29–30 and 18.8–9 (1985) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Rashbam's Commentary on Exodus: An Annotated Translation (1999) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: The Jews of Kingston: A Microcosm of Canadian Jewry? Marion E. Meyer Kingston, Ont.: The Limestone Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 144 (1984) (0)
- Why Windsor? An Anecdotal History of the Jews of Windsor and Essex County Alan Abrams Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press, 1981. Pp. 109 (1983) (0)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity, by Garsten Peter Thiede (2003) (0)
- A Note on an Anti-Christian Polemic in an Early Eichah Commentary (2023) (0)
- Merkavah Narrative: Two Paradigmatic Examples (1999) (0)
- Response to Markus Bockmuehl (2004) (0)
- Confirming that 'Tradition of the Elders' (paradosis) Refers to an Oral Body of Law (masoret) (2012) (0)
- Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom (review) (2006) (0)
- B. Yoma 35b: Some Observations Concerning Divine Mediators and Rabbis (2019) (0)
- A DISTINCTIVE USAGE OF pth IN RABBINIC LITERATURE (2016) (0)
- Kalimi, Isaac. The Retelling of Chronicles in Jewish Traditional Literature: A Historical Journey. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009, xx, 395 pp. (2013) (0)
- Books Received but not Reviewed in this Issue (2010) (0)
- RABBINIC MINDSETS WITHIN THE UNIVERSAL MYTHIC STRUCTURES OF SACRED HISTORY: A FEW INTERESTING CASES (2019) (0)
- Primary Jewish Sources (2015) (0)
- Codification of Jewish Law—Modern (2006) (0)
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