This second volume of a two-part project displays the best of contemporary Israeli, North American, and European scholarship on the Mishnah, revealing the intellectual vitality of scholarship in all three centers of learning.

For the first time a detailed analysis of the cultural and political relations of Egypt and Kush render possible "a new definition" of the genuine features and development of Kushite culture during its full fifteen centuries' existence.

All aspects of the ancient site of Ras Shamra (Ugarit) are treated in this compendium: discovery, decipherment of script, interpretation of literary, diplomatic and legal texts, as well as analysis of languages, history, religion and ...

For the first time a detailed analysis of the cultural and political relations of Egypt and Kush render possible a new definition of the genuine features and development of Kushite culture during its full fifteen centuries' existence.

This project presents in three volumes the Mishnah's and the Tosefta's first division, Zera'im (Agriculture), organized in eleven topical tractates, together with a systematic history of the law of Zeraim in the Mishnah.