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Gaon
(title)
57
see also
Geonim

Geiger, Abraham
187

91

gemara
5
,
51

Genizah
at Cairo
70
,
197

8

geography of Babylon
35

9

Geonim

Ahai
66

7

Amram
67

8

Hai ben Sherira
87

Joseph ben Jacob
77

8

Nissim
86

7

Sherira
49

Shmuel ben Hofni
60

Germany under the Nazis
201

4
see also
Rhineland

Gershom ben Yehuda
100

2

Gershom Soncino
134
,
139

40

Gesenius, Wilhelm
193

ghèto
142

Gibson, Margaret Dunlop
197

8

Giorgi, Francesco
148

9

Giustiniani, Marco Antonio
144

globalization
14

15
,
212

God, name of
164

5

golem
106

good deeds
24

5
,
46

grammars
137

138
see also
dictionaries

Granada
132

Great Matter
147

9

Greek wisdom
119

20
,
156

60

Gregory IX, Pope
113

Grotius, Hugo
152

3
,
154

Guadalajara
132

3

guerrilla warfare
17
,
22

Guide for the Perplexed
(Maimonides)
94
,
119

20

Hai ben Sherira (Hai Gaon)
63
,
87
,
100

hair-splitting
105

6

halacha
58

Halachot Gedolot
66

Halachot Pesukot
66

Hananel ben Hushiel
86

7

Hanoch ben Moses
91

Harun al-Rashid, Caliph
56

7
,
66

Hasidism
173

6
,
194

Haskalah
182

3
,
194
see also
Enlightenment; Reformed Judaism

Hayyim of Brisk
198

Hayyim of Volozhim
179

80

Hebraists, Christian
135

40
,
205

The Hebrew King’s Law
(Shickard)
151

Hebrew Republic
149

53

Hebrew, study of
135

40
,
205

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
100

Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
98

Henry VIII, King of England
147

9
,
206

7

hereditary titles
22
,
30
,
61

2

Herford, R. Travers
205

higher criticism
191

4

Hillel
Nasi
22
,
32
,
201

Hirsch, Samson Raphael
187

90

Hisdai ibn Shaprut
88

91

The Historie of Tithes
(Selden)
154

history
3

5
,
112

Holocaust
201

4

House of Wisdom
56

7

Hugh of St Victor
105

humanism
139

40

Hushiel ben Elchanan
84
,
86

incantations
38

inconclusivity
65
,
213
see also
controversy

inconsistency
105

6

Index Expurgatorius
146

Index Librorum Prohibitorum
145

inerrancy
9

11
,
105

6

Innocent III, Pope
113

Innocent IV, Pope
118

Inquisition

role in censorship
146

Spanish
131

2

inspiration, Divine
9

11
,
105

6

interconnectivity
14

15
,
212

internet
212

interpretative tradition
11

12
,
106

7

interreligious dialogue/debate

Barcelona
121

4

Frankists
172

James I of Aragon
121

2

King Bulan of Khazaria
90

Louis IX of France
113

16

Tortosa
131

Isaac Al-Fasi
93

Islam
53

5

Baghdad
55

8

cross-fertilization with Talmudic ideas
69

ideas shared with the Talmud
58

61

temporal power and scholarly authority
61

3

see also
Ottoman Empire

isolation of communities
55
,
182
,
189

Israel

Jerusalem
15
,
75

7

reestablishment of European academic establishments
203

4

see also
Jerusalem; Zionism

Israel Ba’al Shem Tov
173

6

Isra’iliyyat
61

Jacobs, Louis
51
,
135

James I, King of Aragon
121

2

Jastrow, Marcus
193

Jehoachin, King of Judah
31

2

Jerusalem
15
,
64
,
68
,
74
,
75

7

Jerusalem Talmud
11
,
48

Bomberg’s edition
143

relative influence
65
,
71
,
74

Jesuits
145

Jacob ibn Shahin
86
,
88

Jokisch, Benjamin
66

Joseph, King of Khazaria
89

Joseph ben Jacob
77

8

Joseph ibn Abitur
91

Joshua Solomon of Soncino
133

4

Jubilee
10

Judah Loew
106
,
158

9

judiciary, rabbinical
45
see also
jurisprudence; law

Julius III, Pope
144

jurisprudence
1
,
44

inheritance and land ownership
36

similarities with Islam
58

61

systematic codification of laws
65

6

see also
codification

Justinian law code
65

6

K’ab al-Ahbar
61

kabbalah
126

8
,
138
,
177

Jacob Frank
171

3

Johannes Reuchlin
137

40

Kahana, Rav
42

3

Kairouan
70

1
,
80

2
,
97

Eldad the Danite
82

3

special prominence of
84

7

kallah
43

Karaites
71

5
,
136
,
153

Kepler, Johannes
158

Khazars
89

90

kidnapping
125

6
,
178

Kisas al-Anbiya
(Tales of the Prophets)
61

Lampronti, Isaac
159

60

land ownership
36
,
153

language

dictionaries
193
,
209

grammars
137

8

Hebrew language services
185

6

translation
78

Latin Bible
136

7

law
1

codification of
65

6

copyright
142

cross-fertilization between Sharia and Talmudic
69

land ownership
36
,
153

similarities with Islam
58

61

see
also
codification; jurisprudence; Oral Law

layering (textual structure)
50

2

legends

of the four captives
84

5

the
golem
106

of the Jewish Pope
98

9

Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
190

1

Lemlein, Asher
127

8

Leo X, Pope
140

Letter of Pirkoi ben Baboi
70

1

letters
32

3
,
70

1
,
101

Lewis, Agnes Smith
197

8

libel, blood
112
,
172

3
,
190

1

Libson, Gideon
60

lice, reproduction of
159

60

life, sanctity of
59
,
72

Light of the Exile
100

2

literature, Islamic
60

1

lives of the rabbis
47

8

Louis IX of France
113

18

Lunzer, Jack
206

7

Lutheranism
136

7

Maes, Andreas
145

magic
38

maggid
134

Maimonides
94

7
,
119

20
,
135
,
153

Mainz
97

103
,
138

marriage
10
see also
divorce; polygamy; widows

Martini, Raymondi
124

6

martyrdom
26
,
56
,
167

Marx, Karl
195

mathematics
38

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
138

Mazdak uprising
49

medicine
38
,
138

Medina
54

Meir ben Baruch
117
,
125

6

Menasseh ben Israel
153

4

Mendelssohn, Moses
181

3
,
184
,
187

Mendoza family
133

merchants
59

60
,
86
,
99

100

Messianic hysteria

Jacob Frank
171

3

Shabbetai Tzvi
163

70

see also
Sabbateans

millenarianism
167

Mishnah
2

3
,
5
,
13
,
24
,
26

8
,
33
,
40

3
,
50
,
55
,
59
,
65
,
90
,
91
,
134
,
205

maggid
134

Maimonides’s commentary
95
,
143

opposition to the Talmud
192

Rabbi Yehuda
159

Talmudic layer
50

see also
compilation of the Talmud; Oral Law

Mishneh Torah
(Maimonides)
96

7

misnegdim
176

80

modernity
212

15

Mohammed
53

4
,
62
see also
Islam

Molcho, Solomon
149

monarchy, political theory of
149

53

Moore, George Foot
205

Moses, Books of
see
Torah

Moses ben Hanoch
91

Moses ben Nachman
122

4

Moses de Leon
127

Moses Isserles of Krakow
135

6
,
144
,
157

8

Moses the Prophet
9

11
,
44

Muhammad al-Idrisi
81

Musar
movement
195

Mu’tazilite school
78

mysticism
10
,
119

20
,
126

8

Elijah of Vilna
177

Hasidism
174

6

see also kabbalah

name of God
164

5

Nasi
(title)
22

Gamaliel II
22

3
,
157

Hillel I
22
,
32
,
201

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