Selected articles from current issue: Arnon Atzmon | ‘He Who Seeks Out Good: This is David’: The Opening Unit of Midrash Psalms as an Introduction to the Book of Psalms David Sabatto | ‘Thus, I Received it From the House of My Father’s Father’. The Sources and Structuring of the Legend of Yehonatan, Moses’ Grandson Ido Hevroni | Turning the Hearts of the Children to Their Parents: The Education of R. Elazar Son of R. Shimon (Pesiqta de Rab Kahana 11) Omri livnat | ‘Samuel, The Son of Labrat Has Died’: Between Manuscript and Edition, Between Panegyric and Lampoon

In this issue: Moti Benmelech | From the Sambatyon to Tiberias: An Unknown Version of ‘MaꜤaseh Akdamut’ Rella Kushelevsky | Affinities between Orality and Literacy in Medieval Folktales in Western Europe: ‘The Tale of a Rich Man who used to seat Himself among the Poor’ David Manrique | Yohanan ben Zakkai meets Vespasianus: A Study of Midrashic History according to ‘MeꜤam Loez’ by Argüete Zeev Kitsis | The Baal Shem Tov’s Neighbor in the Garden of Eden ‒ A story from ‘Once There Was a Hasidic Man’ and its Connection to the Hasidic-Israeli Identity

The collection was compiled on the author's eightieth birthday, and includes all the articles he has written on the study of Talmudic literature throughout fifty years of research. The articles have not been revised other than corrected citations. The two volumes are divided into seven subjects. The first volume includes articles dealing with (1) Mishnah; (2) Jerusalem Talmud; (3) Babylonian Talmud. The second volume includes articles dealing with (4) Eretz Israel and Babylon; (5) Mishnaic Hebrew; (6) Geonim and Rishonim; (7) various topics.

The fourth volume of Meḥqerei Talmud published on behalf of the Department of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is dedicated to Professor David Rosenthal on the occasion of his eightieth jubilee. Professor David Rosenthal is one of the leading researchers of the Mishnah and the Talmud , and his research also encompasses diverse bordering fields. In his bright studies and his captivating teaching, he produced countless brilliant and pulsating innovations. Some of them, which constitute the core of Talmud research, changed research concepts and set the research agenda with basic questions. Prof. Rosenthal, together with his colleagues, edited the series Meḥqerei Talmud from its inception in 1959. The articles in the collection are the fruit of the research of his colleagues and students, in his main fields of activity and in bordering fields.

In this issue: Adiel Schremer and Benjamin Katzoff | The Tannaitic Tradition Concerning the Passover Celebration of King Hezekiah Menahem Kahana and Ofra Tirosh-Becker | Jeshua ben Yehuda’s Contribution to the Study of the Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai and Its Language Israel Ori Meitlis | ‘Sidrei Taharot’: An Attempt to Complete the Talmud as a Chapter in the History of Hassidism and Its Opponents (Hitnagdut) Simcha Emanuel | An Error Always Repeats Itself

In this issue: Shira Shmidman | The Dispute between Rami bar Hama and Rava – New Perspectives Ariel Malachi | David Ben Saꜥad Al-Saꜥadi and the Intense Polemic Regarding Allegory in Yemen Oded Yisraeli | Keter Shem Tov of R. Shem Yov Ibn Gaon: A Chapter in the History of Nahmanides’ Kabbalah in the 13th–14th Centuries Oz Bluman | Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin and the Recontextualization of Hasidic Innovation Gideon Freudenthal | 'Maꜥasseh Nissim'. Salomon Ben Joshua (Maimon)’s Commentary on The Homilies of Haran (R. Nissim Ben-Reuben Gerundi)

In this issue: Yiftah Levin | The Key as an Intertextual Symbol in the Six-Day War Shalom Sabar | ‘The Year of the Liberation of Our Holy Sites’ – The Six-Day War in the Mirror of Israeli Folk Art Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem | Israeli Political Humor: What Was There To Laugh About in 1967? Haim Weiss | ‘The Mountain that Folds Within It All of Israel’s Hopes and Visions’ – Shlomo Goren and the Six-Day War

In this issue: Ohad Abudraham | A New Reading of a Mandaic Incantation Bowl in the Miami University Art Museum Erhard Blum | A “Neglected” Aramaic Dialect: The Literary Idiom of the Kingdom of Aram-Damascus Moshe Bar-Asher | Problems in the Description of the Morphology of Mishnaic Hebrew Haim Dihi | Some Linguistic Innovations in the Book of Ben Sira: The Contribution of MS F from the Cairo Geniza Shai Heijmans | Pretonic Reduction of Greek Loanwords in the Mishna and Its Significance And more...

In this issue: Avishai Bar-Asher | The Earliest Extant Version of Sefer Yesirah Tamar Kadari | Thousands unto Solomon: The Relationship Between Midrash Kohelet Rabbah and Midrash Shir Hashirim Rabbah Elyashiv Cherlow and Adiel Breuer | Remnants of ‘Maʿasim Livne Ereẓ Yira’el’ Written on a Scroll

From this volume: Emanuel Tov | The Septuagint Translation of the Torah Was Based on Palestinian Sources Sholomo Bahar | Circular Patterns in Biblical Thought Ariel Kopilovitz | Regalia Deformed and Restored: Ezekiel’s View of Israel’s Future Leadership Rama Manor, Avi Gvura and Pnina Tromer | The Verb Lekh in the Bible: From a Verb of Motion to Urging of Action Mordechai Weintraub | A New Page of ‘Sefer Tagey’ from the Cairo Genizah Yigal Bloch | ʾEzrāḥ: and Dĕrôr: Two Instances of Assyrian Linguistic Influence in the Holiness Code and Nili Samet | The Origin of the Day of Yahweh Tradition: A New Suggestion

In this issue: Sharon Weisser | ‘Is it Good to be Healthy?’ Philo as a Participant in the Ancient Debates about the Kinds of Goods Colten Cheuk-Yin Yam | Philo’s Knowledge of Medicine in his Later Roman Writings Mira Balberg and Haim Weiss | ‘What Shall I Leave for Old Age’: The Old and the Young in the Rabbinic Study House Avigail Manekin-Bamberger | Healing and Protection in Rabbinic Liturgy and in the Jewish Aramaic Incantation Bowls Warren Zev Harvey | Ibn Daud, Ibn Matut, and the Secret of the Garment Assaf Tamari | ‘Like … the Proficient Physician’: On the Tradition of the Physicians of the Soul, and Lurianic Kabbalah’s Uniqueness within it Jonathan Garb | The Somatic Medical Model in Or ha-Torah by R. Itzhak Eizik Haver

In this issue: Shira Shmidman | The Textual Witnesses of Tosefta Yevamot: New Finding in Light of the Cairo Genizah Fragments Gideon Bohak | I Beg You: Appeals to Angels in the Talmudic and Gaonic Periods Avishai Bar-Asher | The Bahir as It Once was: Transmission History as a Tool for Reconstructing and Reassesing the Text, Format, and Ideas of the Original Composition