RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY
FELLOWS OF THE CENTRE

"'Homer the Prophet of All' and 'Moses our Teacher': Late Antique Exegesis of the Homeric Epics and of the Torah of Moses", in L.V. Rutgers, P.W. van der Horst, H.W. Havelaar and L. Teugels, eds, The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World (Leuven: Peeters, 1998), 127-42.

"From Poetry to Historiography: The Image of the Hasmoneans in Targum Canticles and the Question of the Targum's Provenance and Date", Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 19 (1999), 103-28.

"From Son of Adam to Second God: Transformations of the Biblical Enoch", in M.E. Stone and T.A. Bergren, ed., Biblical Figures outside the Bible (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1998), 87-122.

"Jerusalem as the Omphalos of the World: On the History of a Geographical Concept", in L.I. Levine, ed., Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity and Islam (New York: Continuum, 1999), 104-119.

"The Demonology of the Dead Sea Scrolls", in P.W. Flint and J.C. VanderKam, eds, The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years, vol. 2 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999), 331-54.

"The King Messiah in Rabbinic Judaism", in J. Day, ed., King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), 456-73.

Serekh ha-Yahad and Two related Texts, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXVI (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) (with G. Vermes)

"4Q252 and the 153 Fish of John 21:11", in B. Kollmann, W. Reinbold, A. Steudel, eds., Antikes Judentum und Frühes Christentum: Festschrift für Hartmut Stegemann zum 65. Geburtstag (BZNW 97; Berlin: de Gruyter, 1999), 253-65.

"A Short History of Dead Sea Scrolls Research: A Photoessay", Religious Studies News 13/2 (1998), 11-12, 29 (with L.H. Schiffman).

"Dead Sea Scrolls", "John Selden", "Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs", in J.H. Hayes, ed., Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999), 253-56, 452-53, 538-41.

"Kingship and Messianism in the Dead Sea Scrollsn, in J. Day, ed., King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 270; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1998), 434-56.

"lQ28b. lQSerekh ha-Yahad b (fragment)", in P.S. Alexander and G. Vermes, eds., Qumran Cave 4.~XI: Serekh ha-Yahad and Two Related Texts (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 26; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 227-33.

"Parabiblical Prophetic Narratives", in P.W. Flint and J.C. VanderKam, eds., The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Account, Vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 271-301.

"Shared Intertextual Interpretations in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament", in M.E. Stone and E.G. Chazon, eds., Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 May, 1996 (Studies in the Texts of the Desert of Judah 28; Leiden: Brill, 1998), 35-57.

"The Allegro Qumran Photograph Collection: Old Photos and New Information", in D.W. Parry and E. Ulrich, eds., The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Technological Innovations, New Texts, and Reformulated Issues (Studies in the Texts of the Desert of Judah 30; Leiden: Brill, 1999), 13-29.

"The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Review of the Last Decade's Publications and Activities," Epworth Review 26/3 (1999), 87-97.

"The Past: On the History of Dead Sea Scrolls Research," (with L.H. Schiffman) and "The Scrolls and the Study of the New Testament," in R.A. Kugler and E.M. Schuller (eds), The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty: Proceedings of the 1997 Society of Biblical Literature Qumran Section Meetings (Early Judaism and its Literature 15; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999), 9-20, 61-76.

"Miqdash Adam, Eden, and the Qumran Community," in B. Ego, A. Lange, P. Pilhofer (eds), Gemeinde ohne Tempel/Community without Temple (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 118; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999), 285-301

"Ras Shamra, Minet el-Beida and Ras Ibn Hani: the Material Sources", in W.G.E. Watson and N. Wyatt, eds, Handbook for Ugaritic Studies [Handbuch der Orientalistik 39] (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 5-27.

"La mosaîque de l'histoire d'Israel: quelques considérations sur les allusions 'historiques' dans les psaumes", in Daniel Marguerat et Adrian Curtis (ed), Intertextualités: la Bible en échos (Le Monde de la Bible 40), Geneva: Labor et Fides, 2000, 13-29.

""Law" and "Justice" in the Bible", Journal of Jewish Studies XLIV/2 (1998), 218-229

"An Academician's View of Jewish Law" (Inaugural Lecture as Alliance Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies): http://www.art.man.ac.uk/reltheol/jewish/Inaug.htm

"Justice and Righteousness in the Bible: Rule of Law or Royal Paternalism?", Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte IV (1998), 218-262.

"David Daube", in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. J.H. Hayes (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999), I. 251-252.

"Significato letterale. Semantica e narrativa nel diritto biblico e nella teoria contemporanea del diritto", Ragion Pratica 12 (1999), 153-177. English version: “Literal Meaning: Semantics and Narrative in Biblical Law and Modern Jurisprudence”, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 13/4 (2000), 433-457.

"Exodus 21:18-19 and the Origins of the Mishpatim", Israel Law Review 33/4 (1999), 798-820 (Falk memorial issue).

"Law, Wisdom and Narrative", in Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts/La Narrativité dans la Bible et les textes apparantés, ed. G.W. Brooke and J.-D. Kaestli (Louvain: Peeters, 2000), 31-51 (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 149).

"Law, Wisdom and Narrative", in Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts/La Narrativité dans la Bible et les textes apparantés, ed. G.W. Brooke and J.-D. Kaestli (Louvain: Peeters, 2000), 31-51 (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 149).

Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, pp.332 (JSOT Supplement Series, 314), ISBN 1-84127-150-1

“The Original Oral Law”, in Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible, ed. G.W. Brooke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000; Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement X), 3-19.

“Agunah and the Problem of Authority”, http://www.accentuate.freewire.co.uk/hebfont/Melilah/agunah2.htm

“A Semiotic Perspective on the Comparison of Analogical Reasoning in Secular and Religious Legal Systems”, in Pluralism in Law , ed. A. Soeteman (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), 295-325.

Book for Children: Synagogues (Oxford: Heinemann Library Places of Worship Series, 1998).

"A Good Jew or a Good Englishman? The Jewish Lads Brigade and Anglo-Jewish Identity," in Kershen, Anne J., ed., A Question of Identity (Aldershot: Ashgate 1998) 77-93.

"First national survey of Jewish built heritage, " Context, Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation 59 (Sep.1998) 36-38.

‘Four Synagogues’ in Catherine Yass Synagogue, ‘Art in SacredSpaces’ [Exhibition Catalogue]. Photographic exhibition held at The Congregation of Jacob Synagogue, London, E1, 21 May-11 June 2000.

Review of G. Sed-Rajna,  Jewish Art, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 16 January 1998 pp. 21-22.

Review of H. Shreckenberg, The Jews in Christian Art, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 5 June 1998 p.21.

Review of N. Golb, The Jews in Medieval Normandy and R. Mundill, England's Jewish Solution, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 7 May 1999 p.B12.

Review of P. Renton, The Lost Synagogues of London, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 23 June 2000.

Review of Antonia Finnane, 'Far from Where? Jewish Journeys from Shanghai to Australia' in Immigrants and Minorities Vol.20 No. 1 March 2001 pp.92-94

Site Guide: 'Bevis Marks Synagogue 1701-2001: A short history of the building and an appreciation of its architecture' (English Heritage 2001)

'The Jewish Built Heritage in the UK and Ireland: Report on a Survey, 1997-2000' in European Judaism Vol.34 No.2 Autumn 2001 pp.14-29

Claude Montefiore: His Life and Thought (Vallentine Mitchell, 2002) - see further details.

'Claude Montefiore and Christianity: Did the Founder of Liberal Judaism Lean too Far?' in Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. L, No 1 (Spring 1999).

'Claude Montefiore in the Context of Jewish Approaches to Jesus and Paul' in Hebrew Union College Annual Vol. LXXI (2000).

Internet exhibition: 'Manchester and Zionism: the Community, the University and the State of Israel' (1999-).

Review of Susannah Heschel, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (1998) in Judaism, Vol 48 no 2 (Spring 1999)
Review of David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews (1994) in Jewish Culture and History, Vol 2 (Summer 1999).
Review of Shmuel Almog, Jehuda Reinharz, and Anita Shapira, eds, Zionism and Religion (1998) in Journal of Jewish Studies, forthcoming.
Review of Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Messianic Judaism (2000) in Journal of Semitic Studies, forthcoming.
Review of Brenner, Liedtke, Rechter, Two Nations: British and German Jews in Comparative Perspective (1999) in the US journal Shofar.

"Introduction" and "Philosophy of Religion", in The Future of Philosophy: towards the 21st Century, ed. O. Leaman (Routledge, 1998).

"Averroes", "Meaning in Islamic Philosophy", "The Concept of Islamic Philosophy", "Miskawayh", "Isaac Abravanel", "Jewish Averroism", "Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism", in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Craig (London: Routledge, 1998).

"Judaism", in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, ed. R. Chadwick (Academic Press, 1998).

"Philo" (688-90), "Mendelssohn" (686-88), "Alfarabi" (675-77), "Avicenna" (671-74), "Averroes" (667-70), "Ghazali" (678-80) and "Maimonides" (683-5), in A Companion to the Philosophers, ed. R. Arrington (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999).

"Justifying Ageism" in Lesser, H. (ed), Ageing, autonomy and resources (Aldershot: Ashgate, (1999), 180-187.

Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy (London: Routledge 1999).

"Islam" (364-65), "Jewish communities" (376-77) in Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, ed. P. Childs and M. Storry (London: Routledge, 1999).

Review of: Y. Nir (Ed.), Photography in Israel  (= special issue, History of Photography, 19/ 3, 1995). In Shofar, 17/1 (1998), pp. 170–172.

On the Semitic Component in the Lexicon of New Kingdom Egyptian, and its Role in Reconstructing Northwest Semitic Morphology.  A review article.  Hebrew Linguistics (בלשנות עברית ), No. 45, pp. 95–100 (1999).

Review of V. Shilo, New Neo-Aramaic Dictionary (Jerusalem, 1995). Journal of Semitic Studies, 44/ 2 (1999), pp. 320–322.

Review of:  N. Grunhaus, The Taxation of Izmir’s Jewish Community in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Tel-Aviv University, 1997).  Rassegna Mensile di Israel, 65/ 1 (1999), pp. 202–204.

"A Formalism for Misantonyms" [on Hebrew and other word-formation]. Proc. AISB'99 Symposium on Metaphor, Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (Edinburgh, 1999), pp. 17-26.

"Computer-Generated Alternative Coinages: An Automated Ranking Model for Their Psychosemantic Transparency" [on Hebrew word-formation]. Proceedings of the EAFT "Conference on Co-operation in the Field of Terminology in Europe", Paris, May 17-19, 1999, pp.321-336.

"Registers of Use, and Ergolectal Versus Literary Niches for Neologizing Creativity. What Do the Makers of Technical Terminology Stand to Learn From Such Contrastive Analysis?" [on Hebrew and other neologisation, institutional or otherwise].Proceedings of the EAFT "Conference on Co-operation in the Field of Terminology in Europe", Paris, May 17-19, 1999, pp. 227-239.

"From the 'Krum' to the 'Kerem-kerem' Bird: On the Ever-changing Colours of Referentiality and Myth". Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli [Sezione Orientale], 57 (1997 [1999]), 276-281.

"Hermeneutics, Accreting Receptions, Hypermedia: A Tool for Reference versus a Tool for Instruction". [On Midrash], in E. Nissan, ed., Hypertext and Hypermedia, special issue, Journal of Educational Computing Research 17/3 (1997 [1998]), 297-318 (with I. Rossler, H. Weiss)

"Notions of Place" (in 2 parts) [on space in Halakhic and Midrashic texts]. In A.A. Martino, ed., Logica delle norme (Pisa: SEU, Pisa, 1997), 256-302 + 303-361.

"The Cantor-Poets". Part A: "A Lifetime's Quest for Early Hymnography". Part B: "Charting the Piyyutic Galaxy". [review essays] Shofar 17/2 (1999), 119-133.

"The Shabbat Notepad: Saving Ideas that Occur on Shabbat". B'Or Ha-Torah 11 (1999), 76-87. [Published along with a haskamah by R. Levi Yitzchak Halperin, director of the Institute of Science and Halacha, Jerusalem.]

"The Temporal Dimension in Natural-Language Text" [analysis of text from a Hebrew novel by A. Megged]. Proc. International Symposium on Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing (ISMT & CLIP), Beijin, June 1999, 32-37 (with J. Ma, B. Knight)

"Using the CuProS Metarepresentation Language for Defining Flexible Nested-Relation Structures for Monolingual and Multilingual Terminological Databases" [structure for a lexicographic database of Semitic languages]. Proceedings of the EAFT "Conference on Co-operation in the Field of Terminology in Europe", Paris, May 17-19, 1999, pp.337-343

"Culture-bound Technological Solutions:an Artificial-theoretic Insight" in M. Negrotti (ed.), "The Culture of the Artificial", special issue of: AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 3/4, pp. 411-439, 2000. Subjects include: the Shabbat Notepad;  meat surrogates;  the early rabbinic Golem calf.

"Modelling spatial relations in the traveller's conditional divorce problem", Higayon: Studies in Rabbinic Logic 5 (2001), 8-21 (English section).

"Anticipatory Narrative Construal" in International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Vol. 8 (2001), pp. 241-256. Sec. 3 analyses time in an Israeli newspaper report from the early 1950s; Sec. 4 examines the theme shared by, e.g., the early rabbinic tale about Honi the Circle-Drawer’s long sleep; Washington Irving’s 1819 story Rip van Winkle; and Woody Allen’s 1973 comedy film Sleeper. Sec. 5 discusses the homiletic interpretation by R. Abraham Mordecai of Gur, of Jacob’s forescient crying in Genesis 29:11 (by metalepsis: what will readers say?).  Sec. 7 is concerned with a medieval commentator of Nero’s future apotheosis in Lucan’s Pharsalia, and a similarity is pointed out of the monstruous body he overread into Nero, to the physical monstrosity of Nebuchadnezzar in Jewish homiletics.

"The Krum Tradition in the Light of the Phoenix Myth: A Prolegomenon" (with an appendix by C. Asaro: Tempo Narrato e Cromatismo nella Fenice di Lattanzio.) in: AION-O: Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, Sezione Orientale, Vol. 59 nos. 1-4, pp. 397-400, 1999 [2001].

"On the Treatment of Some Toponyms or Ethnics in a Sharh to the Haggadah." (74 pp.) Mehqere-Hag 12 (Beit-Berl, Israel), 2001, pp. 29-103 in the English section.

"A Hebrew/Italian Proverb List from the End of the Eighteenth Century." (in Hebrew). Mahut: Journal of Jewish Literature & Art, Vol. 23 (2001), pp. 33--40.

"An AI Formalism for Competing Claims of Identification: Capturing the Smemorato di Collegno Amnesia Case" in: E. Nissan and A.A. Martino (eds.) special issue ["Software, Formal Models, and Artificial Intelligence for Legal Evidence"],Computing and Informatics, Vol. 20, No. 6, 2001 [2002], pp. 625-656.
Section 3 analyses (and sets in formulae of logic) a case of amnesia that was highly controversial and is well remembered in Italian popular culture. On 26 March 1926, a man was surprised while he was stealing objects in the Jewish cemetery in Turin. He couldn't tell who he was. He was later contended by two women who each claimed he was her husband. Section 4 analyses non-literal reference to toponyms: as originally pointed out by Eliezer Bashan, in rabbinical responsa, a seaport city may happen to be named as "Jerusalem" (cf. Shakespeare's coast of Bohemia). A mathematical formulation is proposed for heuristic criteria for telling whether the Land of Israel toponym was used fictitiously as a disguise in a legal casenote.

The COLUMBUS Model. Part I. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Vol. 12, 2002, pp. 105-120.

The COLUMBUS Model. Part II. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Vol. 12, 2002, pp. 121-136.

These two papers develop a formal analysis, driven by narration- and characters' goals and plans, of the first page of Gerson Rosenzweig Hebrew-language satirical "Tractate America" on Jewish New York around 1900, styled as a parody of both gemara and midrash.

Fictitious Toponyms in the Responsa:  Bashan’s Ruleset Revisited.  Revue Informatique et statistique dans les sciences humaines (RISSH), Vol. 37 (2003, online).

Some Recent Work on Logic, Mathematics and Halakha (review article).  Jewish Law Annual, Vol. 14 (Routledge, 2003),  pp. 259–270.

Ephraim Nissan and Jixin Ma:  Identification and Doing Without It,  Part V:   A Formal Mathematical Analysis for a Case of Mixup of Individuals,  and of Recovery from Failure to Attain Identification.
Cybernetics and Systems,  34/6–7 (2003), pp. 531–550.
An analysis for a sugya from tractate Pesahim.

"Etymothesis and Fallacy: On Carrots and the Liver." [On the Hebrew and Semitic lexicon.], Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages, 34(1) (2008), pp. 57–73.

A Gleaning of Concepts from the Natural Sciences held by the Jewish Sages  of Late Antiquity:  From Zoology, to Optical Instrumentation (Viewing Tubes). In La cultura scientifico-naturalistica nei Padri della Chiesa  (I–V sec.):  XXXV Incontro di Studiosi dell’Antichità Cristiana, Rome, 4–6 May 2006. (Studia Ephemeridis ‘Augustinianum’, 101.)  Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2007, pp. 49–81.

Mangiapane, mangiauova, mangiarape:  qualche dato inedito sui blasoni alimentari.  La Ricerca Folklorica, 55 (2007), pp. 139–146.  
        Its chapters are:
1.  Il pane:  nomen foedans vs. blasone elogiativo   [Bread-based descriptors or blazons populaires, including among Jews]
2.  Le uova:  tra blasone descrittivo oggettivo, e nomignolo   [“Egg-eaters” for Jews among Native Americans and in Iraq]
3.  Alcune osservazioni generali    [Blasons populaires from Italy, Brazil, and England.]
4.  Un nomen foedans alimentare ne Le Ciambelle di Santafiore  [on the apparently Jewish Renaissance playwright Joseph Santafiore]

Mario Alinei and Ephraim Nissan:  L’etimologia semitica dell’it. pizza e dei suoi corradicali est-europei, turchi, e semitici levantini. Quaderni di Semantica: An International Journal of Semantics and Iconomastics,  28/1 (2007), pp. 117–135.
Among the lexical items discussed are the Modern Hebrew Balkanism פִּיתָה ,  as well as Middle Aramaic פִּתָּא

Chance vs. Causality, and a Taxonomy of Explanations.
In Chance: Science, Technology and Everyday Life, ed. G. Lanzavecchia and M. Negrotti,  thematic volume of the Yearbook of the Artificial, Vol. 5, ed. M. Negrotti.  Basel:  Lang,  in press  (2008). 63 pages in proofs.
Some of the more prominent examples are from Jewish studies, taking up much of the discussion.
Its Italian translation:
Il caso in relazione alla causalità, ed una tassonomia delle eziologie.
In L’enigma del caso: Fatti, ipotesi e immagini,  ed. G. Lanzavecchia and M. Negrotti (2008).  Milano: Edizioni Goliardiche, pp. 93–149.

Medieval (and Later) Compulsory Signs of Group Identity Disclosure.

Part I:  The General Pattern at theCore of the Social Dynamics of the Jewish Badge, Set in Episodic Formulae and in Systems & Control Block Schemata. Journal of Sociocybernetics, Spring issue of 2008.

Narrating Courtyards, Roofs, and Mezzanines: Domestication of Jewish Identity in the Memory Culture of Iraqi Jews. In S.J. Bronner (ed.), Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity  (Jewish Cultural Studies, vol. 2).   London:  Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, in press.

Zohar Amar and Ephraim Nissan:  Captive Gazelles in Iraqi Jewry up to the Early Twentieth Century, in Relation to Cultural Practices and Vernacular Housing, with Particular Reference to Kosher Status and the Making of Torah Scrolls. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, accepted.

Medieval (and Later) Compulsory Signs of Group Identity Disclosure.

Part II:  The Intervention of Joseph Cazès in Teheran in 1898, Set in Episodic Formulae.  Journal of Sociocybernetics, accepted.

On the imposition of the Jewish Badge in Teheran in 1897,  and its replacement with the badge of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.

On an onomasiological parallel from Ticinese and northern Lombard to Biblical Hebrew  sefī‘īm ‘stercora animalium’  vs.  sefī‘ōt ‘proles vilior’.
[מה בין הצפיעים לצפיעות׃
על מקבילה מאזור הָאַלְפִּים לתיזמוּן המשמעוּיוֹת ]
Leshonenu La‘am, accepted.

On Nebuchadnezzar in Pseudo Sirach.   Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, accepted.

 

PROF ALEX SAMELY

Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought. An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press, ISBN: 978-0-19-929673-6; 260 pp., March 2007)

Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Spinozas Theorie der Religion (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1993)

The Interpretation of Speech in the Pentateuch Targums (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1992)

Database of Midrashic Units in the Mishnah, 2003 (http://mishnah.llc.manchester.ac.uk/home.aspx)

"Observations on the Activity of Reading", in G. Banham (ed.), Husserl and the Logic of Experience (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 131–159

"Text and Time. Ten Propositions on Early Rabbinic Hermeneutics", in B. Jackson (ed.), The Semiotics of Religious Law; Special issue of International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2001). 14/2, 143–160;

"Delaying the Progress from Case to Case: Redundancy in the Halakhic Discourse of the Mishnah", in G. Brooke (ed.), Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplements, 11; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 99–132

"From Case to Case: Notes on the Discourse Logic of the Mishnah", in G.R. Hawting, J.A. Mojaddedi and A. Samely (eds), Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions in Memory of Norman Calder (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement, 12; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 233–270).

"Bnei Torah, Bnei Tarbut" (Hebrew), in Tarbut Demokratit (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Vol. 1/1 (1999).

"From Folk Medicine to Bioethics', in Religion, Health and Suffering, ed. John R. Hinnells and Roy Porter (London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1999), 166-186,

"Het Joodse Gebed" (Dutch), in Voor Zijn Angezicht, ed. V. Brümmer and others (Kampen: Uitgeverij Kok, 1998), 33-60.

Historical Dictionary of Judaism (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press Inc., 1998).

"The Social Conscience of Dissent c.1841", Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 6 (1998), 167-84.

'Divided by a common Scripture; Jewish and Christian approaches to the Bible'. (For the abstract, click here).

Dr Leslie Lancaster

"Meditation and memory", Transpersonal Psychology Review 2 (1998), 3-9

"The Multiple Brain and the Unity of Experience", in J. Rowan & M. Cooper, eds., The Plural Self: Multiplicity in Everyday Life (London: Sage Publications, 1999), 132-150.

“Eckhart, Kabbalah, and the limits of psychological inquiry”, Eckhart Review, 10 (2001), 46-64.

“New lamps for old: psychology and the thirteenth-century flowering of mysticism”, Transpersonal Psychology Review, 5(1) (2001), 3-14.

“On the relationship between cognitive models and spiritual maps: evidence from Hebrew language mysticism”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7 (2000), 231-50.

“Approaches to Consciousness”, Consciousness and experiential Psychology, 4 (2000), 12-14..

“The psychology of oppositional thinking in rabbinic biblical commentary”, Journal of Semitic Studies, S11 (2000), 191-203.

“Religious Experience and Consciousness Studies”, Occasional paper published by the Religious Experience Research Centre, Westminster College, Oxford, 2000.

“Judaism and science”, Meta 075  (1999). <http://www.meta-list.org>.

“The golem as a transpersonal image: 2. psychological features in the mediaeval golem ritual”, Transpersonal Psychology Review, 1 (4) (1997), 23-30.

“The golem as a transpersonal image: 1. a marker of cultural change”, Transpersonal Psychology Review, 1(3)  (1997), 5-11.

“On the stages of perception: towards a synthesis of cognitive neuroscience and the Buddhist Abhidhamma tradition”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4 (1997), 122-42.

“The mytholoy of anatta: bridging the East-West divide”, in J. Pickering (ed.), The Authority of Experience: Readings on Buddhism and Psychology. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997.

 

Professor Bernard Jackson

"On the Atemporality of Legal Time", in Temps et Droit. Le droit a-t-il pour vocation de durer, ed. F. Ost and M. van Hoecke (Brussels: Bruylant, 1998), 225-246

"Truth or Proof?: The Criminal Verdict", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique XI/33 (1998), 227-273.

"Logic and Semiotics: Ontology or Linguistic Structure? ", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique XI/33 (1998), 323-327.

"Bentham, Truth and the Semiotics of Law", in Legal Theory at the End of the Millennium, ed. M.D.A. Freeman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 493-531 (= Current Legal Problems 51 (1998), 493-531)

"On the Semiotics of Legislation", in Hanneke van Schooten, ed, Semiotics and Legislation. Jurisprudential, Institutional and Sociological Perspectives (Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications, 1999), 5-26.

Dr Ephraim Nissan

"Emotion, Culture, Communication" (review essay) [with relevant culture-specific perspectives]. Pragmatics and Cognition 5/2 (1997), 355-369.

Educational Hypermedia, special issue of Journal of Educational Computing Research, 17/3 (1997).
Temporal Structure and Enablement Representation for Mutual Wills, with D.Y. Farook.  In a special Issue on “Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence”, eds. E. Nissan and A.A. Martino,  Information and Communications Technology Law, 7/3 (1998), pp. 243–267.

Review of:  Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language (ed. P.V. Lamarque, Pergamon, 1997) and of:  Readings in the Philosophy of Language  (ed. P. Ludlow, The MIT Press, 1997).  In Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, No. 48 (Jan. 1999), pp. 347–354.

Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Evidence: A Few Topics. Proceedings of the Second World Conference on New Trends in Criminal investigation and Evidence,  Amsterdam, 10–15 December 1999. = C.M. Breur, M.M. Kommer, J.F. Nijboer & J.M. Reijntjes (eds.), New Trends in Criminal Investigation and Evidence, Vol. 2 (Intersentia, Antwerpen, 2000), pp. 495–521.

A.F. Dragoni and E. Nissan:  Exoneration, and Reasoning About It: A Quick Overview of Three Perspectives. Proceedings of the International ICSC Congress “Intelligent Systems & Applications” (ISA’2000), Wollongong, Australia, December 11–15, 2000, Vol. 1, pp. 94–100.
Can You Measure Circumstantial Evidence?  The Background of Probative Formalisms for Law  (review article).  Information and Communications Technology Law, 10/2 (2001), pp. 231–245.
The Jama Legal Narrative (in two parts: Part I  is with A. Geiger and A. Stollman).  Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol. 10/1 (2001), pp. 21–37.
Formal Approaches to Legal Evidence, edited with A.A. Martino, special issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law, 9/2–3 (2001).
S.E. Shimony and E. Nissan:  Kappa Calculus and Evidential Strength:  A Note on Åqvist’s Logical Theory of Legal Evidence.  Artificial Intelligence and Law, 9/2–3 (2001), pp. 153–163.

The Bayesianism Debate in Legal Scholarship (review article).  Artificial Intelligence and Law, 9/2–3 (2001), pp. 199–214.

C. Asaro, E. Nissan and A.A. Martino:  Daedalus:  An Integrated Tool for the Italian Investigating Magistrate and the Prosecutor.   Computing and Informatics, 20/6 (2001), pp. 515–554.

Identification and Doing Without It, I: A Situational Classification of Misapplied Personal Identity, With a Formalism for a Case of Multiple Usurped Identity in Marivaux.  Cybernetics and Systems,  34/4–5 (2003), pp. 317–358.
          One of the sections deals with Pseudo-Nero, vs. the rabbinic legend of Nero.

Identification and Doing Without It, II: Visual Evidence for Pinpointing Identity. How Alexander Was Found Out.  Cybernetics and Systems,  34/4–5 (2003), pp. 359–380.
A formal analysis of a passage from a Middle English romance about Alexander the Great.  Cf. the Hebrew versions of the romance of Alexander.
Building Blocks for an Artificial Intelligence Framework in the Field of Legal Evidence, edited with A.A. Martino, two double special issues of Cybernetics and Systems, 34/4–5 and 34/6–7 (2003).
E. Nissan, D. Hall, E. Lobina and R. de la Motte:  A Formalism for a Case Study in the WaterTime Project:  The City Water System in Grenoble, From Privatization to Remunicipalization. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 18/3–4, 2004, pp. 305–366.
An analysis of a case of corruption, with a comparison of modern patterns of graft to legitimate ancien régime taxfarming practices.  One section is on Ottoman Jewish taxfarming. Another section is on rabbinic approaches to spreading the cost of the water supply.
The Construction of Judicial Proof, edited with A.A. Martino, special issue of Applied Artificial Intelligence, 18/3–4 (2004).
R. Cassinis, L.M. Morelli and E. Nissan:  Emulation of Human Feelings and Behaviors in an Animated Artwork.  85 pp.,  International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools,  16/2 (2007),  pp. 291–375.

Goals,  Arguments,  and Deception: A Formal Representation from the AURANGZEB Project. Parts I and II.  Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 18/3 (2007), pp. 281–305 and 307–327.
It analyses an 1658 historical episode from a Mughal succession war.

Tools for Representing and Processing Narratives.  In:  M. Quigley (ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security.  Hershey, PA:  IGI Global (formerly Idea Group), 2008, pp. 638–644.

E. Nissan, R. Cassinis and L.M. Morelli:  Have Computation, Animatronics, and Robotic Art Anything to Say About Emotion, Compassion, and How to Model Them?  The  survivor  Project. Pragmatics & Cognition,  16(1) (2008), pp. 3–37.

Marco Somalvico Memorial Issues, edited with G. Gini and M. Colombetti:  International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 16/2 (2007);  Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 18/3 (2007); Journal of Robotic and Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 52/3–4 (2008, in press); Cybernetics & Systems (2008, in press).

Three Perspectives on Pretexts:  Seeking Self-Exoneration by Hierarchical Decomposition;  Making an Archetype-Evoking Claim;  and Rhetorical Cover-Up.  In:  M.M. Turell, M. Spassova and J. Cicres Bosch (ed.),  Proceedings of the Second IAFL European Conference on Forensic Linguistics / Language and the Law  (IAFL’06), Barcelona, Spain,  14–16 September 2006.  Barcelona:  Documenta Universitaria,  2008.

Nested Beliefs,  Goals,  Duties,  and  Agents Reasoning About Their Own or Each Other’s Body in the TIMUR Model: A Formalism for the Narrative of Tamerlane and the Three Painters.  Journal of Robotic and Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 52/3–4, in press. 
Some passages in the TIMUR paper are relevant to Jewish studies. This paper features the unusual combination of folktale studies with the application of a narrative formalism to embodied agents (robots or screen avatars) reasoning about their own or somebody else’s body.  The anecdote analysed, “Tamerlane and the Three Painters”, has a parallel, “The Sultan and his Cooks”, collected among Bulgarian Jews in Jaffa, as explained in Section 2.5 of the article.  Also Examples 3–4  and 7, in Section 3.6, concern given episodes from either Israeli culture, or the Anglo-Jewish experience.  In Section 3.18, exemplification of the construct ‘although, or rather for the very reason’ also discusses the polysemy of talmudic ’af ‘al pí.