CONTENTS
ENGLISH CONTRIBUTIONS
INTRODUCTION
Harry Fox (University of Toronto) The Embarrassment of Embarrassment 5
Harry Fox (University of Toronto) Judaism and Genocide: The Embarrassment of Jewish Jihad 19
BIBLE
Diane Kriger A Re-embracement of Judges 19: Challenging Public-Private Boundaries 55
Tzemah Yoreh (American Jewish University) Shekhem and the So-Called Rape of Dina 67
Miryam Segal (Queens College, City University of New York) An Embarrassment of Riches, A Pride of Depletion and the Ambiguity of Address 79
Paul Heger Unabashedly Reading Desired Outcomes Into Scripture: Jewish Reaction to External Encroachment on its Cultural Heritage 96
Hindy Najman (University of Toronto) Rewriting as Whitewashing: The Case of Rewritten Bible 140
Shana Husband (University of Toronto) Establishing a Sacred Church in the New Testament 154 TALMUD AND MIDRASH
Laliv Clenman (University of Toronto) “It was not according to the will of the Sages”: Halakhic and Ag- gadic Responses to Pinhas’ Killing of Zimri and Kozbi in Numbers 25 169
Eric Lawee (York University) Embarrassment and Re-Embracement of a Midrash on Genesis 2:23 192
Pearl Elman Deuteronomy 21:10-14: The Beautiful Captive Woman 208
Eva Mroczek (University of Toronto) A Peg to Hang on: Metaphor, Ancestral Merit and the Midrashic Relationship of David and Solomon 219
Eliezer Segal (University of Calgary) From Glutton to Gangster 241
Alon Goshen Gottstein (Beit Morasha) Did the Tannaim Interpret the Song of Songs Systematically? Lieberman Reconsidered 260
Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University) The Halakhah Follows Rava…Except When It Doesn’t: A Mediation on Halakhic Decision-Making 272
Herbert Basser (Queens University) Rabbinic Mindsets Within the Universal Mythic Structures of Sacred History: A Few Interesting Cases 308
Simcha Fishbane (Touro College) Count Your Blessings: Jewish Mourning Rituals During the Spring Season (Sefirat Haomer) 315
COMIC INTERLUDE
Ilana Kurshan Making Fish for Shabbat (Yoma 75A) 346 MEDIEVAL INTERPRETATION
Elisha S. Ancselovits Embarrassment as a Means of Embracing Authorial Intent 351
Gyöngyi Hegeds (University of Western Ontario) The Double Path: The Two Layers of Thinking and the Twofold Nature of Knowledge in the Work of Saadya Gaon 385
Albert Dov Friedberg (University of Toronto) Embarrassment as a Creative Force in Maimonides’ Meta-Halakhic Enumeration of the 613 Commandments 410
Alan Verskin (Princeton University) Teaching Philosophy to the Multitude: An Introduction to the Educational Theory of Nissim ben Moshe of Marseilles 415
MODERN
Ira Robinson (Concordia University) Rabbi Natan Slifkin on Science and Torah: The Evolution of a Search for Truth 433
Bonna Devora Haberman (Hebrew University) Mapping Alternate texts of Gender Difference 447
Tirzah Meacham (University of Toronto) How Can They Be Better than Us? Embarrassment and Legislation 460
Justin Jaron Lewis (University of Manitoba) “Such things have never been heard of ”: Jewish Intellectuals and Hasidic Miracles 480
Edward Elkin "Chosenness" 496
Aubrey L. Glazer Durée, Devekuth, & Re-embracing the Godlover: Involution of Unio Mystica via Collocative HomosexuELity 505 Tanhum Yoreh (York University) Environmental Embarrassment, Genesis 1:26-28 vs. Genesis 2:15 554
AFTERWORD
Aubrey Glazer Vixens Disturbing Vineyards: Why Fox's Embracement of Scriptures Can Be Embarrassing 587
HEBREW CONTRIBUTIONS
יוסף טובי (אוניברסיטת חיפה) העתקה עברית של ִרסאלת ִאלחאתמי: השוואה בין אמרות המיוחסות לאריסטו לבין בתי שיר ֻלמ ַתנַ ִבּי 594
יועם יורה (אוניברסיטת טורונטו) אשת יפת תואר בספרי ובפרשנות הקדומה 626
אריה סטריקובסקי (מכון פרדס) ״…וקצת כפה לא תחס עינך״ 635
שמואל וחנה ספראי ז״ל וזאב ספראי (אוניברסיטת תל-אביב) בין חכמים לציבור: כיצד נוצרה ההלכה שבתורה שבעל פה 643