Paul V.M. Flesher
Published Works
BOOKS:
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1988, Oxen, Women or Citizens? Slaves in the System of the Mishnah (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), xvi + 212 pp.
BOOKS EDITED:
Paul V.M. Flesher, 1998, Targum Studies: Targum and Peshitta, vol. 2 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), xx + 252 pp.
Dan Urman and Paul V. M. Flesher, 1995, Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis & Archaeological Discovery, 2 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), xxxvii + 677 pp. + 53 pls. Second Impression as a single volume, 1998.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1992, Targum Studies: Textual and Contextual Studies in the Pentateuchal Targums, vol. 1 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), ix + 155 pp.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1990, New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism: Society and Literature in Analysis, vol. 5 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), xiv + 189 pp.
Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs and Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher, 1989, Religion, Science, and Magic in Concert and in Conflict: Perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, Philosophy, and Social Science, (New York: Oxford University Press, paperback-1992), xii + 293 pp.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1999, "Is Targum Onqelos A Palestinian Targum? The Evidence of Genesis 28-50," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, issue 19, pp. 35-79.
Paul V. M. Flesher & Robert Torry, 1998, "Teaching Film and Religion" in Religious Studies News, for "Spotlight on Teaching," Spring 1998, pp. 26-8.
Paul V. Flesher, 1989, "Structure and Argument: A Study of Immanuel Kant’s Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone," in Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 15, pp. 119-130.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Paul V. M. Flesher, In Press, "The Fiction of Proselyte Baptism: Proselytes and Conversion in the Mishnah," in Traversing Sea and Land: the Question of Jewish Missionary Activity in Antiquity (tentative title), A.J. Levine and R. Pervo, eds. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press).
Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, "The Resurrection of the Dead and the Sources of the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch," In: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Judaism in Late Antiquity, vol. 4, Death, Life-After-Death, Resurrection & The World-to-Come in the Judaisms of Antiquity, A.J. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, eds. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), pp. 311-331
Paul V.M. Flesher, 1999, "The Theology of the Afterlife in the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch: A Framework for Analysis," In: Approaches to Ancient Judaism: New Series, vol. 16, J. Neusner, ed., Scholars Press, Atlanta, pp. 1-47.
Paul V.M. Flesher, 1998, "Looking for Links in all the Wrong Places: Targum and Peshitta Relationships," in Targum Studies, vol. 2, Paul V.M. Flesher, ed. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), pp. xi-xx.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1998, "Conflict or Cooperation? Non-Jews in the Dura Synagogue Painting," in Hellenic and Jewish Arts:Interaction, Tradition and Renewal, Asher Ovadia, ed. (Tel Aviv: Ramot Publishing—Tel Aviv University), pp. 199-222.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1995, "The Targumim," in Handbuch der Orientalistik. Judaism in Late Antiquity, vol. 1, The Literary and Archaeological Sources, J. Neusner, ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), pp. 87-102.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1995, "Ancient Synagogues: A Reader’s Guide," in Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis & Archaeological Discovery, vol. 1, Dan Urman & Paul V. M. Flesher, eds. (Leiden: E. J. Brill), pp. xvii-xxxvii.
Paul V. M. Flesher, "Rereading the Reredos: David, Orpheus, and Messianism in the Dura Europos Synagogue," in Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis & Archaeological Discovery, vol. 2, Dan Urman & Paul V. M. Flesher, eds. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995), pp. 346-356.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1994, "The Targumim in the Context of Rabbinic Literature," in Introduction to Rabbinic Literature, J. Neusner (Garden City, NY: Doubleday), pp. 410-425.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1992, "Exploring the Sources of the Synoptic Targums to the Pentateuch," in Targum Studies: Textual and Contextual Studies in the Pentateuchal Targums, vol. 1, Paul V. M. Flesher, ed. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), pp. 101-134.
Paul V. M. Flesher, "Introduction," 1992, in Targum Studies: Textual and Contextual Studies in the Pentateuchal Targums, vol. 1, Paul V. M. Flesher, ed. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), pp. 1-8.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1990, "Palestinian Synagogues Before 70 c.e.: A Review of the Evidence," in Approaches to Ancient Judaism, vol. 6, J. Neusner, ed. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), pp. 67-84. Revised and reprinted in Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis & Archaeological Discovery, vol. 1, Dan Urman and Paul V. M. Flesher, eds. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 27-39.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1989, "Are Women Property in the System of the Mishnah?" in From Ancient Israel To Modern Judaism: Intellect in Quest of Understanding, J. Neusner, E. S. Frerichs, & N. M. Sarna, eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 219-232.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1988, "Slaves, Israelites and the System of the Mishnah," in New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism, vol. 4, Alan Avery-Peck, ed. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 101-109.
E. S. Frerichs, Paul V. M. Flesher, and J. Neusner, 1987, "Paraphrase: Midrash in the Septuagint and the Targumim," in J. Neusner, What is Midrash? (Philadelphia: Fortress Press), pp. 23-30.
J. Neusner, and Paul V. M. Flesher, 1987, "Prophecy: Midrash in the Dead Sea Scrolls," in J. Neusner, What is Midrash? (Philadelphia: Fortress Press), pp. 31-36.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1987, "Translation and Exegetical Augmentation in the Targums to the Pentateuch," in New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism. III. Judaic and Christian Interpretation of Texts: Contents and Contexts, J. Neusner and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 29-86.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1987, "Hierarchy and Interstitiality: The Bondman and the Freedman in the Mishnah’s Caste System," in New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism. I. Religion, Literature, and Society in Ancient Israel, Formative Christianity and Judaism, J. Neusner and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 103-116.
J. Neusner and Paul V. M. Flesher, 1984, "The Messiah in the Targums of the Pentateuch," in J. Neusner, Messiah in Context: Israel’s History and Destiny in Formative Judaism (Philadelphia: Fortress Press), pp. 239-247
PROCEEDINGS:
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1994, "The Synoptic Targums: Sources of the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch," in The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context, M. McNamara and D.R.G. Beattie, eds. (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press), pp. 247-253.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, review of L.I. Levine, The Ancient Synagogue The First Thousand Years, in Choice.
Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, review of J.J. Collins, Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora, in Choice (December 2000) 38:4.
Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, review of H.C. Kee and L.H. Cohick, eds., Evolution of the Synagogue:Problems and Progress, in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1997, review of S. Fine, ed., Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World, in Journal of Ritual Studies.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1993, review of P. Grelot, What are the Targums? in Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1993, pp. 413-414.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1993, review of J. Neusner, The Talmud: A Close Encounter, in Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1993, pp. 420-422.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1993, review of M.L. Klein, Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, in Ioudaios Review.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1993, review of S.D. Fraade, From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy, in Ioudaios Review.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1989, review of J. Neusner, The Mishnah: A New Translation, in Religious Studies Review, vol. 15.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1986, review of I. Drazin, Targum Onkelos to Deuteronomy, in Religious Studies Review, 12:3-4.
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1980, review of B.T. Viviano, Study as Worship: Aboth and the New Testament, in Journal of Jewish Studies, 31:2, p. 266.
DICTIONARY AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, "Privileged Translations of Scripture," In: The Encyclopedia of Judaism, J. Neusner, A.J. Avery-Peck, and W.S. Green, eds., (Leiden: E.J. Brill), vol. 3, pp. 1309-1321.
Paul V. M. Flesher, Approximately 90 short entries concerning Targums, in Dictionary of Biblical Judaism (New York: Macmillan, 1996).
Paul V. M. Flesher, "Magen David," "Targum," "Jerusalem," and "Torah Study" in Dictionary of Religion (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1995).
Paul V. M. Flesher, 1992, "Amora, Amoraim," "Bread of the Presence," The Great Assembly," and "Zugoth" in Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Bantam DoubleDay Dell).