Alexander Samely

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• 2020

  How Coherence Works. Reading, Re-Reading and Inner-Biblical Exegesis

  Samely, A., 30 Jul 2020, In: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel. 9, 2, p. 130-182

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Biblical exegesis 100%
  • Re-reading 100%
  • Coherence 100%
  • Text 75%
  • Genesis 50%
  54 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  The Use of Genre for Many Text Meanings: Apocalypse and 1 Enoch

  Samely, A., 5 Dec 2019, (Accepted/In press) Re-Imagining Apocalypticism: Apocalypses, Apocalyptic Literature, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. DiTommaso, L. & Goff, M. (eds.). Society of Biblical Literature, (Early Judaism and Its Literature).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2018

  On Cohesion: Could Religious Tradition be the Antidote to Fundamentalism?

  Samely, A., 11 Jun 2018, Policy@Manchester, n/a, p. 11–14 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

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  • Cohesion 100%
  • Tolerance 100%
  • Social Integration 100%
  • Religious Tradition 100%
  • Teaching 100%
  44 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Educational Features in Ancient Jewish Literature: An Overview of Unknowns

  Samely, A., 24 Oct 2017, Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Philip S. Alexander. Brooke, G. & Smithuis, R. (eds.). Leiden: Brill , p. 147-200 53 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2016

  Jewish Studies and Reading

  Samely, A., Jun 2016, ‘Let the Wise Listen and Add to Their Learning’: Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday . Langer, G. & Cordoni, C. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, Walter GmbH & Co, p. 757–789 32 p. (Studia Judaica; vol. 90).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• 2015

  Observations on the Structure and Literary Fabric of the Temple Scroll

  Samely, A., Feb 2015, The Temple in Text and Tradition: A Festschrift in Honour of Robert Hayward. T. M. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, p. 233-277 44 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• Some Literary Features of Midrashic and Masoretic Statements

  Samely, A., 1 Jan 2015, The Text of the Hebrew Bible: From the Rabbis to Masoretes. E. M-C. & L. M-M. (eds.). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, p. 147-174 27 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2013

  Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity: An Inventory, from Second Temple Texts to the Talmuds

  Samely, A., Collaboration, I., Alexander, P., Bernasconi, R. & Hayward, R., 7 Nov 2013, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 480 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• 2012

  The Bible as Talked About: Reflections on the Usage and Conceptual Implications of the Term Miqra’ in Early Rabbinic Literature

  Samely, A., 2012, What is Bible?. K. F. & A. L. (eds.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 193-219 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2011

  Aramaic studies summer 2011: Introduction

  Samely, A., 2011, In: Aramaic Studies. 9, 1, p. 1-3 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2010

  “Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features in Ancient Jewish Literature"

  Samely, A., Alexander, P., Bernasconi, R. & Hayward, R., 19 Dec 2010, http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ancientjewishliterature: University of Manchester, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. 30 p. (AHRC Project "Typology of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity")

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  • Jewish literature 100%
  • Testaments 100%
  • Babylonian Talmud 50%
  • Qumran 50%
  • Pseudepigrapha 50%
• 2009

  Formen/Jüdische Bibelhermeneutik; & Gattungen/Jüdische Bibelhermeneutik; & Intertextualität/Jüdische Bibelhermeneutik; & Kommentar/Jüdische Bibelhermeneutik

  Samely, A., 2009, Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik. O. W. (ed.). Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, Walter GmbH & Co, 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Notes on the Sequencing of Information in Mishna Tractates

  Samely, A., 2009, In: Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge/Frankfurt Jewish Studies Bulletin. 35, p. 19-64 45 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2007

  Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought

  Samely, A., 2007, Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• 2005

  Observations on the Activity of Reading

  Samely, A., 2005, Husserl and the Logic of Experience. G. B. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Sparks of the Logos (Review of)

  Samely, A., 2005, In: Journal of Theological Studies. 56/2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2002

  Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah

  Samely, A., 2002, Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• 2001

  Text and time: Ten propositions on early rabbinic hermeneutics

  Samely, A., 2001, In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. 14, 2, p. 143-160 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Text 100%
  • Rabbinic 100%
  • Hermeneutic Theory 100%
  • Biblical Texts 57%
  • Meaning 42%
• 2000

  Delaying the Progress from Case to Case: Redundancy in the Halakhic Discourse of the Mishnah

  Samely, A., 2000, Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplements, 11). G. B. (ed.). Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• From Case to Case. Notes on the Discourse Logic of the Mishnah

  Samely, A., 2000, Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions in Memory of Norman Calder (Journal of Semitic Studies Sumpplements). G. R. H. & J. M. (eds.). Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions in Memory of Norman Calder (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement, 12)

  Samely, A., Hawting, G. R. (ed.) & Mojaddedi, J. A. (ed.), 2000, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
• 1999

  Scripture's Segments and Topicality in Rabbinic Discourse and the Pentateuch Targum

  Samely, A., 1999, In: Journal for the Aramaic Bible. 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1995

  Free Teaching at the Free University. Musings on the German approach to Learning at University

  Samely, A., 1995, In: British Association for Jewish Studies Bulletin. 20

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Stressing Scripture's Words: The Use of Semantic Contrast as a Midrashic Technique in the Mishnah

  Samely, A., 1995, In: Journal of Jewish Studies. 46

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1994

  Artefact and Text. The Re-Creation of Jewish Literature in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts. Proceedings of a Conference held in the University of Manchester 28-30 April 1992. (= theme issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 75/3, 1993)

  Samely, A. & Alexander, P. (ed.), 1994, Manchester: The John Rylands Library .

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

• Introduction: Artefact and Text

  Alexander, P. S. & Samely, A., 1994, Artefact and Text. Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Is Targumic Aramaic Rabbinic Hebrew? Reflections on the Nature of Midrashic and Targumic Paraphrase

  Samely, A., 1994, In: Journal of Jewish Studies. 45

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Writing in an (Almost) Classical Vein: The Art of Targum in an Aramaic Paraphrase of the Amidah

  Samely, A., 1994, Artefact and Text.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
• 1993

  Artefact and Text. The Re-Creation of Jewish Literature in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts: Proceedings of a Conference held in the University of Manchester 28-30 April 1992 (JRULM Bulletin vol. 75)

  Samely, A. & Alexander, P. (ed.), 1993, Manchester: The John Rylands Library . (Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, volume 75/3)

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review

• Nazis Go to Town: Reflections on German Jewry Today

  Samely, A., 1993, In: British Association for Jewish Studies Bulletin. 18

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Spinozas Theorie der Religion

  Samely, A., 1993, Wuerzburg: Verlag Koenigshausen und Neumann GmbH.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• 1992

  Scripture's Implicature: The Midrashic Assumptions of Relevance and Consistency

  Samely, A., 1992, In: Journal of Semitic Studies. 37

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Interpretation of Speech in the Pentateuch Targums. A Study of Method and Presentation in Targumic Exegesis

  Samely, A., 1992, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• 1991

  Between Scripture and its Rewording: Towards a Classification of Rabbinic Exegesis

  Samely, A., 1991, In: Journal of Jewish Studies. 42

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Interpreted Text: Among the Hebrew Manuscripts of the John Rylands University Library

  Samely, A., 1991, In: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library. 73

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1988

  The Background of Speech: Some Observations on the Representation of Targumic Exegesis

  Samely, A., 1988, In: Journal of Jewish Studies. 39

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review