Daniel J Lasker

Biographic Data

ID1012436
NAMEDaniel J Lasker
GIVEN NAMESDaniel J
FAMILY NAMELasker
SIGNATURELASKER D J
AFFILIATIONSBen-Gurion University of the Negev
ORCID0000-0002-9096-318X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR42
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • The Karaite Mourners of Zion and the Qumran Scrolls. On the History of an Alternative to Rabbinic Judaism, written by Yoram Erder The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli on the Book of…

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEEuropean Journal of Jewish Studies2020

    "The Karaite Mourners of Zion and the Qumran Scrolls. On the History of an Alternative to Rabbinic Judaism, written by Yoram Erder The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli on the Book of Proverbs, vol. 1, Edition and Introduction, written by Ilana Sasson Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe, written by Golda Akhiezer" published on 17 Aug 2020 by Brill

  • Mary in Jewish Tradition

    Open AccessDaniel J LaskerARTICLEVeritas (Porto Alegre)2018

    Since Jews rejected the miraculous account of Jesus' birth, they assumed that Mary conceived through illicit sexual activity, sometimes expressed in vulgar terms. Some Jews refuted the possibility of virgin birth by use of philosophical arguments, and others offered scriptural arguments against Mary's perpetual virginity. Despite generally negative views of Mary, there is evidence of an attraction to the idea of a semi-divine female role model an…

  • Controversy and Collegiality

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEMedieval Encounters2016

    Gad Freudenthal and I disagree as to the relationship between Jewish anti-Christian polemics and philosophy in the cultural transfer of Andalusian rationalism to Provence. Freudenthal believes that the Jewish need to confront Christianity was one of the factors that led Provençal Jewry to adopt philosophical reasoning that theretofore had been foreign to them. I have argued that Iberian Jewish immigrants to Provence sought out Christian colleague…

  • Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times

    Open AccessDaniel J LaskerARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2015

    Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Mark R. Cohen. Arnold E. Franklin, Roxani Eleni Margariti, Marina Rustow, and Uriel Simonsohn, eds. Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies 2. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xix + 420 pp. $181. - Volume 68 Issue 2

  • Iberian Jewish Literature. Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEMedieval Encounters2011

    Book Reviews / Medieval Encounters 17 (2011) 579-591 589 Jonathan P. Decter, Iberian Jewish Literature. Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe , Bloomington, IN and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Univer- sity Press, 2007, 304 + xvi pp. When Jews relocated from one geographical area to another, whether out of free will or from coercion, they invariably brought with them their pre- vious cultural baggage to which they clung loyally. For instance, Jews …

  • Two New Invaluable Research Tools

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2011

    Two New Invaluable Research Tools:Catalogues of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican and Parma Libraries Daniel J. Lasker Benjamin Richler , ED. Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma, Palaeographical and Codicological Descriptions by Malachi Beit-Arié. Jerusalem: The Jewish National and University Library, 2001. Pp. 574 +­ xxx +­ [inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="01i" /]. Benjamin Richler , E…

  • Eastern European Karaite Attitudes towards Modern Science

    Daniel J Lasker, Lasker LaskerARTICLEAleph2010

    In the early modern period there were small but flourishing Karaite communities in the Crimea, Volhynia, Galicia, and Lithuania. In general, these Karaites did not adopt modern science, preferring a Maimonidean Aristotelianism they had inherited from medieval Byzantine Karaism. A good example of a Karaite intellectual who rejected modern science although he was familiar with it is the most prominent Karaite of the eighteenth century, Simḥah Isaac…

  • The Tombstones of the Cemetery of the Karaite Jews in Çufut‐Qal’eh (the Crimea) [in Hebrew]; The Karaites of Galicia. An Ethnoreligious Minority among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772–19…

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEEast European Jewish Affairs2010

  • Converts, Heretics, and Lepers

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLESpeculum2009

  • Search Scripture Well. Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible Commentary in the Islamic East

    Daniel J Lasker, Daniel LaskerARTICLEMedieval Encounters2008

    © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/138078508X286905 Medieval Encounters 14 (2008) 407-416 www.brill.nl/me Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture Encounters in Confluence and Dialogue Book Reviews Daniel Frank, Search Scripture Well. Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible Commentary in the Islamic East , Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2004, 374 + xvi pp. Almost no educated Jew today would consider sitting down and readin…

  • Karaism and Christian Hebraism

    Open AccessDaniel J LaskerARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2006Cited by: 1References: 3

    In September 1641 Joannes Stephanus Rittangel sent a Hebrew letter to John Selden, the prominent English jurist and Christian Hebraist, soliciting Selden’s assistance in publishing Karaite manuscripts. The letter’s publication here contributes both to our knowledge of the activities of Rittangel — expert in Karaism and Professor Extraordinary of Semitic languages at the University of Koenigsberg — and to the picture we have of Christian Hebraism …

  • Les methodes de travail de Gersonide et le maniement du savoir chez les scolastiques (review)

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2005

  • The Theory of Compensation ('Iwad) in Rabbanite and Karaite Thought

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEJewish Studies Quarterly2004

    »Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495

  • The Philosopher-King in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Thought . Abraham Melamed , Lenn E. Goodman

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLESpeculum2004

  • The Date of the Death of Jesus

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2004

    In his thought-provoking and convincing article, The Date of Death of Jesus of Nazareth (JAOS 122 [2002]: 466-80), Leo Depuydt argues that the most plausible date for the crucifixion is 18 March, 29 c.E. This date was generally accepted until the beginning of the twentieth century, at which time it came under attack on the basis of the assumed impossibility that the first day of a Hebrew month could begin before the sighting of the first crescent…

  • The Canon of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

    Daniel J Lasker, Daniel LaskerARTICLEReview of Rabbinic Judaism2003

    THE CANON OF MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY: A RESPONSE TO DOV SCHWARTZ Daniel J. Lasker Ben-Gurion University of the Negev An obvious problem in writing a history of medieval Jewish philosophy is determining which compositions are the appropriate source mate- rial for that history. Should such a history concern itself only with a few outstanding compositions or with every treatise that could qual- ify as medieval, Jewish, and philosophical? One of D…

  • Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas

    Daniel J Lasker, Warren Zev HarveyARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2001

  • The Polemic of Nestor the Priest

    Harvey J Hames, Daniel J Lasker et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2001

  • Popular Polemics and Philosophical Truth in the Medieval Jewish Critique of Christianity

    Daniel J Lasker, Daniel LaskerARTICLEJournal of Jewish Thought and…1999

  • The Polemic of Nestor the Priest, Qiṣṣat Mujādalat al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor Ha-Komer

    John C Reeves, Daniel J Lasker et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1999

  • The Jewish—Christian Controversy from the Earliest Times to 1789KraussSamuelHorburyWilliam The Jewish—Christian Controversy from the Earliest Times to 1789

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1997

  • Under Crescent and Cross. The Jews in the Middle Ages

    Daniel J LaskerREVIEWThe Jewish Quarterly Review1997

    The exacerbation of Arab-Israeli conflict at the time of the Six-Day War in 1967 gave birth in some quarters to a radical revision of Jewish-Arab history. At stake was the long-standing, originally Jewish, myth of the interfaith utopia, in which medieval Muslims and Jews peacefully cohabited in Arab lands - a utopia that many Arabs claimed had continued until the emergence of modern Zionism. Some Jewish writers challenged this notion with a count…

  • Jewish-Christian Polemics at the Turning Point

    Open AccessDaniel J LaskerARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1996

    In 1968 Amos Funkenstein published an article in Hebrew entitled “Changes in the Patterns of Christian Anti-Jewish Polemics in the 12th Century.” In that article, Funkenstein argues that Christian attitudes toward Jews underwent a change in the twelfth century, a change discernable in the Christian polemical literature of the period. In contrast to the previous Christian strategy of polemicizing against Judaism through a battery of prooftexts, or…

  • Perspectives on maimonides

    Daniel J LaskerARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1993

    Perspectives on maimonides: Philosophical and historical studies." History of European Ideas, 17(2-3), pp. 365–366

  • Lasker, קרשקש

    Shoshanna Gershenzon, Daniel J LaskerARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1993