Literature of the Sages v. 2
Andy in a comment pointed out that Literature of the Sages v. 2 is coming out this summer and is available for pre-order from www.amazon.ca. Here is the table of contents.
The Literature of the Sages
Section One: Midrash and Targum
CHAPTER 1: THE HALAKHIC MIDRASHIM
by Menahem I. Kahana
CHAPTER 2: AGGADIC MIDRASH
by Marc Hirshman
CHAPTER 3: THE WORKS OF AGGADIC MIDRASH AND THE ESTHER MIDRASHIM
by Myron B. Lerner
CHAPTER 4: SEDER OLAM
by Chaim Milikowsky
Appendix: The Scroll of Antiochos and the Scroll of Fasts
(by Zeev Safrai)
CHAPTER 5: THE TARGUMS AS PART OF RABBINIC LITERATURE
by Zeev Safrai
Section Two: Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism
CHAPTER 6: PRAYERS AND BERAKHOT
by Joseph Tabory
CHAPTER 7: THE PASSOVER HAGGADA
by Joseph Tabory
CHAPTER 8: MEGILLAT TAANIT – THE SCROLL OF FASTING
by Vered Noam
CHAPTER 9: PIYYUT
by Ezra Fleischer
CHAPTER 10: ‘SYRIAC FOR DIRGES, HEBREW FOR SPEECH’
– ANCIENT JEWISH POETRY IN ARAMAIC AND HEBREW
by Joseph Yahalom
CHAPTER 11: MYSTICAL TEXTS
by Michael D. Swartz
Section Three: Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science
CHAPTER 12: CONTRACTS: RABBINIC LITERATURE AND ANCIENT JEWISH DOCUMENTS
by Mordechai A. Friedman
CHAPTER 13: JEWISH INSCRIPTIONS AND THEIR USE
by Jonathan J. Price and Haggai Misgav
CHAPTER 14: MEDICAL INTEREST IN ANCIENT RABBINIC
LITERATURE
by Samuel S. Kottek
CHAPTER 15: GEOGRAPHY AND COSMOGRAPHY IN TALMUDIC
LITERATURE
by Zeev Safrai
CHAPTER 16: BIOLOGY IN RABBINIC LITERATURE:
FACT AND FOLKLORE
by Abraham Ofir Shemesh
CHAPTER 17: THE SAGES AND THE OCCULT
by Yuval Harari
Section Four: The Languages of Rabbinic Literature
CHAPTER 18: MISHNAIC HEBREW: AN INTRODUCTORY SURVEY
by Moshe Bar-Asher
CHAPTER 19: THE ARAMAIC OF THE TALMUDIC PERIOD
by Yohanan Breuer
CHAPTER 20: RABBINIC KNOWLEDGE OF GREEK
by Daniel Sperber