Academic Studies Press
This past year Academic Studies Press has published a number of new books in the field of Jewish Studies. They consist both of translations into English of already published works, and new books. Among the translations that they have published is Isaac Heinemann’s The Reasons for the Commandments in Jewish Thought, a translation of the first volume of Heinemann’s טעמי המצות בספרות ישראל. This volume covers “from the Bible to the Renaissance.” Also published is Simcha Fishbane’s The Boldness of an Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein - “The Arukh Hashulhan,” and Nissan Rubin’s Time and Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives.