Table of Contents

Becky Walker
The Salvific Effects of Almsgiving and the Moral Status of the Poor
in Talmudic Judaism and Late Antique Christianity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    1
Tzahi Weiss
Prayers to Angels and the Early Sefirotic Literature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   22
Eliav Grossman
Spinoza’s Critique of Maimonides in the Context of Dutch Hebraism    36
Vered Sakal
Reports, Evaluations and Coerced Religious Revolutions:
A Postcolonial Critique of the Altaras-Cohen Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   58
Matthias Lehmann
Baron Hirsch, the Jewish Colonization Association
and the Future of the Jews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   73

JSQ 27 (2020) No. 1 DOI 10.1628/jsq-2020-0001

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