Dr. Ulmer has accurately transcribed and concisely annotated her definitive work. No discussion of Pesiqta Rabbati can by-pass her monumental contribution to scholarship which has rescued long forgotten and indispensable manuscripts. -- Professor Herbert W. Basser, Queen's University, Canada
The author of this book probably knows more about the Pesiqta Rabbati than any other scholar living today. The work belongs on the bookshelves of any serious student of Rabbinic midrash. -- Professor John T. Townsend, Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Judaism, and Biblical Languages at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, and Lectur
These excellent volumes on Pesiqta Rabbati doubtless will serve the rabbinic scholarly world for many generations. -- Professor Isaac Kalimi, National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Israel
The great value of these editions is to provide scholars with the text of all the witnesses, eventually leaving scholars the responsibility of reconstructing or critically choosing the 'best reading'. I thank the editor for this splendid synopsis. In the future all the works on PR will be based on this edition, both translation?and critical studies. If future scholars try to establish the history of a single homily or if they try to design the whole process of accretion in the homiletical canon or if they try to uncover the intention of different 'editions' in the same process, all the basic material is supplied in this edition for theee -- Professor Miguel Perez Fernandez * Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian Hellenistic and Roman Period *
The great value of these editions is to provide scholars with the text of all the witnesses, eventually leaving scholars the responsibility of reconstructing or critically choosing the 'best reading'. I thank the editor for this splendid synopsis. In the future all the works on PR will be based on this edition, both translation...and critical studies. If future scholars try to establish the history of a single homily or if they try to design the whole process of accretion in the homiletical canon or if they try to uncover the intention of different 'editions' in the same process, all the basic material is supplied in this edition for the -- Professor Miguel Perez Fernandez * Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian Hellenistic and Roman Period *
