334 r Index
Fertile Crescent, 25, 37, 65, 101; indigenous
communities, 94, 97; language, 91;
People of the Book in, 90
Fines, 308–9
Firestone, Reuven, 24, 58
Flattery, 214, 219–20
Food, 54, 69, 193, 310; act of good will, 112;
consecration of, 27, 40n18; distribution,
305; feeding dead, 33; permissible, 13, 27.
See also specific foods
Freimark, Peter, 192
Funerary rites, 33
Funkenstein, Amos, 101
Gabriel, Mar, 99
Gadol, 257
Gaon, Rav Sa ̔adya, 74, 153, 154, 202,
207n30
Gaonic academies, 15
Geiger, Abraham, 12, 24, 50, 58, 64
Gematria, 174–75
Genesis, 28–30, 46, 48–50, 173; Adam in,
173; binding episode in, 57; Covenant
between the Pieces in, 54
Geometry, 178–79
Geonim, 249
German Pietists, 152, 154
Gershom, Rabbi, 153
Ghassan, 26
Al-Ghazali, 157
Ghettos, 16–17
Ghulat teachings, 151, 153
Gil, Moshe, 73–74
Glibova, Rina, 280
Gnostics, 12, 154–56
Goitein, Shelomo Dov, 1, 12, 15, 16, 49, 192
Goldreich, Amos, 163
Goldziher, Ignaz, 15
Gospels, 46, 138, 150
Greek philosophy, 148
Hachuel, Sol, 5–6, 23; last words, 117; mar-
tyrdom, 109–21; sentencing, 114–15; as
social apostate, 112, 116; torture of, 116,
119; trial, 113. See also Ridda
Hadad, Morris, 267
Al-Óā∂irī, A ̇mad, 132–33
Hadith, 8, 13, 70, 150, 243, 263
Hafizlar, 292
Hajaj, David, 279
Al-Óakham, 246 ; Arabo-Islamic culture
influencing, 263–65; in Baghdad, 262–
65; Miß ̇af al-Shaba ̇ot (Holy Book of
Praises) and, 262–68; works of, 262–63
Hakhohen, Mosheh Ashkar, 246
Al-Óalabī, 33
Halakha, 6, 15, 137, 144n560
Halevi, Judah, 208, 245, 246
Halevi, Zrahyah, 246
Half-breed class, 227, 240n75
Óaliwa, Óayyim, 116–17
Halperin, David, 150
Halpern, Baruch, 38
Óaluqat ha ̇achamim, 302
Ha-male ̓, 155
Óamas, 10
Hammurabi, 36
Hanafi law, 111
Hanan, Abba, 54
Hanbali law, 111
Óanif, 46
Óanifyya, 47
Óasin, David Ben Aharon, 246
Hasniri, Yitshak Ben Yehudah, 246
Ha-Tsarfati, Raphael, 112
Havaiah, 183
Havushah, Moshe, 257, 261
Óazan, Moshe Yosef, 293, 295
Óazaqot, 308
Heaven, 149–50
Hebrew, 186, 210, 212, 214; calendar, 172;
Elazar and, 221; as entertaining, 234;
grammar, 16, 250–51; hymnology, 254;
literature, 215, 222; poetry, 7–8, 16, 211,
219, 230–31, 243–44, 252, 254, 259
Hebrew Encyclopedia, 186
Heikhalot, 149
Hell, 50, 82
Hellenistic renascence, 15, 16
Heller-Wilensky, Sarah, 163
Heqdesh, 128–31, 136, 307–8
̇gr ̓, 30
High Holy Days, 289–90, 294–95
Óijaz, 150–51
Hijra, 65
Hindemith, Paul, 279