TWO BOOK REVIEWS of interest in the current issue (72.1; March, 2004) of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion:

Lamontte M.Luker : Passion, Vitality, and Foment: The Dynamics of Second Temple Judaism
Reviewed by Carl D.Evans
pp. 267-269

James Arthur Diamond : Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in "The Guide of the Perplexed."
Reviewed by Aaron Hughes
pp. 249-252

Note also this article:

Authority, Tradition, and the Creation of Meaning in Medieval Kabbalah: Isaac of Acre's Illumination of the Eyes
Eitan P.Fishbane
pp. 59-95
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