Abstract: The Nature of Jewish Studies – Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies – Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period – The Literature of the Second Temple Period – Historiography on the Jews in the ‘Talmudic Period’ (70–ce) – Classical Rabbinic Literature – The Narratives of Medieval Jewish History – Medieval Jewry In Christendom – Medieval Jewry in the World of Islam – Rabbinic Literature in the Middle Ages 1000–1492 – The Study of Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages: Major Trends and Goals – Medieval Karaism – Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries since 1492 – European Jewry in the Early Modern Period: 1492–1750 – Western and Central European Jewry in the Modern Period: 1750–1933 – Eastern European Jewry in the Modern Period: 1750–1939 – The Holocaust – Settlement and State in Eretz Israel – American Jewish History – The Hebrew Language – Modern Hebrew Literature – Yiddish Studies – Judaeo-Spanish Studies – Judaeo-Arabic and Judaeo-Persian – Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures Since 1492 – Halacha and Law – Bible Interpretation – Mysticism – Jewish Liturgy and Jewish Scholarship: Method and Cosmology – Jewish Philosophy and Theology – Jewish Women's Studies – Demography – Art, Architecture, and Archaeology – Music – Jewish Theatre – Jewish and Israeli Film Studies – Anti-Semitism Research – Jewish Folklore and Ethnography – Modern Jewish Society and Sociology

Keywords: architecture, bible, Christ, diaspora, Easter, Islam, Israel, Judaism, law, liturgy, magic, music, mysticism, Rabbi, temple, theology, women, Hebrew, Middle Ages