''Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History'' is a triannual

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in the field of

Jewish literature Jewish literature includes works written by Jews on Jewish themes, literary works written in Jewish languages on various themes, and literary works in any language written by Jewish writers. Ancient Jewish literature includes Biblical literature a ...

. It was established in 1981 and is published by

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. The

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are Barry Scott Wimpfheimer (

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) and Wendy Zierler (

Hebrew Union College Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

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