This book has benefited from generous comments and discussions with
numerous friends and colleagues who have read all or parts of it: Sivan
Agon-Shlomo, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Eduardo Baistrocchi, Philip Baker,
Yitzhak Benbaji, Jean-Pierre Benoit, Eyal Benvenisti, Pamela Bookman,
Yariv Brauner, Kim Brooks, Allison Christians, Steven Dean, Ana Paula
Dourado, Adi Ayal, Ron Davies, Yuval Feldman, Talia Fisher, David
Gilo, Ofer Grosskopf, Assaf Hamdani, Werner Haslehner, Martin Hearson,
Michael Heller,Mindy Herzfeld, Peter Hongler, Roy Kreitner, Tamar
Kricheli-Katz, Adi Libson, Assaf Likhovski, Doreen Lustig, Tali Margalit,
Yoram Margalioth, Ruth Mason, Ajay Mehrotra, Irma Mosquera, Jacob
Nussim, Lisa Philipps, Pasquale Pistone, Katharina Pistor, Gabriel Rauterberg,
Tali Regev, Diane Ring, Adam Rosenzweig, Ian Roxan, Steve Shay,
Miranda Stewart, Max Stearns, Linda Sugin, Edoardo Traversa, as well as
anonymous referees of CambridgeUniversity Press and the Israeli Science
Foundation.