The Program Book for the International SBL meeting has been posted. I am in the Judaica section. No, we are not discussing mezuzot and menorot. This section is dealing with ancient Jewish interpretation of Mikra. It looks like I will have to get up early and be on time! Judaica […]
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I am biased, but I do believe we have a great environment here at Penn State. If you are working in the areas related to the modern State of Israel please consider applying! Jewish Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow in its Jewish […]
A year ago, almost to the day, I shared with you all that a new book was forthcoming on the topic of Lamentations and its interpretation in Christianity and Judaism. Yesterday I received the proofs and Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Reading Lamentations as Sacred Scripture should be ready for purchase […]
Given my recent research on the Book of Ruth, rabbinic interpretation thereof, and rabbinic conversion I am very disappointed that I will likely be traveling on the West Coast during this conference. If, however, you are in the Philly area and have such interests you should not miss this. Taking […]
This is an exciting project that our colleagues at Manchester and Durham have been working on. News from Alex Samely: Dear Colleagues, I have pleasure in announcing the availability of a new terminological framework for the analysis of ancient Jewish literature, the “Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features in the […]
When I was being shown around Freiburg last week my guide actually stumbled and then stopped and pointed to be the “Stolperstein” upon which she had halted. This term literally translates as a “stumbling stone” and is a small concrete cube covered in brass that is etched with the name […]
By now you have no doubt heard about Sarah Palin’s comments in the wake of the Arizona shootings. A little background is that Ms. Palin’s political action committee website had a map of the use with sniper scope images over certain districts, including Arizona, that they were “targeting” in the […]
Chana, The Curious Jew, pointed me to this video in the comments of the other Chanukah video. Very fun! Now while Adam Sandler may be right that Christmas has more songs, I think at this point Chanukah has more and more humorous videos.
Or so says reader Dave Wyman. I am very grateful for his comments and wanted to share them and respond to them in a post rather than just in the comments section. The story of Adam and Eve doesn’t make much sense if we think about it, and it’s not […]