For those students of mine who wonder what life was like back in the day, I present the blue couch. One of my old roommates posted this blog as an homage to the couch that my grandmother gave us for dorm room use. The last word I have is that […]
Today Brill sent me a copy of the first (and only, so far as I know) review of my book The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations by W. Th. Van Peursen. I believe this link is correct, but I do not have a subscription to Ancient Near Eastern Studies. It is […]
MacMinute News provides this somewhat dramatic title and the following quote: “It’s like consorting with the enemy. We’ve had this long history of saying the enemy is the big black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different, and by being different we’re better,” he says. “All of […]
From an exam, defining circumcision: The ritual cutting off of the foreskin of a male penis. Is there any other kind of penis?
This article details the struggles churches and synagogues are facing in the wake of Katrina. Fr. Kramer is a friend and I spent a year and a half teaching at Annunciation. They are doing outstanding work to bring relief and hope to a neighborhood that has been devestated and is […]
One of the best things about Mardi Gras! Hmmm. King Cake. (And it even has its origins in religious practice!)
From Hebrew Classic Might Bring Surprises for Christians – 2/22/2006 – Publishers Weekly. I have not seen it yet myself so I do not know of the quality of translation or notes. Has anyone else seen it yet and care to share a review? The publisher is targeting the Christian […]
From the Chronicle: Daily news: 02/21/2006 — 06 HARVARD UNIVERSITY’S EMBATTLED PRESIDENT, Lawrence H. Summers, resigned this afternoon and will be replaced, on an interim basis, by Derek C. Bok, who was president of Harvard from 1970 to 1990. Mr. Bok would be expected to “clean up the mess and […]