The schedule for the Vth Congress of the International Organization for Targumic Studies (IOTS) is now available! The conference will be in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 12-13 July 2007. If you are in the area please stop by! 🙂 I will probably post the abstracts later, at least mine, so please […]
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I still have a few misgivings about Google. Yet I am assured by people I trust very much that this is all a good thing and if I can get them to scan all our theses as part of the deal then, bonus! 12-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM JOINS GOOGLE DIGITIZATION PROJECT The […]
Christian Mark McNamara Brady That is my name. Well, to be honest, my given name is “Christian Mark Brady.” I added “McNamara” to honor my maternal grandfather and I have never been able to get it officially changed. That should happen this year. I have thought a lot about my […]
Dr. Bernard Grossfeld has recently written a fairly positive review of my book, The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations: Vindicating God, Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, vol. 3, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003). It has been published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 125.3 (2005). The last […]
What should we call the Hebrew and Aramaic texts that make up the Jewish canon and a good portion of the Christian canons? That is the question being tossed around by several bibliobloggers. It started with Claude Mariottini writing in response to the Chicago Tribune, “In realm of language, change […]
I was going to write my own notice of this profile and summary, but Dr. West beat me to it. Instead, I quote him in full. A Profile of Jacob Neusner Time Magazine has an engaging portrait of Jacob Neusner on its website which folk here will find interesting, to […]
We had a great all-day meeting with our colleagues from the CIC. Many are doing very exciting things and we picked up a lot of great ideas. Each program is actually quite different, but we all face similar issues and have similar concerns and I learned much yesterday. It was […]
I am starting a new category today, “ethics.” At the SHC we are focusing more on developing leaders who will be ethical in their outlook. One of the challenges is how to define “ethics” (and is it any different than “morals”?) and how to integrate that into the curriculum and […]
Today I am in Chicago meeting Honors Deans and Dirctors from the other CIC schools. What is CIC? Good question. It is the Big 10 + University of ILL Chicago. So, 12 schools in total because of course “the Big 10” is really 11 schools. CIC: Committee on Institutional Cooperation […]