In the most recent issue of AJS Perspectives, responses to the following question were published, “What are three books you love to teach to undergraduates?” Below are the responses, which will hopefully give some of you a few ideas for summer reading. AJS-Books for Undergraduates
Alan Brill writes about the latest stage in the discussion over James Kugel’s How to Read the Bible.
Crooked Timber writes about someone who is suing over a harsh review of their book…in a journal devoted to law. So you don’t think that it’s some litigious American at work here, it’s almost all Euro. You can read more about it here at Opinio Juris.
On Monday I was able to attend the Fordham Conference on Jewish Law (see here) and I wanted to post a few comments on it. First of all, yishar koach to all of the organizers. While I was only able to be there for one day, it was well worth the effort. Here are a [...]
So far AJS 2009 is going well. Because of weather-related travel issues there seems to be a smaller crowd, with no small number of people having to cancel their presentations. I also noticed that most of the book publishers are giving pretty small discounts. A few are giving discounts of 30%, but others are giving [...]
I just found out that Yochanan Muffs z”l passed away. He had been ill for many years and in the past few weeks his condition deteriorated. I think that Muffs is one of the few scholars who could appropriately be called a giant of biblical scholarship and theology. His writings range from Studies in the [...]
After reading this depressing article, what this article describes keeps sounding better and better, although employment-wise it seems to be like jumping from one pot of ice water to another.
The Tikvah Institute for Jewish Thought at JTS Presents: Professor Moshe Idel “Devequt in the Thought of Rabbi Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov” Moderation and Response by Dr. Eitan Fishbane, JTS Tuesday, November 10, 2009 @ 12:30 pm Mendelson Convocation Center light refreshments will be served
Something which struck me from Claudé Levi-Strauss’s The Savage Mind (pp. 257-8) which I came across this summer. For, ex hypothesi, a historical fact is what really took place, but where did anything take place? Each episode in a revolution or war resolves itself into a multitude of individual psychic movements. Each of these movements [...]
The influential French-Jewish anthropologist Claudé Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100. Levi-Strauss influenced researchers in many fields and you can read here an introduction to his thought. See here and here for discussions of Levi-Strauss’s influence on biblical studies. Also see this article on his life and work from the Forward.
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