(From the Legal Scholarship Blog.) Jewish Law Syllabus Project: Here is an announcement from Samuel J. Levine (Touro). On behalf of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center, I am pleased to announce the initiation of the Jewish Law Syllabus Project.With the continuing emergence of Jewish Law as an area of focus in both [...]
Jewish Ideas Daily published an article by Alex Joffe, Jewish Studies in Decline? I think that the state of Jewish Studies is affected by a number of factors, some of them being: 1. The decline of the humanities versus the sciences and applied professions in some quarters; 2. The nature of the research itself; 3. [...]
1. One-year Master’s program in Jewish Studies for International Students. The program offers a series of comprehensive encounters with the classical texts of Jewish cultures from biblical to modern times. Its intellectual home at the integrative department of Hebrew Culture Studies, enables us to cover a wide range of periods, methodologies, and scholarly interests, while [...]
Here are two important comments from a recent review of a timely book on Coptic Christians in Egypt. The first is about being able to read sources in their original language, and the second is somewhat related to the first, cultivating an awareness of double-speak by people. In her coverage of Islamic classical history, Scott [...]
Inside Higher Education asked a number of people “what book they’d read in 2010 that left a big impression on them, or filled them with intellectual energy, or made them wish it were better known.” Here is the answer of Adam Kotsko. “My vote,” he said, “would be for Sergey Dogopolski’s What Is Talmud?: The [...]
I am on the bus home from AJS, so I’ll take advantage of the Wi-Fi and write a second update about the conference. The following session was standing room only, accompanied by quite a bit of excitement. THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD IN ITS SASANIAN CONTEXT: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Chairs: Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University) P. Oktor Skjaervo [...]
AJS 2010 is going very well. I have gone to some very good sessions, had a chance to (re)meet some great people, and spend time with friends and strangers. Here are a few comments on what I’ve heard so far. Sunday, Session 1-”CLASSICAL RABBINICS AS A PRISM FOR JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY”: The conference started off with [...]
For those who are interested in reading a defense of agenda-driven Artscroll-type history, read Gil Student’s post on modern historiography of the Barcelona Disputation of 1263 and the ensuing comments. The following quotation will suffice to get some idea of what history is for some. I would have responded that this accusation is patently offensive. [...]
On a listserv that is unrelated to Judaic Studies, the following comment was made by someone during a discussion about an incorrect claim made in a book on American History. I think the interesting question is why serious publishing houses no longer have outside readers; or why they publish books by people who are not [...]
William H.C. Propp and Jeffrey Tigay have written a helpful introduction about how to conduct Biblical Research, although their introductory paragraph is applicable to most other fields. Tigay has written a more general guide to research papers that can be found here. (.doc format) A graduate essay is very different from an undergraduate paper. It [...]
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