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- Early Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman), Jewish Studies, especially German-Jewish, Social Sciences and Historiography, Jewish History, Roman Empire, Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion), and 49 moreModern Jewish History, Eastern European history, Zionism, History of the Political Right, Youth Movements In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Literature and Nationalism, Josephus, Roman provincial administration, Eric Hobsbawm, Gershom Scholem, Qumran, Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, Rabbinic Literature, Greco-Roman World, Rabbinics, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, New Testament and Christian Origins, Ancient Judaism, Late Antiquity, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Late Antique Archaeology, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Classical Antiquity, Judaism, Hellenistic Judaism, Early Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, Classics, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Greek religion (Classics), The Greek and Latin Classics, Classics and Ancient History, Ancient History, Ancient Near East, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Greek Religion, Ancient Religion, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient myth and religion, Israel Studies, Israel and Zionism, Ancient Israel, and Israelite Religionedit
- Albert I. Baumgarten, A.B. Columbia College, 1963; B.H.L. Jewish Theological Seminary, 1964; PhD. Columbia University... moreAlbert I. Baumgarten, A.B. Columbia College, 1963; B.H.L. Jewish Theological Seminary, 1964; PhD. Columbia University, 1972. Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University, 2010. Fulbright Scholar, University of Strasbourg, 1967-68; Principal Investigator, The McMaster Project on Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity, 1977-1982; Fellow, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, 1992-1993; Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Fellow in Jewish Studies, Yale University, 2003-2004; Guest Fellow, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017-2018.
My scholarly work has gone along two tracks: (1) the history of the Second Temple Period, with a particular emphasis on utilizing the insights of the social sciences to enhance the understanding of the ancient sources. One example is the book The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation (1997) and numerous subsequent articles. (2) the history of scholarship on Jewish antiquity, stressing the context in nineteenth and twentieth century experience in which these studies were written. One instance is the book Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews: A Twentieth Century Tale (2010) and the articles associated with that effort.
I have two major current projects. The first is a series of articles on John the Baptist, intended to set him firmly in the world of the Second Temple Era, to strip off the layer of Christianization in the gospels, to make him a fully independent figure, not subordinate to Jesus, and to place his activity in the context of what Ed Sanders has called “Common Judaism.” The second project is a book intended for the non-professional general reader which will present the work of Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007). The goal is to show the benefit of the insights of her work for readers who may only know Purity and Danger (1966, reprinted many times since and translated into many languages). My book is organized thematically and every chapter ends with an exemplary application of the ideas discussed in that chapter which can resolve some aspect of experience that might otherwise not be well understood.edit
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Albert I. Baumgarten, “How to be Better Neighbors: Rewriting the Conquest in Greek Terms,” in Esther Kobel, Meredith Warren, and Jo-Ann A. Brant, eds., The Ties that Bind, Negotiating Relationships in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, Contexts and Reception History (London: T&T Clark, 2023), 140-149more
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Research Interests: Ancient History, Classics, Jewish Studies, Second Temple Judaism, Ancient Religion, and 17 moreLate Antiquity, Rabbinics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Classical Antiquity, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Classics and Ancient History
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Research Interests: Ancient History, Classics, Jewish Studies, Talmud, Second Temple Judaism, and 24 moreLate Antiquity, Rabbinics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient Greek History, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Classical Antiquity, Rabbinic Judaism, Sages, Talmud and Rabbinics, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Classics and Ancient History, and Aggadah
Research Interests: Ancient History, Classics, Jewish Studies, Second Temple Judaism, Ancient Religion, and 24 moreLate Antiquity, Rabbinics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient myth and religion, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Classical Antiquity, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, and Classics and Ancient History
Research Interests: Classics, Jewish Studies, Late Antique Archaeology, Pauline Literature, Enoch literature, and 16 moreSecond Temple Judaism, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, Apostle Paul and the Pauline Letters, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Pauline Theology, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Enoch Seminar, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Pauline studies, Pauline Letters, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classics, Jewish Studies, Hebrew Bible, Biblical Studies, and 31 moreBible Translation, Second Temple Judaism, History Of The Bible/Biblical Canon, Biblical Theology, Late Antiquity, History of Biblical Interpretation, Rabbinics, Theological exegesis, Biblical Archaeology, Rabbinic Literature, Linguistics and Biblical Languages, Biblical Interpretation, Literary Approaches to Biblical Studies, Biblical Law, Bible, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Biblical Hebrew (Languages And Linguistics), Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Biblical Exegesis, Biblical Greek, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Biblical Hebrew, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Classical Antiquity, Biblical Hermeneutics, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
Research Interests: Ancient History, Classics, Jewish Studies, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Hellenistic Philosophy, and 27 moreHellenistic History, Late Antique Archaeology, Second Temple Judaism, Ancient Religion, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Hellenism, Greek religion (Classics), Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Seleucid Empire, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, History of the Hellenistic World (Focus: Seleucid Empire), Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Classical Antiquity, Hellenization, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Classics and Ancient History
Research Interests: Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Classics, Jewish Studies, and 23 moreSecond Temple Judaism, Ancient Religion, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient myth and religion, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Classical Antiquity, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Classics and Ancient History
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classics, Qumranic Studies, Second Temple Judaism, Late Antiquity, and 19 moreRabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Josephus, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Qumran, Early Judaism, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Classical Antiquity, Rabbinic Judaism, Religious Sects, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
Research Interests: Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient History, Classics, Greek Literature, Roman History, and 30 moreJewish Studies, Roman Law, Second Temple Judaism, Ancient Religion, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Ancient Philosophy, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient myth and religion, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Classical Antiquity, Rabbinic Judaism, Roman Archaeology, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, and Classics and Ancient History
Research Interests: Ancient History, Classics, Jewish Studies, Historiography, Second Temple Judaism, and 22 moreAncient Religion, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, History of Historiography, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Classical Antiquity, Elias Bickerman, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Classics and Ancient History
Research Interests: Eastern European Studies, Russian Studies, Classical Archaeology, Russian Literature, Classics, and 29 moreJewish Studies, Hellenistic Philosophy, Hellenistic History, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Eastern European history, Second Temple Judaism, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Russian History, Rabbinic Literature, Judaism, Hellenism, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Russia, Ancient Judaism, History of the Hellenistic World (Focus: Seleucid Empire), Patristics and Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, Classical Antiquity, Rabbinic Judaism, Russian Jewish history and culture, Elias Bickerman, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, Hellenism, Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Michael Rostovtzeff, and Russian and Eastern European Jewish History
Research Interests: Religion, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient History, Sociology of Religion, Classical Archaeology, and 24 moreClassics, Greek Literature, Roman History, Greek Tragedy, Philosophy Of Religion, Jewish Studies, History of Religion, Religion and Politics, Roman Law, Ancient Religion, Rabbinics, Classical philology, Ancient Philosophy, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Greek religion (Classics), Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Elias Bickerman, and Roman Archaeology
Research Interests: Christianity, Classics, Greek Literature, Greek History, Jewish Studies, and 18 moreHistory of Christianity, Diasporas, Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Diaspora Studies, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient Greek History, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Ancient Rome, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Classical Antiquity, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classics, Greek Literature, Greek History, Roman History, and 45 moreGreek Tragedy, Jewish Studies, Greek Language, Israel Studies, Archaeology of Ancient Israel, Roman Law, Talmud, Israel/Palestine, Greek Epigraphy, Second Temple Judaism, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Classical philology, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Greek Myth, Ancient Greek History, Greek Papyrology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Textual criticism (Classics), Israelite Religion, Greek religion (Classics), Israel, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Israel and Zionism, Arab-Israeli conflict, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Roman Architecture, Ancient Israel, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Classical Antiquity, Rabbinic Judaism, Ancient and Modern Greeek Language and Literature, Roman Archaeology, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, and Menahem Stern
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classics, Jewish Studies, Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion), Qumranic Studies, and 10 moreLate Antiquity, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls, Classical Antiquity, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Late Antique Archaeology, Qumranic Studies, Second Temple Judaism, and 15 moreLate Antiquity, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, Judaism, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Formative Judaism, Qumran, Early Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
Research Interests: Roman Historiography, Jewish Studies, Medieval Historiography, Hellenistic History, Historiography, and 14 moreSecond Temple Judaism, Ancient Historiography, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, History of Historiography, Ancient Greek Historiography, Judaism, Eric Hobsbawm, Ancient Judaism, Hobsbawm, Historiografía, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Eric Hobsbawn, and 20th century British historiography
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Research Interests: Christianity, History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, and 47 moreNear Eastern Archaeology, Greek Literature, Greek History, Roman History, Hellenistic Literature, Art History, Jewish Studies, Hellenistic Philosophy, History of Christianity, Hellenistic History, Historiography, Early Christianity, Origins of Christianity, Second Temple Judaism, Ancient Religion, Late Antiquity, Empires, Rabbinics, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient myth and religion, History of Historiography, Ancient Greek History, Roman Empire, Christianity and Rome, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Hellenism, Ancient Mosaics, Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Empire, Graeco-Roman Mosaics and Wall Paintings, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Hellenistic Babylonia, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Ancient Rome, Early Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Roman Mosaics, Roman Archaeology, History of Judaism In Antiquity, G.W. Bowersock, and Menahem Stern
Research Interests: Ancient History, Russian Studies, Russian Literature, Jewish Studies, Hellenistic Philosophy, and 22 moreHellenistic History, Late Antique Archaeology, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Second Temple Judaism, Ancient Religion, Late Antiquity, Russian History, Ancient Near East, Russian Intellectual History, Judaism, Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, History of the Hellenistic World (Focus: Seleucid Empire), Patristics and Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Elias Bickerman, 19th century Russian History, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
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Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Historiography, Second Temple Judaism, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, and 11 moreRabbinic Literature, History of Historiography, Ancient Greek Historiography, Judaism, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classical Antiquity, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, and Hanan Eshel
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classics, Jewish Studies, Hellenistic History, Second Temple Judaism, and 10 moreLate Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature, Judaism, Hellenism, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, Hellenism, Rabbits, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
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Albert I. Baumgarten and Marina Rustow, “Judaism and Tradition: Continuity, Change and Innovation,” in Raanan Boustan, et al., eds., Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 207-237, 386-391more
Research Interests: Ancient History, Anthropology, Classics, Jewish Studies, Political Anthropology, and 28 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Historiography, Talmud, Late Antique Archaeology, Ancient Historiography, Late Antiquity, Memory Studies, Rabbinics, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, History of Historiography, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Historiography, Cultural Anthropology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Greek religion (Classics), Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, The Greek and Latin Classics, Ancient Greek Literature, Classical Antiquity, Invention of Traditions, Invention of Tradition, Anthropology of Religion, Talmud and Rabbinics, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Classics and Ancient History
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Research Interests: Classics, Jewish Studies, Second Temple Judaism, Late Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature, and 10 moreJudaism, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Classical Antiquity, Rabbinic Judaism, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Hanan Eshel
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Research Interests: Classics, Jewish Studies, Second Temple Judaism, Late Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature, and 9 moreJudaism, Greek religion (Classics), Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Classical Antiquity, Rabbits, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
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Research Interests: Classics, Jewish Studies, Historiography, Academic Writing, Biography, and 21 moreSecond Temple Judaism, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, History of Historiography, Judaism, Literary biography, Ancient Biography, Reception of Antiquity, Hellenistic Judaism, Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Biography and Life-Writing, Early Judaism, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Classical Antiquity, Rabbinic Judaism, Jacob Neusner, Talmud and Rabbinics, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
Research Interests: Ancient History, Classics, Jewish Studies, Historiography, Second Temple Judaism, and 17 moreLate Antiquity, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, History of Historiography, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Historiography, Judaism, Greek religion (Classics), Ancient Egyptian History, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Classical Antiquity, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Classics and Ancient History
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Research Interests: Christianity, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Classics, Greek Literature, and 23 moreJewish Studies, Early Christianity, Ancient Religion, Late Antiquity, Rabbinics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Religion, Rabbinic Literature, Ancient Greek History, Christianity and Rome, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Greek religion (Classics), Josephus, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Ancient Rome, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, The Greek and Latin Classics, Sanctuaries in Ancient Rome and Italy, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Classics and Ancient History
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Based on lectures delivered on Israel Army Radio, Spring 1996.
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The file attached is of one review of the book.
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The late Hanan Eshel, was the principal organizer of the conference on which this volume was based. He does not appear on academia.edu so I cannot add him as a co-editor of the volume.
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A class taught at The College of William and Mary on November 16, 2021, as part of the course “COLL 200/RELG 315/CLCV 221 Judaism before the Rabbis.” taught by Professor Michael Daise. The class was taught under the auspices of The... more
A class taught at The College of William and Mary on November 16, 2021, as part of the course “COLL 200/RELG 315/CLCV 221 Judaism before the Rabbis.” taught by Professor Michael Daise. The class was taught under the auspices of The Program in Judaic Studies at The College of William and Mary, which I thank for the invitation. I am grateful to Professor Daise for initiating the invitation and for the gracious introduction on November 16.
The talk was based on a reading assignment of articles by Hans (Yohanan) Lewy and Erich Gruen discussing Tacitus’ excursus on the Jews. The articles are Y. Lewy, ‘Tacitus on the Jews,” in J. Dan, Binah, Vol. 1, Studies in Jewish History (New York, 1989), 15-46. Gruen’s essay has appeared in several places. I used the version in E. Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Princeton, 2011), 179-196.
Please read the text of my talk along with the PowerPoint. The place to access the appropriate PowerPoint slide is indicated in the text.
The talk was based on a reading assignment of articles by Hans (Yohanan) Lewy and Erich Gruen discussing Tacitus’ excursus on the Jews. The articles are Y. Lewy, ‘Tacitus on the Jews,” in J. Dan, Binah, Vol. 1, Studies in Jewish History (New York, 1989), 15-46. Gruen’s essay has appeared in several places. I used the version in E. Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Princeton, 2011), 179-196.
Please read the text of my talk along with the PowerPoint. The place to access the appropriate PowerPoint slide is indicated in the text.
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Slightly enlarged written version of lecture delivered and recorded on May 26, 2021.
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Originally written and published in response to the Winograd report on the Second Lebanon War.
Unfortunately, equally appropriate with only small minor changes to the confrontation with Hamas in 2021.
The Jerusalem Report, June 11, 2007.
Unfortunately, equally appropriate with only small minor changes to the confrontation with Hamas in 2021.
The Jerusalem Report, June 11, 2007.
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The Pdf posted here consists of two parts: The second part, without notes, is the text read at the 2014 Meeting of the Association of Jewish Studies Conference in Baltimore. It would be best of you read the second part first, in... more
The Pdf posted here consists of two parts:
The second part, without notes, is the text read at the 2014 Meeting of the Association of Jewish Studies Conference in Baltimore. It would be best of you read the second part first, in conjunction with the handout that accompanied that Conference paper, as they are the most complete treatment of the topic.
The first part is an uncompleted article on the topic..
The second part, without notes, is the text read at the 2014 Meeting of the Association of Jewish Studies Conference in Baltimore. It would be best of you read the second part first, in conjunction with the handout that accompanied that Conference paper, as they are the most complete treatment of the topic.
The first part is an uncompleted article on the topic..
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This talk was delivered at the December 2018 meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, in Boston.
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The Handout and text for the talk delivered at the 2016 Meeting of the AJS in San Diego are posted separately.
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This talk was delivered at the AJS Meeting in Washington in December 2017, organized by Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal of Ben Gurion University. It was part of a panel in which participants were asked to identify a work of scholarship which... more
This talk was delivered at the AJS Meeting in Washington in December 2017, organized by Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal of Ben Gurion University. It was part of a panel in which participants were asked to identify a work of scholarship which they considered a "turning point" in scholarship, then explain why this was a "turning point." Finally, the presentation was to conclude with an evaluation of the status of the "turning point" today.
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"Jerusalem Day," has been a sore spot for me for years. This year, ,2021, it was the spark that has set the country on fire and feels like the beginning of a civil war. I upload a personal opinion column written for the Jerusalem Report... more
"Jerusalem Day," has been a sore spot for me for years. This year, ,2021, it was the spark that has set the country on fire and feels like the beginning of a civil war. I upload a personal opinion column written for the Jerusalem Report in 2013, explaining why I do NOT celebrate Jerusalem Day. The sense that Israel has swallowed the poison pill and is suffering the consequences is even more intense today.
Jerusalem Report, May 20 2013.
Jerusalem Report, May 20 2013.