Another review of How the Bible Became Holy, this one by Ronald Hendel, was posted on H-Net and is available here.
Sibling Relationships among Jews in Antiquity
A new essay of mine just appeared: “What Does Love Have to Do with It? Sibling Relationships among Judean Jews in the First-Third Centuries CE,” in Ehe-Familie-Gemeinde (eds. Dorothee Dettinger and Christof Landmesser), 103-16. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlangsanstalt, 2014.
PDF available here.
Interview on How the Bible Became Holy
Reform Judaism Magazine has printed an interview with me about my book in their latest edition. An online version can be found here.
New Course: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Yes, I have the privilege of teaching two new courses this fall. Herein is the Syllabus for my graduate seminar. The description is below:
The terms religion, ethnicity, and (less frequently) race are often used in discussions of the ancient Mediterranean. In recent years, however, they have been coming under increasing interrogation: Do the ancients themselves think in such categories? Even if they do not, can the categories be analytically useful for modern scholars? This is intended to be a deeply comparative course to which students bring their own sets of expertise in order to create a cross-cultural conversation.
If you have any thoughts, please let me know before it is too late!
How do you say, “How the Bible Became Holy,” in Italian?
I am happy to report that Bollati Boringhieri Editore, part of the Gruppo Editoriale Mauri Spagnol, has acquired the Italian rights to my book, with publication slated for fall, 2015. Stay tuned!