Almost since the beginning of my career I have been involved in projects that fall under the umbrella of what we call today, the "digital humanities," especially my project Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine. Only recently, though, I have I begun to … [Continue reading] about New Course: Introduction to Digital Humanities
Antisemitism: A History
Throughout my teaching career, I have dabbled with the topic of antisemitism. The closest that I came to tackling it head-on was one called "Judaism and Christianity in Conflict," which was more a survey of theological polemics. What happened in … [Continue reading] about Antisemitism: A History
Canonizing the Bible: Historical Simulation
For several years, I have included a historical simulation as the final exercise of my undergraduate class, "How the Bible Became Holy." This year I will do the same. The guidelines for the simulation are below. They are similar to previous … [Continue reading] about Canonizing the Bible: Historical Simulation
Inscriptions and FAIR Archiving
I direct on online project that seeks to collect, analyze, and make accessible the inscriptions of Israel/Palestine from roughly the sixth century BCE to the seventh century, CE. The site can be accessed here. Over the past few years the team … [Continue reading] about Inscriptions and FAIR Archiving
Blurbing Ecclesiastes
Last week in my course at Brown, "How the Bible Became Holy," students read the book of Ecclesiastes and portions of Sirach. At the beginning of class I tried a new warm-up exercise, in groups: Imagine that you are the publicist team for … [Continue reading] about Blurbing Ecclesiastes