Then and Now
I had the pleasure of participating in a workshop entitled, "The Benefit of the Doubt. Between Scepticism and Godlessness, Critique or Indifference in Ancient Mediterranean Religious Traditions" in February. Sponsored by Humboldt University and … [Continue reading] about The Benefit of the The Doubt: Workshop Reflections
An article that I prepared in connection with the research group "Jewish Ritual Dynamics" run out of Erfurt just appeared in in Historia Religionum 10 (2018): 41-52. I am not allowed to post the offprint, but the abstract is below: This article … [Continue reading] about THE HASIDIM HA-RISHONIM AND OTHER ANCIENT AND MODERN FANTASIES
At the Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting in 2018 I delivered a kind-of "state of the field" talk with some reflections on applying digital humanities to the study of Jews and Judaism in antiquity (really, Late Antiquity). I am still … [Continue reading] about Resources for the Digital Study of Jews and Judaism in Antiquity
At the Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, we presented an edited volume to my mentor, Professor Shaye Cohen (Harvard University): Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen (Brown Judaic Studies). It was a warm and … [Continue reading] about Presenting a Volume to Shaye Cohen
For a while I've been interested in how Paul and Josephus, and people like them, would have learned Scripture. When and how would they have learned to read Hebrew and Greek, particularly at the level required to engage the Tanakh? How well did they … [Continue reading] about Paul’s Scriptures