For years, I have used “exit tickets” in most of my university classes. Usually, I hand out a 3X5 index card and ask them during the last five minutes of class time to write their name, the date, their major takeaway, and any lingering … [Continue reading] about Exit Tickets in an Age of AI
An Enchanted World: The Official Publication (and podcast links)
I am delighted to announce that my book, An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape in Late Antiquity, will be released in the United States on February 3. The U.K. release is March 31, and an Italian edition is in the works. You can … [Continue reading] about An Enchanted World: The Official Publication (and podcast links)
What is Jewish Studies?
What does Jewish studies “look like”? This: Let me explain. Last year I set out to try to understand what we might mean by the academic field of “Jewish studies.” I had done some previous work on networks on citation analysis and so … [Continue reading] about What is Jewish Studies?
The Calendar Before Chaos
Everybody knows that according to the biblical story of Noah, it rained for forty days and forty nights (Genesis 7:12, 17). Less well-known is that the flood lasted for far longer. The biblical account relates that the flood began “in … [Continue reading] about The Calendar Before Chaos
A Full Citation Network of Jewish Legal Literature
I am delighted to announce that I was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant for three years to work on the project, “Knowledge Transmission and Cultural Interactions Through the Ages: An AI-Based Analysis of a … [Continue reading] about A Full Citation Network of Jewish Legal Literature