Then and Now
This fall I will be teaching the course "The Land of Israel in the Religious Imagination: From Antiquity to the Present" as a continuing education course. It is open to all and will have a hybrid format. You can attend in person in Providence or … [Continue reading] about The Land of Israel in the Religious Imagination
Dear friends, I’ve spent much of my career exploring the ancient religious imagination—how people understood the divine, lived with the sacred, and interacted with each other across boundaries of belief. And how they acted on those … [Continue reading] about My New Book: Forthcoming in February
In 2009-2010, I created a podcast, “From Israelite to Jew,” that traced the evolution of the Israelites and their religion to Jews and Judaism. The podcast covers the time period from around the seventh century BCE to the third century CE, the time … [Continue reading] about Relaunching “From Israelite to Jew”
At the beginning of the semester I assembled a team of students (Gabriel Burstyn and Songkai Zhao) to explore ways in which AI and machine learning can contribute to the academic study of early rabbinic literature. This is a burgeoning field and … [Continue reading] about Word Similarity in the Talmud
Strange image generated by DALL-E for this post First published on my Substack. In an earlier post, I discussed a very simple and quick experiment that I did on a photograph of an ancient Jewish inscription written in Greek. The results … [Continue reading] about AI and Ancient Inscriptions