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Tamar Marvin‘s profile was updated on AJS Commons 3 days, 12 hours ago
Wojciech Tworek deposited מגדר וזמן בכתבי ר׳ שניאור זלמן מלאדי in the group
Modern Jewish Thought and Theology on AJS Commons 3 weeks, 2 days agoThe issue of gender has been a topic of discussion in the research of Hasidism since S. A. Horodecky’s book (1923), in which he claimed that Hasidism brought about full equality of Jewish men and women in the field of spirituality. Although his claims have been by and large rejected, most
scholars agree that the twentieth century Chabad m…[Read more]-
Wojciech Tworek deposited מגדר וזמן בכתבי ר׳ שניאור זלמן מלאדי in the group
Jewish Mysticism on AJS Commons 3 weeks, 2 days agoThe issue of gender has been a topic of discussion in the research of Hasidism since S. A. Horodecky’s book (1923), in which he claimed that Hasidism brought about full equality of Jewish men and women in the field of spirituality. Although his claims have been by and large rejected, most
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The issue of gender has been a topic of discussion in the research of Hasidism since S. A. Horodecky’s book (1923), in which he claimed that Hasidism brought about full equality of Jewish men and women in the field of spirituality. Although his claims have been by and large rejected, most
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Wojciech Tworek deposited Setting Times for Torah Study in R. Shneur Zalman of Liady’s Thought on AJS Commons 3 weeks, 3 days ago
This study presents the ideas about setting times for Torah study in the writings of R. Shneur Zalman of Liady (Rashaz) as one of the elements that formed the inclusive concept of mystical experience in the Ḥabad movement. The article argues that in his teachings Rashaz invested common experiences and the precepts of normative, non-mystical J…[Read more]
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Wojciech Tworek‘s profile was updated on AJS Commons 3 weeks, 3 days ago
simeon chavel deposited The Polymorphous Pesaḥ: Ritual Between Origins and Reenactment in the group
Rabbinic Literature and Culture on AJS Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoThe paper argues that the pesaḥ is a ritual with no origins in the literature we have, from the earliest recoverable fragment, through the first revision that introduces as many problems as it aims to solve, to subsequent extensions in multiple directions, with no arc, no trajectory, no telos, but recurrent hermeneutic expressive engagement.
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simeon chavel deposited The Polymorphous Pesaḥ: Ritual Between Origins and Reenactment in the group
Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation on AJS Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoThe paper argues that the pesaḥ is a ritual with no origins in the literature we have, from the earliest recoverable fragment, through the first revision that introduces as many problems as it aims to solve, to subsequent extensions in multiple directions, with no arc, no trajectory, no telos, but recurrent hermeneutic expressive engagement.
Rachel Neis deposited Generating Bodies of Knowledge – Food, Family, Fetus in Rabbinic Science in the group
Rabbinic Literature and Culture on AJS Commons 4 months, 1 week agoABSTRACT: How to understand the processes, by which bodies ingest, gestate, generate, excrete, and expel various kinds of substances? This paper treats these questions as sorted through in rabbinic texts. The ways in which we think about how material bodies come into being, and the ways in which we distinguish and explain the emergence, entry, and…[Read more]
Rachel Neis deposited Generating Bodies of Knowledge – Food, Family, Fetus in Rabbinic Science in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 4 months, 1 week agoABSTRACT: How to understand the processes, by which bodies ingest, gestate, generate, excrete, and expel various kinds of substances? This paper treats these questions as sorted through in rabbinic texts. The ways in which we think about how material bodies come into being, and the ways in which we distinguish and explain the emergence, entry, and…[Read more]
Tamar Marvin deposited CLASSICS OF THE JEWISH TRADITION (ONLINE) | JTS MDS 5102D in the group
Pedagogy and Professional Practice on AJS Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoCovering the period from the close of the rabbinic canon to the present day, Classics of the Jewish Tradition will introduce students to the most influential texts that have shaped Jewish culture, in a variety of genres and languages representative of the diversity of Jewish creativity. Through close reading of selected primary sources and a…[Read more]
Tamar Marvin deposited CLASSICS OF THE JEWISH TRADITION (ONLINE) | JTS MDS 5102D in the group
Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Literature, and Culture on AJS Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoCovering the period from the close of the rabbinic canon to the present day, Classics of the Jewish Tradition will introduce students to the most influential texts that have shaped Jewish culture, in a variety of genres and languages representative of the diversity of Jewish creativity. Through close reading of selected primary sources and a…[Read more]
Rachel Neis deposited Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine in the group
Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies on AJS Commons 5 months, 1 week agoDrawing on rabbinic sources redacted in the early third and late fourth/ early fifth centuries, this paper tracks the intertwined lives of divine image-things and rabbis living in late Roman and Byzantine period Palestine. The paper argues that the religious image-things of others (or avodah zarah, in rabbinic terms) pressed in different ways on…[Read more]
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simeon chavel deposited The Utility and Futility of Poetry in Qohelet in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 5 months, 1 week agoArgues that Qohelet’s famous bit of speech on the seasons at 3:1-8 mimics and mocks proverbial poetry, as part of his larger, prosaic denial that life has discernible and usable rhythms and rhymes.
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simeon chavel deposited The Utility and Futility of Poetry in Qohelet in the group
Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation on AJS Commons 5 months, 1 week agoArgues that Qohelet’s famous bit of speech on the seasons at 3:1-8 mimics and mocks proverbial poetry, as part of his larger, prosaic denial that life has discernible and usable rhythms and rhymes.
Matthew Goldstone‘s profile was updated on AJS Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
Marc Herman posted an update on AJS Commons 7 months, 4 weeks ago
Call for Applications: Katz Center Fellowship
The Herbert D. Katz Center at The University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for the 2019–2020 academic year on the theme of The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In.
The Katz Center will devote our 2019–2020 fellowship year to the home—to what happe…[Read more]
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simeon chavel deposited Compositry and Creativity in 2 Samuel 21:1–14 in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoAnalysis of the story of David and the Gibeonites, argues that two different stories have been spliced together.
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simeon chavel deposited Compositry and Creativity in 2 Samuel 21:1–14 in the group
Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation on AJS Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoAnalysis of the story of David and the Gibeonites, argues that two different stories have been spliced together.
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