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The Faces of Torah. Studies in the Texts and Contexts of Ancient Judaism in Honor of Steven Fraade (Christine Hayes/ Tzvi Novick/ Michal Bar-Asher Siegal eds.), Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements
"Why Did the Heavenly Voice Speak Aramaic? Ancient Layers in Rabbinic Literature"2017 •
“Myth, History and Eschatology in a Rabbinic Treatise on Birth.” Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin. Edited by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Aharon Shemesh, Moulie Vidas with the collaboration of James Adam Redfield. Leiden: Brill 2017, pp. 243-273. (With Israel Jacob Yuval)
The academic study of kabbalah is a new field, growing by leaps and bounds. Because kabbalah has literary, historical, ritual, cognitive, and experiential dimensions, it crosses many disciplinary and methodological lines. The discipline must therefore graduate from its initial focus on the textual. The roundtable aims re-examine methodologies for its study. We will ask four key questions: First, How do we define the disciplinary domain of kabbalah? Second, What are the most pressing questions in the study of kabbalah? Third, have we adopted new theories or methodologies in recent years? If so why? Fourth, What are the advantages and disadvantages of your theoretical and methodological approach to the study of kabbalah? Fifth, what comes next? To reach this goal the panel will be comprised of scholars representing different approaches. Hartley Lachter will discuss kabbalistic texts whose provenance is already established. He asserts the importance of social context to their meaning. Ronit Meroz, on the other hand, emphasizes the value of literary analysis not only for its intrinsic value but also as a means for deciphering the archeology of the text and its different historical strata. Vadim Putzu will draw from the burgeoning developments in the scientific study of the human mind, brain, and psyche, to discuss how the findings and methodologies of neurocognitive and psychiatric research may contribute to a better understanding of Jewish mystical practices and experiences to place its study within broader scholarly conversations in the fields of comparative religion, Religious Studies, and beyond. Pinchas Giller will explore the role of technology in the current practice and study of kabbalah, which opens new possibilities for both scholars and practitioners. Marla Segol will discuss the importance of new approaches to understanding gender, embodiment and sexuality beyond French feminism, grounded in the mythology and the scientific lore of the period, and understood through the various lenses of queer theory. Moderator Ginsburg, given his research using many of these methodologies, will aim to focus the discussion on how the above issues impact specifically on the contemporary study of kabbalah, and how they should shape it in the future.
An overview on the history and the archaeological remains of Alexandria.
Heilige, Heiliges und Heiligkeit in spätantiken Religionskulturen, ed. Peter Gemeinhardt and Katharina Heyden, Berlin/New York 2012, pp. 369-384
Gemeinschaft der Heiligen in der rabbinischen LiteraturJournal of Ancient Judaism
The Roman Context for the Rabbinic Ban on Teaching Greek to Sons2017 •
Jewish Radicalisms
Religious Radicalism, the Zionist Right, and the Establishment of the State of Israel2020 •
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature
Wisdom and the Rabbis2020 •
Quran and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective / Biblical Characters in Three Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Panel, The SBL International Meeting, July 1st-5th, 2019
Quranic Intertextuality with Jewish-Rabbinic Tradition: The Case of ‘the Cow’ in Q 2:67-742019 •
The Gift in Antiquity (ed. Michael L. Satlow)
Charity Wounds: Gifts to the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism2013 •
Peter Gemeinhardt u.a. (Hg.), "Das Paradies ist ein Hörsaal für die Seelen" Religiöse Bildung in historischer Perspektive
„Dieser ans Kreuz geschlagene Sophist“ Vom Umgang mit religiösen Erweckern bei Lukian2018 •
The 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel, August 6-10, 2017
Panel Microcosms of the Holocaust. Jewish Self-Definition and Community Life 1943-1945: Geltungsjuden, Jewish Community and non-Jewish Environment in Berlin, 1943-1945The 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel, August 6-10, 2017
Panel Microcosms of the Holocaust. Jewish Self-Definition and Community Life 1943-1945: Jewish Community of Zagreb, 1943-1945Jewish Studies Quarterly
Hyrcanus II versus Aristobulus II and the Inviolability of Jerusalem2015 •
2018 •
Shimon Fogel
Maria Munkholt Christensen
Irene Salvo