Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe

Ancient Beta Israel Texts to be Digitized and Made Public

28 October, 2024

Chief Kes Berko Tegegne reads from the Orit, written in the Ge’ez language. (photo credit: Michael Zekri and the Jerusalem Post)

Dr. Dalit Rom-Shiloni, a past fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and a member of the research group "Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe," has been closely involved in a project that will make ancient manuscripts from the Ethiopian Jewish community, Beta Israel, accessible to the public.

Benjamin D. Sommer

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Jewish Theological Seminary

Benjamin Sommer is a professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His research focuses on the history of the Israelite religion, biblical theology, Pentateuch, Psalms, and the relationships between biblical thought and later Jewish theology.

Baruch J. Schwartz

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Baruch J. Schwartz is the Avraham Mordechai Shlansky Senior Lecturer in Biblical History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Konrad Schmid

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University of Zurich

Konrad Schmid is a professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Zurich.

Dalit Rom-Shiloni

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Tel Aviv University

Dalit Rom-Shiloni is the Head of the Hebrew Bible Department, within the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Bernard Levinson

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University of Minnesota

Bernard M. Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible.

Sara Japhet

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sara Japhet is Yehezken Kaufmann Professor Emerita of the Bible department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among her research interests are Biblical religion and literature, the Restoration period (literature, history and theology), Biblical law and the history of Jewish exegesis.

Shimon Gesundheit

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shimon Gesudheit is a senior lecturer in the Bible Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include Biblical law, narrative, theology, prophecy, medieval and modern Jewish exegesis, and literary history of the Hebrew Bible.

Jan Christian Gertz

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Heidelberg University

Jan Christian Gertz is a professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible in the Faculty of Theology at Heidelberg University.