Research Group
Peter Sarnak
Research Groups: Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe
[RG # 134] Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe
Sept. 1, 2012 - July 1, 2013
Organizer:
Bernard M. Levinson (University of Minnesota)
Konrad Schmid (University of Zurich)
Baruch Schwartz (The Hebrew University)
The Pentateuch lies at the heart of western Humanities, and the question of the formation of the Pentateuch represents one of the foundational topics in the discipline of academic bibilical studies. Despite its importance to the discipline, recent scholarship on this question has become increasingly divided on fundamental questions like dating, the existence of literary sources, and the role of authors or editors in shaping the final document. In effect, three separate academic cultures have emerged, those of Israel, Europe and North America, each promoting its own model, and without sufficient intellectual exchange between scholars in the various communities regarding their own assumptions. Our research group was created to address this problem, to bring about greater dialogue among leading proponents of the different scholarly models, and to move towards a shared discourse.
Martin Liebeck
Jonathan Ben-Dov
Ruth Weintraub
Haym Soloveitchik
Haym is a professor in the Bernard Ravell Graduate School at Yeshiva University, New York. His research interests are medieval Jewish history and history of Jewish law.
Hagit Amirav
Sara Japhet
Encountering Scripture In Overlapping Cultures: Early Jewish, Christian And Muslim Strategies Of Reading And Their Contemporary Implications
[RG #121] Encountering Scripture In Overlapping Cultures: Early Jewish, Christian And Muslim Strategies Of Reading And Their Contemporary Implications
September 1, 2010 - February 28, 2011
Organizers:
Meir Bar-Asher (The Hebrew University)
Mordechai Cohen (Yeshiva University)
a. The critical role that interpretation played in the formation of Sacred Scripture;
b. Changing conceptions of the "plain sense" of Scripture;
c. The ways in which classical rhetoric and poetics informed scriptural interpretation;
d. Tensions created by the need to transplant Scripture into new linguistic media;
e. The ways in which the Bible has been reconfigured in literature, art and scholarship.
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