Research Group

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Ernst Knauf

FELLOW
Bern University
Ernst Knauf is a professor in the Faculty of Theology at Bern University.
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Moshe Idel

FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moshe is a professor in the Department of Jewish Thought and in the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are Hasidism and Kabbalah.
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Lorenzo Perrone

FELLOW
University of Bologna
Lorenzo Perrone is Professor of Early Christian Literature in the Department of Classics and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna.

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)

 

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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.

 

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Yoram Schachar

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IDC Herzliya
Yoram is a professor in the School of Law at IDC Herzliya. His research interests are legal history, comparative law, and criminal law.
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Vladimir Kazakov

FELLOW
LPTENS

Vladimir Kazakov is a professor at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPTENS), France. His research interests are various aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondences and string theory, in particular integrability and applications to quark-gluon plasma.