Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

S. Kaminsky, Choice ‘Reed’s work in Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism is monumental and consequential. Not only does it serve as a model for the type of synchronic analysis she undertakes ...

Shalom ברוכים הבאים and welcome to the Hebrew Language, Literature, and Culture program at Brandeis! Our program offers close to twenty beginning, intermediate, and advanced level courses to promote ...

This is the first scholarly study to trace the origins of this genre of narrative and the circumstances that led to appearances in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Mediterranean literature. It sheds new ...

Textual Criticism and the Ontology of Literature in Early Judaism: An Analysis of the Serekh ha-Yahad (JSJSupp 198; Leiden: Brill, 2022). “‘As for the Doer of His Will, May They Ascend as a Fine ...

Joel Kaminsky teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible and on ancient Jewish religion and literature. In addition to his appointment in the religion department, he is also a member of the program in Jewish ...

From that point on, Hebrew was exclusively used for literature and prayer ... where he learned ancient Hebrew. By the time he was twelve, Ben-Yehuda was familiar with large portions of Torah ...

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2012) M.S.T., Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (2008) M.A., Comparative ...