Michael Press on the myth of Moses Shapira as a master forger: “So we are left with the image of Shapira — and that image, of a master forger and genius, is now entrenched. It seems impervious to the reality that he forged almost nothing himself, that he mostly sold fakes made by others. It seems unaffected by the fact that he and his collaborators were actually poor forgers.”
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A few years ago, I began a simple practice that has transformed my teaching. Now, I look forward to the first few minutes of class as my favorite time.
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In writing their own prayers and playing with the literary and religious elements of myth and history, the students actively imagine the relevance these divine beings could have had for their worshippers in order to better integrate course content.
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What can stories about Loki, Norse god and (more recently) Marvel character, teach us about biblical literature?
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“The ‘UnEssay’ is a creative assignment that helps students learn long-term project management, critical and reflective thinking, analytical writing ability, and a variety of technical skills.”
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The “Dead Sea Scrolls Brochure” assignment has two parts: the physical brochure and a 2-page reflective explanation of the brochure.
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In 2021 NYU hosted a virtual book panel on the newly published The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source by Liane M. Feldman, Assistant Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies.
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“In the course of my research, I have been struck by how much American Jews’ response to the topic of angels in Jewish culture depends on their understanding of Judaism vis-à-vis modern Protestant Christian conceptualizations.”
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My doctoral thesis intervenes in this discussion by focusing this relatively new analytical gaze on Paul’s self-presentation in his undisputed letters to argue that the apostle evades straightforward classification as either disrupting or conforming to masculine norms.
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My new book, Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions: An Introduction, introduces Greco-Roman inscriptions to a broader audience, interprets them as archaeological artifacts, and then demonstrates the benefit of epigraphs for interpreting the New Testament through five case studies.
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Even after Christianity attained hegemony in the late Roman empire, accounts of persecution at the hands of the impious appear frequently in the historical record. In fact, late ancient authors continually mobilized what the volume calls the “discourse of persecution” throughout the late ancient Mediterranean to various ends. That discourse and its many manifestations form the volume’s object of inquiry.
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Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism examines conceptions and organizations of time in rabbinic sources, composed between 200 and 600 CE in Palestine and Babylonia but with lasting influence on subsequent Jewish communities, to the present day.
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The point I’m trying to make is that P’s laws of sacrifice are hardly a handbook intended to provide a young priest with everything he needs to know to do his job. Rather, they appear to be outward-facing (if you’ll forgive the jargon), a priestly mission statement (to use another piece of jargon), directed at the people of Israel as a whole.
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This thesis answers the following two questions: how did ancient Jews create meaningful spaces of religious activity in ancient Galilee, and how did those spaces in turn influence the constitution of ancient Judaism?
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Dr. Andrew McGowan responds on “Priestly Narratives: a 2021 NYU review panel and book launch for Liane Feldman’s Story of Sacrifice.”
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Dr. Hindy Najman responds on “Priestly Narratives: a 2021 NYU review panel and book launch for Liane Feldman’s Story of Sacrifice.
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Dr. Mira Balberg responds on “Priestly Narratives: a 2021 NYU review panel and book launch for Liane Feldman’s Story of Sacrifice.
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Overall, then, Vayntrub’s study is a timely and incisive contribution to the study not just of biblical poetry, or of representations of oral speech in biblical literature, but of what many biblical traditions fundamentally are and reflect.
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Composed in Syriac, the Life of Barsauma offers new resources for understanding the construction of holiness in late antiquity.
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How does a household function? Who owes what to whom, and how did people conceive of their relationships to one another? How did the realities of work in an agricultural society shape these relationships?
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