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Item Open Access Why was Titus killed by a gnat? Reflections on a rabbinic legend(Academic Studies Press., 2023) Fine, Steven; Ele, Z.; Seidler-Feller, S.Summary "Emet le-Ya'akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, who has served the American and international Jewish community with distinction in his roles as a synagogue rabbi, university professor, and public intellectual. These articles, like the honoree, recognize the importance of both history and memory, emphasize the necessity of accuracy in historiography, and do not shy away from inconvenient truths. They are divided into three categories that help frame the discussion around "facing the truths of history": Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. The volume also includes a brief sketch of Schacter's life and work and a bibliography of his publications"-- Provided by publisherItem Metadata only The Samaritans: A biblical people. Museum of the Bible, Washington, D.C.(2022-09-16) Fine, Steven (curator)The Exhibition The name Samaritan is often linked to two particular stories found in the New Testament: Jesus's parable of the good Samaritan and the story of his encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. But beyond that, few know much about this micro-community of 850 people living in modern Israel who trace their history back to the kingdom of ancient Israel. This September, the museum will open a new exhibition that will offer unprecedented access to the life, culture, and history of the Samaritans. Created in partnership with the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, directed by Dr. Steven Fine, the exhibition is the first of its kind. Guests will enjoy unique videos, some of which are filmed in familiar and home settings and focus on the different life experiences of the Samaritans from Passover sacrifices to weddings. They will enjoy tales from the elders and a special sukkah that will help illustrate religious life. The exhibit will also assemble, for the first time, the most important artifacts preserved in museums and libraries the world over to illuminate this amazing history. These include paintings, manuscripts, priceless books, photography, ritual objects, and significant archaeological discoveries from Greece, Italy, and Israel. Don’t miss this chance to better understand the Samaritans, a community with deep connections to the Bible who have survived for over 2,000 years. Dates: September 16, 2022 – April 16, 2023 Location: Floor 5 Cost: Included with general admissionItem Metadata only Respect! The Samaritans in the Bible and today(Bibelhaus Erlebnis Museum, Frankfurt, 2023-03-01) Fine, Steven (curator)Respect! The Samaritans in the Bible and today One of the oldest and smallest religious communities in the world is on everyone's lips: rescue services and hospitals bear the name of the "Samaritans". Internationally, "The Good Samaritan Law" protects helpers from prosecution. But who are the Samaritans? Little is known about this micro-community of 850 people who live both in modern Israel and in the West Bank on their ancient sacred Mount Garizim near the Palestinian city of Nablus. They trace themselves back to the biblical characters Aaron and Joseph. The struggle for respect and recognition at all times is not only inscribed in the oldest texts of the Bible, but shapes the actions of people to this day. In March 2023, BIMU will open a new exhibition that offers unprecedented access to the life, culture and history of the Samaritans. Developed in collaboration with the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and the Museum of the Bible under the direction of Prof. Steven Fine, the exhibition is the first of its kind. In Frankfurt, it is conducted in cooperation with Prof. Benedikt Hensel, Chair of Old Testament at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Oldenburg. Unique videos, some of which were filmed in family and home settings, showcase the diverse life experiences of the Samaritans. The exhibition brings together valuable manuscripts, prints and artefacts from the last 2000 years in a showcase with modern evidence of the life of a small but vibrant community. Interactive stations pose questions about one's own identity and the question of what is to be done. Valuable loans come from Israel, New York, Washington, Paris, Fribourg, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. An exhibition at the Bibelhaus from 1 March to 28 May 2023.Item Metadata only Rabbi Akiva in 3D: Artifact, text, and the recent history of Judaism in late antiquity(De Gruyter., 2023) Fine, Steven; Ehrlich, C. S.; Horowitz, S. T.; https://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/fine-stevenSummary "This volume examines new developments in the fields of premodern Jewish studies over the last thirty years. The essays in this volume, written by leading experts, are grouped into four overarching temporal areas: the First Temple, Second Temple, Rabbinic, and Medieval periods. These time periods are analyzed through four thematic methodological lenses: the social scientific (history and society), the textual (texts and literature), the material (art, architecture, and archaeology), and the philosophical (religion and thought). Some essays offer a comprehensive look at the state of the field, while others look at specific examples illustrative of their temporal and thematic areas of inquiry. The volume presents a snapshot of the state of the field, encompassing new perspectives, directions, and methodologies, as well as the questions that will animate the field as it develops further. It will be of interest to scholars and students in the field, as well as to educated readers looking to understand the changing face of Jewish studies as a discipline advancing human knowledge" -- Provided by publisherItem Metadata only Ashrei Yoshvei Veitekha: Joy in the ancient synagogue(Palgrave Macmillan., 2023) Fine, Steven; Brown, Erica; Weiss, ShiraItem Metadata only Jewish religious architecture: From biblical Israel to modern Judaism(Brill, 2019) Fine, Steven; Fine, StevenJewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural traditionItem Open Access Review of Ross Shepard Kraemer: The Mediterranean diaspora in late antiquity what Christianity cost the Jews(SBL, 2020) Fine, StevenRoss Shepard Kraemer’s important volume, The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, opens with a reflection on our own time. She writes with passion of her experience of writing this volume while thinking about medieval anti-Semitism, Nazism, Islamic fundamentalism, and the most recent Jewish experience in America and elsewhere.Item Open Access Review of Abraham Tal, ed., Tibåt Mårqe: The ark of Marqe: Edition, translation, commentary.(Society of Biblical Literature, 2020) Fine, StevenSamaritan studies has always been a niche discipline. For a century and a half, individual scholars have “found” the Samaritans and fallen in love with their literature and culture—and with the Samaritan community itself. Today the significance of Samaritan studies is increasingly recognized. This is thanks to a small but dedicated international group of scholars and their project of establishing Samaritan studies as an interdisciplinary field of study. This community includes historians, philologists, biblical scholars, talmudists, classicists, Islamicists, folklorists, cultural anthropologists, and archaeologists. These scholars revived the study of Samaritanism during the second half of the twentieth century, creating the infrastructure for future growth. They published text editions, final reports of excavations, translations, language studies, and lexicons, as well as synthetic analysis of primary sources. They have studiously published the results of their labors in ways accessible to scholars and to educated general readers. They even created A Companion To Samaritan Studies, edited by Reinhard Pummer, Abraham Tal, and Alan D. Crown (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1993), to help the novice through the complex thicket that has naturally developed around Samaritan studies, a field that stretches from biblical Israel to the present and multiple languagesItem Metadata only Agnon's Tales of the Land of Israel(Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock, 2021) Fine, Steven; Saks, Jeffrey; Carmy, Shalom"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and the Holy Land (to say nothing of the later State of Israel) are often two-faced in Agnon's Hebrew writing. Depending on which side of the lens one views Eretz Yisrael through, the vision of what can be achieved there appears clearer or more distorted.These themes wove themselves into the presentations at an international conference convened in 2016 by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in New York City, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Agnon's Nobel Prize. The essays from that conference, collected here, explore Zionism's aspirations and shortcomings and the yearning for the Land from afar from S. Y. Agnon's Galician hometown, which served as a symbol of Jewish longing worldwide. Contributing authors: Shulamith Z. Berger, Shalom Carmy, Zafrira Cohen Lidovsky, Steven Gine, Hillel Halkin, Avraham Holtz, Alan Mintz, Jeffrey Saks, Moshe Simkovich, Laura Wiseman, and Wendy Zierler Source: PublisherItem Open Access “Ma‘aseh ha-Menorah” Agnon’s “Tale of the Menorah” between Buczacz and Modern Israel(Wipf & Stock, 2021) Fine, Steven; Saks, Jeffrey; Carmy, Shalom"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem and the Holy Land (to say nothing of the later State of Israel) are often two-faced in Agnon's Hebrew writing. Depending on which side of the lens one views Eretz Yisrael through, the vision of what can be achieved there appears clearer or more distorted. These themes wove themselves into the presentations at an international conference convened in 2016 by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in New York City, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Agnon's Nobel Prize. The essays from that conference, collected here, explore Zionism's aspirations and shortcomings and the yearning for the Land from afar from S. Y. Agnon's Galician hometown, which served as a symbol of Jewish longing worldwide.Item Open Access "The Students Of Beit Shamai Stood Below and They Killed the Students of Beit Hillel:" A Call from Hazal for Mutual Respect in Times of Bitter Dispute.(The Rabbi Isaac Elechanan Theological Center and the Center for Jewish History, Yeshiva University, 2021-07-18) Fine, StevenOne of the most astounding features of Hazal, the sages of the Mishnah and of both Talmudim, is their public willingness to discuss their most sensitive experiences, including their most public and bitter disputes. We meet Hillel and Shamrnai, Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabban Gamaliel, Rabbi Yohanan and Resh Laqish, Rabba and Abaye, as real people. In the history of religion such immediacy and honesty is quite unusual. No other religious literature tells of the foibles and doubts, mistakes and even pettiness of its culture heroes - with the goal of inviting us into their world forour own moral betterment. Stepping back, the level of access to which every talmid and talmidat hakhamim, every "student of the sages," is privy, is astonishing. As we approach Tisha be-Av, I share one lesser-known episode of internal conflict among the earliest Sages, the trauma it left behind, and ways that Sages in later centuries reflected on this event.Item Open Access “Said Rabbi Shimon: When I went to Rome, There I saw the Menorah…” Some Personal Reflections on the YU Center for Israel Studies’ Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project.(Yeshiva University, 2012-07) Fine, StevenSome Personal Reflections on the YU Center for Israel Studies’ Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project