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After Pittsburgh.
(First Things., 2019-02) -
Ancient Hebrew מעצד and עצד in the Gezer Calendar.
(The University of Chicago, 2013)(From conclusion): To summarize, therefore, it has been seen that the Hebrew noun מעצד refers to the “adze” throughout the history of ancient Hebrew: it is found twice in the Hebrew Bible, in relatively unrevealing ... -
Angels.
(Oxford University Press, 2014-08)Angels are supernatural beings who serve a variety of functions in biblical literature. The term most often used to denote angels in the Hebrew Bible, mal’ak, means “messenger.” The Septuagint frequently translates mal’ak ... -
Aramaic.
(Oxford University Press, 2017-04-27) -
Bibliography of works pertaining to the study of Targum.
(https://www.scribd.com/document/218594955/Bib-Bibliography-of-Works-Pertaining-to-the-Study-of-Targumliography-of-Works-Pertaining-to-the-Study-of-Targum, 2001) -
Boy on the Temple Roof.
(Religion and Public Life, 2019-03) -
Carmy, Shalom. Review of Leon Wiener Dow. The Going: A meditation on Jewish law. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, November 2017.
(American Academy of Religion, 2018-05-18) -
A Carousel of Color: Polychromy and Jewish Visual culture in Roman Antiquity.
Fine's workshop at the Albright will focus on the Arch of Titus Project: "In recent years, polychromy has developed as a fruitful area of research in the study of classical art. This seminar explores the significance of ... -
Co-culture Activation of MAP Kinase in Drosophila S2 Cells.
(Elsevier, 2017)Intercellular communication often involves phosphorylation of signal transduction proteins, including mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs). Immunological detection of phosphorylated MAPK can be used to monitor ... -
Constructing Fear and Pride in the Book of Daniel: The Profile of a Second Temple Emotional Community
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015)This paper examines the seminal role that emotions, particularly fear and pride, play in the book of Daniel. Drawing upon the idea of "emotional communities," I view the book's final redactor as engaged with the views of ... -
Diachronic change and synchronic readings: Midrashim on stative verbs and participles.
(Oxford University Press, 2012-10)Because of the different verbal systems in the Hebrew of the Bible and the Hebrew of the Mishnah, reading the Bible as if written in Mishnaic Hebrew can produce interesting results. This paper analyses rabbinic comments ... -
Did Joseph forgive his brothers?
(Religion and Public Life, 2018-08) -
The Diffusion of the Alphabet in the Second Millennium BCE: On the Movements of Scribal Ideas from Egypt to the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Yemen.
(University of Arizona, 2018-12)The non-impact of the alphabet has garnered a lot of attention recently: how could an invention so revolutionary do so little? Researchers have been led to wonder whether the alphabet may not have been as revolutionary as ... -
The Divine Courtroom Scenes of Daniel 7 and the Qumran Book of Giants: A Textual and Contextual Comparison.
(Koninklijke Grill NV, 2014)Contributors to 'The divine courtroom in comparative perspective' treat one of the most pervasive religious metaphors, that of the divine courtroom, in both its historical and thematic senses. In order to shed light on the ... -
Do you incorporate recent literature or themes from your own research into your genetics courses?
(Elsevier (Cell Press), 2018-04-01)This is the seventh and eighth in a series of ten questions that we asked experts in the field of undergraduate genetics education. These questions range from the importance of genetics education to the practice of teaching ... -
Editor's note: Of pity and the immigrant.
(Tradition, 2016) -
Emotion, Gender, and Greco-Roman Virtue in Joseph and Aseneth.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)Anger, courage, and philanthropia—three important elements of Greco-Roman civic life—figure prominently in the book of Joseph and Aseneth and help us uncover the book’s message. One view within Greco-Roman culture valorized ... -
Emotional Regimes, Ritual Practice, and the Shaping of Sectarian Identity: The Experience of Ablutions in the Dead Sea Scrolls
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)In this article, I explore the role that the purification rites attested in some of the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls played in identity construction. Ritual ablutions communicated “canonical” messages to initiates about some ... -
The example of undressing: Obnubilations on the empty space of the rule.
(Law & Literature, 2017)The legal example is used in large part to dress the rule. A naked norm, for common lawyers, is simply an abstraction, an umbrageous nebulosity that needs its particulars, its cases, to have meaning, impact and thought. ... -
Gratitude and Ingratitude. Judaism.
(De Gruyter, 2015)
