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Resurrection of the Dead (Talmud Group)

[Ezekiel panel at Dura Europos] Ready to start Talmud Group at Syracuse this year, we are going to focus on messianism, namely the “messianic text” which is actually an anti-messianic text in chapter Helek of tractate Sanhedrin. We read the … Continue reading

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My Thursday (This Semester) Seeing the Divine Image in India & Spinoza

Teaching Religion and Art and Politics & Religion/Modern Judaism today. They make sense together. The conceptual linkage: nature and the divine, big cosmic/metaphysical pictures, substance and avatar/modalities, imagination and images, religion and politics.

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This Semester/Today: Islamic Ornament, Spinoza, Land of Israel

(heads framed in geometric ornament, Khirbat al-Mafjar, Palestine) This semester by a fluke I’m teaching three classes: a lower level survey on Religion and Art, and two advanced classes, a modern Jewish philosophy and thought class entitled Religion & Politics in … Continue reading

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(Inflection Point) Teaching Modern Jewish Philosophy & Thought

I think I figured out how to get away with it. It involves a graphic trick and a conceptual model based on a lively interaction between (theoretical) form and (Jewish) content. Last semester was a fiasco. I wanted to teach … Continue reading

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Central NY Religious Studies Consortium (And The Study of Modern Judaism

At a time when study in the Humanities is under pressure by strong social headwinds, the Central New York Religious Studies Consortium has now been finally finalized. Formed on the basis of a grouping of courtesy appointments at the Department … Continue reading

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(Job) Assistant Professor Contemporary Judaism (Syracuse)

Assistant Professor- Contemporary Judaism Institution: Syracuse University Location: Syracuse, NY Category: Faculty – Liberal Arts – Religious Studies and Theology Posted: 08/14/2018 Application Due: Open Until Filled Type: Full Time Job #: 074022 Location: Syracuse, NY Pay Range: Commensurate with experience FLSA Status: Exempt … Continue reading

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(After Theta Tau) Syracuse University Petition (#RecognizeUsSU)

With her kind permission, I am including amazing photographs of #RecognizeUsSU taken by colleague Gail Hamner at the recent town hall meeting to challenge the administration at Syracuse University to take action in the wake of the most recent racism at Theta … Continue reading

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(Syracuse University) Department Religion (Fall 2018)

Because we have to pitch the academic study of religion, flyers for course offerings for fall 2018 in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University are designed to convey an aesthetic. Kudos to Marcia Robinson.

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(Syracuse University) Jewish Studies Fall 2018 (Looks Like)

A small program, we take visual presence with a lot of seriousness in the Department of Religion and in the Jewish Studies Program. Jewish Studies should look like something. It should have a look, projected out into the public sphere. One … Continue reading

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Narrative Powers of Women & Failure of Cultural Translations (Galit Hasan-Rokem at Syracuse) (April 11)

Honored to announce this year’s annual B.G. Rudolph Lecture sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at Syracuse University.

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