"Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical…
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"Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical…
As the primary stratum of the rabbinic corpus, the Mishna establishes a dynamic between rabbinic authority and olam haba that sets the course for all subsequent rabbinic discussions of the idea. The Mishna Sanhedrin presents the rabbis as arbiters of the afterlife, who regulate …
In recent years, the "Jewish Jesus" has been a dominant theme within New Testament studies. That being said, however, questions about the relationship between homiletics and Jesus' Jewish DNA have largely been left "unasked." Hence, this study investigates how a more Jewish unde…
This dissertation seeks to employ the methods of literary criticism, particularly its findings regarding the portrayal of character in texts, in an examination of the character of God in several passages from the rabbinic commentaries of Exodus Rabbah 42-44. This particular sect…
My dissertation offers a new reading of one of Denmark's great writers of the nineteenth century as first and foremost a Jewish artist. By offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, my study examines Goldschmidt's relationship to the …
American Jewish history has been criticized for its parochial nature because it has consisted largely of chronicles of American Jewish life and has often failed to explore the relationship between Jews and other ethnic groups in America. Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El…