Maven in blue jeans
Subtitle: a festschrift in honor of Zev Garber
By: Steven Leonard Jacobs, Editor.
Contributors: Jacobs, Steven L., 1947-; Garber, Zev, 1941-
Series: Shofar supplements in Jewish studies
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: West Lafayette, IN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557535214
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A scholar's creation / Susan Garber; title: Introduction: maven in blue jeans / Steven Leonard Jacobs; title: The domestication of a radical Jew: Paul of Tarsus / S. Scott Bartchy; title: A "seminal" study of the Jesus drasha in the Gospel of Matthew / Herb Basser; title: The messy realities of life: a rereading of Numbers 19 and 20 / Joseph A. Edelheit; title: A cosmopolitan "student of the sages:" Jacob of Kefar Nevoraia in rabbinic literature / Steven Fine; title: Floating letters / Mayer I. Gruber; title: Dialogue as praxis: a midrashic reading of Numbers 19-20 and Hebrews 9 / James F. Moore; title: Testing the result of Richard Kalmin: a null hypothesis examined in the setting of Mishnah and Bavli tractate Moed Qatan / Jacob Neusner; title: Creation and mortalization: a religio-literary perspective / Sara R. Mandell; title: Jeremiah, the Shoah, and the restoration of Israel / Marvin Sweeney; title: Jewish-Christian relations: a dialogue with Zev Garber / Eugene Fisher; title: Who owns the truth?: the question of the "other" in post-denominational Judaism and Christianity (and Islam) in the next fifty years / Steven Leonard Jacobs; title: The backward man and the Jewish giant: traumatic memory and the late photography of Diane Arbus / Daniel Morris; title: Developments in Catholic-Jewish relations: 1990 and beyond / John T. Pawlikowski; title: Philo and the dangers of philosophizing / Louis H. Feldman; title: Exegetical theology and divine suffering Jewish thought / Michael Fishbane; title: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's paths to God / Harold Kasimow; title: The reception of early German Haskalah in 19th century Haskalah / Moshe Pelli; title: Traveling in Ga(r)berdine / G. Jan Colijn; title: Jewish studies without Jews: the growth of an academic field in Austria and Germany / Klaus Hodl; title: The story of Shofar: an editor's personal account / Joseph Haberer; title: "But it isn't on the test!" Holocaust education in the age of No Child Left Behind / Louanne Clayton Jacobs; title: Spelling and Kabbalah: a review essay of Myla Goldberg's Bee season / Nancy Shiffrin; title: What do Americans read when they read about the Holocaust? / Lawrence Baron; title: The evolution and devolution of a world apart: the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust / Paul R. Bartrop; title: Soft core Holocaust denial: trivialization and sanitation in the early 21st century / Michael Berenbaum; title: The scroll of the Shoah: the case for the writing of Yizhak Katznelson as the basis for a future Jewish post-Shoah Jewish liturgy / Samuel M. Edelman; title: Thou shalt teach it to thy children: what American Jewish children's literature teaches about the Holocaust / Peter Haas; title: Once more to the Jabbok: the place of midrashic dialogue in post-Shoah hermeneutics / Henry F. Knight; title: Portraits of two Jewries: experiencing the Shoah through fiction / Richard Libowitz; title: No vindication to venomous verdict: the poem "Mr. Auschwitz" by Ronny Someck / Yair Mazor; title: Holocaust or Shoah: the Greek category vs. Jewish thought / David Patterson; title: What have we learned from the Holocaust? / John K. Roth; title: On oil and anti-Semitism / Richard L. Rubenstein; title: Disraeli's boomerang efforts to combat anti-Semitism: the interplay of ideas of race, religion, and conspiracy / Frederick M. Schweitzer; title: The language of memory / Ann Weiss; title: Hebrew literature, academic politics and feminist criticism: a confessional essay / Esther Fuchs; title: The folktales of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim / Lev Hakak; title: The Sha'ar ha-shamayim synagogue (Keniset Isma'iliyah) in Cairo, Egypt / Rivka Kern-Ulmer; title: Early incidences of Hebrew script in western art / Harris Lenowitz; title: The literary quest for national revival: from Hazaz's "The sermon" (1949) to Yehoshua's Mr. Mani (1990) / Gilead Morahg; title: The two-bodied people: their cosmos, and the origin of the soul / Ziony Zevit; title: A Garber bibliography.