Maven in blue jeans: a Festschrift in honor of Zev Garber

A scholar's creation / Susan Garber -- A brief introduction / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- The domestication of a radical Jew: Paul of Tarsus / S. Scott Bartchy -- A "seminal" study of the Jesus Drasha in the Gospel of Matthew / Herb W. Basser -- The messy realities of life: a rereading o...

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Contributors: Jacobs, Steven L. 1947- (Other) ; Garber, Zev 1941- (Honoree)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: West Lafayette, Ind Purdue University Press c2009
In:Year: 2009
Reviews:[Rezension von: JACOBS, STEVEN LEONARD, Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber (Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies)] (2011) (Avery-Peck, Alan J.)
Series/Journal:Shofar supplements in Jewish studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jewish theology
B Jews / Theology
B Judaism
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Judaism Relations Christianity
B Christianity and other religions Judaism
B Rabbinical literature History and criticism
B Garber, Zev 1941-
B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Online Access: Autorenbiografie (Verlag)
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Summary:A scholar's creation / Susan Garber -- A brief introduction / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- The domestication of a radical Jew: Paul of Tarsus / S. Scott Bartchy -- A "seminal" study of the Jesus Drasha in the Gospel of Matthew / Herb W. Basser -- The messy realities of life: a rereading of Numbers 19 and 20 / Joseph A. Edelheit -- A cosmopolitan "student of the sages:" Jacob of Kefar Nevoraia in rabbinic literature / Steven Fine -- Floating letters / Mayer I. Gruber -- Dialogue as praxis: a midrashic reading of Numbers 19-20 and Hebrews 9 / James F. Moore -- Testing the results of Richard Kalmin: a null hypothesis examined in the setting of Mishnah and Bavli tractate Moed Qatan / Jacob Neusner -- Creation and mortalization: a religio-literary perspective / Sara R. Mandell -- Jeremiah, the Shoah, and the restoration of Israel / Marvin Sweeney -- Jewish-Christian relations: a dialogue with Zev Garber / Eugene Fisher -- Who owns the truth?: the question of the "other" in postdenominational Judaism and Christianity (and Islam) in the next fifty years / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- The backward man and the Jewish giant: Mirrors of traumatic memory in the late photographs of Diane Arbus / Daniel Morris -- Developments in Catholic-Jewish relations: 1990 and beyond / John T. Pawlikowski -- Philo and the dangers of philosophizing / Louis H. Feldman -- Exegetical theology and divine suffering Jewish thought / Michael Fishbane -- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's paths to God / Harold Kasimow -- The reception of early German Haskalah in nineteenth-century Haskalah / Moshe Pelli -- Traveling in Ga(r)berdine / G. Jan Colijn -- Jewish studies without Jews: the growth of an academic field in Austria and Germany / Klaus Hödl -- The story of Shofar: an editor's personal account / Joseph Haberer -- "But it isn't on the test!" Holocaust education in the age of "No Child Left Behind" / Louanne Clayton Jacobs -- Spelling and Kabbalah: a review essay of Myla Goldberg's Bee season / Nancy Shiffrin -- What do Americans read when they read about the Holocaust? / Lawrence Baron -- The evolution and devolution of a world apart: the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust / Paul R. Bartrop -- Soft-core Holocaust denial: trivialization and sanitization in the early twenty-first century / Michael Berenbaum -- The scroll of the Shoah: the case for the writings of Yitzhak Katzenelson as the basis of a future Jewish post-Shoah Jewish theology / Samuel M. Edelman -- "Thou shalt teach it to thy children": what American Jewish children's literature teaches about the Holocaust / Peter Haas -- Once more to the Jabbok: the place of midrashic dialogue in post-Shoah hermeneutics / Henry F. Knight -- Portraits of two Jewries: experiencing the Shoah through fiction / Richard Libowitz -- No vindication to venomous verdict: the poem "Mr. Auschwitz" by Ronny Someck / Yair Mazor -- Holocaust or Shoah: the Greek category versus Jewish thought / David Patterson -- What have we learned from the Holocaust? / John K. Roth -- On oil and Antisemitism / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Disraeli's boomerang efforts to combat Antisemitism: the interplay of ideas of race, religion, and conspiracy / Frederick M. Schweitzer -- Writing / William Wallis -- The language of memory / Ann Weiss -- Hebrew literature, academic politics, and feminist criticism: a confessional essay / Esther Fuchs -- The folktales of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim / Lev Hakak -- The Sha'ar ha-shamayim synagogue (Keniset Ismā'īlīyah) in Cairo, Egypt / Rivka Kern-Ulmer -- On three early incidences of Hebrew script in western art / Harris Lenowitz -- The literary quest for national revival: from Hazaz's "The sermon" (1942) to Yehoshua's Mr. Mani (1990) / Gilead Morahg -- The two-bodied people: their cosmos, and the origin of the soul / Ziony Zevit -- A Garber bibliography
Item Description:"A Garber bibliography": p. 477-501 -- Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:1557535213