Faculty and alumni from the presented at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies held from August 6 to 10 at the Mount Scopus Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Revel faculty who presented were Dr. Mordechai Z. Cohen, associate dean and divisional coordinator of academic Jewish studies (鈥淣ew Perspectives on Rashi鈥檚 Peshat Agenda in Light of St. Bruno the Carthusian鈥); Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law and chair, Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies (鈥淭he Development of the Daily Recitation of Psalms in Medieval Ashkenaz鈥 and 鈥淢edieval Ashkenaz VIII: Liturgy and Customs鈥); Dr. Sid Z. Leiman, visiting professor of Jewish history from the University of Pennsylvania (鈥淛acob Joshua Falk鈥檚 Final Salvo in the Emden-Eibesch眉tz Controversy鈥); Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Jewish history (鈥淭almudic Dialogical Forms as Greco-Roman Rhetorical Exercises鈥); and Dr. David Berger, dean and Ruth and I. Lewis Gordon Professor of Jewish History at Revel (participant in a discussion based on Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Same God, Other God).
Revel alumni who presented were Yitzhak Berger (鈥淪amson, Delilah, and Balaam: Allusion and Meaning in the Book of Judges鈥); Michelle J. Levine (鈥淭he Literary and Thematic Unity of Balaam鈥檚 Prophecies in Ramban鈥檚 Biblical Commentary鈥); Moshe J. Bernstein (鈥溾楩inish, Complete, and Destroy鈥: Biblical Hebrew Killah in Targum Onqelos to the Pentateuch鈥); Jeffrey Woolf (鈥淭he Preacher as Poseq: R. Azariah Figo as Halakhist鈥); Shana Strauch Schick (鈥溾榅 Haynu Tanna Kamma鈥: From Dialogue to Stock Formulation鈥); Shai Secunda (鈥Beyond the Rabbinic Academy: Late Antique Scholastic Cultures鈥); Gabriel Wasserman (鈥淢idrashic and Payyetanic Sources for the Story of Moses鈥檚 Death in the Karaite Work Levush Malkhuth鈥); and Hillel Novetsky (鈥淐ontributions of the Digital Revolution to Creating a New Mikraot Gedolot鈥).
The World Congress of Jewish Studies convenes in Jerusalem every four years and brings together thousands of participants who attend hundreds of lectures in various fields and on many diverse topics in Jewish studies.
