Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber

by Steven Jacobs

Overview

This collection of academic essays written by friends and colleagues of Professor Zev Garber, is a long-overdue tribute to an outstanding scholar, teacher, and mentor. Each contribution was written especially for this volume; none have been previously published. The various sections into which these essays are divided reflect the areas in which Professor Garber has devoted his own prodigious teaching and writing energies: the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian relations, philosophy and theology, history, biblical interpretation. Also included is a full bibliography of Professor Garber's own writings: books, articles both scholarly and popular, opinion pieces, and the like. The introduction by his good friend Steven Jacobs introduces Professor Garber to those who do not know him and reminds those who do of his important contributions to scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557535214
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2009
Series:	Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	513
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 10.00(h) x 4.40(d)

About the Author

Steven Leonard Jacobs holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama where he is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies. He is the author, editor, or translator of sixteen books and numerous articles in the fields of Judaic Studies, the Holocaust, genocide, and contemporary issues. He received his BA from Penn State, his MAHL, DHL, and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Table of Contents

A Scholar’s Creation, by Susan Garber
A Brief Introduction, by Steven Leonard Jacobs
Part 1 Exegesis and Eisegesis: Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Rabbinic Literature
The Domestication of a Radical Jew: Paul of Tarsus, by S. Scott Bartchy
A “Seminal” Study of the Jesus Drasha in the Gospel of Matthew, by Herbert W. Basser
The Messy Realities of Life: A Rereading of Numbers 19 and 20, by Joseph A. Edelheit
A Cosmopolitan “Student of the Sages”: Jacob of Kefar Nevoraia in Rabbinic Literature, by Steven Fine
Floating Letters, by Mayer I. Gruber
Dialogue as Praxis: A Midrashic Reading of Numbers 19–20 and Hebrews 9, by James F. Moore
Testing the Results of Richard Kalmin: A Null Hypothesis Examined in the Setting of Mishnah and Bavli Tractate Moed Qatan, by Jacob Neusner
Creation and Mortalization: A Religio-Literary Perspective Sara R. Mandell
Jeremiah, the Shoah, and the Restoration of Israel, by Marvin Sweeney
Part 2 Jewish-Christian-Muslim and Other Dialogues
Jewish-Christian Relations: A Dialogue with Zev Garber, by Eugene Fisher
Who Owns the Truth? The Question of the “Other” in Postdenominational Judaism and Christianity (and Islam) in the Next Fifty Years, by Steven Leonard Jacobs
The Backwards Man and the Jewish Giant: Mirrors of Traumatic Memory in the Late Photographs of Diane Arbus, by Daniel Morris
Developments in Catholic-Jewish Relations: 1990 and Beyond, by John T. Pawlikowski
Part 3 Judaism as Historiosophy and Thought
Philo and the Dangers of Philosophizing, by Louis H. Feldman
Exegetical Theology and Divine Suffering in Jewish Thought, by Michael Fishbane
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Paths to God, by Harold Kasimow
The Reception of Early German Haskalah in Nineteenth-Century Haskalah, by Moshe Pelli
Part 4 Reflections from the Field and the Classroom
Traveling in Ga(r)berdine, by G. Jan Colijn
Jewish Studies without Jews: The Growth of an Academic Field in Austria and Germany, by Klaus Hödl
The Story of Shofar: An Editor’s Personal Account, by Joseph Haberer
“But It Isn’t on the Test!” Holocaust Education in the Age of “No Child Left Behind”, by Louanne Clayton Jacobs
Spelling and Kabbalah: A Review Essay of Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season, by Nancy Shiffrin
Part 5 Shoah Theology and Other Shoah Matters, Including Antisemitism
What Do Americans Read When They Read about the Holocaust? , by Lawrence Baron
The Evolution and Devolution of a World Apart: The Nazi Concentration Camps and the Holocaust, by Paul R. Bartrop
Soft-core Holocaust Denial: Trivialization and Sanitization in the Early Twenty-first Century, by 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, by Samuel M. Edelman
“Thou Shalt Teach It to Thy Children”: What American Jewish Children’s Literature Teaches about the Holocaust, by Peter Haas
Once More to the Jabbok: The Place of Midrashic Dialogue in Post-Shoah Hermeneutics, by Henry F. Knight
Portraits of Two Jewries: Experiencing the Shoah through Fiction, by Richard Libowitz
No Vindication to Venomous Verdict: The Poem “Mr. Auschwitz” by Ronny Someck, by Yair Mazor
Holocaust or Shoah: The Greek Category versus Jewish Thought, by David Patterson
What Have We Learned from the Holocaust?, by John K. Roth
On Oil and Antisemitism, by Richard L. Rubenstein
Disraeli’s Boomerang Efforts to Combat Antisemitism: The Interplay of Ideas of Race, Religion, and Conspiracy, by Frederick M. Schweitzer
Writing, by William Wallis
The Landscape of Memory, by Ann Weiss
Part 6 Zionism and Hebrew Studies
Hebrew Literature, Academic Politics, and Feminist Criticism: A Confessional Essay, by Esther Fuchs
The Folktales of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim, by Lev Hakak
The Sha’ar Ha-Shamayim Synagogue (Keniset Ismā’īlīyah) in Cairo, Egypt, by Rivka Kern-Ulmer
On Three Early Incidences of Hebrew Script in Western Art, by Harris Lenowitz
The Literary Quest for National Revival: From Hazaz’s “The Sermon” (1942) to Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani (1990), by Gilead Morahg
The Two-Bodied People, Their Cosmos, and the Origin of the Soul, by Ziony Zevit
A Garber Bibliography
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