Entries from September 1, 2012 - September 30, 2012

Wednesday
Sep192012

BBC World Service

Heart And Soul (Religious Documentary Series): Clive Lawton travels to north Manchester to find out how the growth of Orthodox Jewish communities is affecting the faith. He and CJS fellow Dr Yaakov Wise meet various community leaders and discuss the changes taking effect. The programme will be broadcast 22 Sept 2012. Listen again.

Wednesday
Sep192012

Podcast of Sherman Lectures 2012

We are delighted to announce that the 2012 Sherman Lectures by Philip Alexander on 'The Messianic Idea in Judaism Revisited' are now available to see online. The lectures are entitled: 1. What is Jewish Messianism? 2. Messianism as an Historical-Political Process. 3. The Messiah as a Spiritual Redeemer. 4. “Neutralizations” of Messianism, Summary and Conclusions. Further information.

Wednesday
Sep192012

Research seminar programme 2012

We are delighted to annouce the research seminar programme for 2012-13. Most of the seminars this year have an Israel Studies theme, complementing the 2013 Sherman Lectures by Derek Penslar, who holds the first Chair in Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. In both semesters, the seminars will take place on Thursdays at 16:00 in room A7 in Samuel Alexander Building. Topics include The recognition of Israel as a Jewish State: Meanings and Challenges, Digital wars: social media and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Arabs and the Holocaust, Policing the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel, The EU and Israel: troubled neighbours?, An historical analysis of Turkish-Israeli relations, Israel has moved (Israël a déménagé). Further information.

Friday
Sep142012

New Publication

'Progressive Judaism.' Co-director Daniel Langton has co-edited the Judaism section and contributed to the multivolume Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Religions (Heidelberg: Springer, 2012). Further information.

Friday
Sep142012

New Publication

'The Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the United Kingdom.' CJS fellow George Brooke has contributed to The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research, ed. D. Dimant (Leiden: Brill, 2012). Further information.

Friday
Sep142012

New Publication

'The Pesharim and Prophetic Interpretation at Qumran.' CJS fellow George Brooke has contributed to A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, ed. M. Henze (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). Further information.

Friday
Sep142012

New Publication

Commentary on Psalms. CJS fellow Adrian Curtis has published Psalms (Epworth Commentaries 2004), reprinted with minor corrections, Eugene Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2012. This is an accessible commentary on the most widely read book of the Old Testament. Further information.

Friday
Sep142012

Public Lecture, University of Haifa

The rhetoric of bourgeois revolution and the 'Jewification of society'. On 16 January 2012, CJS fellow Marcel Stoetzler gave a lecture at the Bucerius Institute for Research of German Contemporary History and Society. Further information.

Friday
Sep142012

Anglican Clergy Training

Public Plenary on Jewish Mission. On Thu 26 July, CJS fellow Reuven Silverman and co-director Daniel Langton contributed to an Anglican clergy training day at Liverpool Hope University for the Southern North West Training Partnership on the subject of Jewish and Christian views on Mission. Further information.

Friday
Sep142012

New Publication

Antitheodicy, Atheodicy and Jewish Mysticism in Holocaust Theology. This is the publication of a PhD thesis produced within the Centre by Dan Garner (supervised by co-director Daniel Langton). The Holocaust has provoked many different Jewish theological responses. One of these has been the rejection and replacement of traditional theodicies which explain and justify suffering, with responses centred on ideas on recovery, consolation and divine mystery. Another is the use of Jewish mystical themes. This study shows how the presence of Jewish mysticism can be explained, at least in part, by this post-Holocaust collapse of theodicy. Further information.