New Publication: Melilah

Original series digitized and available online. Melilah: A Volume of Studies was founded by Edward Robertson and Meir Wallenstein and published (in Hebrew) by Manchester University Press from 1944 to 1955. Five substantial volumes, totaling 75 articles, were produced before the series was discontinued. In his editorial foreword to the first edition, Robertson explained that Melilah had been established to promote Jewish scholarship in the face of the threat posed by the Second World War and its aftermath; the title of the journal refers to the ears of corn that are plucked to rub in the hands before the grains can be eaten (Deut. 23:25). Further information.

New Publication: Melilah

Melilah: Journal of Jewish Studies vol. 10 (2013), with the theme of Israel Studies, edited by Daniel Langton and Renate Smithuis. Contents: 1. Daniel Langton, Abraham Isaac Kook's Account of 'Creative Evolution': A Response to Modernity for the Sake of Zion.  2. Simon Mayers, Zionism and Anti-Zionism in the Catholic Guild of Israel: Bede Jarrett, Arthur Day and Hans Herzl.  3. Roman Vater, Down with Britain, away with Zionism: the 'Canaanites' and 'Lohamey Herut Israel' between two adversaries.  4. Dvir Abramovich, Breaking Taboos in Israeli Holocaust Literature.  5. Tessa Satherley, 'The Simple Jew': The 'Price Tag' Phenomenon, Vigilantism, and Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh's Political Kabbalah. If you wish to be informed when a new volume of Melilah appears, please subscribe for an email announcement. Further information.

New Publication

Germany, Slavs and Jews. CJS fellow Marcel Stoetzler has co-authored with Christine Achinger an article entitled ‘German Modernity, Barbarous Slavs and Profit-seeking Jews: The Cultural Racism of Nationalist Liberals’, in Nations and Nationalism 19:4, 2013, pp. 739-760. Further information.

New Publication

Holocaust in Romania. CJS honorary fellow Ion Popa published an article entitled 'Visarion Puiu, the Former Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan (Archbishop) of Transnistria – A Historical Study on His Life and Activity Before, During and After the Holocaust (1935-1964)' in Holocaust. Studii și Cercetări [Holocaust. Study and Research] 5:1(6) (2013), 182-203. Further information.

New Publication

Eric Landowski. Bernard Jackson has published an essay entitled 'Trust in(g) Eric' in As interações sensíveis: Ensaios de sociossemiótica a partir da obra de Eric Landowski, ed. A.C. de Oliveira (São Paulo: Editions Estação das Letras e Cores e Editora CPS, 2013), 81-100.  Further information.

New Publication

Law in Hebrew Bible. Bernard Jackson has published an essay entitled 'Law and Religion in the Hebrew Bible' in Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean, ed. Reinhard G. Kratz and Anselm C. Hagedorn (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 189-209.  Further information.

New Publication

Biblical Law. Bernard Jackson has published an article entitled 'On the Values of Biblical Law and their Contemporary Application' in Political Theology 14/5 (2013), 602-18.  Further information.

New Publication

Judaism and Natural Sciences. CJS fellow Norman Solomon has published an entry entitled 'Natural Sciences in Judaism' in the Judaism section (Langton and Lancaster, eds) of Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religion ed. Anne L. C. Runchov and Lluis Orviedo (Springer, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Jewish views on Fetus. CJS fellow Norman Solomon has published a chapter entitled 'The Eight-Month Fetus' in As a Perennial Spring: A Festschrift Honoring Norman Lamm (Downhill Publishing LLC, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Jewish Pilgrimage. CJS fellow Norman Solomon has published a chapter entitled 'Jewish Pilgrimage and Peace' in Antón M. Pazo, ed, Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam (Ashgate, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Bible Geography. CJS fellow Adrian Curtis has published an entry entitled 'Geography and Topography in Biblical Interpretation' in Steven McKenzie, ed, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Writing the Bible. CJS fellow Adrian Curtis has published a chapter entitled 'Ilimilku of Ugarit: Copyist or Creator?' in P.R. Davies and T. Römer, eds, Writing the Bible (Acumen, 2013). Further information.

New Publication

Psalm Titles. CJS fellow Adrian Curtis has published a chapter entitled '"A Psalm of David, When... ": Reflections on Some Psalm Titles in the Hebrew Bible' in James K. Aitken. Jeremy M.S. Clines, and Christl M. Maier, eds, Interested Readers: Essays in Honor of David J.A. Clines (SBL 2013). Further information.