
Departmental Papers (Jewish Studies)
Submissions from 2016
Janus Parallelism in Job 1:20, Michael Carasik
Means and End(ing)s: Nomos Versus Narrative in Early Rabbinic Exegesis, Natalie B. Dohrmann
Sacred Law: Greek, Roman, Jewish, Natalie B. Dohrmann
Review of Charles Berlin, Harvard Judaica in the 21st Century, Arthur Kiron
The 12 Covenants of Pinchas Hurwitz: How an 18th-Century Eastern European Kabbalist Jew Produced One of the First Hebrew Bestsellers, David B. Ruderman
The Blessing of Gerson D. Cohen, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2015
Can “Law” Be Private? The Mixed Message of Rabbinic Oral Law, Natalie B. Dohrmann
Heralds of Duty: The Sephardic Italian Jewish Theological Seminary of Sabato Morais, Arthur Kiron
Are Jews the Only True Monotheists? Some Critical Reflections in Jewish Thought from the Renaissance to the Present, David B. Ruderman
Early Modern Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
The Transformations of Judaism, David B. Ruderman
Towards a Preliminary Portrait of an Evangelical Missionary to the Jews: The Many Faces of Alexander McCaul (1799-1863), David B. Ruderman
Papers from 2014
Alfred Moldovan, 1921–2013, Arthur Kiron
Curating Judaica in a Digital Age, Arthur Kiron
Daniel J. Rettberg, 1952–2013, Arthur Kiron
Submissions from 2013
Review of Yair Zakovitch and Avigdor Shinan, From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends, Michael Carasik
Introduction: Rethinking Romanness, Provincializing Christendom, Annette Yoshiko Reed and Natalie B. Dohrmann
Submissions from 2012
Review of Alan F. Segal, Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth, Michael Carasik
Review of Joel M. Hoffman, And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning, Michael Carasik
Papers from 2011
A Renaissance of Jewish Readers in Victorian Philadelphia, Arthur Kiron
Submissions from 2010
Syntactic Double Translation in the Targumim, Michael Carasik
100 Years of JQR and Rabbinic Judaism, Natalie B. Dohrmann
Review of Piet Van Boxel and Sabine Arndt (Eds.), Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting Place of Cultures, Arthur Kiron
Three Reviewers and the Academic Style of the Jewish Quarterly Review at Midcentury, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2009
A Deuteronomic Voice in the Joseph Story, Michael Carasik
Review of Mark Leuchter, The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 26-45, Michael Carasik
Capital Punishment: Judaism, Natalie B. Dohrmann
Name Calling: Thinking About (the Study of) Judaism in Late Antiquity, Natalie B. Dohrmann
Papers from 2008
Review of Zeev Gries, The Book in the Jewish World 1700-1900, Arthur Kiron
Submissions from 2007
Review of J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, Michael Carasik
Review of Yosef Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America, 1735– 1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography, Arthur Kiron
Le Ghetto et les Débuts de l'Europe Nouvelle: Vers une Nouvelle Interpretation, David B. Ruderman
The Impact of Early Modern Jewish Thought on the Eighteenth Century: A Challenge to the Notion of the Sephardi Mystique, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2006
Review of Bruce Waltke, The Book of Proverbs, Chapters 1-15, Michael Carasik
Transcending the Boundary of Death: Ecclesiastes Through a Nabokovian Lens, Michael Carasik
An Atlantic Jewish Republic of Letters?, Arthur Kiron
Review of Charles Berlin, Harvard Judaica: A History and Description of the Judaica Collection in the Harvard College Library, Arthur Kiron
Submissions from 2005
Review of Duck-Woo Nam, Talking About God: Job 42: 7-9 and the Nature of God in the Book of Job, Michael Carasik
La Casa Editrice Belforte E L'Arte Della Stampa in Ladino/The Belforte Publishing House and the Art of Ladino Printing, Arthur Kiron
Papers from 2004
Mythologizing 1654, Arthur Kiron
Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Morais's Program of Sephardi Rabbinic Humanism in Victorian America, Arthur Kiron
Greenville Diary: A Norther Rabbi Confronts the Deep South, 1966-1970, David B. Ruderman
Review of Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2003
Midrash: The Story Behind the Story, Michael Carasik
Qohelet's Twists and Turns, Michael Carasik
Review of Michael V. Fox, Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther, Michael Carasik
The Boundaries of the Law and the Problem of Jurisdiction in an Early Palestinian Midrash, Natalie B. Dohrmann
Review of Stefan C. Reif, A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection, Arthur Kiron
Reflecting on American Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2002
Three Biblical Beginnings, Michael Carasik
Review of John M. Efron, Medicine and the German Jews: A History, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2001
Exegetical Implications of the Masoretic Cantillation Marks in Ecclesiastes, Michael Carasik
Livornese Traces in American Jewish History: Sabato Morais and Elia Benamozegh, Arthur Kiron
Submissions from 2000
Review of Yairah Amit, Shoftim (Judges: Introduction and Commentary), Michael Carasik
The Professionalization of Wisdom: The Legacy of Dropsie College and Its Library, Arthur Kiron
Jewish Medicine and Science, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1999
To See a Sound: A Deuteronomic Re-Reading of Exodus 20:15, Michael Carasik
Was There an English Parallel to the German Haskalah?, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1997
Response to Aryeh Cohen "Notes Towards an Erotics of Martyrdom", Michael Carasik
Review of William P. Brown, Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament, Michael Carasik
The Cultural Significance of the Ghetto in Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
Papers from 1996
"Dust and Ashes": The Funeral and Forgetting of Sabato Morais, Arthur Kiron
Review of Robert Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1995
Ruth 2,7: Why the Overseer Was Embarrassed, Michael Carasik
Medieval and Modern Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1994
Who Were the “Men of Hezekiah” (Proverbs XXV 1)?, Michael Carasik
Review of Gad Freudenthal (Ed.), Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1993
Review of Ilana Zinguer, L'Hébreu au Temps de la Renaissance, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1992
Jewish Preaching and the Language of Science: The Sermons of Azariah Figo, David B. Ruderman
Jewish Thought in Newtonian England: The Career and Writings of David Nieto (In Memory of Jacob J. Petuchowski), David B. Ruderman
Tragedy and Transcendence: The Meaning of 1492 for Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1991
Review of Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan, and Richard H. Popkin, Menasseh ben Israel and His World, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1989
At the Intersection of Cultures: The Historical Legacy of Italian Jewry Prior to the Emancipation, David B. Ruderman
The Academic Study of Judaism: A Challenge to the Reform Rabbi, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1988
Some Literary and Iconographic Influences of the Renaissance and Baroque on Sefer Gei Hizzayon of Abraham ben Hananiyah Yagel, David B. Ruderman
The Italian Renaissance and Jewish Thought, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1987
Review of Jonathan I. Israel, European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1550-1750, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1986
Rabbi and Teacher, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1984
Review of Johann Reuchlin, On the Art of the Kabbalah, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1982
Review of Paul Lawrence Rose, Bodin and the Great God of Nature: The Moral and Religious Universe of a Judaiser, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1975
Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio's Appearance in Italy as Seen through the Eyes of an Italian Jew, David B. Ruderman