Old Series: Volume 7, Number 1 (1998)

Text Study 1998: Megillat Ha’atsma’ut
Israel’s Declaration of Independence after 50 Years

Jay Harris (Harvard University) offers a first reading of the document which will be commented on by various respondents and serve as the text for this year’s study session at the AAR/SBL meeting in Orlando, Florida (Nov. 21-24).

Jay Harris“A Camel Is a Horse Produced by a Committee”

Responses to Harris

Relevant links and resources


New Series: THE MALE BODY AS TEXT

Under the editorship of Philip Culbertson (New Zealand) we begin a series on male bodies as text.

 1. Introduction to the Series

 2. Philip Culbertson, DESIGNING MEN: READING THE MALE BODY AS TEXT

 3. Graham Ward, HUNG LIKE A HORSE

Book Discussion

Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, Authority
Harvard University Press, 1997

Steven Kepnes (Colgate University): A Review with a Postscript

Adam Seligman (Boston University): A Critique 

Feature

Marla Brettschneider

Replaying the Disappearing Feminist Act:
Jewish Studies and the Postmodern Turn

Book Review

Zachary Braiterman reviews Yudit Kornberg Greenberg’s new book on Franz Rosenzweig, Better Than Wine