David R. Blumenthal
(last update: 4/9/2022)
Professional
Information
Publications
Medieval
Contemporary Judaism
Personal
Information
Jay and
Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, retired
email:
reldrb@emory.edu
home: 1699 Mason
Mill Rd., Atlanta, GA 30329
home:
404-634-3833; (fax: 404-315-7187)
born:
December 28, 1938, Houston, Texas
wife: Ursula
Noether; three children: Philippe, Jonathan, Benjamin
citizenship:
U.S.A.
Professional Information
Education
B.A., Senior
Distinction, 1960, University of Pennsylvania
Junior Year at Hebrew University, Jerusalem
M.H.L., 1961;
Ordination, 1964, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Junior Year at Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Ph.D.,
Religion, 1972, Columbia University
Doctoral study in Paris with Professor G. Vajda, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 6/70 - 12/71
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
1956-76
Tuition
scholarships, University of Pennsylvania, 1956-60
Phi Beta
Kappa, 1959
Tuition scholarships,
Jewish Theological Seminary, 1960-64
Morris D.
Levine Memorial Prize in Modern Hebrew Literature, 1961
Sara Solis
Nathan Prize (co-recipient), 1962
Dr. Morris
Silverman Award in Liturgy (co-recipient), 1964
Summer
Faculty Research Stipend, Brown University, 1974
1976-80
Judaica
Library Acquisition grant, Atlanta Jewish Federation,
matched by
Emory University, 1976
Departmental
Enrichment Fund grants, 1976-80
Endowed Book
Funds, 1976-80
Fellowship for
Independent Research, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1978
Schatten
Scholarship in Judaic Studies, 1978
Witness to
the Holocaust Project grants, 1978-79
Dorot Israel
Travel grants, 1979
Publication
grant, Emory University, 1980
Publication
grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1980
Hebrew
Culture Foundation, 1977-79
1980-85
Schatten
Gallery in the Woodruff Library, 1980
National
Endowment for the Humanities grant for the Danzig Exhibit, 1980
Georgia
Council for the Humanities grant for the Danzig Exhibit, 1980
Atlanta
Jewish Federation grant for the Danzig Exhibit, 1980
German
Federal Republic grant for the Danzig Exhibit, 1980
Goethe
Institute grant for the Danzig Exhibit, 1980
Dorot Israel Travel grants, 1980-85
Dorot Publication grant, 1981
Release-time
Research Grant, Emory University, 1982
Crawford
Fellow, 1983
Dorot
Professorship in Hebrew Literature, 1984
Witness to
the Holocaust, Atlanta Jewish Federation, 1984
Witness to
the Holocaust, Georgia Council for the Humanities, 1980
Witness to
the Holocaust, 1980-85
Hebrew
Computational Linguistics, 1984
Special
Travel Grant, Dorot Foundation, 1985
Hebrew
Culture Foundation, 1980-85
1986-90
Dorot Israel
Travel Grants, 1986-90
Special Travel
Grant, Dorot Foundation, 1986, 1987
Publication
Grants, 1986
Jack Boozer
Fund, 1987-90
Emory
Williams Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities, 1988
Littauer
Publications Grant, 1989
National
Conference of Christians and Jews, Trialogue Conference Grant, 1989
Hebrew
Culture Foundation, 1986-90
Jewish
Studies Enrichment Fund, 1990
Special Dorot
Study Grant, 1990
1991-95
Dorot Israel
Travel Grants, 1991-95
Jewish
Studies Enrichment Fund, 1992, 1993, 1994
Position in
Jewish Law & Ethics, 1991, 1992, 1994
Dorot
Professorship in Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, 1993
Dorot grant
to Chinese Jews at West Georgia, 1993
program grant
to Schatten Gallery, 1994
Hermann
Noether Fund, 1994
Jewish
Studies M.A. Enrichment Fund, 1995
Jewish
Studies M.A. Tuition Grants, 1995
Holocaust
Studies Grant, 1995
Bulgarian
History Grant, 1995
Jewish Law
Program, 1995
2000-2019
European
Academy of Sciences, member, 2003-
Distinguished
Teaching Award, Bar Ilan University, 2007
Doctor of
Humane Letters, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, 2014, Spring.
Grants for
development of the Sol Singer Philatelic Collection, 2017.
Two-year
grant for instruction is Jewish and Islamic Studies in Candler School of
Theology, 2017.
Academic Appointments
Visiting Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Middle Eastern Languages, University of Minnesota, 1972-73
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Brown University, 1973-74
Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Brown University, 1974-76
Associate
Professor, Jay and Leslie Cohen Chair of Judaic Studies, Dept. of Religion,
Emory University, 1976-81
Associate
Faculty, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University, 1976-
Professor,
Jay and Leslie Cohen Chair of Judaic Studies, Dept. of Religion, Emory
University, 1981-2019
Visiting
Scholar, Columbia University, 1983-84
Visiting
Scholar, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1983-84
Visiting
Scholar in Jewish Mysticism, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, Spring
1995
Berman
Visiting Professor, Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, Spring 1996.
Skirball
Fellow, Oxford Centre for Post-Graduate Jewish Studies, England, Spring 1996.
Senior
Fellow, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion, Emory University,
2001-2003.
Research
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Israel, 2002-2003.
Instructor in
Jewish Mysticism, CET Jewish Studies Program, Prague, Spring 2006.
Visiting
Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Bar Ilan University, Israel, 2007, Fall.
Visiting
Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Leuven, Belgium, 2009, Winter.
David R.
Blumenthal prize for the best manuscript in medieval Jewish Studies, E.J.
Brill, December 2014
Haifa
University, Affiliated Professor, 2016-
Professional Societies
(* =
significant active responsibilities)
Phi Beta
Kappa, 1959-
American
Academy of Jewish Research, 1964-2019
American
Association of University Professors, 1972-2019
Association
for Jewish Studies, 1972-2019
*Executive Committee, 1976-83; *Board of Directors, 1976-83
Nominating Committee, Chairperson, 1976-77; Membership and Placement Committee, 1975-76
*Vice-President for Program, 1978-80; *Vice-President for Membership and Placement, 1980-83
American
Academy of Religion, 1973-2019
Vice-Chairperson, History of Judaism, 1978-80
Medieval
Academy of America, 1973-86
Editorial
Committee, Religious Studies Review, "Ethics and Related
Areas," 1978-80
*Editorial
Comm., Association for Jewish Studies Review, 1978-84
American
Academic Liaison Committee, Tel Aviv University, 1979-86
*Continuing
Seminar in Zionist Thought, 1979-86
*Editorial
Committee, Brown Judaic Studies, 1980-89
*Editor, Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval, 1981-94
Special
Advisor to Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1982-87
*Task Team on
Christian-Jewish Relations, Presbyterian Church, 1982-87
Atlanta
Hillel Board / Atlanta YAD, 1985-2000
Omicron Delta
Kappa, 1985-2019
Jewish Book
Council Awards, judge, 1986.
Theta Alpha
Kappa, 1987-2019
Interuniversity
Fellowship in Jewish Studies, advisory comm., 1986-2000
External
Review Team, Graduate Program in Religion, Temple University, 1988
*Constructive
Jewish Theology Group. Association for Jewish Studies, chairperson, 1986-95
*Jewish Task
Team Chairperson, International Trialogue, National Conference of Christians
& Jews, 1988-94
Academic
Advisory Committee, World Zionist Organization, 1989-94
Indo-Judaic
Studies,
editorial board, 1994-
Jewish Spectator,
contributing editor, 1995-2006
Wroxton
Seminar on the Holocaust, facilitator, 1996-2006
Church
Relations Committee, United States Holocaust Museum, member, 1997-2012
Anne Frank
Exhibit, Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, 1997
Reviews in
Religion and Theology, editorial board, 1998-
Journal of
Religion and Abuse, editorial board, 1998-2007
RFTF, 2000, steering
committee, 1998-2000
RFTF Scholars'
Platform, 2001-2002
European
Academy of Sciences, member, 2003-
European Academy
of Sciences, Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Scientific Committee of the
Advisory Council, member 2013-
Soul Repair
Center, Advisory Board, 2012-15
University Activities
University of
Minnesota, 1972-73
Committee on Jewish Studies, Secretary
Brown
University, 1975-76
Committee on Lectures and Colloquia, chpn.
Emory
University--on-going appointments (*=time-consuming)
*Development of the Jay and Leslie Cohen Chair of Judaic Studies, 1976-2019
*Internship Program, Director, 1981-95
Committee on Medieval Studies, 1976-86
"Witness to the Holocaust" Project, co-director, 1978-82; *director, 1982-94
*Goldwasser Lectureship Committee, Chair, 1984-2019
*Dorot Travel Fund Committee, Chair, 1980-2019
*Boozer-Noether Fund Committee, Chair, 1994-
*Jewish Studies M.A., Executive Committee, 1994-2019
Emory
University--short-term appointments (*=time-consuming)
Black Studies Coordinating Committee, 1976-80
Pitts Theology Library Committee, 1976-80
*University Symposium Committee, 1976-79
*Mellon Fellowship Committee, 1978-80
Academic Standards Committee, 1980-83
Dept. Library Representative, 1978-79, 1980-82
Educational Policy Committee, 1978-79
Nominating Committee, 1979
*Humanities Review Committee, 1980-81
*Danzig Exhibit Committee, co-chpn., 1980-81
Ad-hoc Tenure Review Committee, 1981
*Theological Studies Study Committee, 1980-81
*Human Rights Symposium Publication Committee, 1981-83
*Judaic Studies Search Committee, 1982, 1985, 1987
*Chairperson, Department of Religion, 1984-88
Christian Studies Search Committee, 1986, 1987
Law & Religion Committee, 1986-
Hebrew Search Committee, 1989-90
Aquinas Center Search Committee, 1990-91
Ethics Center, Advisory Council, 1989-96
AIDS Task Force, member, 1990-93
Schatten Gallery, exhibit, 1992
Aquinas Center, board, 1991-96
*Judaic Studies Search Committee, 1991-92
Faculty advisor, Emory Israel Political Affairs Committee, 2011-
Courses Taught
General
Introduction to Judaism
Understanding Contemporary Judaism (School of Theology)
Internship in Religion
Biblical Literature and Faith
Survey of the Jewish Mystical Tradition
Evil: Philosophic, Textual, and Literary Approaches
Evil: Social Scientific Approaches
Introduction to Religion: Judaism and Hinduism
Biblical Literacy
The Bible and Its Music
Medieval
Judaism in the Medieval Period
The Jewish Mystical Tradition
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (in transl.)
The Zohar (in transl.): beginner and advanced
Popular Jewish Culture
Saadia's Book of Beliefs and Convictions (in transl.)
Medieval Biblical Exegesis
The Akeda
Modern
The Modernization of Judaism
Survey of Contemporary Jewish Thought
The Holocaust
The Ethics of Judaism
Jewish Humor
Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Living Theologians Only
Abraham Joshua Heschel and Mordecai M. Kaplan
Elie Wiesel
Language and
Original Texts
Advanced Hebrew: grammar and literature
Medieval Hebrew: exegetical, philosophical, and poetic texts
Accelerated Hebrew: aural-oral and newspaper
Talmud: beginning and intermediate, (in translation)
Jewish liturgy
The Book of Psalms
Independent
Reading and Graduate Courses
The Religious Dimensions of Judaism
Judaeo-Arabic Texts
Three Medieval Religions
Women in the Midrashic Tradition
The Women's Prayerbook
Jewish Secularists and Jewish Civil Religion
Tradition and Change in Modern Cultures
Sources of Jewish Liberalism
The Biblical Roots of Dialogic Theology
Theism and Its Critics (team taught)
Seminar in Theological Writing
Methods in Jewish Studies
Jewish Spirituality
Publications
Abbreviations:
JAAR = Journal of
the American Academy of Religion
REJ = Revue des études juives
CJ = Conservative Judaism
JSS = Jewish
Social Studies
JQR = Jewish
Quarterly Review
JJS = Journal of
Jewish Studies
RSR = Religious
Studies Review
Medieval
Studies
Books
1974
The
Commentary of R. Hoter Ben Shelomo to the Thirteen Principles of Maimonides, E. J. Brill,
Leiden, as vol. 6 of Etudes sur le judaisme médiéval, ed. G. Vajda.
1980
"Perspectives
to the History of Judaism," editor, section of History, Religion, And
Spiritual Democracy: Essays in Honor of Joseph L. Blau, general editor, M. Wohlgelernter,
Columbia University Press, New York.
1981
The
Philosophic Questions and Answers of Hoter Ben Shelomo, E. J. Brill,
Leiden, as vol. 11 of Etudes sur le judaisme médiéval, ed. G. Vajda.
1984
Approaches to
the Study of Judaism in Medieval Times, vol. I, general editor, Scholars
Press, Chico.
1985
Al-Kitab Al-Muhtawi de Yusuf Al-Basir, texte, traduction, et commentaire par Georges Vajda, editor, volume 12 of
Etudes sur le judaisme médiéval, E. J. Brill, Leiden.
1985
Approaches to
the Study of Judaism in Medieval Times, vol. II, ed., Scholars Press,
Chico.
1988
Approaches to
the Study of Judaism in Medieval Times, vol. III, ed., Scholars Press.
2006
Philosophic
Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion, Bar Ilan University Press.
2010
Philosophic
Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion, Bar Ilan University Press;
released as ebook.
Articles
1966
"A Play
on Words in the Nineteenth Chapter of Job," Vetus Testamentum, 16:497-501.
(downloadable version)
1974
"A
Comparative Table of the Bombay, Cairo, and Beirut Editions of the Rasa'il
'Ikhwan Al-Safa'," Arabica, 21:186-203.
1977
(1)
"Maimonides' Intellectualist Mysticism and the Superiority of the Prophecy
of Moses," Studies in Medieval Culture, 10:51-68; reprinted in Approaches
to the Study of Judaism in Medieval Times, ed., D. Blumenthal (Scholars Press,
Chico: 1984) 27-52; reprinted in Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar
Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 3; Web
version.
(2) "On
the Intellect and the Rational Soul," Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 15:207-11.
1978
(1) "Peirush
Ratsionalisti le-Qeta`im mi-Pirqei de-Rabbi 'Eli`ezer," Tarbiz, 48:99-106.
(2)
"Some Methodological Reflections on the Study of Jewish Mysticism," Religion,
8:101-14.
1979
(1) "Was
There an Eastern Tradition of Maimonidean Scholarship," REJ, 128:57-68.
(2)
"Ezekiel's Vision Seen Through the Eyes of a Philosophic Mystic,"
JAAR, 47:417-27; reprinted in Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 10.
1980
(1) "The
Creator and the Computer," History, Religion, And Spiritual Democracy:
Essays in Honor of Joseph L. Blau, ed. M. Wohlgelernter (Columbia
University Press, N.Y.) 114-29. Web version.
(2) "An
Illustration of the Concept `Philosophic Mysticism' from Fifteenth Century
Yemen," Hommage à Georges Vajda: Etudes d'histoire et de pensee juive, ed.
G. Nahon, et al. (Louvain) 291-308; reprinted in Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in
Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch.
8.
(3) "The
Complexification of the Pleroma in Medieval Judaism," Niv Hamidrashia
(Jerusalem) 80-91; reprinted in Jacob's Ladder and the Tree of Life, ed. M.L. and P.G.
Kuntz (Peter Lang, Bern and New York: 1986) 179-90; Web
version.
(4) "On
the Study of Philosophic Mysticism," History of Judaism: The Next Ten
Years, ed. B. Bokser, Brown Judaic Studies (Scholars Press, Chico)
81-92; reprinted in Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 11.
(5) "On
the Theories of 'Ibda` and Ta'thir," Die Welt des Islams
20:162-77.
1981
"An
Example of Ismaili Influence in Post-Maimonidean Yemen," Studies in
Judaism and Islam Presented to S. D. Goitein, ed. S. Morag, et al. (Magnes
Press, Jerusalem) 155-74.
1982
"A
Philosophical-Mystical Interpretation of a Shi'ur Qomah Text," Studies
in Jewish Mysticism, ed. J. Dan and F. Talmage (Association for Jewish
Studies, Cambridge, Mass.) 153-71; reprinted in Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in
Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch.
9.
1983
"Religion
and the Religious Intellectuals: The Case of Medieval Judaism," Take
Judaism For Example, ed. J. Neusner (University of Chicago Press) 117-42.
1984
"Georges
Vajda: In Memoriam," AJSnewsletter 35:3-5.
1985
(1)
"Maimonides on Mind and Metaphoric Languages," Approaches to the
Study of Judaism in Medieval Times, vol. II, 123-32.
(2) "Tirgum
`Aravi le-Hilkhot Yesode Ha-Torah" (Hebrew), Da'at 14:113-44.
(3) "A
Lesson from the Arcane World of the Heavenly Spheres according to
Maimonides," Hebrew Annual Review (special Goitein Festschrift)
9:79-80.
1986
(1)
"Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being and the Medieval Jewish
Tradition," Jacob's Ladder and the Tree of Life, ed. M. L. and P.G.
Kuntz (Peter Lang, Bern and New York) 179-90; reprinted from Niv
Hamidrashia (Jerusalem: 1980) 80-91; Web
version.
(2) "Maimonides on Angel Names," Hellenica
et Judaica, ed. A. Caqot (Peeters, Leuven) 351-63.
1987
(1) "On
Being a Rationalist and a Mystic," The Reconstructionist, 53:25-8;
reprinted in Philosophic
Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 12. web version.
(2) "Maimonides: Prayer, Worship, and
Mysticism," Prière, Mystique et Judaisme, ed. R. Goetschel
(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France) 89-106; reprinted in Appproaches
to Judaism in Medieval Times, ed. D. Blumenthal (Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1988) 1-16; reprinted in Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 4; Web version.
1994
"Croyance et attributs essentiels dans la théologie
juive médiévale et moderne," REJ 152:415-23. Web version.
2005
(1)
"What is 'Philosophic Mysticism,'" Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 1.
(2) "Philosophic
Mysticism: The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism," Esoteric and
Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture, ed. B. Hary and H.
Ben-Shammai (Brill, Leiden: 2006) 1-18; reprinted in Philosophic
Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 5; Web version.
(3)
"Maimonides' Philosophic Mysticism," Maimonides and Mysticism,
ed. A. Elqayam and D. Schwartz, Da'at 64-66 (2009) V-XXV; reprinted in Philosophic
Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 6; Web
version.
(4)
"Ha-Rambam ke-Mystikan" (Hebrew), 5-16 (Hebrew); reprinted in Philosophic
Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 13.
2006
“Maimonides:
Science Generates Faith” Decalogue
Lecture Series, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University,
9/18/2006.
2010
"Dhamari,
Mansur Sulayman (Hoter ben Shelomo)," Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, ed. N.
Stillman, (E. J. Brill, Leiden: 2010) 1: 69-70.
Book Reviews
1974-75
(1) N. Golb, The
Spertus Catalogue of Judaica: Yemenite Manuscripts, REJ, 23:343-5.
(2) S. D.
Goiten, Letters of Medieval Traders, JSS, 36:336-8.
(3) G. Se'd-Rejna, Le Commentaire sur la Liturgie
Quotidienne, History of Religions, 15:100-3.
(4) I. Efros,
Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Sociology and Social Research, 2:34-5.
1977
(1) L.
Jacobs, Mystical Testimonies, REJ, 136:450-2.
(2) A.
Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, International Journal for Philosophy
and Religion, 10:265-8.
(3) C.
Touati, La Pensée Philosophique de Gersonide; D. Hartman, Maimonides:
Torah and Philosophic Quest; N. Samuelson, Gersonides on God's Knowledge;
and L. Schwartz, Wolfson of Harvard, RSR, 5:107-11.
1980
H. Halm, Kosmologie und Heilslehre der frühen
islamischen Gnosis, Die Welt des Islams, 20:116-7.
1981
I. Twersky, Introduction
to the Code of Maimonides, JJS, 32:108-112.
1982
(1) S.
Klein-Braslavy, Maimonides' Interpretation of the Story of Creation
(Hebrew), JQR, 72:223-5.
(2) F. Lucchetta, Epistola Sul'intelletto, JAAR, 50:485-6.
(3) D.
Halperin, The Merkabah in Rabbinic Literature, Journal of Biblical
Literature, 101:612-3.
(4) I.
Marcus, Piety and Society, JQR, 73:87-9.
1983
(1) A. J.
Heschel, Maimonides: A Biography, JJS, 34:108-9.
(2) T.
Schrire, Hebrew Magic Amulets, JSS, 45:187.
1984
(1) Y.
Reinharz and D. Swetschinski, Mystics, Philosophers, and Politicians,
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 22:123-5.
(2) P.
Fenton, The Treatise of the Pool, JAAR, 52:398-9.
(3) M. Cohen,
The Shi'ur Qomah: Liturgy and Theurgy in Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish Mysticism,
REJ, 143:167-8.
1985
D. Matt, Zohar:
The Book of Enlightenment, Jewish Spectator, Winter, 51. web version.
1988
M. Idel, The
Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia, Jewish Spectator, Fall, 37-9.
1989
P. Fenton, Deux traités de mystique juive, REJ,
148:3-9, 118-20.
1990
M. Idel, Kabbalah:
New Perspectives, American Historical Review, (Feb.) 127-8.
1995
I. Tishby, The Book of
Splendor, JAAR (summer) 285-7. Web version.
2000
(1) J. Faur, Homo
Mysticus: A Guide to Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, Review of Books in
Religion and Theology, 7:5 (November) 487-90. Web
version.
2001
J. Levenson, The
Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son, Revue des études juives, 160:1-2
(janvier 2001) 265-68.
T. Linafelt, Strange
Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust, Conservative Judaism, (fall 2001)
111-12.
2003
J. Dan, The Heart and
the Fountain: An Anthology of Jewish Mystical Experiences, Reviews in Religion
and Theology, 10:2 (April 2003) 133-35.
2004
B. Abrahamov,
Divine Love
in Islamic Mysticism: The Teachings of Al-Ghazzali and Al-Dabbagh, Reviews in
Religion and Theology, 11:1 (February 2004) 122-23. Web version.
2008
A. Even-Chen,
The Binding
of Isaac: Mystical and Philosophical Interpretations of the Bible (Hebrew),
Reviews in
Religion and Theology, 15:2 (March 2008) 269-82.
Book Notices
1976-79
(1) E.
Gottlieb, Studies in Kabbalah Literature (Hebrew), AJSN, 21:11.
(2) L.
Jacobs, Hasidic Thought, The New Review of Books and Religion, 2:12
(3) F. Talmage, Disputation and Dialogue, JAAR,
46:82.
(4) L.
Guttmann, Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, RSR, 5:226.
1980-85
(1) H. A.
Wolfson, Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy, JAAR, 48:294.
(2) M. Hayoun, transl., Le Nom et les symboles
de Dieu by Gershom Scholem, RSR, 10:189.
1986-90
(1) A. J. Heschel,
The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov, RSR 12:176.
(2) L. Fine,
Safed Spirituality, RSR, 13:85.
1991-95
(1) N.
Janowitz, The Poetics of Ascent, RSR, 17:44
(2) M. Idel, Golem,
RSR, 17:270
(3) A. Green,
Devotion and Commandment, RSR, 17:267
(4) A. Keller, Approche de la Mystique, RSR,
18:124.
(5) C. Mopsik, Les grandes textes de la Cabale, RSR 20:345-6
Lectures and Papers
1974-75
(1)
"Chapter Ten: On Ecstasy, of Rabbi Judah al-Botini," New England
Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Fall.
(2) "Maimonides
on Euthanasia, A Preliminary Survey," Kennedy Center for Bioethics,
Georgetown University, Spring.
1975-76
(1) An
Example of Ismaili Influence in Post-Maimonidean Yemen," International
Philosophy Conference, New York, Spring.
(2)
"Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being and the Medieval Jewish
Tradition," The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Spring.
1977-78
(1)
"Does Teaching Religion Require a Religious Commitment," Panel,
Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Fall.
(2) "A
Philosophic-Mystical Interpretation of a Shi`ur Qomah Text," Regional
Conference, Association for Jewish Studies, Spring.
(3)
"Understanding the Kabbalah: How to Decipher a Zoharic Text,"
Concordia University, Spring.
(4)
"Maimonides: Medieval Jewish Intellectual," University of Tennessee,
Winter.
(5) "On
Studying Philosophic Mysticism," Richter Conference Brown University,
Spring.
1982-83
"Maimonides:
Philosophical Structure and Mystical Piety," Yale University, Fall.
1983-84
(1) "The
Evidence for Maimonides' Philosophic Mysticism," Center for Israel and
Jewish Studies, Columbia University, Winter.
(2) Scholar
in Residence, Southeastern Region of the Central Conference of American Rabbis,
Winter.
(3) Scholar
in Residence, Ahavas Israel, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Spring.
(4)
Conference on Judaeo-Arabic Studies, University of Chicago, Spring.
1984-85
(1) "Maimonides: Prayer, Worship, and
Mysticism," Colloque sur la priere, mystique, et judaisme, Université de
Strasbourg, Fall.
(2) The State
of Scholarship in Maimonidean Studies, Harvard University, Fall.
(3)
"Jewish Mysticism," Bureau of Jewish Education, 8 sessions, Fall.
(4)
"Maimonides: Astrophysics and Mysticism," Trinity College, Hartford,
Spring.
(5)
"Maimonides as a Rationalist Mystic," Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo,
Spring.
1985-86
(1) Jury for
doctorat d'etat of Paul Fenton, Université de Lyon, France, Winter.
(2)
"Maimonides: Astrophysicist, Philosopher, and Mystic," lecture in
honor of the 850th anniversary of his birth, Lehigh University, Milenburg
College, Southeastern Region of the Rabbinical Assembly, University of San
Diego; Fall, Winter, and Spring.
(3)
Conference on Jewish Mysticism, invited participants, Jewish Theological
Seminary, Spring.
(4)
"Maimonides' Views on the Messiah and His Time," Jewish Family
Service, Atlanta, Spring.
1986-87
(1) Study
session on Maimonides, Southeast Rabbinical Assembly, Winter.
(2) Four
study sessions on Maimonides, Southeast Rabbinical Assembly, Winter.
(3) Two study
sessions on Maimonides, Rabbinical Assembly national convention, Spring.
1987-88
Study
sessions on Maimonides, University of Minnesota, Temple of Aaron (St. Paul),
Spring.
1991-1992
(1) "Croyance et attributs essentiels dans la
théologie médiévale et moderne," Journée d'étude en memoire de G. Vajda,
Paris, Fall.
(2)
"Maimonides," Emory University, Fall.
2000-2007
(1-4)
"Maimonides' Philosophic Mysticism," Ben Gurion University, Institute
for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem), Haifa University, Hebrew Academy of Sciences
(5)
"Ha-Rambam ke-Mystikan," Bar Ilan University.
(6)
"Maimonides and the Geniza," Emory University.
(7) jury for
doctoral examination of Hervé Mimoun, Sorbonne, Paris
(8)
"Maimonides' Thirteen Principles of the Faith: Just What Did He Say,"
Atlanta, GA.
2008-2018
(1) "Does
Philosophy Lead to Mysticism: the Case of Maimonides," European Jewish
Community Center, Brussels; University of Antwerp.
(2) "The
Akedot: Penitential Prayers based on the Akeda," Atlanta, GA
(3) L’univers spirituel et intellectuel de Maïmonide,”
Université de Lausanne, 12/12/13.
(4)
“The Worldview of Maimonides: Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew Problems,” (lecture) NYU,
fall 2018.
Contemporary Judaism
Books
1978
Understanding
Jewish Mysticism, vol. 1, Ktav Publishing, New York, as vol. 2 of The Library
of Judaic Learning, ed. J. Neusner.
1982
Understanding
Jewish Mysticism, vol. 2, Ktav Publishing, New York, as vol. 4 of The Library
of Judaic Learning, ed. J. Neusner.
1984
Braille
edition of Understanding Jewish Mysticism, R. Rubin, Jewish Braille
Institute, New York.
1985
Emory Studies
on the Holocaust: An Interfaith Inquiry, ed., Emory University.
1986
"... And
Bring Them Closer to Torah": The Life and Works of Rabbi Aaron H.
Blumenthal, editor, Ktav Publishing, New York.
1988
(1) God at
the Center, Harper and Row.
(2) Emory
Studies on the Holocaust: An Interfaith Inquiry, Vol. 2, co-ed. S. Hanover,
Emory University.
1993
Facing the
Abusing God: A Theology of Protest, Westminster / John Knox.
1994
God at the
Center,
reprinted, Jason Aronson, New Jersey.
1999
The Banality
of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah, Georgetown
University Press.
2001
Yankele: A
Holocaust Survivor's Bittersweet Memoir, by Alex Gross, University Press
of America.
2002
Dieu au
coeur,
translation of God at the Center, trans. by H. Krief, Le Cerf, Paris.
2009
La Banalité du bien et du mal, translation of The Banality of Good and Evil, trans. A. Blum, Le
Cerf, Paris.
2011
Salvador
Dali's "Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel," Exhibit at the Marcus Hillel
Center, curator, with" Introduction and Commentary" (web version) and podcast.
2014
David R.
Blumenthal: Living with God and Humanity, vol. 7 Library of
Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, ed. H. Tirosh-Samuelson and A.
Hughes. E. J. Brill, Leiden, Boston.
2015
Portal for
Jewish Prayer, Reverberations, Nov. 2015.
2016
Keeping God
at the Center: Contemplating and Using the Prayerbook, Rowman and
Littlefield, Lanham.
Articles
1967
"Commentary
on Agnon," The Reconstructionist, 33:16-22.
1977
"Revelation:
A Modern Dilemma," CJ, 31:64-9.
1979
"Scholarly
Approaches to the Holocaust," Sho'ah, 1:21-7; reprinted, Emory
Studies on the Holocaust (1985) 14-35.
1980
(1)
"Speaking About God in the Modern World," CJ, 33:49-59.
(2)
"Forgotten, Completely Forgotten -- A Hasidic Story with Commentary,"
Keeping Posted, 25:18-19.
(3) "On
Teaching the Holocaust," The Reconstructionist, 47:12-18; reprinted
in Creative Jewish Education: A Reconstructionist Response, ed. J. Stein
and J. Staub (Rossell Books, N.Y.: 1985) 171-7; reprinted, Emory Studies on
the Holocaust (1985) 152-61.
(4) "The
Popular Jewish Response to the Holocaust: An Initial Reflection," Sho'ah,
2:3-5.
1981
(1) "Of
All Small Things...," Judaism, 30:247-8. Web version.
(2) "In
the Shadow of the Holocaust," Jewish Spectator (Winter) 11-14;
reprinted in expanded form as, "Memory and Meaning in the Shadow of the
Holocaust," Emory Studies on the Holocaust (1985) 114-22. Web version.
1982
"Curriculum
on Teaching Jewish Spirituality," National Council of Jewish Women (not
published).
1984
(1)
"Anti-semitism" (9-12), "Election" (50-2),
"Exile" (62-4), "Faith" (67-9), "Israel" (94-7),
"Love" (119-21), "Martyrdom" (124-7),
"Personhood" (142-5), "Righteousness" (168-70),
"Sin" (186-8), A Dictionary Of Jewish-Christian Dialogue, ed.
L. Klenicki and G. Wigoder (Paulist Press).
(2) "The
Present and the Future: The Jewish Ideal," Society and Salvation,
ed. P. Sigal (Grand Rapids) 1-9.
1985
(1)
"Danzig: 1939' -- An Exercise in Interfaith Understanding," Emory
Studies on the Holocaust, 136-45.
(2) The
Place of Faith and Grace in Judaism (Center for Judaic-Christian Studies,
Austin); reprinted "The Place of Faith and Grace in Judaism,"
reprinted in A Time to Speak: The Evangelical-Jewish Encounter, ed. A.
J. Rudin and M. R. Wilson (Center for Judaic-Christian Studies, Austin, Texas:
1987) 104-114.
1986
"Hitpallalti
le-Yad 'Ehad ha-Nitsolim," (poem) Siah Mesharim 10:9; reprinted Emory Studies on
the Holocaust, II (1988) i. Web
version.
1987
(1)
"Mercy," Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought, ed. A Cohen
and P. Mendes Flohr (Scribners, New York) 589-95.
(2) "The
Place of Faith and Grace in Judaism," reprinted in A Time to Speak: The
Evangelical-Jewish Encounter, ed. A. J. Rudin and M. R. Wilson (Center for
Judaic-Christian Studies, Austin, Texas) 104-114.
(3) "On
Being a Rationalist and a Mystic," The Reconstructionist, 53:25-8;
reprinted in Philosophic
Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion ( Bar Ilan University Press: 2005) ch. 12. web version.
1988
"I
Prayed Next to a Survivor," (poem, Hebrew & English), Emory Studies
on the Holocaust, II: ii-iii; reprinted Peace Prayers, ed. C.
Leadingham, et al. (Harper & Row, San Francisco: 1992) 57-8. Web version.
1989
(1)
"Jewish Prayer Techniques," News Notes (Fellowship of United
Methodists in Worship: Summer) 3-5.
(2) "God
at the Center: Selected Meditations on Jewish Spirituality," Studies in
Formative Spirituality, 9:3, 267-81.
1990
"Creation
-- What Difference Does It Make?" God and Creation, ed. D. Burrell
& B. McGinn (Notre Dame) 154-72. Web version.
1991
(1)
"Choosing a God Language," Problems in Contemporary Jewish
Theology, ed. D. Cohn-Sherbok (Edwin Mellen, Lewiston) 69-92.
(2)
"Domesticating Mysticism," CJ, 43:4 (Summer) 47-55.
1992
"Abraham
Joshua Heschel: The Inadequacy of the Ecumenical Perspective" Journal
of Ecumenical Studies, 29:249-53. Web
version.
1993
(1) "Who
Is Battering Whom," CJ, 45:72-89. Web version.
(2)
"Michael Wyschograd," Interpreters of Judaism in the Late
Twentieth Century, ed. S. Katz (Washington, B'nai B'rith) 393-405. Web version.
1994
(1) "Can
Jews Celebrate Dday," Atlanta Jewish Times, 6/3/94
(2)
"Revisiting American Jewish Civil Religion," Jewish Spectator,
Summer, 52-317
(3)
"Identifying," Creating Community, ed. J. Leavey (Atlanta,
Atlanta Jewish Federation) 21-8.
(4)
"Response to Rabbi A. James Rudin," Journal for Preachers,
Lent, 26-9.
(5)
"Jewish Perspectives on Poverty," Rethinking the Nature of Poverty.
(University of Georgia: 1994) 51-6; reprinted from first edition, 1991. Web version.
1995
(1)
"Where God is Not: The Book of Esther and the Song of Songs," Judaism,
95:80-9. Web version.
(2) "My
Faith is Deeper Now," Jewish Spectator (Spring) 40-3.
(3) "Angesichts des missbrauchenden Gottes: eine
Protesttheologie," Dialogue, 20 (Dez.) 5-21. Web version.
1996
(1)
"What American Jews Believe: A Symposium," Commentary (August)
23-4; reprinted The Jewish Political Chronicle (June / July 1999) 41-42;
Web version.
(2)
"Interreligious Permeability," Buddhist-Christian Studies, 16:
45-8.
(3)
"Letter from Rome," Cross Currents, (Fall) 388-93. Web version.
(4) "A
Spiritual Guide for the Jewish Patient," Voices in Our Midst: Spiritual
Resources, ed. G. R. Gary (Atlanta, Scholars Press) 37-40. Web version.
1997
(1)
"From Anger to Inquiry," From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable,
ed. C. Rittner and J. Roth (Westport, CT, Praeger) 149-55. Web version.
(2)
"Foreword," Echoes from the Holocaust, M. Kimmelman
(Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee Press) xii-xvi.
(3)
"Jacob B. Agus as a Student of Medieval Jewish Philosophy and
Mysticism," American Rabbi: The Life of Jacob B. Agus, ed. S. Katz
(New York, New York University Press) 85-108.
(4)
"Creating Zoharic Texts," CJ, (Summer) 59-68. Web version.
(5) develop
my website <http://www.emory.edu/UDR/BLUMENTHAL>
(6) Reading Genesis (a web-designed article)
(7) Praying Ashrei (Meditations on Psalm 145) (a
web-designed article)
1998
(1) "A
Voice Beyond Auschwitz: Holiness" (reprint of chapter 3 of Facing the
Abusing God ), Signposts on the Way of Torah, ed. J. Neusner
(Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Publishing) 321-29.
(2)
"Theodicy: Dissonance in Theory and Praxis," Concilium, 1:
95-106; appeared simultaneously also in Italian, German, French, and Spanish. Web version.
(3)
"Repentance and Forgiveness," Cross Currents, (Spring) 75-81;
reprinted Journal
of Religion and Abuse, (2005) 69-76; reprinted Jewish-Christian
Relations (2012) on their website <jcrelations.com>. Web version. Translated into French as "Le
repentir et le pardon," by P. Lambert and J. Duhaime, " http://jcrelations.com/Le_Repentir_et_le_Pardon.3934.0.html?L=6.
(4) The Creator and the Computer (a web-designed
article)
(5) "The
Banality of Good and Evil: Antisocial Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, and Jewish
Religious Teaching," Good and Evil After Auschwitz: Ethical
Implications for Today (Rome, SIDIC) 31:16-17. [See below, 2000:6.]
(6)
"Reading Creation," Bibel und Midrasch, ed. G. Bodendorfer and
M. Millard, Forschung zum Alten Testament, 22:117-66. Web version.
(7)
"Many Voices, One Voice," Judaism 188:74 (Fall 1998) 465-74.
(8)
"Kristallnacht," Atlanta Jewish Times, 11/27/98, p. 65.
(9)
"Psalm 145: A Liturgical Reading," Hesed Ve-Emet: Studies in Honor
of Ernest S. Frerichs, ed. J. Magness and S. Gitin, Brown Judaica
Series, 320 (Atlanta, Scholars Press: 1998) 13-35. Web version.
(10)
"Confronting the Character of God," God in the Fray: A Tribute to
Walter Brueggemann, ed. T. Linafelt and T. Beal (Minneapolis, Fortress
Press: 1998) 38-51. Web version.
(11) "La Banalità del Bene e del Male," Il
Bene e Il Male Dopo Auschwitz, ed. E. Baccarini
and L. Thorson (Milan, Paoline: 1998) 395-415.
(12) "Kavvana: l'art de la prière
juive," transl. G. Séd-Rajna, La vie spirituelle (1998) 279-84. Web version.
1999
"Despair
and Hope in Post-Shoah Jewish Life," Bridges: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 6:3/4 (1999) 1-18;
reprinted in The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and
Beyond, ed. R. Frey (Dallas, University Press of America: 2004) 173-86; Web version
2000
(1)
"From Wissenschaft to Theology," Selving: Linking Work to
Spirituality, ed. W. Cleary (Milwaukee, WI, Marquette University Press:
2000) 102-112. Web
version
(2) develop
the Jewish Studies website <http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/JewishStudies>
(3) "Tselem;
Toward an Anthropopathic Theology of Image," Christianity in Jewish
Terms, ed. T. Frymer-Kensy, et al., (Oxford, Westview
Press: 2000) 337-47. Web version
(4) "Le Kaddish, la prière juive pour les
morts," La vie spirituelle (sept. 2000) 539-62. Web version.
(5)
"What to Do: Approaches to Post-Holocaust Education," Humanity at
the Limit, ed. M. A. Signer (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press:
2000) 355-69. Web version
(6) "The
Banality of Good and Evil: Antisocial Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, and Jewish
Religious Teaching," Good and Evil After Auschwitz: Ethical
Implications for Today, ed. J. Bemporad, et al. (Hoboken, NJ, Ktav
Publishing: 2000) 285-99. [The version printed by SIDIC, above 1998:5, is a
shortened version. This long version was also translated into German, French,
and Italian in those editions of this book.] Web
version.
2001
(1)
"Observations and Reflections on the History and Meaning of the
Kaddish," Judaism, 197:50 (Winter 2001) 35-51; Web version
(2) "The
Violence of God; Dialogical Fragments," Cross Currents (Summer
2001) 177-200; Web
version
(3)
"Perpetrator/Rescuer: The Two Key Factors," Remembering for the
Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, ed. J. Roth and E. Maxwell
(Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001), II; 217-29. Web version
(4)
"Three is Not Enough: Jewish Reflections on Trinitarian Thinking," Ethical
Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich, ed.
T. Vial and M. Hadley (Providence, RI, Brown Judaic Studies: 2001) 181-95. Web version
(5)
"Kaddish," Judaism 197:50 (Winter 2001) 35-51 and Jewish
Spectator (Winter 2001) 29-36. Web version
2002
(1)
"'Make Them as Tumbleweed,'" Strike Terror No More: Theology,
Ethics, and the New War, ed. J. Berquist (St. Louis, Chalice Press: 2002)
130-37. Web version
(2)
"Liturgies of Anger," Cross Currents (Summer 2002) 178-99. Web version
(3)
"Commentary to Sefer Yetsira" taken from Understanding Jewish
Mysticism, Servant
of the Light website (Fall 2002).
2003
"The
Shulamite is Not the Woman of Valor," Relating to the Text:
Interdisciplinary and Form-Critical Insights on the Bible, ed. T. Sandoval and
C. Mandolfo (London/New York: T & T Clark International: 2003) 216-31.
2004
(1)
"Despair and Hope in Post-Shoah Jewish Life," The Genocidal
Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and Beyond, ed. R. Frey (Dallas,
University Press of America: 2004) 173-86; Web version.
(2)
"Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Icons of our Century," The Genocidal
Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and Beyond, ed. R. Frey (Dallas,
University Press of America: 2004) 241-56. Web version
2005
(1) "Now
that John Paul II is No Longer with us," Cross Currents (Summer
2005) 234-40. Web version.
(2)
"Repentance and Forgiveness," reprinted Journal of Religion and Abuse,
(2005) 69-76; original Cross Currents, (Spring) 75-81. Web version.
(3) "The
Images of Women in the Hebrew Bible," Marriage, Sex, and Family in Judaism, ed. M. Broyde,
(Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield: 2005) 15-60. Web
version
2006
(1)
"Ha-Aderet veha-Emunah," together with Sally Chambers Pias; published
only in the Web version.
2007
(1)
"Women in Israeli and Topical Judaica Philately," together with Levi
Stewart; published only in the Web version.
(2)
"Cross Disciplinary Notes on Teaching the Shoah: Four Questions for Most
Holocaust Courses," Testimony, Tensions, and Tikkun: Teaching the Holocaust in
Colleges and Universities, Myrna Goldenberg and Rochelle L. Millen,
eds. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2007) 160-71. Web version.
2008
(1)
"Emil Fackenheim: Theodicy, and the Tikkun of Protest," The Philosopher as Witness:
Fackenheim and Responses to the Holocaust, ed. M. Morgan and B.
Pollack (SUNY Press, Albany NY: 2008) 105-16. Web
version.
(2)
"Beware of Your Beliefs," Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Confront the
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, ed. L. Grob and R. Roth (Eerdmans,
Grand Rapids MI: 2008) 50-67. Web version.
Republished at: Mukta-Mona
Writer's Corner and Islam Watch.
2010
"Comment
empêcher un nouvel holocauste?" Revue
d'éthique et de théologie morale, 259 (juin
2010) 31-51. Web version.
"Israeli and Topical
Judaica Philately."
2011
"Protesting
an Abusive God: Response to Bernard Schweizer," Chronicle of
Higher Education, Jan. 30, 2011. Web
version.
2012
"Le
repentir et le pardon," translation of "Repentance and
Forgiveness," transl. P. Lambert and J. Duhaime, Relations
judéo-chrétiennes, website
only. Also includes reproducing the original English, website
only.
2013
(1) "How
Might Another Shoah be Prevented," Conservative Judaism, 64:4 (Summer 2013) 99-109. Web version.
(2) "Praying
Angry: A Jewish View," Rverberations, (Oct. 24, 2013).
(3) "What Did Joseph Want from His Brothers, “ TheTorah.com
(12/5/13).
2014
(1) "Resistance as Happiness,"
Cross
Currents (March 2014) 73-89.
(2) “The Akeda and Rosh ha-Shana: Invoking the Original Oath God was Forced to
Make,” TheTorah.com
(Sept. 2014).
(3) "The Rabbi and the Friar." Web
Version; reprinted First
Things, (Oct. 2014).
(4) “The Rabbinic Chronology of Lech Lecha,” TheTorah.com
(Oct. 2014).
2015
“Madonna’s
“Isaac” / Madonna’s Akeda: A Lesson for Scholars, Old and Young,” The
Immanent Frame, 5/15/2015.
2016
“Filling the
Awkward Silence: A Response to Laura Levitt on the Passing of Jacob Neusner,” Religion
Dispatches, 12/16/2016.
2017
(1)
"Soul Repair: A Jewish View," Exploring Moral Injury in Sacred Texts, ed. J.
McDonald (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Philadelphia: 2017) 33-46. Web version.
(2) “What are
the Limits of Protest Theology? Review Essay?” D. Weiss, Pious
Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism and D. Blumenthal,
Facing the
Abusing God: A Theology of Protest, Reviews in Religion and Theology,
24:4 (2017) 620-25. Web version.
(3) “Aaron
Hughes’s ‘Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast” and the Man I Knew,” Religious
Studies News, 10/4/2017.
(4)
Translation of "The Creator and the Computer" into Swedish by Swedish
by Weronika Pawlak, 9/22/17. (Web
version).
2018
Translation
of "Reading Genesis" into Slovak by Barbora Lebedova, 4/10/18. (Web
version).
Translation
of "Salvador Dali's 'Aliyah: The Rebirth of Israel'" in to Hindi by
Nikol Barton, 5/15/18. (Web version).
Translation
of "Repentance and Forgiveness" into Slovak by Barbora Lebedova,
5/28/18. (Web
version).
Translation of Salvador Dali’s “Aliyah, the rebirth of Israel,”
into Punjabi by Amaan Singh, 12/19/18. (web version).
2020-
“A
Plague of Confusion: Coronavirus and Passover,” Canopy Forum, April 6,
2020. Web
version.
"Soul Repair: A Jewish View," Canopy
Forum, reprinted from Exploring Moral Injury in Sacred Texts, ed. J.
McDonald (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Philadelphia: 2017) 33-46, Canopy
Forum, Part
One; Part
Two; Part
Three.
“Rabbi Lord
Jonathan Sacks, In Memoriam,” CSLR
Celebrates the Life of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, November 13, 2020.
David
Rosenthal, Interview with me on Dali’s “Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel, Times
of Israel, 10.29.2012.
Book Reviews
1977
J.
Soloveitchik, On Repentance, CJ, 31:37-9.
1978
(1) S.
Wiesenthal, The Sunflower, JSS, 40:330-2.
(2) D.
Hartman, Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest, JJS, 29:102-3.
(3) C. ten
Boom, The Hiding Place and I. Rosenbaum, Holocaust and Halakha,
Journal of Religion, 58:447-52; reprinted, Emory Studies on the
Holocaust, 1:79-88.
(4) G. Green,
Holocaust, (television version), Intermountain Jewish News, 5/5/78, p.
4; excerpted in The Jewish Observer, May 1978, p. 33; excerpted in Shalom,
a quarterly newsletter published by the jewish peace fellowship, 11:2
(Summer 1978); reprinted in Martyrdom and Resistance, 5:1 (Sept.-Oct.
1978) p. 8; reprinted in J. Neusner, American Judaism: Adventure in
Modernity, (Ktav, N.Y.) xvi-xviii.
1979
(1) T. Des
Pres, The Survivor, JSS, 41:330-2.
(2) A. Green,
Your Word Is Fire, Journal of Mystical Studies, 2:95.
1980
C. Raphael,
Encounter with the Jewish People, CJ, 33:90-1; Southern Israelite,
10/19/79.
1981
(1) R. J. Z.
Werblowsky, Beyond Tradition and Modernity, JAAR, 49:146.
(2) A.
Carmell and C. Domb, eds., Challenge: Torah Views on Science and its
Problems, JAAR, 49:722.
1982
(1) A. Neher,
The Exile Of The Word, AJSnewsletter, 31:6.
(2) W. Novak
and M. Waldoks, The Big Book of Jewish Humor, Jewish Spectator (Fall),
60.
1984
(1) B.
Jackson, ed., Modern Research in Jewish Law, Jewish Law Annual, Supplement
One; idem., Jewish Law in Legal History and the Modern World, Jewish
Law Annual, Supplement Two, AJSsnewsletter, 35:12
(2) Y.
Eliach, Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust, JAAR, 52:402.
1985
(1) C. Thoma,
A Christian Theology of Judaism, Emory Studies on the Holocaust, 146-51.
(2) R. Abzug,
Inside the Vicious Heart, Martyrdom and Resistance, Sept.-Oct. 2,4.
1986
M.
Wyschogrod, The Body of Faith, AJSreview, 11:116-21.
1987
D. Hartman, A
Living Covenant, AJSreview, 12:298-305.
1988
M. Spero, Judaism
and Psychology, MJ, 3:8, 300-03.
1989
(1) D. Klemm,
Hermeneutical Inquiry and R. Chopp, The Praxis Of Suffering, RSR,
15:122-5.
(2) M.
Taylor, Erring, Cross Currents, 38:468-74.
(3) R.
Choron, Family Stories, Atlanta Jewish Times, 4/14/89, 29.
1990
(1) J.
Levenson, Creation and the Persistence Of Evil, MJ, 10:105-10.
(2) S.
Oliner, The Altruistic Personality, Critical Review of Books In Religion,
3:409-11
1991
M. Leshem, Balaam's
Curse, Jewish Spectator, Summer: 56-7.
1992
(1) A.
Laytner, Arguing With God, MJ, 12:105-10.
(2) A. Elon, Alama
Di, Cincinnati Judaica Review, Spring, 78-9.
(3) C,
Raphael, Festival Days: A History of Jewish Celebration, Midstream, 38:
43-4.
(4)
"Twentieth-Century Kabbala," review of L. Kushner, God was in this
Place and I, i did not know, Cross Currents, Winter, 551-4
1993
(1) P.
Schindler, Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust, Critical Review of Books in
Religion (1993) 447-8
(2) I.
Müller, Hitler's Justice: The Courts in the Third Reich, MJ, 23:95-106. Web version.
(3) A. Green,
Seek My Face, Speak My Name, Modern Theology, 9:2 (April) 223-25. Web version.
(4) E.
Umansky and D. Ashton, Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality, Jewish
Spectator, Spring, 58-9. Web
version.
1994
(1) G. Kren
and L. Rappoport, The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior, Martyrdom
and Resistance, March-April, 2-3.
(2) E.
Fogelman, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust,
Journal of Psychology and Theology, 23:62-3. Web version.
1995
(1) K.-J Kuschel, "Ich schaffe Finsternis und
Unheil": Ist Gott verantwortlich für das Übel and Laughter: A Theological
Reflection, Cross Currents, Summer, 243-9.Web version.
(2) D.
Fasching, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or
Utopia, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Winter, 142-3.
(3) D. Boyarin,
Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash , CCARJournal, Summer / Fall
1995, 81-83. Web version.
1996
(1) L.
Thomas, Vessels of Evil: American Slavery and the Holocaust, Jewish
Spectator, Spring, 60-2.
(2) W.
Safire, The Book of Job, Jewish Spectator, Fall, 54-5.
1997
(1) M. Bar
Zohar,Bitter Scent, Atlanta Jewish Times, 1/3: 71. Web version.
(2) M.
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1998
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(2) L.
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1999
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Tahat Even, Jewish Spectator (Fall) 44-45.
(3) L.
Levitt, Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home, and R. Adler,
Engendering Judaism, Association for Jewish Studies Review, 24:1
(1999) 111-19. Web version.
2001
(1) S. Kahn, Reproducing
Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Reproduction in Israel, Jewish Spectator (Summer
2001) book review section, 5-6. web
version.
(2) Jon
Levenson, The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son, Revue des
études juives, 160:1-2 (janv. 2001) 265-68. web version
(3) Tod
Linafelt, Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust, Conservative
Judaism, 54:1 (Fall 2001) 111-12. web version
2002
(1) M.
Broyde, Marriage, Divorce, and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law,
Conservative Judaism, 54:2 (Winter 2003) 90-92.
(2) R.
Nakashima Brock and R. Parker, Proverbs of Ashes: Redemptive Suffering, and
the Search for What Saves Us, Journal of Religion and Abuse, 4:2
(2002) 75-80.
2003
(1) L.
Perdue, et al., Families in Ancient Israel, Cross Currents (Winter 2003)
565-66.
(2) Klein
Halevi, Y., At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden, Reviews in
Religion and Theology, 10:1 (February 2003) 65-68.
2004
(1) M.
Konner, Unsettled:
An Anthropology of the Jews, CJ, 56:4 (Summer 2004) 92-93. Web version.
(2) H.
Kasimow and J. and L. Keenan, Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha,
Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, 7-8 (2004-05) 106-08. Web version.
2005
(1) R. Gibbs
and E. Wolfson, Suffering
Religion, JAAR, 73:1 (March 2005) 249-51. web version.
2006
(1) A. J.
Heschel, Heavenly
Torah as Reflected Through the Generations, ed. and transl., T.
Tucker, Reviews
in Theology and Religion, 13:1 (Feb. 2006) 136-41. web version
(2) C.
Madsen, The
Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech, Reviews in Theology and
Religion, 13:2 (2006) 197-99. web version.
(3) J.
Woocher, Sacred
Survival: The Civil Religion of American Jews, Review and Expositor, 103:1
(Winter 2006) 263-64.
2007
(1) M.
Kellner, Maimonides'
Confrontation with Mysticism, Reviews in Theology and Religion, 14:2
(2007) 253-57. Web version.
(2). J.
Flueckiger, In
Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India, Reviews in
Theology and Religion, 14:3 (2007) 407-08. Web
version.
2009
B. Cohen, My Jesus
Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, Reviews
in Religion and Theology, 270-72. Web
version.
2010
(1) T.
Buergenthal, A
Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, Reviews in
Religion and Theology, 17:2, 160-71. Web
version.
(2) Siddur B'Chol
L'vav'cha: With All Your Heart and Siddur Sha'ar Zahav, Reviews in
Religion and Theology, 17:3, 341-44. Web version.
2011
(1) D.
Lavett, A
Still, Small Voice: Healing from Abuse, Reviews in Religion and Theology,
18 (Jan.. 2011) 101-03. Web version.
(2) D.
Merkur, Maimonides'
Cure of Souls: Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis, Reviews in
Religion and Theology (long version), 18:2 (2011) 176-81.Web version.
(3) D.
Merkur, Maimonides'
Cure of Souls: Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis (short
version), Shofar,
29:4 (2011) 154-57.Web version..
(4) S.
Fishkoff, The
Rebbe's Army; Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch, Atlanta Jewish Times,6/7/2011.
Web version..
(5) E.
Fishbane, As
Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist, Spiritus, 11:1
(Spring 2011) 133-35. Web version.
2012
(1) A.
Hoffman and P. Cole, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza,
Shofar, 30:4 (Summer 2012) 200-01. Web version.
(2) T.
Harbin, Waking
Up Blind: Lawsuits Over Eye Surgery, Reviews in Religion and Theology, 19:4
(Sept. 2012) 460-63. Web version.
2013
(1) M. Davis,
Jews and
Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition, Reviews in Religion and
Theology, (Jan. 2013) 20-32. Web version.
(2) T.
Linafelt, et al., The
Fate of King David: The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon, Reviews in
Religion and Theology, (Jan. 2013) 85-87. Web
version.
(3) J.
Skibell, A
Curable Romantic,Reviews in Religion and Theology, (Jan. 2013)
127-28. Web version.
2014
(1) D.
Schoenfeld, Isaac
on Jewish and Christian Altars: Polemic and Exegesis in Rashi and the Glossa
Ordinaria, RRT 21:4 (Sept. 2014) 527-29. Web version.
2015
(1) M.
Shaked, Moshe
Landau, Judge, RRT 22:1 (Jan 2015) 84-88. Web
version.
(2) R. Brock
and G. Lettini, Soul
Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War, RRT 22:1 (January
2015) 13-16. Web version.
(3) J.
Carter, A
Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, RRT 22:1
(January 2015) 18-20. Web version.
(4) O.
Yeglin, Restless
Shards: The Sources of Abba Kovner's Poetics, Shofar 33.4 (2015)
190-91.
(5) B. and J.
T. Sterman, The
Purest Blue, Reviews in Religion and Theology, Reviews in
Religion and Theology (Sept. 2015) 275-76. web version.
(6) R. Mikve,
Midrash
Vayosha: A Medieval Midrash on the Song at the Sea, Revue des etudes juives,
174:3-4 (juillet-décembre 2015) 451-52. web
version.
2016
(1) J.
Kaplan, My
Perfect One: Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs,
Reviews in Religion and Theology (Spring 2016) 55-56. web version.
(2) T.
Lytton, Kosher:
Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food, Reviews in Religion and
Theology (Spring 2016) 62-64. web
version.
(3) A.
Dershowitz, The
World’s First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer, Reviews in Religion and
Theology (Summer 2016) 285-87. web
version.
(4) M. D.
Baer, The
Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks, Reviews in
Religion and Theology, 23:4 (Oct. 2016) 432-34. web version
(5) M.
Houellebecq, Soumission,
Reviews in
Religion and Theology, 23:4 (Oct. 2016) 515-16. web version
2017
J. Gordon, Holocaust
Postal History, Reviews in Religion and Theology (7/5/2017) 484-85.
2018
M.
Goldfeder, Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier in Family Law,
Reviews in Religion and Theology, 25:4 (Oct. 2018) 674-76. Web version.
2019
A.
Zornberg, Moses: A Human Life, Reviews in Religion and Theology 26:1
(Jan 2019) 185-87. Web version.
Bat
Ye’or, Autobiographie politique, Reviews in Religion and Theology, 26:2
(April 2019) 351-53. Web version.
D.
Lavett, Ultimate Concerns, Reviews in Religion and Theology, Reviews
in Religion and Theology (July 2019) 467-68.Web version.
D.
T. Gubo, Blasphemy and Defamation of Religions in a Polarized World, Reviews
in Religion and Theology, Reviews in Religion and Theology (July
2019) 434-36. Web version.
2020
Bat Ye’or, La dernière khamsin, Reviews in
Religion and Theology, (January 2020) 140-42.
Albrecht,
Sarah. Dar al-Islam Revisited: Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal
Discourse on Muslims in the West. Canopy Forum, May 8, 2020.
Melvin Konner, Believers: Faith in Human Nature, Reviews in Religion and Theology, (July 2020), 368-69.
S. Perry Brickman, Extracted: Unmasking Rampant
Antisemitism in America’s Higher Education,
Reviews in Religion
and Theology (November 2020) 476-78.
Anson H. Laytner, The Mystery of Suffering and the
Meaning of God, Reviews in
Religion and Theology (November
2020) 446-51.
C. B. Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions, Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, 17 (2020) 149-50.
2021
Omar
Ghobash, Letters to a Young Muslim, Reviews in Religion and
Theology, 28:1,
55-57.
Michael Broyde and Shlomo C. Pill,
Setting the Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Michael
Yechiel Epstein’s Arukh Hashulhan, Reviews
in Religion and Theology, 28:3 (July 2021)260-61.
Daniel J.N. Weishut, Intercultural Friendship: The Case of a Palestinian
Bedouin and a Dutch Israeli Jew, Reviews in
Religion and Theology, 28: (July 2021) 330-31.
Timothy Jackson, Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Antisemitism, the
Holocaust, and Christian Supersessionism (Oxford University Press; 2021), Canopy
Forum, December 1, 2021.
Alexander Kaye, The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for
Legal Authority in Modern Israel (Oxford University Press: 2020), Reviews in Religion and
Theology, 28:4 (October 2021), 384-86.
David Baddiel, Jews Don’t Count, Reviews in Religion and
Theology, 28:4 (October 2021), 351-52.
2022
Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton
and Company, 2021), RRT
(April 9, 2022) 49-51.
Book Notices
1976-79
(1) B. A.
Scharfstein, Mystical Experience, JAAR, 44:751.
(2) R. Le
Déaut, et al., The Spirituality of Judaism, RSR, 5:282.
(3) M.
Tanenbaum, et al., eds., Evangelicals and Jews in Dialogue, RSR, 5:276.
1980-85
(1) A. Green,
Your Word Is Fire, RSR, 6:239.
(2) B. Z.
Bokser, The Jewish Mystical Tradition, RSR, 7:361.
(3) B. H. Levy, Le Testament de Dieu, RSR, 8:60.
(4) M.
Mirsky, My Search For Messiah, RSR, 8:392.
(5) CCAR
Yearbook xcci, RSR, 10:304.
(6) Proceedings
of the Rabbinical Assembly, RSR, 11:87.
1986-90
R. Levy, On
Wings Of Awe, RSR, 133:174.
Lectures and Papers
1976-77
(1)
"Revelation: A Post-Modern View, A Response," Annual Convention,
Rabbinical Assembly of American, Spring.
(2)
"Religious Ethics and Humanism: The Case of Modern Judaism,"
Colloquium, Dept. of Religion and Program of Judaic Studies, University of
Florida at Gainesville, Spring.
1977-78
(1)
"Modern Jewish Ethics," Colloquium, Dept. of Religion, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, Spring.
(2) "How
Can We Begin Talking About God," Florida State University, Tallahassee,
Spring.
(3) "On
Teaching the Holocaust," Panel, Conference on Teaching the Holocaust,
Emory University, Spring.
(4)
"Principles and Suggestions for an Adult Studies Program," Trienniel
Meeting, International Council of Jewish Women, Spring.
1978-79
"On the
Nature of Kavvana," Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Fall.
1979-80
(1) "On
Teaching the Holocaust," Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion,
Fall.
(2) "The
Popular Jewish Response to the Holocaust," Annual Meeting, Association for
Jewish Studies, Fall.
(3) "The
Hasidic Story and the Religious Imagination," University of Tennessee,
Winter.
(4)
"Modernity: The Jewish Case," Continuing Seminar in Zionist Thought,
Spring.
1980-81
(1)
"Memory and Meaning in the Shadow of the Holocaust," The Wolf and
Najman Memorial Lecture, Spring.
(2) Task Team
on Christian-Jewish Relations, Presbyterian Church of the United States, Spring
1981 - Spring 1983.
1982-83
(1) "Why
Six Million Died," Bureau of Jewish Education, Winter, with Jack Boozer.
(2) "Not
Egalit, But Fraternit," Human Rights Graduate Seminar, Spring.
1983-84
(1)
"Faith and Grace in Judaism," Evangelicals and Jews: Coming of Age,
Gordon College, Boston, Winter.
(2) Task Team
on Christian-Jewish Relations, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Winter 1984 -
1986.
(3)
"Creating Hasidic Stories," The Solomon Goldman Lectures, Spertus
College of Judaica, Winter.
(4)
Conference of American Holocaust Research Centers, Washington, Spring.
1984-85
The Righteous
Gentile, Washington Conference, Panel, Fall.
1985-86
(1)
"Jewish Spirituality: A Modern Response to Levi Yitzhak," All Saints
Church, eight sessions; Bureau of Jewish Education, eight sessions, Fall.
(2) "The
Diaspora and the Continuance of Jewish Creativity," National Foundation of
Jewish Culture, Atlanta, Spring.
1986-87
(1) "Family
Life," respondent, Synagogue Council of America and the Southern Baptist
Consultation, Emory, Fall.
(2)
"Faith and Belief," The Temple, Atlanta, Fall.
(3)
Seminarians Conference, Interdenominational Theological Center and the American
Jewish Committee, organizer and respondent on "Suffering," Atlanta,
Fall.
(4)
"Teaching Psalms," Bureau of Jewish Education, Fall.
(5)
"Creation -- What Difference Does It Make?" God and Creation,
University of Chicago and Notre Dame, Spring.
1987-88
(1) "The
Presbyterian Document on Christian-Jewish Relations: A Critique," National
Conference of Christians & Jews Study Group, Atlanta; Louisville
Presbyterian Seminary Conference, Louisville, Spring.
(2)
"Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Inadequacy of the Ecumenical Perspective,"
National Conference of Christians & Jews, Atlanta, Spring.
1988-89
(1)
"Contemporary Jewish Spirituality," U.A.H.C. Commission on Religious
Living, Atlanta, Fall.
(2)
"Jewish Spirituality," six lectures, University of Judaism, Los
Angeles, Winter.
(3) "Elie
Wiesel: The Job of Auschwitz," University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Winter.
(4)
"Foresteps to Christian-Jewish-Muslim Dialogue," N.C.C.J.
International Scholars Conference (Chair, Jewish team), Philadelphia, Spring.
(5) "Yom
ha-Sho'ah: Fifty Years Later," Greenwood Cemetery, Atlanta, Spring.
(6)
"Re-Reading the Psalms," Southeast Rabbinic Training Institute,
Wildacres, Spring.
1989-90
(1) Jewish
and Black Seminarians Conference, American Jewish Committee and
Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Fall.
(2)
"Prospects for Peace in the Middle East," Rothschild Institute,
Atlanta, Winter.
(3)
"Bible with Rashi" (six sessions) Teacher Training, Epstein School,
Winter.
(4) Scholar
in Residence, Shaarei Tefilla, Washington D.C., Spring. "Psalms" (two
sessions), Rabbinical Assembly Convention, NY, Spring
1990-91
(1)
"Domesticating Mysticism," Jewish Theological Seminary, Fall.
(2)
"Jewish Perspectives on Poverty," Fall.
(3)
"Jewish Perspectives on Work," Fall.
(4) AJS, Constructive
Theology Section, chair, Winter.
(5) NCCJ
Trialogue, Winter.
(6) NCCJ
Trialogue Forum, Winter.
(7) Jewish
Theological Seminary Rabbinic Training Institute, Winter.(8)
"Maimonides," Washington Kallah, Winter.
(9) Scholar
in Residence, Baltimore, Spring.
(10)
"Altruism and Risk" Conference, organizer, Spring.
1991-92
(1)
"Documenting the Holocaust," U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Spring.
(2)
"Jewish Spirituality," Atlanta, Winter & Spring.
1992-93
(1)
"Being Angry With God," and "Forgiveness and Protest,"
Called to Make Justice, Chicago, Spring.
(2)
"Maimonides Guide," seven Wexner leadership classes, Atlanta,
Fall.
1993-94
(1)
"Songs of Anger," Jewish Educational Kallah, Atlanta, Fall
(2)
"Five Pillars of Jewish Education," Jewish Continutiy in America,
Atlanta, Fall.
(3) "The
Computer and Jewish Texts," Emory ITD conference, Fall.
(4) "The
Zohar," seven Wexner leadership classes, Atlanta, Fall.
(5)
"Judaism and Hinduism," panel, AAR, Washington, Fall.
(6) "How
I Changed and Remained the Same," Southeast AAR, Atlanta, Spring.
(7)
"Unrelenting Protest," Southeast AAR, Atlanta, Spring.
(8)
"Psalm 44," class, Columbia Theological Seminary, Spring.
(9) talk
about Facing the Abusing God, Chaplain's Tea, Emory Museum, Departmental
Booksigning, local synagogue, local church, Ashville (NC), Emory Herndon
Lecture in Ethics; Spring.
(10)
"The Holocaust as a Paradigm of our Century," Facing the Future,
Berlin, Spring.
(11) Medieval
and Modern Judaism, five Wexner leadership classes, New York, Spring.
1994-95
(1)
"Reading Psalms, Scholar-in-Residence, Epstein School Parents Retreat,
Spring.
(2) "The
Psalms of Anger," Georgia Council on Child Abuse Workshop, Spring.
(3)
"Interpreting Psalms," Scholar-in-Residence, in German Theologische
Hochschule, Neuedettelsau, Germany, Summer.
(4)
"Genesis," fourteen Wexner leadership classes, Atlanta, Fall and
Spring.
(5)
"Jews and Catholicism," Wexner Leadership Institute, Fall.
(6)
"Response to John Cobb," American Academy of Religion, Fall.
(7) Facing
the Abusing God, Association for Jewish Studies, session on the book,
winter 1994; Mary Washington College, two-day seminar on the book, Spring;
Fairfield University, talk, Spring. Hebrew Union College, NY, talk, Spring.
(8)
"Obedience and Altruism," John Lewis Interfaith Institute, Atlanta,
Spring.
1995-96
(1) four lectures on the Zohar in French, Ecole Pratique
des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France, Spring.
(2) six week
course on the Zohar, Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, Italy, Spring.
(3)
"Facing the Abusing God," three-day conference in German, Austrian
Christian-Jewish Dialogue, Austria, Fall.
(4)
"Facing the Abusing God," University of Birmingham, England, Spring.
(5)
"Facing the Abusing God", Oxford University, England, Spring.
(6) "The
Banality of Good and Evil," Oxford Centre for Post-Graduate Jewish
Studies, England, Spring.
(7) "The
Banality of Good and Evil," Goldner Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton, England,
Spring.
1996-97
(1)
"Obedience and Disobedience: Ethics and Social Science," Epstein
School: Faculty Conversation, also PTA meeting, Fall.
(2)
"Obedience and Disobedience: Ethics and Social Science," Emory Law
and Religion Program, Spring.
(3)
"Obedience and Disobedience: Ethics and Social Science," Bnai Torah
adult education, Spring.
(4) "The
Banality of Good and Evil," Yale University, Divinity School and Slifka
Jewish Student Center, Fall.
(5)
"Jewish Spirituality," Norfolk News Jewish Community Center, Spring.
(6) "The
Rabbi Visits Rome," Chaplain's Tea, Emory University, Spring.
1997-98
(1)
"What to Do," "Humanity at the Limit," Notre Dame, Spring.
(2) Pastora
Goldner Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton, England, Spring.
1998-99
(1) Charry
Scholar in Residence, Germantown Jewish Center, Philadelphia, Fall
2008-2009
(1) "How
Might Another Holocaust be Prevented," United States Holocaust Museum,
Fall; European Jewish Community
Center, Winter audio of the lecture
(2) Krystallnacht
Memorial, Atlanta, Fall.
2011-2018
Salvador
Dali's "Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel," talk at Opening Ceremonies:
Emory University (March, 2015), Brown U:niversity - RISD (September, 2015),
University of Washington, Denver University, Boston University; Tenenebaum
Lecture at University of South Carolina.
“Teaching the
Library of
Contemporary Jewish Philosophers,” The Future of Jewish Philosophy,
ASU, September 2016.
“Comments to
Deborah Lipstadt’s Denial,” Jewish Community Center, Atlanta, September
2106.