David R. Blumenthal
(last update:
9/25/2024)
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-
Université de
Lausanne, Visiting Professor, 2017
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.
2000, Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
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.
“Praying
for Israel’s Defenders,” Praying
for the Defenders of our Destiny, ed. A. Hacohen and M. Butler
(Institute for Jewish Research and Publications, Boston, MA: 2023) 144-46.
“Psalm 49: A Meditation on Death,” Gabriel: Tell This Man the Meaning of His Vision (Daniel
8:16), ed. Robert Deutsch and André Lemaire (Archaeological Center Publications, Tel Aviv, Israel: 2024) 28-33.
“An Homage to Abraham Joshua Heschel,” Jewish Theological Seminary,
Part One, Part Two
(September 25, 2024).
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. Broyde, The Pursuit of Justice and Jewish
Law, Jewish Spectator, Spring, 57-8.
(3) P. and S. Oliner, Embracing the Other, Pastoral
Psychology, 46:2, 131-34. Web version.
1998
(1) R. Linn, Conscience at War: The Israeli Soldier
as Moral Critic, Jewish Spectator, Summer, 52-3. Web version.
(2) L. Levitt, Jewish and Feminism, Atlanta
Jewish Times, 9/18/98, p. 92/135.
1999
(1) M. Peskowitz and L.
Levitt, Judaism Since Gender, Nashim, 2:173-77. Web version.
(2) B. Gur, Even 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.
David
Novak, Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature (Toronto,
University of Toronto Press: 2019), Journal of
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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.