Reflections toward my upcoming lecture series on “Erasures of Religion and History” (ALHR: 4-6 November 2026 in Chicago + 23 November 2026 at AAR)

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Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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Visiting Scholar – Call for Applications The Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the continuation of our short-term visiting scholar program.

Prof. Susannah Heschel explores the breakthroughs that transformed Jewish life and the barriers women and nonbinary scholars still face.

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When I started treating the LMS with intention, its limited utility for my course became increasingly apparent.

The Bavli might remain the most celebrated rabbinic work, but the Yerushalmi was the first of its kind. The Bavli, in a sense, becomes less unique through Moulie’s reading, and “the Talmud” is…

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“Throughout, the book keeps in focus the materiality of manuscripts and the embodied aspects of the craft of manuscript research. Although subtitled “A Guide for Textual Scholars,” this volume…

Explore the Jewish presence in Charleston over the centuries through images and texts from our archives.

How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine

This review panel features responses from a range of scholars working in Biblical Studies and late antiquity, originally shared at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society.

The book historical question that I will focus on here is the question of the Talmud’s initial reception, of what we may call its canonization. And I mean this not in the sense of its coalescing as…

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