2022 Study of Collections Fellowship Report: The Unpublished Materials of Charles Clermont-Ganneau
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"Rediscovering the Royal Steward Inscription": A Photographic Study
The Royal Steward Inscription is one of the more famous artifacts in biblical archaeology
Author/Lead: Matthew J. Suriano
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The Royal Steward Inscription is one of the more famous artifacts in biblical archaeology, but its original context and setting is less-known due to the circumstances following Charles Clermont-Ganneau’s discovery in 1870.
Gender-Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew: Innovations and Classroom Applications
Languages are inherently fluid and ever-changing, and by necessity, they transform to meet the needs and sociocultural demands of the moment
Author/Lead: Avital Karpman
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Hebrew is a strictly gender-binary language, with people and objects receiving a gender label.
Pronouns, nouns, verbs, and adjectives must agree in gender and number.
From Joseph II to Joseph Perl: Galician Haskalah and the Catholic Enlightenment. in In From Joseph Perl to Shmuel Yosef Agnon: The Haskalah Movement in Galicia. Jerusalem: Magnes Press.
Galician Haskalah and the Catholic Enlightenment
Author/Lead: Rachel Manekin
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Galician Haskalah and the Catholic Enlightenment
Tilling the Soil of National Ideology: Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination. in Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Amos Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination
Author/Lead: Eric Zakim
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Amos Oz and the Hebrew Environmental Imagination
"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States". in Legacies of thee Habsburg Monarchy in the Successor States: Ruptures and Continuities. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.
"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States"
Author/Lead: Marsha L. Rozenblit
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"Jews in the Habsburg Successor States"
The Dead Sea Sectarians: Breaking the Boundaries of an Essene-Shaped Space.
Dead Sea Sectarians
Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
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Dead Sea Sectarians
Misogyny. in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.
Misogyny in Biblical Reception
Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
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Misogyny in Biblical Reception
Monogamy, Bigamy, Polygamy. in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.
Monogamy, Bigamy, Polygamy in Biblical Reception
Author/Lead: Maxine Grossman
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Monogamy, Bigamy, Polygamy in Biblical Reception
Pappus and Julianus, the Maccabaean Martyrs, and Rabbinic Martyrdom History in Late Antiquity. in Legal Engagement The reception of Roman Law and Tribunals by Jews and Other Inhabitants of the Empire. Rome: École française de Rome.
Maccabaean Martyrs, and Rabbinic Martyrdom
Author/Lead: Hayim Lapin
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Maccabaean Martyrs, and Rabbinic Martyrdom
With Lehman, M. (2019). Introduction to the Theme: The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual. AJS Review, 43(2), 265--269.
Introduction to the Theme: The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual
Author/Lead: Hayim Lapin
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Introduction to the Theme: The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual