The relation between Sefer Yosippon and its Latin source is a subject of ongoing discussion. Recently it got new impulses due to the Lege Josephum project in Bern. Now a workhop on the subject is going to take place in Bern and also online from May 11 to 13th, 2022.
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Call for Papers BIAJS 2022
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies 2022 invites scholars to submit abstracts for papers at the annual conference under the headline Unfolding Time: Texts – Practices – Politics taking place 11–13 July 2022, King’s College London.
Deadline: 10 January 2022
Researcher of the Week
Chana Shacham-Rosby, PhD
Teaching Associate (Fall 2021-22),
Department of Jewish History, Ben Gurion University
Starr Fellow (Spring 2022),
Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Continue reading Researcher of the Week“My research interests include charting communication channels through which religious and theological knowledge was shared between strata of medieval Jewish society, as well as between Jews and Christians, in central Europe. My PhD dissertation, completed in 2019, focused on attitudes towards the figure of Elijah the Prophet in a wide range of primary sources. I found that between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries a significant process took place among Ashkenazi Jews regarding Elijah, and its results influenced the perception of this character in modern Jewish culture. Some of these conclusions were published in “Elijah the Prophet: The Guard Dog of Israel” (Jewish History 30:3) and “Exchanges of Religious Knowledge and Practice in the Medieval Ashkenaz” (Chidushim 23).
Uri Zvi Shachar, A Pious Belligerence: Dialogical Warfare and the Rhetoric of Righteousness in the Crusading Near East (University of Pennsylvania Press, September 2021)
In A Pious Belligerence Uri Zvi Shachar examines one of the most contested and ideologically loaded issues in medieval history, the clash between Christians, Muslims, and Jews that we call the Crusades. Shachar demonstrates how in chronicles, apocalyptic treatises, and a variety of literary texts in Latin, French, Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic holy warriors are increasingly presented as having been rhetorically and anthropologically shaped through their contacts with their neighbors and adversaries.
