Textual Criticism (Religion)
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" ברכות וברי הרקטור פרופ' צבי הכהן http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWHxisknXTQ הרצאת חיים באר http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXn29IGnfc הרצאת חוה טורניאנסקי http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IjlOx4NExc הרצאת זאב גריס... more
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ברכות וברי הרקטור פרופ' צבי הכהן
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWHxisknXTQ
הרצאת חיים באר
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXn29IGnfc
הרצאת חוה טורניאנסקי
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IjlOx4NExc
הרצאת זאב גריס
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMQ5I19r9eA
תגובת יונתן מאיר
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8FAevJ1KVY
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ברכות וברי הרקטור פרופ' צבי הכהן
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWHxisknXTQ
הרצאת חיים באר
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXn29IGnfc
הרצאת חוה טורניאנסקי
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IjlOx4NExc
הרצאת זאב גריס
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMQ5I19r9eA
תגובת יונתן מאיר
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8FAevJ1KVY
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Research Interests:
Critical Theory, Philology, Religion, New Religious Movements, Intellectual History, and 171 moreCultural Studies, Eastern European Studies, German Studies, Russian Studies, World Literatures, German Literature, Hebrew Literature, Russian Literature, Yiddish Literature, Censorship, Jewish Studies, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, History of Ideas, Eastern Europe, Yiddish Language, Academic Development, Research Methodology, Galician Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Book History, Literature, Evaluation Research, History of the Book, Textual Scholarship, Scholarly Editing, Literary Criticism, Yiddish, Textual Criticism, Jewish Mysticism, Academic Writing, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Enlightenment, East European studies, Eastern European history, Jewish History, Habsburg Studies, Manuscript Studies, Bestsellers, Popular Culture and Religious Studies, 19th century German literature, Literary Theory, Cross-Cultural Studies, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Academia Research, History of Scholarship, Humor/Satire, Market Research, Marketing Research, World Literature, Censorship (History), Jewish Thought, History of Classical Scholarship, Germanic Philology, Intellectual and cultural history, Rationalism, Research, Book History (History), Jewish Literature, History of philology, Scholars publishing practices and strategies, Religion and Literature, Modern Manuscript Studies, Western Esotericism (History), Literature and Religion, Jewish historiography, Hebrew Manuscripts, Occultism, Religious History, Kabbalah, Hasidism, Nineteenth Century Literature, European intellectual history, European Enlightenment, History and Theory, Modern Jewish History, Jewish Humor Studies, Postmodern Literary Theory and Popular Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Eastern European Literature, Jewish Cultural Studies, Galicia (19th Century Central Europe), Textual Criticism (Religion), Nineteenth Century Occultism, 19th Century literature, East European History, Satire & Irony, Textual theory, Censorship in Translation, Censorship of literary and popular culture texts, Modern Judaism, Academic Publishing, Comparative literature, Literary theory, Yiddish Studies, Literature Review, Central and Eastern Europe, Central and East European Studies, Religious Studies, Philology, Codicology, Critical Edition, Satire, Esotericism, Western Esotericism, Textual Criticism and Editing, Theory of literature, Book Censorship (history), Research Writing, Modern Jewish Thought, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Editing, Linguística Textual (Text Studies), Russian Jewry, Hasidism, Jewish Traditional Society, Cultural and Intellectual History, Haskalah, Academics, Yiddish Culture and Language, East Europe, History of Kabbalah, Galicia, modern Hebrew literature, Joseph Perl, Megalleh Temirim, Critical editions, Esoteric Studies, Theology and Religious STudies, Jews in Eastern Europe, Critical edition, Bestselling Authors, Jewish Mysticism, Hasidism, Hebrew Language and Literature, The Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, Galician Jewry, Gershom Scholem, Hasidism, Hasidim, The Jewish Enlightenment movement. HasKalah, History of Books, Printing, and Publishing, Jewish Galicia, Russian and East European Studies, Hebrew and Jewish studies, East European Jewish History, Eastern European Jewish Studies, Hasidim and Mitnagdim, Hasidut, Religious Cults, Critical Editing, Eastern Europe, Jewish studies, antisemitism in Russia, Megale Temirin, Anti Hasidism, Against Hasidism, Anti-Hasidic Satires, Hasidic Satires, Haskalah Literature, Joseph Perl Archive, Jewsih Galicia, Manuscripts In Joseph Perl Archive, Sefer Megale Temirin, Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, Polemics and Apologetics, Hasidic Yiddish, Joseph Perl's Archive, East European Intellectual History, East European Jewish history, historiography, Galicia, Sefer Megaleh Temirin, Anti-Hasidic Satire, Joseph Perl's Revealer of Secrets, Inter-Religious Polemics, Neo Hasidism, Esoteric Movements, History of Hasidism, Satire Against Hasidism, Enlightenment and Satire, and Jewish Mysticism, Hasidism, literature, Jewish Studies, Chabad , anthropologyedit
The essay focuses on a Tannaitic pattern that is not yet reflected as a specific form of expression in contemporary research. The presented argumentational form is mainly used in the Tosefta and occasionally in the Mishna. Additional the... more
The essay focuses on a Tannaitic pattern that is not yet reflected as a specific form of expression in contemporary research. The presented argumentational form is mainly used in the Tosefta
and occasionally in the Mishna. Additional the original form lo nehlequ (= modim) … al ma nehlequ? al …; (N. N. and N. N. did not disagree concerning the halakhic case X [= N. N. and N. N. agree concerning the case X] What did they disagree about? They disagree about the case Y) several slightly modified variations exist. Examining these forms, the essay analyzes the phenomena of the emergence and development of a specific halakhic tradition. This tradition is based on the diverging statements of
different rabbinic authorities, scholarly traditions, or groups. As a hermeneutic method, it was developed in the Talmud and was called Oqimta in the late Amoraic period. Following the introduction and the description of the hermeneutic pattern in Tannaitic texts, the essay develops a critical comparison of the pattern’s transformation within parallel traditions in Mishna (mPea
6,2–3), Tosefta (tPea 3,2) and Yerushalmi (yPea 6,2 19b).
and occasionally in the Mishna. Additional the original form lo nehlequ (= modim) … al ma nehlequ? al …; (N. N. and N. N. did not disagree concerning the halakhic case X [= N. N. and N. N. agree concerning the case X] What did they disagree about? They disagree about the case Y) several slightly modified variations exist. Examining these forms, the essay analyzes the phenomena of the emergence and development of a specific halakhic tradition. This tradition is based on the diverging statements of
different rabbinic authorities, scholarly traditions, or groups. As a hermeneutic method, it was developed in the Talmud and was called Oqimta in the late Amoraic period. Following the introduction and the description of the hermeneutic pattern in Tannaitic texts, the essay develops a critical comparison of the pattern’s transformation within parallel traditions in Mishna (mPea
6,2–3), Tosefta (tPea 3,2) and Yerushalmi (yPea 6,2 19b).
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"ABSTRACT: This study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of... more
"ABSTRACT:
This study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of sexuation integrated with his work in discourse theory and topology.
Part I places this study into context by examining scholarship from the established fields of hermeneutics, phenomenology, (post)structuralism, aesthetic theory and psychoanalysis in order to extract out their respective theory of meaning. These theories reveal that an historical struggle with meaning has been underway since the Reformation and reaches near crisis proportions in the 20th century. On the one hand this crisis is mollified by the rise of Heideggerian-Gadamerian hermeneutical phenomenology which questions traditional epistemological approaches to the text using a new ontological conceptualization of meaning and a conscious rejection of methodology. On the other hand this crisis is exacerbated when the ubiquitous nature of meaning is itself challenged by (post)structuralism's discovery of the signifier which inscribes a limit to meaning, and by the domains of sense and nonsense newly opened up by aesthetic theory. These historical developments culminate in the field of psychoanalysis which most consequentially delimits a cause of meaning said to be closely linked to the core of subjectivity.
Part II extends these findings by rigorously constructing out of the Lacanian sexuated formulae a decidedly non-hermeneutical phenomenological approach useful in demonstrating the sexual nature of meaning. Explicated in their static state by way of an account of their original derivation from the Aristotelian logical square, it is argued that these four formulae are relevant to basic concerns of textual theory inclusive of the hermeneutical circle of meaning. These formulae are then set into motion by integrating them with Lacan's four discourses to demonstrate the breakdown of meaning. Finally, the cuts and sutures of two-dimensional space that is topology as set down in L'étourdit are performed to confirm how the very field of meaning is ultimately suspended from a nonsensical singular point known in Lacanian psychoanalysis as objet a. The contention is that by occupying this point the subject frees himself from the debilitating grip of meaning."
This study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of sexuation integrated with his work in discourse theory and topology.
Part I places this study into context by examining scholarship from the established fields of hermeneutics, phenomenology, (post)structuralism, aesthetic theory and psychoanalysis in order to extract out their respective theory of meaning. These theories reveal that an historical struggle with meaning has been underway since the Reformation and reaches near crisis proportions in the 20th century. On the one hand this crisis is mollified by the rise of Heideggerian-Gadamerian hermeneutical phenomenology which questions traditional epistemological approaches to the text using a new ontological conceptualization of meaning and a conscious rejection of methodology. On the other hand this crisis is exacerbated when the ubiquitous nature of meaning is itself challenged by (post)structuralism's discovery of the signifier which inscribes a limit to meaning, and by the domains of sense and nonsense newly opened up by aesthetic theory. These historical developments culminate in the field of psychoanalysis which most consequentially delimits a cause of meaning said to be closely linked to the core of subjectivity.
Part II extends these findings by rigorously constructing out of the Lacanian sexuated formulae a decidedly non-hermeneutical phenomenological approach useful in demonstrating the sexual nature of meaning. Explicated in their static state by way of an account of their original derivation from the Aristotelian logical square, it is argued that these four formulae are relevant to basic concerns of textual theory inclusive of the hermeneutical circle of meaning. These formulae are then set into motion by integrating them with Lacan's four discourses to demonstrate the breakdown of meaning. Finally, the cuts and sutures of two-dimensional space that is topology as set down in L'étourdit are performed to confirm how the very field of meaning is ultimately suspended from a nonsensical singular point known in Lacanian psychoanalysis as objet a. The contention is that by occupying this point the subject frees himself from the debilitating grip of meaning."
Research Interests:
Textual Criticism, Septuagint, Textual Criticism (Religion), Septuaginta Text, Old Testament Textual Criticism, and 10 moreTextual Criticism, Old and New Testament, Hebrew, Greek, Septuagint, Septuagint, LXX, Jeremiah in LXX, Greek Manuscripts and Textual Criticism, Septuagint Studies, Septuagint and Peshitta, Septuagint and New Testament Language, Tetragrammaton & Septuagint, and Biblical Textual Criticismedit
Research Interests:
Critical Theory, Religion, History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 120 moreEastern European Studies, European Studies, German Studies, Russian Studies, Hebrew Literature, Yiddish Literature, Jewish Studies, History of Ideas, Eastern Europe, Romanticism, Theology, Historical Theology, Nineteenth Century Studies, Textual Scholarship, History of Science, Literary Criticism, Spirituality, Textual Criticism, Jewish Mysticism, Critical Thinking, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Historicism, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Enlightenment, East European studies, Eastern European history, German Romanticism, Jewish History, Habsburg Studies, Manuscript Studies, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Modernity, Secularization, Spirituality & Mysticism, Science and Romanticism, History of Scholarship, Rabbinics, Polish Studies, Jewish Thought, History of Classical Scholarship, Austrian Literature, Rabbinic Literature, Critique, 19th Century (History), Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Modernity, Religion and Literature, Western Esotericism (History), Literature and Religion, Hebrew Manuscripts, Christian Kabbalah, Kabbalah, Hasidism, Gershom Scholem, European Enlightenment, Modern Jewish History, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Skepticism, Jewish Cultural Studies, Galicia (19th Century Central Europe), Textual Criticism (Religion), History of knowledge, Nineteenth Century Occultism, Galician Literature, East European History, Textual criticism (Humanities), Modern Judaism, German Enlightenment, Secular, secularism and secularization, Nineteenth Century Irish History and Culture, Modernity and Critique, Central and Eastern Europe, 19th Century, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, Religious Studies, Textuality, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, German-Jewish Studies, Western Esotericism, Textual Criticism and Editing, Zohar, Modern Jewish Thought, Manuscripts, European Romanticism, Lurianic Kabbalah, Russian Jewry, Hasidism, Jewish Traditional Society, Haskalah, Cultural History of Habsburg Empire 1800-1918, Myth and scholarship, Tradition and Modernity, Isaac Luria, Galicia, Wissenschaft des Judentums, modern Hebrew literature, Jewish history and cultural studies, Theology and Religious STudies, Sabbatianism, Polish romanticism, Jewish Mysticism, Hasidism, The Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, History of Textual Criticism, Habsburg, The Jewish Enlightenment movement. HasKalah, Hebrew and Jewish studies, Zohar, Kabbalah, Kabbalah and science, Rabbi Jacob Emden, Critical Editing, Jewish Enlightenment, Haskalah Literature, Habsburg Empire, Kabbalah Science and Philosophy, Zohar Manuscript, אליקים בן יהודה המילזאהגי, ספר ראביה, The Jewish Enlightenment, Haskalah In Galicia, History of Modern Scholarship, and Haskalah and Historyedit
"البحث هو مقالة نقدية لنشرة ميكلوش موراني لكتاب المحاربة من من موطأ ابن وهب (ت197)، وابن وهب من كبار تلاميذ الإمام مالك بن أني (ت179)؛ لذلك تعد مؤلفات ابن وهب من أقدم مصادر الفقه المالكي وأهمها
'Appropriating Authenticity: The Haskalah in Eastern Europe and the Research of Kabbalistic Literature', The Roads Not Taken: Scholarly Adaptations and Appropriations of Kabbalah in the 19th and Early 20th Century, International Conference, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, November 18, 2013 (Poster)more
The lecture will treat the relationship of various maskilim in Eastern Europe (especially Isaac Bear Levinsohn) to kabbalistic literature and will focus on their assumption about the authenticity of part of Jewish esoteric literature.... more
The lecture will treat the relationship of various maskilim in Eastern
Europe (especially Isaac Bear Levinsohn) to kabbalistic literature and will focus on their assumption about the authenticity of part of Jewish esoteric literature. This assumption not only sparked the active resistance of those maskilim to the Hasidim but also fostered certain forms of historical and textual criticism of kabbalistic literature. This observation will uncover new facets of the Haskalah movement and will demonstrate its affinities to
romantic literature. It will further expose certain precedents for kabbalah scholarship in the Scholem's scholarship and those who followed his lead.
Europe (especially Isaac Bear Levinsohn) to kabbalistic literature and will focus on their assumption about the authenticity of part of Jewish esoteric literature. This assumption not only sparked the active resistance of those maskilim to the Hasidim but also fostered certain forms of historical and textual criticism of kabbalistic literature. This observation will uncover new facets of the Haskalah movement and will demonstrate its affinities to
romantic literature. It will further expose certain precedents for kabbalah scholarship in the Scholem's scholarship and those who followed his lead.
Research Interests:
Critical Theory, Religion, History, Intellectual History, Eastern European Studies, and 87 moreEuropean Studies, German Studies, Russian Studies, Hebrew Literature, Jewish Studies, History of Ideas, Eastern Europe, Romanticism, Nineteenth Century Studies, Historiography, Textual Scholarship, Spirituality, Textual Criticism, Christian Mysticism, Jewish Mysticism, Critical Thinking, Authenticity, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Enlightenment, East European studies, Eastern European history, German Romanticism, Jewish History, Manuscript Studies, Mysticism, German-Jewish literature, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Jewish - Christian Relations, Comparative mysticism, Spirituality & Mysticism, Science and Romanticism, History of Scholarship, Russian History, Jewish Thought, History of Classical Scholarship, Rabbinic Literature, Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Literature, Western Esotericism (History), Russian Intellectual History, Jewish historiography, Hebrew Manuscripts, Literature and Esotericism, Kabbalah, Hasidism, Gershom Scholem, European Enlightenment, Modern Jewish History, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Jewish Cultural Studies, Esotericism & Science, Textual Criticism (Religion), Nineteenth Century Occultism, East European History, Textual criticism (Humanities), Spirituality and Mysticism, Modern Judaism, Central and Eastern Europe, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, German-Jewish Studies, Esotericism, Western Esotericism, Textual Criticism and Editing, Zohar, Modern Jewish Thought, Esoteric Philosophy, European Romanticism, Lurianic Kabbalah, Haskalah, Comparative Mystical Literature, History of Kabbalah, Russian Enlightenment, Wissenschaft des Judentums, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, German Jewish writing, Scholarship, German Jewish history, The Jewish Enlightenment movement. HasKalah, Zohar, Kabbalah, Kabbalah and science, Haskalah Literature, Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, Kabbalah Science and Philosophy, Russian Romanticism, History of Modern Scholarship, and Isaac Bear Levinsohnedit
The exegesis of any biblical text is only as good as the text it examines. This thesis will lay out the case for the feasibility and utility of an eclectic text of the Hebrew Bible. First it explains the necessity and goal of textual... more
The exegesis of any biblical text is only as good as the text it examines. This thesis will lay out the case for the feasibility and utility of an eclectic text of the Hebrew Bible.
First it explains the necessity and goal of textual criticism, while noting the unique challenges that textual critics of the Hebrew Bible face.
It then surveys the methodologies that have been proposed for producing critical editions of the Hebrew Bible. This is followed by an analysis of the three main Hebrew Bible critical editions currently in progress, namely, Biblia Hebraica Quinta, the Hebrew University Bible, and the Oxford Hebrew Bible. Therein the methodology of each project is examined. These examinations serve to highlight the weaknesses and inadequacies of a diplomatic text, which in turn serve to highlight the utility of an eclectic text.
After showing the utility of an eclectic text, it briefly surveys the extant textual witnesses and principles that need to be exercised in order to make an eclectic text feasible. Much of this advancement is due to the discoveries in the Judean desert and the maturity of the discipline of Hebrew Bible textual criticism, which can overcome, at least in part, the unique challenges Hebrew Bible textual criticism faces.
Next a sample eclectic text is given using the previously laid out principles and methodology in order to demonstrate the utility and feasibility of an eclectic Hebrew Bible text.
In conclusion this thesis summarizes arguments for the utility and feasibility of an eclectic Hebrew Bible Text. It argues that despite the unique challenge a textual critic of the Hebrew Bible faces, an eclectic critical text is preferable to a diplomatic one for getting closer to the most pristine text. Therefore, endeavors such as the Oxford Hebrew Bible should be embraced.
First it explains the necessity and goal of textual criticism, while noting the unique challenges that textual critics of the Hebrew Bible face.
It then surveys the methodologies that have been proposed for producing critical editions of the Hebrew Bible. This is followed by an analysis of the three main Hebrew Bible critical editions currently in progress, namely, Biblia Hebraica Quinta, the Hebrew University Bible, and the Oxford Hebrew Bible. Therein the methodology of each project is examined. These examinations serve to highlight the weaknesses and inadequacies of a diplomatic text, which in turn serve to highlight the utility of an eclectic text.
After showing the utility of an eclectic text, it briefly surveys the extant textual witnesses and principles that need to be exercised in order to make an eclectic text feasible. Much of this advancement is due to the discoveries in the Judean desert and the maturity of the discipline of Hebrew Bible textual criticism, which can overcome, at least in part, the unique challenges Hebrew Bible textual criticism faces.
Next a sample eclectic text is given using the previously laid out principles and methodology in order to demonstrate the utility and feasibility of an eclectic Hebrew Bible text.
In conclusion this thesis summarizes arguments for the utility and feasibility of an eclectic Hebrew Bible Text. It argues that despite the unique challenge a textual critic of the Hebrew Bible faces, an eclectic critical text is preferable to a diplomatic one for getting closer to the most pristine text. Therefore, endeavors such as the Oxford Hebrew Bible should be embraced.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Philology, Gender Studies, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Languages and Linguistics, and 37 morePatristics, New Testament, History of Christianity, Mentoring, Romance philology, Early Church, Textual Scholarship, Textual Criticism, Early Christianity, Critical Edition (Medieval History), Latin and Greek, Linguistics, Classical philology, New Testament and Christian Origins, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Textual criticism (Classics), Textual Criticism (Religion), Intersectionality, Textual criticism (Humanities), Patristic Exegesis, Philology, Codicology, Critical Edition, Patristic Studies, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Textual Criticism and Editing, Early Church Fathers, Work Life Balance, pATROLOGY, Crítica textual, Greek Patristics, Faculty Diversity, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Early Christian Papyri and Inscriptions, Professional Women, Women and Minority In STEM Fields, Pipeline Issues, and Career Progression In Science and Engineeringedit