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LIMMUD FEST 2023 – Interfaith Text Study – Selected Bibliography

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I loved loved loved being at LimmudSE 2023. I loved teaching and learning with everyone! Here is my selected bibliography!

Bialik, Hayim Nahman, and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, eds. The Book of Legends: Sefer Ha’Aggadah – Legends from the Talmud and Midrash. Translated by William G. Braude. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1992.

Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Fourth Edition. Vol. Volume 1: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments. 2 vols. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1983. [Melchizedek!]

Collins, John J. Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel. Hermeneia – A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993. [Gabriel!]

Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn, and Andrea L. Weiss, eds. The Torah: A Woman’s Commentary. New York, NY: Women of Reform Judaism, 2008.

Firestone, Reuven. An Introduction to Islam for Jews. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 2008.

The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy – A New Translation with Introductions, Commentary, and Notes by Everett Fox. Vol. 1. The Schocken Bible. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1995.

The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings – A New Translation with Introductions, Commentary, and Notes by Everett Fox. Vol. 2. The Schocken Bible. NY: Schocken Books, 2014.

Kaltner, John. Inquiring of Joseph: Getting to Know a Biblical Character through the Quran. Interfaces. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2003.

*Levine, Amy-Jill, and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. The Jewish Annotated New Testament with the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible Translation. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2011.

*Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, ed. The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary. First Edition. New York: HarperOne: An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.

Reeves, John C. “Some Explorations of the Intertwining of Bible and Qur’an.” In Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality, 43–60. SBL Symposium Series 24. Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Sarna, Nahum, ed. Genesis: The JPS Torah Commentary. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1989.

Sarna, Nahum, ed. Exodus: The JPS Torah Commentary. New York, NY: The Jewish Publication Society, 1991.

Trible, Phyllis, and Letty M. Russell, eds. Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.

*Other books you can borrow from the library or from teachers and friends. However, these two books – in my humble opinion – are essential for anyone interested in interfaith text study.

NOTE: I also mentioned the film The Muslims are Coming! in a few discussions and sessions. What a great film! And what a rich “text” for interfaith discussion!

Am I a Career Switcher?

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When my seminary recruited me, one of their selling points was: If you study Jewish Education now, you can always switch to secular education later in life….

BUT now that I’m actually trying to break into the world as a secular educator or a secular non profit professional, everyone only sees the Jewish experience and the Jewish degrees.

So, if anyone out there has guidance into how I can present my Jewish education experience and my Jewish communal service experience as valuable, translatable, transferable experience into the secular world of higher education and non profit management, please share.

Am I a career switcher? Is the switch from working in religious institutions to the secular world a career switch?