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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!

The Doctor is a Woman.

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December 25, 2017

Starting tonight, the Doctor will be a woman. 

I pity those narrow-minded, under-educated jerks who are mad that the Doctor will be female. (Learn your history, jerks.)

Cool Whovians: If anyone comes at you, please remind them:

1. The show was designed, directed, and sustained by a Jewish woman and a gay British Indian guy.

2. If there was ever a time when women deserved a female hero with the power to dole out poetic justice on a grand scale, this it. She is long overdue. #metoo 


3. Last semester, I took a Hermeneutics class, and every week, our class discussions reminded me of scenes where the Doctor re-invented interpersonal communication, moments when the Doctor helped two very different groups (species even) truly hear each other.


4. No, her Companion does not have to be a straight male or a gay female. Two female leaders can often be trusted to become a successful team who produce meaningful work. Even the ostriches have learned this year: Some of our (formerly) favorite men cannot be trusted. Many of them have secretly been abusing women for decades.


5. Girls and women have been identifying with male characters/heroes for our whole lives – Moses, Joseph, Paddington, Harry Potter, the Winchesters, to name a few. – because we often do not have many other choices. There are not many Buffy Summers, Veronica Mars, Pippi Longstockings, and Leslie Knopes out there. It won’t be so bad for boys and men to learn to empathize with an imaginary woman. It might even help.


6. Maybe you’ve never watched Doctor Who. Maybe you don’t even like SciFi. Maybe you don’t need a righteous, mindful, fanciful imaginary character to comfort you during the next 3 years (or it could be 7 more years). But – for me – I need Doctor Who to get me through. I will miss Peter Capaldi, and I will miss Pearl Mackie as well.


7. Here, I must thank the talented Jessica Rosenberg who introduced me to the universe of the Doctor, and who continues to answer all of my questions.

This is my favorite part of every December.

Enjoy tonight, my Whovian friends.

 

p.s. As Jodie Whittaker becomes The First Female Doctor, we’re remembering Delia Derbyshire, who composed the theme tune for Doctor Who but was barred from studios due to being a woman. She is now credited as paving the way for women in the music industry.