Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by mx6.mindspring.com (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id rgk3tg.lgj.37kbi14 Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:44:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02202 for js-network-outgoing; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:15:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:17:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: The Jewish Studies Newsletter Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-js-network@oise.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Jewish Studies Newsletter THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER positions & events in academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 8.007p1 * April 1999 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Position - Executive Director of Jewish Education and Library Services [Omaha, Nebraska] * Call for Papers and Conference - Call for Papers: Articles on Russian Jewry - Orion-List DSS Institute Symposium: The Religion of the Dead Sea Scrolls ------------------------------------------------------------ POSITIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Leonard Greenspoon Subject: Executive Director of Jewish Education and Library Services Executive Director of Jewish Education and Library Services needed for vibrant Jewish community in Omaha, Nebraska. Responsible for providing outstanding executive level leadership in formal and informal Jewish education for the Omaha Jewish community. Salary commensurate with experience. Key talents and requirements for this position include: *Rabbinic ordination and/or masters degree in Jewish Education *Highly flexible *Outgoing and charismatic personality *Innovative *Able to relate to all sectors of the community Please forward your resume and cover letter to: Jane Rips, Search Committee Chairman c/o The Jewish Federation of Omaha 333 South 132nd Street, Omaha, NE 68154 phone: (402) 334-8200 fax: (402) 334-1330 Email: jperlm@top.net www.jewishomaha.org ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Emily Tall Subject: Articles on Russian Jewry Contributions are solicited for an anthology of materials on the rebirth of Jewish culture in Russian since the late 1980s. If you have or know of relevant documents, articles, interviews, essays, and the like, or if you have contacts in Russia or Israel who might be good sources, please contact Prof. Emily Tall Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures 910 Clemens State University of New York Buffalo, N.Y. 14260 E-mail: mllemily@acsu.buffalo.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Avital Pinnick Subject: Orion-List DSS Institute Symposium The Dead Sea Scrolls Institute announces our next one-day Symposium. * The Religion of The Dead Sea Scrolls A Public Symposium Sponsored by the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute, Trinity Western University Saturday, 24 April 1999 (8.45am-4.30pm) Chairs: Dr. Martin G. Abegg and Dr. Peter W. Flint The Symposium papers, with additional contributions by M. Abegg and P. Flint, will be published. The volume (ed. John J. Collins and R. A. Kugler) will appear in the new DSS series Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature (Wm Eerdmans, probably co-published with Brill) * Theme of the Symposium: The last large-scale attempt to provide a synthetic treatment of the religious ideas of the Dead Sea Sect was that of Helmer Ringgren, _The Faith of Qumran_, published in 1963. Since then, but especially in the past ten years, many new texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls have been made available. The work of editing these "new" texts is now virtually complete. Consequently the time is at hand for a new synthesis. This conference is intended as a preliminary step in the process. It will address several major aspects of the religion of the Scrolls: Papers will discuss the the community's understanding of God and its beliefs about the heavenly world and the end of the age. Another paper will discuss the derivation of these beliefs from the Hebrew scriptures and other sources. Another will consider the religious practice of the sect, as expressed through the priesthood and cult. Highlighting the conference will be the presentation by Martin Hengel on the historical context of the scrolls and specifically on their debt to Hellenistic influence. Hengel will revisit the reflections on Hellenism and Qumran in his landmark work, Judaism and Hellenism, published thirty years ago. The program for the conference is as follows: * Programme 1. John J. Collins [Chicago] Powers in Heaven: God, Gods and Angels in the Dead Sea Scrolls 2. James C. VanderKam [Notre Dame] Apocalyptic Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Religion of Qumran *Book Launching: Professor Eugene Ulrich's new book: _The Scrolls and the Bible in the Making_ Presented by Dr. Daniel Harlow, Eerdmans Publishing Company, USA 3. Eileen Schuller [McMaster] Prayer and Liturgy in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Religion of Qumran 4. Professor Martin Hengel [Tuebingen] Judaism and Hellenism: Revisited But Not Revised (with special attention to Qumran) *Book Launching: the Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years, Vol. II Presented by Mr. Hans van der Meij, Brill Academic Publishers 5. Dr. Timothy Lim [Edinburgh] The Qumran Scrolls, Multilingualism and Biblical Interpretation 6. Dr. Robert A. Kugler [Gonzaga] O who can . . . cloy the hungry edge of appetite by bare imagination of a feast?': Priests, cult and religious practice at Qumran 7. Professor Craig A. Evans [Trinity Western] Qumran's Messiah: How Important is He? --- For further details on the program, contact: John J. Collins Robert Kugler For further details on local arrangements, contact: Martin Abegg Peter Flint ____________________________________________________________ CHIEF EDITOR and DIGEST MODERATOR: Aviva Ben-Ur ASSOCIATE MODERATOR: Marsha B. Cohen MANAGING EDITOR: Avi Jacob Hyman CHAIR: Jonathan Sarna JEWISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER EDITOR and BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Lorenzo DiTommaso WEBSITE: Avrum Goodblatt JEWISH STUDIES ON-LINE EDITORIAL BOARD: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblatt, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Richard Menkis, Barry Mesch, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Tzvee Zahavy, Belarie Zatzman, Reena Zeidman ------------------------------------------------------------ Jewish Studies Network Homepage: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ------------------------------------------------------------ This newsletter is published & distributed for members of H-Judaic@h-net.msu.edu - The Jewish Studies Network An affiliate of H-Net: Humanities On-Line and Shamash.Org