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Articles

These are usually papers presented at conventions, and are pulled together from various sources:

“Materials for Midrash” Paper on Lamentations Rabbah [Eikha Rabbati] 1.16 SBL, New Orleans, 1997.

Other Maccabees Articles

Martha Shamuni: Presenting a Rediscovered Text of the Maccabean Martyrdoms AJS, December 1997.

Maccabean Martyrdoms: Versions and Varieties SBL, November 2002. Handout & Bibliography.

Fourth Maccabees and the Asia Minor Hypothesis SBL, November 1994

See this link, which contains the link to my cv.

"I do believe that religion is, among other things, an intellectual activity -- and to play upon Paul Ricoeur's well-known phrase, it is the perception of incongruity that gives rise to thought." -- Jonathan Z. Smith (Map, 1978: 293-4) Jonathan Z. Smith's well-known description of religion, and of the academic study of religion, combines the well-known phrase "perception of incongruity" as developed by the anthropologist of mind, Jerome Bruner, and the similarly well-known phrase from Paul Ricoeur, "the symbol gives rise to thought." Did Smith mean that the perception of incongruity necessarily led to the invention of religion, or to the examination of religion?