Spanish Translation of Articles
Luis Jovel
Luis Jovel has kindly begun translating the series on Second Temple Literature and Rabbinic Judaism into Spanish for the benefit of the Latin American community.
The first five posts have already appeared:
- Literatura del Segundo Templo y Judaísmo Rabínico: Introducción.
- Literatura del Segundo Templo y Judaísmo Rabínico: 2 – Referencias a Escritos Apócrifos en la Literatura Rabínica –
- Literatura del Segundo Templo y Judaísmo Rabínico: 3 – Filacterias, Mezuzot y Biblias
- Literatura del Segundo Templo y Judaísmo Rabínico 4: –Patrimonio de Exégesis Bíblica
- Literatura del Segundo Templo y Judaísmo Rabínico 5: –Teología Sectaria Versus Teología Rabínica
Most Recent Edition of Qumran Phylacteries
Reader question: Is there another, perhaps more recent edition of the phylacteries of Qumran besides DJD VI? All the other compilations I have come across so far only ever feature the supposedly more complete manuscripts of the biblical “books,” sometimes mentioning the phylacteries.
Answer: Thanks for your question. There is no later addition, although there are phylacteries in a few other volumes of DJD and also in Y. Yadin’s publication Tefillin from Qumran. However, there are some phylacteries that were discovered in the Judean Desert caves and these need to be checked as well. There is quite a bit of information in E. Tov’s volume on Scribal Practices.
First Spring 2014 Yeshiva University Dead Sea Scrolls Seminar
The first Yeshiva University Dead Sea Scrolls Seminar for the Spring 2014 semester will take place at 6 PM on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at the Wilf (uptown) Campus of Yeshiva University in the Lipschutz-Gutwirth Study Hall (Rubin Shul), 2501 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033.
This seminar marks the publication of Reading and Re-reading Scripture at Qumran by Dr. Moshe J. Bernstein, Professor of Bible and Jewish History and David A. and Fannie M. Denenberg Chair in Biblical Studies at Yeshiva.
There will be two presentations:
Dr. Hindy Najman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, “A Preparatory Study of Nomenclature and Text Designation in the Dead Sea Scrolls;”
Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Vice-Provost and Professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University, “The Temple Scroll Between the Bible and the Mishnah.”
Dr. Bernstein will be the respondent to both papers.
If you plan on attending, we would appreciate if you could let us know ahead of time by responding to Amy Rotheim Sullivan at rotheims@yu.edu. You may also contact Amy if you have any questions.
