Tracing the Bible
A new exhibit, “Book of Books,” has just opened in the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. The exhibit traces the dissemination of the Bible and the New Testament from its earliest origins through modernity. The exhibit is the product of a partnership of the Bible Lands Museum with the Green Scholars Initiative and Verbum Domini, a group that hopes to build a museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., near the Smithsonian Institute.
To understand this exhibit fully, one has to understand the nature of the two partners in greater detail and to appreciate the interreligious cooperation that made it possible.
Click here to read the rest of Tracing the Bible, published by the Long Island Jewish World.
Outside the Bible Launch Event Video
Thanks to all who came to the Outside the Bible launch event. A summary of the event can be found at the YU News blog. Pictures from the event are on my Facebook page. If you missed it or just want to watch it again, here is the video:
Celebration for the Publication of Outside the Bible
Yeshiva University & The Jewish Publication Society invite you to a special Hanukkah event celebrating the publication of a major work of Jewish scholarship
Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture
Edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel and Lawrence H. Schiffman
A monumental three-volume anthology of Second Temple literature by seventy scholars.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 5:30pm
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th St. (between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York City
Welcome: Richard M. Joel, President, Yeshiva University
Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz, Director, JPS
Keynote: Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffman with Dr. Alex P. Jassen
Remarks: Dr. Louis H. Feldman
The program will be preceded by a brief Hanukkah reception and followed by a book signing and curator’s tour of the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition, Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue.
Admission is free.
RSVP to Amy Rotheim Sullivan at enrollment@yu.edu or call 347-266-4666.
