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BAJS Bulletin 2016: Contents Jewish Studies at the University of Birmingham Jewish Studies at Birmingham University 1 Retirement of Prof BAJS Bulletin 2016: Contents Jewish Studies at the University of Birmingham Jewish Studies at Birmingham University 1 Retirement of Prof. George Brooke 4 50 years after the opening of the Parkes Library 6 Charlotte Hempel, Professor of Hebrew Bible British Jewish History Resources Online 7 and Second Temple Judaism at the University Josephus Reception Archive 14 of Birmingham, is the President of BAJS 2015- BAJS Support of Jewish Studies students 16. She has organised this year’s BAJS First BAJS studentship 14 BAJS essay prize 16 conference that is being hosted at the Northern UK Jewish Studies Partnership 18 University of Birmingham from 10-12 July Astaire Seminar Series in Jewish Studies 2016-17 18 2016. The title of the conference is The Call for Contributions: Texture of the Jewish Tradition: Journal of Jewish Studies Supplement 19 Medaon 19 Investigations in Textuality. New MA in Jewish History and Culture 19 BAJS Conference 2017: Call for Papers 20 The University of Birmingham and BAJS Conference 2016: Programme 21 Jewish Studies How to support BAJS 25 BAJS Committee 2016-17 26 The University was founded in 1900 as the Current research projects 27 Ongoing doctoral research 31 UK’s first civic university welcoming Members’ recent publications 32 students from all religions and back- Book reviews 36 grounds. The foundation arose out of the vision of its first Vice Chancellor Joseph The British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) Chamberlain, a British politician and was founded in 1975 as a learned society and statesman who was also a socially professional organization on a non-profit-making basis. Its aims are to nurture, cultivate and progressive mayor of the city of advance the teaching and research in Jewish Birmingham from 1873-1876. The iconic culture and history in all its aspects within clock tower at the centre of the campus is Higher Education in the British Isles. nicknamed ‘old Joe’ in his honour. In 1905 Sir Edward Elgar was appointed the first Contact: Professor of Music at the University of BAJS Secretary Birmingham succeeded by Granville Helen Spurling ([email protected]) Bantock who played an influential role in History, Faculty of Humanities the founding of the City of Birmingham University of Southampton Southampton Symphony Orchestra. In 1949 Birmingham S017 1BF appointed the first female professor at a UK university, Dame Hilda Lloyd, who went on Bulletin editor: to become the first female President of a Maria Diemling Royal Medical College. ([email protected]) If you have not already done so, please For a long time affiliated with the University sign up to the BAJS website! and now in part integrated with the http://britishjewishstudies.org University of Birmingham, the Federation 1 of Selly Oak Colleges has a proud history in It was through a connection by Alphonse inter-religious relations and mission Mingana to J. Rendel Harris of studies. To complement an established Woodbrooke College (now Woodbrooke Centre for Muslim-Christian Relations, Quaker Study Centre in Selly Oak) and the Rabbi Professor Norman Solomon, now sponsorship of Dr. Edward Cadbury University of Oxford where he served as (owner of the Cadbury chocolate factory in Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought, set up a the nearby Birmingham suburb of Centre for Judaism and Jewish-Christian Bournville) that the famous Mingana Relations in Birmingham in 1983. Collection made up of over 3000 Middle Subsequently Rabbi Norman Solomon Eastern manuscripts in over 20 languages founded Mosaic: The Birmingham Society including Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Georgian, for Jewish Studies in 1995 jointly with Hebrew, Samaritan and Armenian came to Professor Martin Goodman, who taught be housed in the University’s Special Roman history at the University of Collections as part of the Cadbury Birmingham before taking up a Chair in Research Library. The collection also Jewish Studies in Oxford. This thriving adult includes one of the oldest manuscripts of education programme provides a forum for the Qur’an that gave rise to intense media Jewish studies, understood in the broadest interest after it was identified by Dr. Alba possible terms. From its beginnings, Mosaic Fedeli n 2015 during her doctoral work in has been open to anyone, Jewish and non- the Department of Theology and Religion. Jewish, and is committed to exploring issues Research and teaching in Jewish Studies related to Jewish studies and disseminating is undertaken across several departments in cutting-edge thinking to the wider the College of Arts and Law. The community. More recently Mosaic operates Department of Theology and Religion is as a close co-operation between the headed by Dr. Andrew Davies (Reader in University’s Department of Theology and the Public Understanding of Religion) who Religious Studies and members of the local is a biblical scholar with particular interests Jewish community. It was headed until 2010 in the reception of the Hebrew Bible. More by Professor Jonathan Webber, UNESCO recently he has established and directs The Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies at the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public University of Birmingham. Since 2010 Understanding of Religion. Dr. Isabel Mosaic is jointly chaired by Professor Wollaston, Senior Lecturer in Jewish and Charlotte Hempel and Dr. Isabel Holocaust Studies, is an expert in Holocaust Wollaston. In 2012 the activities were Studies and contemporary Jewish-Christian brought under the umbrella of the relations. Her former research students externally funded project Jewish Heritage include Dr. Stephen Smith (Founder of the and Culture: Birmingham Perspectives UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire designed to maintain and extend current and now Executive Director of the USC activities to incorporate two annual public Shoah Foundation in the US) and Dr. lectures (The Annual Rabbi Tann Hannah Holtschneider (Senior Lecturer in Memorial Lecture and The Annual Jewish Studies at the University of Birmingham Lecture in Jewish Heritage Edinburgh and President Elect of BAJS for and Culture) as well as master classes in 2016-2017). Isabel is programme lead for Jewish Studies at local schools. Previous an inter-departmental MA in Holocaust speakers include: and Genocide. The research and teaching of The former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks Dr Karen Wenell (Lecturer in New Prof. Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt) Testament and Theology) covers first Prof. Martin Goodman FBA (Oxford) century Judaism, and the internationally Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon (Oxford) renowned Institute for Textual Prof. Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers Univer- Scholarship and Electronic Editing under sity) the leadership of its director Professor Prof. Michael Stone (Hebrew University) David Parker FBA (Edward Cadbury Prof. Reinhard Kratz (University of Professor of Theology) and co-director Dr. Göttingen) Hugh Houghton (Reader in New Testament Rabbi Dr. David Sandmel (Anti-Defa- Textual Scholarship) is well known for a mation League, New York) with a series of international digital editing response by Archbishop Bernard projects including the innovative Codex Longley (Birmingham). Sinaiticus project. The research of Charlotte Hempel, Professor of Hebrew 2 Bible and Second Temple Judaism, focuses and rabbinic literature. The Qumran on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the increasingly manuscripts are read against the narrowing gap between social and literary background of Second Temple Jewish phenomena reflected in the Scrolls and the literary creativity and legal debate. The Hebrew Bible. She is Executive Editor of production, transmission and interpretation Dead Sea Discoveries, and expert currently of texts and legal debate characterised a supervising 6 doctoral students working on formative period in Jewish history and the following topics: eventually gave rise to Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. Close analysis of texts A Jungian Approach to the Dead Sea alongside a reassessment of the material as Scrolls products of complex scribal activity rather Beyond the Yahad – The Foundational than snapshots of communal life illustrate Triangle of 1QSa, CD and 1QM the significance of this project for our understanding of a time and place seminal The Remnant of Israel. Qumran Social for the formation of western culture. Identity in the Light of Exegesis and Anthropology During the academic year 2015-16 Charlotte also hosted a European Research The Qumran Wisdom Texts and the Council funded Marie Curie Incoming Gospel of John (co-supervised with Dr. Fellowship, Dr. Angela Harkins (now Karen Wenell) Associate Professor of New Testament at The Significance of Selah in the Psalter Boston College) to work on a project entitled The Teacher of Righteousness and Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls. In addition, Dr. Drew Longacre completed Angela’s work employed integrative his PhD on A Contextualised Approach to the approaches to understanding the body and Dead Sea Scrolls Containing Exodus in 2015. its experiences, with special attention to Immediately after his PhD Drew took up a how the instrumentalisation of emotions Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of can shed light on the experience of religion Helsinki’s Centre of Excellence: Changes in during this time. While emotion’s role in the Texts hosted by Professor Annelie construction and reconstruction of memory Aejmelaus as well as a Fellowship at the has long been acknowledged, this study W.F. Albright Institute for Archaeological examines how the strategic arousal of
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