Scholarship “Neusner moved the study of Judaism from Near Eastern Language or History departments into Religious Studies” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 February 2019 As both a scholar and an academic politician, Neusner moved the study of Judaism...
Scholarship “The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 February 2019 The field of rabbinics is peopled by two types of scholars—literary scholars and historians....
Archaeology, Rabbinic Literature, Scholarship “The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 September 2018 The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity. In the...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy “…the religious leadership of an institution whose motto is “Torah U’Madda” has frozen its conception of religiously permissible Madda at that with which the Rav engaged at the University of Berlin in the 1920s…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2017 Yeshiva University faces many challenges, some reflective of broader societal trends and some of...
Centrist Orthodoxy, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “We need to believe that Torah U’Madda was not a limited-time offer that expired sometime in the last century…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 February 2017 Today’s Centrist Orthodox world–the world of Yeshiva University, the world that produces the overwhelming...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews…perhaps the most-defining is our embrace of the Talmudic maxim hokhma bagoyim ta’amin…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 January 2017 Among the many things that characterize modern Orthodox Jews: religious Zionism; engaging with the...
Scholarship “The various literatures relevant to Judaism and Christianity are so bulky and so diverse and so complex that no one person can master them all and the secondary scholarship in full thoroughness” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 May 2016 The various literatures relevant to Judaism and Christianity are so bulky and so diverse...
Scholarship “…the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has matured into a full-dress academic discipline with a huge number of publications…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2015 I think we scholars who are devoting our lives to the study of the...