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Read more at: A History of the Modern Hebrew Novel - Dr Yaron Peleg

A History of the Modern Hebrew Novel - Dr Yaron Peleg

This study looks at the peculiar absence of romance in the modern Hebrew novel for the first one hundred years since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century. The development of modern European literature, especially the English novel, is strongly linked to the secularization of Christian ideals...


Read more at: Religion and Film in Israel - Dr Yaron Peleg

Religion and Film in Israel - Dr Yaron Peleg

This study looks at the changing place of religion in Israeli culture by following the changes in the representation of religious references and imagery in Israeli films from the 1960s to the present. The study examines the metamorphosis in the cinematic representation of religious Jews and their...


Read more at: Hebrew Literature in a Neo-National Age - Dr Yaron Peleg

Hebrew Literature in a Neo-National Age - Dr Yaron Peleg

This study examines the role which Hebrew, Israeli literature plays today in the life of the country after the postmodern or post-national age in what can perhaps be termed a neo-national age. The study is a continuation of previous work that Dr Peleg published on Israeli literature and culture...


Read more at: Hebrew Biblical Scholarship from the Enlightenment to the Discovery of the Cairo Geniza - Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün

Hebrew Biblical Scholarship from the Enlightenment to the Discovery of the Cairo Geniza - Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün

Dr Dunkelgrün's research concentrates on Hebrew biblical scholarship during the long century that stretches from the collations of Kennicott to the first edition of Kittel, a neglected but pivotal period in the history of the study of the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on Germany and Britain, and on such...


Read more at: Bible & Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture - Prof. Simon Goldhill

Bible & Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture - Prof. Simon Goldhill

This project investigates the interface between the study of the bible and the study of antiquity in the nineteenth century. These two areas – the bible and classics – are central to the intellectual world of the nineteenth century, a source of knowledge, contention, and authority both as discrete...


Read more at: Cambridge Project in Modern Jewish Thought - Dr Daniel H. Weiss

Cambridge Project in Modern Jewish Thought - Dr Daniel H. Weiss

The Project in Modern Jewish Thought is a initiative bringing together the wealth of expertise in modern Jewish thought at Cambridge. Cambridge University has a long history in the field of Jewish Studies, housing the Taylor-Schechter Geniza Research Unit and the Centre for Hebrew and Semitic...