A&S Curriculum Vitae

Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher March 1, 2008

Religious Studies Program

1000 E. University Avenue

Department 3392

University of Wyoming

Laramie, WY 82071-3392 USA PFlesher@uwyo.edu

(307) 766-2616 Fax (307) 766-3189

Education

1988 Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, R.I.

1985 - 86 Visiting Research Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

1985 - 86 Visiting Student, Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Neve Schecter), Jerusalem, Israel

1982 M.Phil., Oxford University, Oxford, England

1979 B.A., University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.

Academic Positions

1993 - Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Wyoming
(Director, Religious Studies Program, since 1993)

1988 - 93 Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religions, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

1988 Visiting Instructor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH

TEACHING

Courses Taught: Introduction to the Old Testament, The Millennium (on-campus and distance), Introduction to Religion (on-campus and distance), Introduction to Judaism, Film and Religion, Religions of the Middle East, The Dead Sea Scrolls, Varieties of Ancient Judaism, Women and the Bible, Judaism at the Dawn of Christianity; Jews, Pagans and Christians in Ancient Palestine.

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Paul V.M. Flesher and Eric Meyers, editors, Aramaic in Late-Antique Judaism and Early Christianity, for Eisenbrauns Press, in press.

Paul V.M. Flesher and Bruce Chilton. An Introduction to the Targums, for Hendrickson Press.

Published Works

Books:

Paul V.M. Flesher and Robert Torry, 2007, Film and Religion: An Introduction, Abingdon Press, xii+206 pp.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1988, Oxen, Women or Citizens? Slaves in the System of the Mishnah (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), xvi + 212 pp.

BOOKS EDITED:

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2002, Targum and Scripture: Studies in Aramaic Translation and Interpretation in Memory of Ernest G. Clarke, Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture 2 (Leiden: Brill), xxv + 327 pp.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 1998, Targum Studies: Targum and Peshitta, vol. 2 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), xx + 252 pp.

Dan Urman and Paul V. M. Flesher, 1995, Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis & Archaeological Discovery, 2 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), xxxvii + 677 pp. + 53 pls. Second Impression as a single volume, 1998.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1992, Targum Studies: Textual and Contextual Studies in the Pentateuchal Targums, vol. 1 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), ix + 155 pp.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1990, New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism: Society and Literature in Analysis, vol. 5 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), xiv + 189 pp.

Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs and Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher, 1989, Religion, Science, and Magic in Concert and in Conflict: Perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, Philosophy, and Social Science, (New York: Oxford University Press, paperback-1992), xii + 293 pp.

journal ARticles:

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2005, “Administration of Native American Sacred Space on Federal Land: The Approach of ‘Equal Treatment,’” Wyoming Lawyer, December, pp. 28-9.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2004, “The Aramaic Dialect of the James Ossuary,” Aramaic Studies (January 2004) 2:1, pp. 37-55.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2001, “The Translations of Proto-Onqelos and the Palestinian Targums,” Journal of the Aramaic Bible vol. 3:1&2, pp. 75-100.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1999, “Is Targum Onqelos A Palestinian Targum? The Evidence of Genesis 28-50," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, issue 19, pp. 35-79.

Paul V. M. Flesher & Robert Torry, 1998, “Teaching Film and Religion” in Religious Studies News, for “Spotlight on Teaching,” Spring 1998, pp. 26-8.

Paul V. Flesher, 1989, “Structure and Argument: A Study of Immanuel Kant’s Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone,” in Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 15, pp. 119-130.

Chapters in Books:

Paul V. M. Flesher, In Press, “The Fiction of Proselyte Baptism: Proselytes and Conversion in the Mishnah,” in Traversing Sea and Land: the Question of Jewish Missionary Activity in Antiquity (tentative title), A.J. Levine and R. Pervo, eds.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2005, “The Pentateuchal Targums as Midrash,” In: The Encyclopedia of Midrash, J. Neusner and A. Avery-Peck, eds., 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2005), vol. 2, pp. 630-646.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2003, “The Literary Legacy of the Priests? The Pentateuchal Targums of Israel in their Social and Linguistic Context,” In: The Ancient Synagogue, Birger Olsson and Magnus Zetterholm, eds. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell), pp. 467-508.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2002, “Targum Studies and Ernest G. Clarke,” In: Targum and Scripture: Studies in Aramaic Translation and Interpretation in Memory of Ernest G. Clarke, P.V.M. Flesher, ed. (Leiden: Brill), pp. xix-xxv.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2002, “Targum as Scripture,” In: Targum and Scripture: Studies in Aramaic Translation and Interpretation in Memory of Ernest G. Clarke, P.V.M. Flesher, ed. (Leiden: Brill), pp. 61-75.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2001, “Prolegomenon to a Theory of Early Synagogue Development,” In: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Judaism in Late Antiquity, Part Three, Volume 4, The Special Problem of the Synagogue, A.J. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, eds. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), pp. 121-153.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, “The Resurrection of the Dead and the Sources of the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch,” In: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Judaism in Late Antiquity, Part 4, Death, Life-After-Death, Resurrection & The World-to-Come in the Judaisms of Antiquity, A.J. Avery-Peck and J. Neusner, eds. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), pp. 311-331

Paul V.M. Flesher, 1999, “The Theology of the Afterlife in the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch: A Framework for Analysis," In: Approaches to Ancient Judaism: New Series, vol. 16, J. Neusner, ed., Scholars Press, Atlanta, pp. 1-47.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 1998, “Looking for Links in all the Wrong Places: Targum and Peshitta Relationships,” in Targum Studies, vol. 2, Paul V.M. Flesher, ed. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), pp. xi-xx.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1998, “Conflict or Cooperation? Non-Jews in the Dura Synagogue Painting,” in Hellenic and Jewish Arts: Interaction, Tradition and Renewal, Asher Ovadia, ed. (Tel Aviv: Ramot Publishing—Tel Aviv University), pp. 199-222.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1995, “The Targumim,” in Handbuch der Orientalistik. Judaism in Late Antiquity, vol. 1, The Literary and Archaeological Sources, J. Neusner, ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), pp. 87-102.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1995, “Ancient Synagogues: A Reader’s Guide,” in Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis & Archaeological Discovery, vol. 1, Dan Urman & Paul V. M. Flesher, eds. (Leiden: E. J. Brill), pp. xvii-xxxvii.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1995, “Rereading the Reredos: David, Orpheus, and Messianism in the Dura Europos Synagogue,” in Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis & Archaeological Discovery, vol. 2, Dan Urman & Paul V. M. Flesher, eds. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), pp. 346-356.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1994, “The Targumim in the Context of Rabbinic Literature,” in Introduction to Rabbinic Literature, J. Neusner (Garden City, NY: Doubleday), pp. 410-425.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1992, “Exploring the Sources of the Synoptic Targums to the Pentateuch,” in Targum Studies: Textual and Contextual Studies in the Pentateuchal Targums, vol. 1, Paul V. M. Flesher, ed. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), pp. 101-134.

Paul V. M. Flesher, “Introduction,” 1992, in Targum Studies: Textual and Contextual Studies in the Pentateuchal Targums, vol. 1, Paul V. M. Flesher, ed. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), pp. 1-8.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1990, “Palestinian Synagogues Before 70 c.e.: A Review of the Evidence,” in Approaches to Ancient Judaism, vol. 6, J. Neusner, ed. (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press), pp. 67-84. Revised and reprinted in Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis & Archaeological Discovery, vol. 1, Dan Urman and Paul V. M. Flesher, eds. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 27-39.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1989, “Are Women Property in the System of the Mishnah?” in From Ancient Israel To Modern Judaism: Intellect in Quest of Understanding, J. Neusner, E. S. Frerichs, & N. M. Sarna, eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 219-232.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1988, “Slaves, Israelites and the System of the Mishnah,” in New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism, vol. 4, Alan Avery-Peck, ed. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 101-109.

E. S. Frerichs, Paul V. M. Flesher, J. Neusner, 1987, “Paraphrase: Midrash in the Septuagint and the Targumim,” in J. Neusner, What is Midrash? (Philadelphia: Fortress Press), pp. 23-30.

J. Neusner, Paul V. M. Flesher, 1987, “Prophecy: Midrash in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in J. Neusner, What is Midrash? (Philadelphia: Fortress Press), pp. 31-36.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1987, “Translation and Exegetical Augmentation in the Targums to the Pentateuch,” in New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism. III. Judaic and Christian Interpretation of Texts: Contents and Contexts, J. Neusner and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 29-86.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1987, “Hierarchy and Interstitiality: The Bondman and the Freedman in the Mishnah’s Caste System,” in New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism. I. Religion, Literature, and Society in Ancient Israel, Formative Christianity and Judaism, J. Neusner and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 103-116.

J. Neusner and Paul V. M. Flesher, 1984, “The Messiah in the Targums of the Pentateuch,” in J. Neusner, Messiah in Context: Israel’s History and Destiny in Formative Judaism (Philadelphia: Fortress Press), pp. 239-247

Proceedings/Transactions

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1994, “The Synoptic Targums: Sources of the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch,” in The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context, M. McNamara and D.R.G. Beattie, eds. (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press), pp. 247-253.

Book Reviews

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2007, review of “Eldon Clem, ‘Targum Onkelos and Jonathan (English),’ (Version 2.0) 2006; “Targum Neofiti (English),’ (Version 1.1) 2006. Accordance Bible Software, Oaktree Software, Inc.” In Aramaic Studies 5:1 (2007), pp. 151-8.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2005, Review of: The Targum of Canticles: Translated, with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes by Philip S. Alexander, The Aramaic Bible 17A (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003). In Bulletin of Biblical Research, (3 pages).??

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2003, “The Story so Far. . . “, review essay of H. Shanks and B.I. Witherington, The Brother of Jesus, in the Polish Journal of Biblical Research 2:2, pp. ??

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, review of L.I. Levine, The Ancient Synagogue The First Thousand Years, in Choice.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, review of J.J. Collins, Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora, in Choice (December 2000) 38:4.

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, review of H.C. Kee and L.H. Cohick, eds., Evolution of the Synagogue: Problems and Progress, in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1997, review of S. Fine, ed., Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World, in Journal of Ritual Studies.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1993, review of P. Grelot, What are the Targums? in Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1993, pp. 413-414.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1993, review of J. Neusner, The Talmud: A Close Encounter, in Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1993, pp. 420-422.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1993, review of M.L. Klein, Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, in Ioudaios Review.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1993, review of S.D. Fraade, From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy, in Ioudaios Review.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1989, review of J. Neusner, The Mishnah: A New Translation, in Religious Studies Review, vol. 15.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1986, review of I. Drazin, Targum Onkelos to Deuteronomy, in Religious Studies Review, 12:3-4.

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1980, review of B.T. Viviano, Study as Worship: Aboth and the New Testament, in Journal of Jewish Studies, 31:2, p. 266.

Dictionary AND ENCYCLOPEDIA Articles

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2007, 11 entries in Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity (J. Neusner and A. Avery-Peck, Editors in Chief, Brill Academic Press, Leiden, 2007, xi+467 pp.) : “Targums,” “Pentateuchal Targums,” “Palestinian Targums,” “Targum Pseudo-Jonathan,” “Targum Neofiti,” “Fragment Targums,” “Cairo Geniza Targum Fragments,” “Targums of Israel,” “Targum Onkelos,” “Bar Kokhba Letters,” “Tosefta Targum to the Pentateuch.”

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2006?? “The History of Aramaic in Judaism,” in The Encyclopedia of Judaism, 2nd ed. (Leiden, Brill Academic Press), pp. ??

Paul V.M. Flesher, 2000, "Privileged Translations of Scripture," in The Encyclopedia of Judaism (Leiden: E.J. Brill), vol. 3, pp. 1309-1321.

Paul V. M. Flesher, Approximately 90 short entries concerning targums, in Dictionary of Biblical Judaism (New York: Macmillan, 1996).

Paul V. M. Flesher, “Magen David,” “Targum,” “Jerusalem,” and “Torah Study” in Dictionary of Religion (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1995).

Paul V. M. Flesher, 1992, “Amora, Amoraim,” “Bread of the Presence,” The Great Assembly,” and “Zugoth” in Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Bantam DoubleDay Dell).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

2000 - Editor, Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.

1995 - 2007 Executive Editor, Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies.

1992 - 2002 Editor, Targum Studies (the first English-language monograph series devoted solely to study of the targums), Global Press, Binghamton, NY (originally with Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA).

1987 - 1989 Managing Editor, New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

2002 - 2007 Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Religious Writings in Antiquity (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden).

2006 - Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Religion and Film (an online publication)

2000 - Associate Editor, The Bible and Interpretation, News and Commentary webzine (http://www.bibleinterp.com).

1997 - Member, Editorial Committee, Aramaic Studies (formerly Journal of the Aramaic Bible).

1995 - 1998 Consulting Editor, Millennial Encyclopedia of Judaism, The Religion (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000).

1992 - 1995 Steering Committee member, Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies.

1990 - 1996 Editor for Targum Studies, Dictionary of Biblical Judaism (New York: Macmillan, 1996).

1989 - 1991 Editorial Committee member, Approaches to Ancient Judaism (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press).

Seminars

2004 Co-directed and co-taught a 6-week NEH Summer Seminar with Professor Eric Meyers at Duke University, “Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity.” Budget—$128,000.00.

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

International Organization for Targumic Study (President, 2001-2004, 2004-2007)

American Academy of Religion

American Schools of Oriental Research

Association for Jewish Studies

Chicago Society for Biblical Research

Society of Biblical Literature

PAPERS PRESENTED/ SYMPOSIA / PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS/ WORKSHOPS

PAPERS PRESENTED

2004 “Tabernacle and Torah in Targum and Tesserae,” Association of Jewish Studies, 35th Annual National Meeting, Chicago, December 19-21.

2004 “Jewish Aramaic in Palestine,” International Organization of Targumic Studies, 4th Congress, Leiden, July 29-30.

2003 “Does the Kaufman Effect impact the Literary Character of the Targums of Israel,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, November

2003 “Late Jewish Literary Aramaic and the Sources of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan,” European Association of Biblical Studies, Copenhagen, August 3-6.

2002 “Torah in Targum and Synagogue,” European Association of Jewish Studies, 7th Congress, Amsterdam, July 21-25.

2001 “Targumic Evidence for the Dialectal Transformation of post-70 Galilee: The Impact of the Priests.” Paper presented in the special session, Priestly Power in the Rabbinic Era Galilee, at the Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, Denver, CO, November 21.

2001 “The Literary Legacy of the Priests? The Pentateuchal Targums of Israel in their Social and Linguistic Context.” Paper presented at the conference: The Ancient Synagogue: From the Beginning to about 200 C.E. An International Conference at Lund University (Sweden), October 14-17, 2001 (by invitation only).

2001 “Targums and Priests: A Proposal Concerning Religious Developments in the Galilee” Keynote address to the International Organization for Targum Studies, Third Congress, Basel Switzerland, August 3.

2001 “Towards the Classification of Jesus Figures in Contemporary Film.” Paper Presented at the American Society of Church History, national meeting, Boston, January 4.

2000 “The Proto-PT Source of the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch,” Aramaic Studies Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Conference, Nashville, November 18-21.

1999 "Messianism in the Painting of the Dura Europos Synagogue," University of Manchester (England), December.

1998 “Is Onkelos a Palestinian Targum? Revisiting the Question,” International Organization of Targum Study, Oslo, Norway, July 30-31.

1997 Panel presentation on the film, Punch me in the Stomach, American Academy of Religion, Annual National Meeting, San Francisco, November 21

1997 “Is Targum Onkelos a Palestinian Targum?” International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 27-30

1997 “Teaching Film and Religion,” Panel Presentation, Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Salt Lake City, May 2

1995 “Imagining the Audience of the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch,” International Organization of Targum Study, Cambridge, England, July.

1995 “Conflict or Cooperation? Non-Jews in the Dura Synagogue Painting,” in The Howard Gilman International Conference: Hellenic and Jewish Arts, Delphi, Greece, June.

1994 “Mark 7:1-23 and Rabbinic Rhetoric,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, Chicago, November.

1992 “Doing History with Rabbinic Literature: The Case of Proselyte Initiation,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, San Francisco, November.

1992 “Slavery in Early Judaism: The Mishnah and History,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, San Francisco, November.

1992 “The Synoptic Targums: Sources of the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch,” presented at The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context, Royal Irish Academy conference, Dublin, Ireland, July 14-17.

1990 “Addressing the Audience: The Implications for Targum Translations,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, New Orleans, November.

1990 “The Wisdom of the Sages: Rabbinic Rewriting of Qohelet,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, New Orleans, November.

1990 “Sacred Translation as Cultural Narrative: Inscriptions on Balaam’s Ass,” International Conference on Narrative Theory, New Orleans, April 4-6.

1990 Member of Review Panel for Richard Stegner, Narrative Theology in Early Jewish Christianity, Chicago Society for Biblical Research, February 4.

1989 “Evaluating Narrative Cogency: The Targumic Versions of the Balaam Story,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, November.

1989 “Palestinian Synagogues before 70 c.e.: A Review of the Evidence,” Midwest regional meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, Chicago, November.

1987 “Women and Slaves, Householders and Children: The Classification of Humanity in the System of the Mishnah,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, Boston, November.

1978 “Authorship of the Pauline Epistles: A Computer-Assisted Study,” American Philological Association, Annual National Meeting, Vancouver, December.

1978 “Computer-Assisted Authorship Determination in the Letters of Paul,” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual National Meeting, New Orleans, November.

INVITED LECTURES

2006 “Messianism in the Dura Synagogue Paintings,” Trinity College, University of Dublin, March.

2006 “Messianism in the Dura Synagogue Paintings,” Theologische Universitet, Kampen (Netherlands), February.

2006 “Aramaic in the Galilee,” Queens College, London, February .

2006 “From the Persians to the Byzantines: How Aramaic went Native in Palestine,” Queens University, Belfast (Northern Ireland), February.

2006 “The Origins of Aramaic in Galilee, Oxford University, February

2006 “Adam and Eve in the Pentateuchal Targums,” Durham University (England), January.

2006 “Were the Jews of the Dura Europos synagogue messianic?” Durham University (England), January.

2006 “The Origins of Aramaic in Galilee, Cambridge University, January.

2003 “Messianism in the Dura Synagogue Paintings,” Duke University, February.

1999 "The Paintings of the Dura Europos Synagogue," Queens University of Belfast (Northern Ireland), October.

1998 “Early Synagogue Theology: The Evidence of the Dura Europos Excavations,” Tulane University, October 9.

1993 “Who says we can’t paint pictures? Art and Ancient Judaism,” part of 1993 Religious Studies Lecture Series: Varieties of the Sacred, University of Wyoming, February.

Service IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

2001 – 2007 President, International Organization for Targumic Studies

1995 – 2001 Member, Executive Committee, International Organization for Targumic Studies

1997, 2000 NEH Fellow Selection Panel, Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem

1995 - Executive Committee member, International Organization for Targumic Study

1990 - 1995 Member, Executive Committee, History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism Section, Society of Biblical Literature

SEMINARS CONDUCTED

1988 “Social Categories in Early Judaism,” a week-long seminar (June 20-23) in the NEH Summer Institute, “Judaic Studies in the Liberal Arts College and University,” Brown University, E. S. Frerichs, Director.

1988 “The Early Synagogues,” a week-long seminar (June 27-30) in the NEH Summer Institute, “Judaic Studies in the Liberal Arts College and University,” Brown University, E. S. Frerichs, Director.