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Bruce Chilton

Bruce Chilton (Ph.D. from Cambridge, 1976) is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism. He wrote the first critical commentary on the Aramaic version of Isaiah (The Isaiah Targum, 1987), as well as academic studies that analyze Jesus in his Judaic context (A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible, 1984; The Temple of Jesus, 1....[more]

Martin S. Jaffee

Martin Jaffee holds the Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. He teaches in both the Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion Programs of the Jackson School of International Studies at the UW. He holds academic degrees from Syracuse University (BA), Florida State University....[more]

Peter Ochs

Peter Ochs (Phd Yale; MA Jewish Theological Seminary)is Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia, where he also directs Religious Studies graduate programs in “Scripture, Interpretation, and Practice” – an interdisciplinary approach to the Abrahamic traditions and more. He is co-f....[more]

Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) Bulfinch was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the sixth of the eleven children born to Hannah Apthorp and Charles Bulfinch. He attended the Boston Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, graduating in 1814. He was an avid reader and amassed a large library over ....[more]

Chaim Potok

Isaac Bashevis Singer

David Aberbach

Philosophy, Poetry

Israel Abrahams

Biography & Autobiography, Law, Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science

Glenda Abramson

Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Poetry

Marjorie Agosφn

Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism

Marjorie Agosin was born in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1955. She has written many books of poetry and fiction. Her childhood and early adolescence were spent with her Jewish family in Chile, where her family also participated in the dominant Catholic culture. The young Agosin became keenly aware of her dual identity in her....[more]

Sholem Aleichem

Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Criticism

Sholom Aleichem (Hebrew greeting meaning "Peace be unto you!") was born near Pereyaslav, Ukraine, and settled in the United States two years before his death. The most popular and beloved of all Yiddish writers, he wrote with humor and tenderness about the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe and won the title "the ....[more]