1999-2000 Program

Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists, Jews, and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe

Name
Area of Research
Malachi Beit-Arie (F) 
Hebrew University
Codicological Study of Jewish and Christian Manuscripts and Scribal Collaboration 
Silvia Berti
La Sapienza, University of Rome 
Jews, Christian Hebraists, and the Anti-Christian Enlightenment
Stephen Burnett (F)
University of Nebraska 
Professors of Hebrew as Mediators of Jewish Scholarship in Reformation-Era Germany
Allison Coudert
Arizona State University
Christian Hebraists in the 17th Century
Yaacov Deutsch 
Hebrew University
'Ethnographic' Descriptions of Judaism in the Writings of  Western European Christian Scholars 
Harvey Goldberg (F)
Hebrew University
The Aftermath of Christian Hebraism in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Between Anthropology and the 'Judeo-Christian Tradition'
Chaim Hames (S)
Ben Gurion University 
Lucius N. Littauer Fellow
Hebrew Translation of Ramon Llull’s Ars brevis:  Jewish-Christian Interaction in 15th Century Italy 
Joseph Hacker
Hebrew University
Elizabethan Englishmen and Ottoman Jews: an Encounter on Ottoman Soil
Michael Heyd (S)
Hebrew University
Sabbatianism as 'Enthusiasm': Christian Responses to Shabbetai Zevi
Moshe Idel (F)
Hebrew University 
Symbolism:  From Pythagoreanism, to Christian Kabbalah, to Modern Scholarship
Fabrizio Lelli (F) 
Theological Faculty of 
Central Italy, Florence
Christian-Jewish Theological Interrelations in the Fifteenth Century
Ora Limor
Open University, Israel
Sepher ha'Nizzachon of Yom-Tov Lipmann Muhlhausen: A Jewish-Christian Encounter
Nils Roemer
Columbia University
Chronology, Geography, and the Perception of Jewish History between Baroque and Enlightenment
Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (F)
Free University, Berlin 
Judeo-Christian Philosophical Syncretism in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Jeffrey Shoulson
University of Miami
Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity
Guy Stroumsa (S)
Hebrew University 
Christian Hebraists and the Birth of Comparative Religion
Piet van Boxel (S) 
Leo Baeck College/King's College
Paulus Fagius' Latin Translation of Targum Onkelos
Joanna Weinberg (S) 
Leo Baeck College/Oxford University 
The German Ezra: Sebastian Munster's Approach to Jews, Jewish Languages, 
and Texts
Israel Yuval (S) 
Hebrew University
Sepher ha'Nizzachon of Yom-Tov Lipmann Muhlhausen: A Jewish-Christian Encounter
SHORT-TERM FELLOW
Yosef Kaplan  (February)
Hebrew University
ADJUNCT FELLOWS
Matthew Goldish
University of Arizona
Anthony Grafton
Princeton University
Aaron Katchen
Brandeis University
Beth Kissileff
Shaw University 
Peter Miller
University of Maryland
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Yale University
Jason Rosenblatt
Georgetown University