Contributors
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Herbert Basser, Rabbi (1970) and Ph.D. (University of Toronto, 1983), worked as a Hillel Rabbi in the 1970s at the University of Florida in Gainesville and the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. From 1980 until the present he has taught Religious Studies at Queen's University in Kingston. His numerous books and articles delve into rabbinic literature, mysticism, medieval commentary, and New Testament. His latest book is The Mind behind the Gospels: A Commentary to Matthew, ch. 1-14, Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2009.
Alan L. Berger holds the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Among his recent books are Jewish-Christian Relations: Drawing Honey From the Rock (co-authored with David Patterson) and Encyclopedia of Jewish American Literature (co-edited with Gloria Cronin).
Steven Bowman is Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he has taught since 1980. His most recent book, The Agony of Greek Jewry 1941-1945, was just released by Stanford University Press. He is currently preparing a monograph on Sepher Yosippon, whose translated text is currently with a publisher.
Michael J. Cook is Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures, and holds the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Chair in Judaeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati Campus. His areas of interest include evolving Jewish views of Jesus and Paul, New Testament dynamics, images of Judaism in Christian Art, the history of antisemitism, and factors underlying Christian missionizing. His recent publications include: Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-Being in a Christian Environment (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2008) and "Jews and 'Gospel Dynamics': Why Advice by Ancient Sages Is No Longer Sage Advice," The Fourth R, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Santa Rosa, CA: Westar, 2009), pp. 9-14, 24. [End Page vii]
Eugene J. Fisher, retired, directed Catholic-Jewish relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1977 to 2007. In that period he was also Consultor to the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and a member of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee, representing the Holy See. In 2000 he represented the Holy See at the International Conference on the Holocaust in Stockholm, and in 2001 at the International Lutheran-Jewish Conference in Budapest. In 2003 he was the Rabbi Hugo Gryn Fellow at Cambridge University, England. He is the author or editor of over 30 books and 300 articles in major religious journals, many of which have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and German for publication in Latin America and Europe. He holds honorary doctorates from Seton Hall University and St. Mary's Seminary and University.
Zev Garber is Emeritus Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Los Angeles Valley College and has served as Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at University of California at Riverside, as Visiting Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University, and as President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of two academic series, Studies in Shoah (UPA) and Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies (Purdue University Press), and serves as Co-Editor of Shofar. His publications include Methodology in the Academic Teaching of Judaism; Methodology in the Academic Teaching of the Holocaust; Teaching Hebrew Language and Literature at the College Level; Shoah: The Paradigmatic Genocide; Perspectives on Zionism; Peace, In Deed: Essays in Honor of Harry James Cargas (with Richard Libowitz); Academic Approaches to Teaching Jewish Studies; Post-Shoah Dialogues: Rethinking Our Texts Together (with Steven Jacobs, Henry Knight, and James Moore); Double Takes: Thinking and Rethinking Issues of Modern Judaism in Ancient Contexts (with Bruce Zuckerman); Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications; and The Impact of the Holocaust in America: The Jewish Role in American Life (2009). Finally, Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber was published by Purdue University Press in 2009.
Steven Leonard Jacobs is the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, where he is also an Associate Professor. His primary research...
