Contributors to This Issue
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Shai Afsai is an independent scholar with an interest in early and contemporary Zionism. His articles and short stories have appeared in The Early America Review, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, and Midstream Magazine.
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; a translation of Sepher Yosippon is currently with Harvard University Press.
Christophe Collard is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) as well as a guest lecturer at the University of Antwerp. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in English and German Literature, and a Ph.D. in American Drama for which he studied the media and genre crossings in the work of David Mamet. His current research focuses on the theory and practice of adaptation, cognition, hybridity, intermediality, and the performing arts. Collard's articles have appeared among others in Adaptation, New Theatre Quarterly, the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, the Journal of War and Culture Studies, and English Text Construction. He is also the author of the forthcoming monograph study Artist on the Make: David Mamet's Work Across Media and Genres.
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 [End Page vii] Well-Being in a Christian Environment (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, repr. 2012; 414 pp.) and "The Distribution of Jewish Leaders in the Synoptic Gospels: Why Wariness Is Warranted," in Soundings on the Religion of Jesus: Jews and Christians on the Jesus of History. edited by Bruce Chilton, Anthony Le Donne, and Jacob Neusner (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012).
Eugene J. Fisher is Distinguished Professor of Catholic-Jewish Studies at Saint Leo University. He has worked tirelessly for the reconciliation between Catholics and Jews. Ahead of his time, he affected change directing Catholic-Jewish relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops beginning in 1977 and as author of numerous works in the field. He has been a Consultor to the Holy See and a member of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee.
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; The Impact of the Holocaust in America: The Jewish Role in American Life); and The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation. 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 foci are biblical studies, both Hebrew Bible and New Testament...
