Spring 2018 Book List

BIB 601 Prophets Tamara Eskenazi

Required texts

• J. Heschel, The Prophets, Vol. 1. (1963) • G. Plaut, The Haftarah Commentary. UAHC Press (1996) • N. Podhoretz, The Prophets: Who They Were. What They Are (2010)

Recommended

Uriel Simon, JPS Bible Commentary: Jonah. (1999)

BIB 605 Family in Ancient Israel Kristine Garroway

Required:

Hebrew Bible (BHS) Jewish Study Bible (Brettler and Berlin) Carol Meyers, Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) ISBN-10: 0199734623 Naomi Steinberg, Kinship and Marriage in Genesis: A Household Economics Perspective (Ausburg Fortress Press, 1993) ISBN-10: 0800627032

All other readings will be on SAKAI or on Reserve in the library

BIB 621 Peshat, Derash, and Beyond: Interpreting the Torah Tamar Marvin

Required – Any edition of Mikra’ot Gedolot

BIB 628 Return and Reconstruction: Studies in Ezra-Nehemiah Tamara Eskenazi

Required

• Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, In an Age of Prose: A Literary Approach to Ezra-Nehemiah (Society of Biblical Literature, 1988) Paper.

• Joseph Blenkinsopp, J. Judaism, the First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism. Eerdmans, 2009.

Recommended

Lester L. Grabbe, Ezra-Nehemiah (Routledge Press, 2005) Paper.

There will be additional required articles as well as portions from T. C. Eskenazi, “The Fall and Rise of Judah in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods” (manuscript).

EDU 638 Curriculum Content Adam Allenberg

No Books Required

HEB 603A Hebrew Language Lisa Ansell

All the required material will be Provided by the instructor.

HEB 603B Hebrew Language Deborah Steinhart

Please contact Deborah Steinhart at dsteinhart@huc.edu

HIS 601 Medieval Jewish History Jake Cunningham

• Mark Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages • Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book • Jacob Rader Marcus, ed., The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315-

1791 (Revised Edition)

Other readings will be posted on SAKAI.

HIS 603 American Jewish History Bruce Phillips

• Jonathan Sarna, ed., The American Jewish Experience (2nd ed., 1997) • Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism: A History (2004) • Samuel Heilman, Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century (1995)

PDE 603 Speech Jonathan Aaron

Please contact Professor Aaron at jaaron@huc.edu

PDE 609 Creating Worship Experiences Joel Simonds

Please contact Rabbi Joel Simonds at jsimonds@huc.edu

PDE 612 Rabbinic Practicum B Karen Fox

• Ashlog and Sands, Pastoral Counseling and Care (Psychosocial Press, 2000) • “Bowenian Family Therapy”, Winek, J. Systemic Family Therapy: From Theory to

Practice, (Sage Publications, 2008), pp. 81-105 (On Sakai) • Friedman, D., Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and

Contemporary Sources (Jewish Lights, 2001) • **Friedman, E., Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue

(The Guilford Press, 2011 Paperback, 2011) • Goor, D. Editor, L’chol Zman V’Et: For Sacred Moments: The CCAR Lifecycle Guide

(CCAR Press, 2015) • Levitz, Y., Phd. & Twerski, A. MD, The Practical Guide to Rabbinic Counseling (Jewish

Lights, 2012) • McGoldrick, Carter and Garcia –Preto, The Expanded Family Life Cycle (Pearson

Education, Inc of Allyn and Bacon, 2011)

Recommended Books/Magazines:

• Rabbis’ Manuals, especially Goldin, H., HaMadrich (1939) • CCAR Ethics Code (CCAR website) • Bloom, J. Jewish Relational Care (Haworth Press, 2006) (See Sakai for articles) • Frankel, V., Man’s Search for Meaning (Beacon Press, 2000) • Galindo, E. Boomer, D. Reagan A Family Genogram Workbook (Educational

Consultants, 2006) • Hoffman and Bradshaw, “The Jewish Wedding Ceremony”, Two Lifecycle Traditions,

Volume 4, (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997). • Levin and Prince, Editors, Judaism and Health: A Handbook of Practical, Professional

and Scholarly Resources (Jewish Lights, 2013) (see especially pp. 157-248 and 239-281) • Netter, P., Divorce is a Mitzvah, (Jewish Lights, 2005) • Orenstein, D. Lifecycles: Jewish Women in Life Passages and Personal Milestones

(Jewish Lights, 1994) • Schacter-Shlomi, Z. The Geologist of the Soul (Albion-Andalus Books, 2012) • Strassfeld, M., A Book of Life (Jewish Lights, 2006)

PDE 614 Rabbinic Practicum D Ed Harris

• Friedman, Dayle, Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook, Second Edition, Jewish Lights Publishing

• Levitz and Twerski, A Practical Guide to Rabbinic Counseling, Jewish Lights Publishing

PDE 621 Ordination Seminar B Ken Chasen/Dvora Weisberg

No Books Required

PHI 602 Thought: Modern/Contemporary Rachel Adler

Required

• Eugene Borowitz Choices in Modern Jewish Thought 2nd edition (Not the first edition!) ISBN 0-87441-581-0

• Abraham Joshua Heschel God in Search of Man • Mordecai Kaplan Dynamic Judaism ISBN 0823213102 • Franz Rosenzweig On Jewish Learning ISBN 08052008437 • J.B. Soloveitchik The Lonely Man of Faith ISBN 0385514085

Other readings will be on Sakai.

PHI 635 Tilling, Tending, Eating: Ethics, Food and Judaism Leah Hochman

Required

• Sue Fishkoff, Kosher Nation (Schocken, 2010) • Mary L. Zamore, The Sacred Table (CCAR Press, 2011)

Very Strongly Recommended

Roger Horowitz, Kosher USA (Columbia University Press, 2016)

RAB 519 Portraits in Midrash Candice Levy

Please contact Professor Levy at Candice.Levy@huc.edu

RAB 601 Midrash Josh Garroway

No Books Required

RAB 606 Talmud B Dvora Weisberg

Any edition of Tractate Baba Kamma that uses the traditional Vilna pagination (the new Koren edition is fine)

RAB 607 Codes Candice Levy

Please contact Professor Levy at Candice.Levy@huc.edu

THE 629 Ethics, Theology and Gender Rachel Adler

Required Rachel Adler Engendering Judaism Judith Plaskow Standing Again at Sinai Other readings will be on Sakai