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Jason Kalman (Show Contact Information)
Jason Kalman is Assistant Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature and Interpretation at the Cincinnati School of HUC-JIR. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University and is a research fellow affiliated with the University of the Free State, South Africa. He specializes in the history of Jewish biblical exegesis and his specific research interests include rabbinic anti-Christian polemic, medieval intellectual history as reflected in biblical commentary, and biblical interpretation after the Holocaust.
Education
- Ph.D., McGill University (2005) - Dissertation: With Friends Like These: Turning Points in the Jewish Exegesis of the Biblical
Book of Job
Publications
- Forthcoming:
- "Writing Between The Lines: The Impact of Rabbinic Letter Writing on the Transmission of the Text of the Hebrew Bible" to
appear in R. Byrne, ed., Reading and Writing in Ancient Israel (SBL Press).
- "The Anomalous Place of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Kol Dodi Dofek in the History of Jewish Exegesis of the Book of
Job" in A. Rosenak and N. Rotenberg, eds., The Influence of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik, on Culture, Education and Jewish Thought
(Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute).
- "Job Denied the Resurrection of Jesus? A Rabbinic Critique of the Use of Exegetical Traditions in the LXX and the Testament
of Job by the Fathers of the Early Church" in G. Oegema and H. Lichtenberger, eds., The Changing Face of Judaism,
Christianity and Other Greco-Roman Religions in Antiquity" (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus).
- "Righteous in his Own Mind: The Zohar Interprets the Book of Job" in B. Levy and J. Kalman, eds. Studies in Scriptural
Interpretation.
- In Print:
- "Biblical Criticism in the Service of Jewish Theology: A Case Study in Post-Holocaust Biblical Exegesis" Old Testament
Essays 18:1 (2005) pp. 93-108.
- J. Du Toit and J. Kalman, "Great Scott! The Dead Sea Scrolls, McGill University, and the Canadian Media"
Dead Sea Discoveries 12:1 (2005) pp. 6-23.
- "Building Houses on Sand: The Analysis of Scriptural Citation in the Mishnah" Journal of Semitics 13:2 (2004) pp.
186-244.
Current Work in Progress
- Book-length project - J. Kalman and J. Du Toit, The Acquisition and Ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A
Fragmentary History (Due 2007, McGill-Queens University Press).
Lecture Titles
- Who is to blame? Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Job from Antiquity to Yesterday's Newspaper
- Bigfoot, Elvis, and Aliens: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Popular Imgaination
- The Discovery and Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Why Me? Jewish Responses to Individual and Communal Suffering
- King David, Kingpin of Organized Crime?
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