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Lewis M. Barth, Rabbi, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Midrash and Related Literature
Rabbi Lewis M. Barth is Professor Emeritus of Midrash and Related Literature. He served as Dean of HUC-JIR, Los Angeles from 1971-1979 and most recently from 1997-2006. He studied at UCLA, HUC-JIR, the University of Chicago, and was ordained at HUC-JIR in Cincinnati, where he also earned his doctorate. Rabbi Barth specializes in rabbinic biblical interpretation, rabbinic legends and the study of manuscripts of Midrash texts. He is interested in the application of computer technology to the study of Hebrew manuscripts and in psychoanalysis.
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Areas of Expertise
- Rabbinic biblical interpretation
- Midrashic texts and manuscripts
- Reform Berit Mila (ritual circumcision)
- Jerusalem as a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims
- Jewish religious thought
- Jewish family issues
- Spirituality
- Pirque d'Rabbi Eliezer (Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer)
- Semitic languages and literatures
- Judaism and Psychoanalysis
Education
- Non-Clinical Candidate, Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles (2007-present)
- Ph.D., HUC-JIR (1970)
- M.A., University of Chicago (1965)
- Ordained, HUC-JIR (1964)
- B.A. UCLA (1959)
Lecture Titles
- Forgiveness: Religious and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
- The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism: Continuity or Break with the Past
- The Rabbinic Search for Values: The Midrash
- Rabbinic Stories and Ancient Wonderworks
- Books by Famous Jews: Take Dershowitz, For Example
Electronic Publications
Publications
- Editor, with Ruth Nussbaum, MAX NUSSBAUM: FROM BERLIN TO HOLLYWOOD, (Joseph Simon/Pangloss Press: Malibu, 1994).
- Editors: Robert J. Ratner, Lewis M. Barth, Marianne Luijken Gevirtz, Bruce Zuckerman MAARAV, A JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NORTHWEST SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES [LET YOUR COLLEAGUES PRAISE YOU: STUDIES IN MEMORY OF STANLEY GEVIRTZ], Vol. 7-8, Parts I-II, (Western Academic Press:Rolling Hills Estates, 1991-1992).
- Editor, BERIT MILA IN THE REFORM CONTEXT, (Berit Mila Board of Reform Judaism: New York and Los Angeles, 1990); Introduction, pp. 1-8, Circumcision in the Rabbinic Period, pp. 130-141.
- An Analysis of Vatican 30, Monographs of the Hebrew Union College, No. 1 (Cincinnati, l973)
- "The Image of Sarah in Trial IV of a 'Lection for the Second Day of Rosh Ha-shanah'," in THE BIBLE IN THE LIGHT OF ITS INTERPRETERS: Sarah Kamin Memorial Volume, edited by Sara Japhet (The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University: Jerusalem, 1994), pp. 157-169 [Hebrew].
- "Genesis 15 and the Problems of Abraham's Seventh Trial," in, MAARAV, A JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NORTHWEST SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES [LET YOUR COLLEAGUES PRAISE YOU: STUDIES IN MEMORY OF STANLEY GEVIRTZ], Vol. 8, Part II, edited by Robert J. Ratner, Lewis M. Barth, Marianne Luijken Gevirtz, Bruce Zuckerman (Rolling Hills Estates: Western Academic Press, 1992) pp. 245-263.
- "Textual Transformations: Rabbinic Exegesis of Gen. 22:14," in Bits of Honey: Essays for Samson H. Levey, edited Stanley F. Chyet and David H. Ellenson (Scholars Press: Atlanta, 1993), pp. 3-23.
- "Circumcision and the Unity of God: A Comment on Stern," S'VARA: a Journal of Philosophy, Law and Judaism, Volume 2 Number 2 (1991), Winter, pp. 49-51.
- "Abraham's Eighth Trial: A Comparison of Two Versions," Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C, Vol. 1 (Jerusalem: 1990), pp. 125-132 [Hebrew].
- "Introducing the Akedah: A Comparison of Two Midrashic Presentations," in A Tribute to Geza Vermes: Essays on Jewish and Christian Literature and History, ed. Philip R. Davies and Richard T. White, (JSOT Press: Sheffield, 1990), [JSOT, Supplement Series 100], pp. 125-138.
- "Lection for the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah: A Homily containing the Legend of the Ten Trials of Abraham," HUCA, LVIII (1987), Hebrew pages 1-48.
- "Jenseits" and "Jerusalem III," in Theologische Realenzyklopadie, Band XVI, 4/5, (Walter deGruyter:Berlin, 1987), pp. 565-568, 611-617.
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