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Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D.
Professor of Bible
Dr. Eskenazi is Professor of Bible, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles. Prior to joining HUC-JIR, she taught at the University of Denver and was also Director of its Institute for Interfaith Studies. Her research focuses on the reconstruction of Jewish life after exile in the sixth century B.C.E., on the role of women in the biblical world, and on the implications of the Bible for the Jewish community today.
Areas of Expertise
- Women in the biblical world
- Reconstruction of Jewish life after the Babylonian exile
Education
- Ph.D., University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology, (1986)
Recent Publications
- Levinas and Biblical Studies, ed. T. C. Eskenazi, G. Phillips, D. Jobling. Brill, 2003/ Semeia. SBL, 2003.
- 'Introduction - Facing the Text As Other: Some Implications of Levinas's Work for Biblical Studies,' Levinas and Biblical
Studies, ed. T. C. Eskenazi, G. Phillips, and D. Jobling. Brill, 2003/Semeia; SBL, 2003, pp. 1-16.
- 'Love Your Neighbor As an Other: Reflections on Levinas's Ethics and the Hebrew Bible,' Levinas and Biblical Studies, ed.
T. C. Eskenazi, G. Phillips, and D. Jobling. Brill, 2003/Semeia; SBL, 2003, pp. 145-158.
- 'Song of Songs as an an Answer to Clines Book of Job,' Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour
of David J. A. Clines, ed. J. C. Exum and H. G. M. Williamson. Sheffield Academic Press, 2003, pp. 128-140.
- 'Nehemiah 9-10: Structure and Significance' Journal of Hebrew Studies, September, 2001.
- 'Women in Postexilic Judaism,' 'Foreign Women and the Women of Judah,' and 12 minor entries in Women in Scripture, ed.
Carol Meyers. Houghton Mifflin 2000.
- 'Ezra-Nehemiah' and '1 Esdras,' The New Annotated Bible, Oxford, 2000.
- 'Ezra, The Book of.' Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, ed. David Noel Freedman. Eerdmans, 2000, pp. 449-451.
- 'Out from the Shadows: Biblical Women in the Post-Exilic Era,' in J. C. Exum, ed. The Historical Books: A Sheffield Reader
. The Biblical Seminar 40. Sheffield Academic Press, 1997, pp. 349-366 (reprinted also in The Feminist Companion to Samuel and
Kings, ed. A. Brenner. Sheffield Academic Press, 1994, pp. 252-271.
- 'Ezra, The Book of,' 'Ezra's Reform,' and 'Esdras 1' in Dictionary of Biblical Judaism, ed. Jacob Neusner and William
Green. Macmillan. Vol. I, 1997, pp. 200, 201-202.
- 'Terror and Hope: Reading Biblical Narrative Today,' The Shabbat Series, ed. Irene Fine. Women's Institute for Continuing Jewish
Education, 1997, pp. 17-35.
Forthcoming Publications
- Editor, WRJ Women's Torah Commentary (Union of Reform Judaism Press).
- Ezra-Nehemiah. Anchor Bible Commentary. Doubleday
- 'The Contribution of Sara Japhet to Ezra-Nehemiah Studies.'
- 'The Missions of Ezra and Nehemiah'
- 'Is There No Balm . . . ? Is There No Healer?' (Jeremiah 8:22): Biblical Reflections on Holiness, Health and Hope,'
- 'First Esdras,' Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. J. Hayes. Abingdon.
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