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Richard S. Sarason
Dr. Sarason is Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought and the Associate Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual. He was ordained at HUC-JIR. Before joining the College-Institute faculty, he taught Religious Studies at Brown University where he earned a Ph.D. His specialties are classical rabbinic literature, history of Judaism in late antiquity, Midrash and Liturgy.
Education
- Ordained, HUC-JIR (1974)
- Ph.D., Brown University (1977)
Lecture Titles
- Uncovering and Upsetting the Paradigms of Prayer: Liturgical Innovation from Antiquity to the Present
- "In Our Image, After Our Likeness": The Rabbis Talk About God
- The Bible, the Rabbis, and Ourselves: A Look at Rabbinic Midrash
- The Good Life in Judaism: An Introduction to Jewish Musar (Ethics and Piety)
- "Tikkun Olam": Building the Just Society in Jewish Tradition
- Jewish Worship: Retrospect and Prospects
Recent Publications
- "'The Voice is the Voice of Jacob': Contemporary Developments in US-American Jewish Preaching, Homiletics and Homiletical
Education," "Response to the Paper by Annette von Stockhausen," "Response to the Paper by Marc Saperstein," in Alexander Deeg, Walter
Homolka, and Heinz-Günther Schöttler, eds., Preaching in Judaism and Christianity: Encounters and Developments
from Biblical Times
to Modernity. Studia Judaica. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
- "The Persistence and Trajectories of Penitential Prayer in Rabbinic Judaism," in Mark J. Boda, Daniel K. Falk, and Rodney
Werline, eds., Penitential Prayer: Origins, Development, and Impact, vol. 3 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature,
forthcoming in 2008)
- "Rabbinic Literature, Rabbinic History, and Scholarly Thinking: Wissenschaft and Beyond," in Andreas Gotzmann
and Christian Wiese, eds., Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities-Encounters---Perspectives. Leiden: E.J.
Brill, 2007, pp. 93-109.
- Introduction to the 2006 reprint of Joseph Heinemann with Jakob J. Petuchowski, Literature of the Synagogue (Piscataway,
NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006)
- "Mishnah-Tosefta Demai," in Jacob Neusner, ed., The Law of Agriculture in the Mishnah and the Tosefta: Translation,
Commentary, Theology (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2005) 2:801-1103
- "Midrash in Liturgy," in Encyclopedia of Midrash: Biblical Interpretation in Formative Judaism, ed. Jacob Neusner and Alan
J. Avery-Peck; 2 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004), 1:463-492
- "Communal Prayer at Qumran and Among the Rabbis: Certainties and Uncertainties," in Esther G. Chazon, ed., Liturgical
Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion
Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. 19-23 January, 2000. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003),
151-172
- "The 'Intersections' of Qumran and Rabbinic Judaism: The Case of Prayer-Texts and Liturgies," in Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2001),
169-181
- "Midrash" in John H. Hayes, ed., Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999), 2:155-157
- "Interpreting Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation: The Problem of Midrash, Again," in Jodi Magness and Seymour Gitin, eds., Hesed
ve'Emet: Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), 133-154
- The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation. Vol. 3: Demai (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1993)
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