Text Study 1998 Megillat Ha'atsma'ut --
Israel's Declaration of Independence after 50 Years

Jay Harris (Harvard University) offers a first reading of the document which will be commented on by various respondents and serve as the text for this year's study session at the AAR/SBL meeting in Orlando, Florida (Nov. 21-24).
 

Jay Harris: "A camel is a horse produced by a committee."

• The Zionism/Anti-Zionism Debate in Textual Reasoning

• Declaration of Independence. Text (Source: Government of Israel)

• History, background, and biographies of the signers of the Decl. of Independence

• Government of Israel: A Commentary on the Declaration of Independence

• Academy of Jerusalem: TURNING HATRED AROUND. A FILM PROJECT

• Palestinian Website with Documents and Resource

Under the editorship of Philip Culbertson (New Zealand) we begin a series on male bodies as text.

Book Discussion

Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, Authority
Harvard University Press, 1997

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