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Joyce Babyak
Cynthia Chapman
James C. Dobbins
David G. Kamitsuka
Margaret D. Kamitsuka
Albert G. Miller
Paula Richman
Abe Socher
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Abe Socher
Associate Professor
Chair, Jewish Studies Program
Rice 324
440-775-8521
Abe.Socher@Oberlin.edu
Education
B.A., UCLA, 1989
M.A., UC Berkley
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2001
Selected Publications
"Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning," Jewish Social Studies, Vol 6, no. 1 (Fall, 1999).
"R. Avraham de Botton's
Lehem Mishneh
and the Intellectual Context of 16th-Century Salonika," in Menahem Ben Sasson and Warren Z. Harvey Harvey eds.,
Studies in a Rabbinic Family: the De Botons
(Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1998).
Courses
131. How Early Jews and Christians Rewrote the Bible
250. Intro to Judaism
251. Modern Jewish Thought
255. Theology, Science and the Secularization of Europe (1200-1800)
258. Introduction to the Talmud
:
Argument and Interpretation
354. Seminar: Spinoza: Heresy and Modern Judaism
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