Cynthia Chapman James C. Dobbins Anna M. Gade David G. Kamitsuka Margaret D. Kamitsuka Joyce K. McClure Albert G. Miller Paula Richman Abe Socher Grover Z. Zinn Faculty Publications

Visiting Faculty 2004-2005

Geoff Chaplin Rocco Gangle Greg Goering Patrick Hatcher Jalane Schmidt

Abe Socher

Assistant Professor
Rice 324
x8521
Abe.Socher@Oberlin.edu
Office Hours

Education

• B.A., UCLA, 1989
• M.A., UC Berkley
• Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2000

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