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Statement on George Floyd and Use of Bible

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Statement on behalf of the Society for Old Testament Study As human beings we are horrified at the racist killing of George Floyd by a white policeman. George Floyd was a member of an ethnic group subject to centuries of slavery, subordination and oppression and still regarded as inferior by […]

Annual Meeting of the British Association of Jewish Studies (Birmingham, 10-12 July 2016)

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BAJS Summer Meeting 10-12 July 2016. URL here: The Texture of Jewish Tradition: Investigations in Textuality The written word as manifested in a spectrum from classical Jewish texts to contemporary literature, alongside texts unearthed in locations including desert caves, an island in the Nile, a Cairo synagogue or the Warsaw ghetto, […]