Robert L Cohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Cohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohn |
| SIGNATURE | COHN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | DSM (Netherlands) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Israel in Poland
Long overshadowed by the regnant Jewish memory of postwar Poland as a vast graveyard from which anyone who could would flee, the little-told story of the revival of Jewish life in the 'Recovered Territories' of western Poland reveals what its backers saw as an alternative to Israel in Palestine for Polish Jewish survivors. Abetted by both Zionist and American narratives, that dominant memory has suppressed a tale of courage and determination amon…
Negotiating (with) the Natives
No sooner does the Abraham of Genesis arrive in Canaan than the narrator informs us that “the Canaanite was then in the land” (Gen 12:6). Yet immediately God an-nounces his intention to give this land to Abraham's descendants (v. 7). From the outset of the Abraham narrative, the divine promise of nationhood and territory is haunted by the presence of the indigenous inhabitants of Canaan. Though mostly a silent feature of the landscape, they emerg…
Jewish Civilization
Settings of Silver
The Garments of Torah
The Book of the Torah
"Judaism in the "Encyclopedia of Religion
Beyond the Text
Judaism. Michael Fishbane
The Literary Guide to the Bible. Robert Alter , Frank Kermode
Judaism. Nicholas de Lange
Sinai and Zion, an Entry into the Jewish Bible . Jon D. Levenson
Literary Technique in the Jeroboam Narrative
Jerusalem
The study of spatial symbolism in the history of religions often operates at such a level of abstraction as to forsake the concrete, historical culture which produces a symbol for the sake of comparative parallels. To appreciate the various senses in which Jerusalem became a “symbol of the center” (Eliade) for early Judaism, I study the symbol “from the bottom up.” That is, I consider the influence of the concrete geographic and demographic setti…
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Jerusalem
The study of spatial symbolism in the history of religions often operates at such a level of abstraction as to forsake the concrete, historical culture which produces a symbol for the sake of comparative parallels. To appreciate the various senses in which Jerusalem became a “symbol of the center” (Eliade) for early Judaism, I study the symbol “from the bottom up.” That is, I consider the influence of the concrete geographic and demographic setti…
Literary Technique in the Jeroboam Narrative
Sinai and Zion, an Entry into the Jewish Bible . Jon D. Levenson
Judaism. Nicholas de Lange
Beyond the Text
Judaism. Michael Fishbane
The Literary Guide to the Bible. Robert Alter , Frank Kermode
The Book of the Torah
"Judaism in the "Encyclopedia of Religion
Settings of Silver
The Garments of Torah
Jewish Civilization
Negotiating (with) the Natives
No sooner does the Abraham of Genesis arrive in Canaan than the narrator informs us that “the Canaanite was then in the land” (Gen 12:6). Yet immediately God an-nounces his intention to give this land to Abraham's descendants (v. 7). From the outset of the Abraham narrative, the divine promise of nationhood and territory is haunted by the presence of the indigenous inhabitants of Canaan. Though mostly a silent feature of the landscape, they emerg…
Israel in Poland
Long overshadowed by the regnant Jewish memory of postwar Poland as a vast graveyard from which anyone who could would flee, the little-told story of the revival of Jewish life in the 'Recovered Territories' of western Poland reveals what its backers saw as an alternative to Israel in Palestine for Polish Jewish survivors. Abetted by both Zionist and American narratives, that dominant memory has suppressed a tale of courage and determination amon…
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