Mara Benjamin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mara Benjamin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | Benjamin |
| SIGNATURE | BENJAMIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Olaf College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shifting Paradigms (Again)
Laurie Zoloth, Ethics for the Coming Storm
Laurie Zoloth, Ethics for the Coming Storm: Global Warming and Jewish Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 254 pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9780197661345
There Is No 'Away
The "second law of ecology"-that all matter remains part of the earthly ecosystem-poses a theological challenge to Jewish monotheisms. Climate change has further underscored the urgency of understanding and acting in light of the interconnected materiality of the world. Yet Jewish theological discourse has remained largely detached from broader planetary conditions and from the metabolization of these conditions in the environmental humanities. T…
The Obligated Self
The Obligated Self
Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism – By Jordan Rosenblum
Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America – By Ken Koltun‐Fromm
Zionism and the Roads Not Taken
Confronting Vulnerability
The Three Blessings
Tours That Bind
Prophets of the Past
Moses Mendelssohn
Not in the Heavens
Francolin Illustrated School Dictionary for Southern Africa
Dorothea Mantzel and Bernd Schulz. Francolin Illustrated School Dictionary for Southern Africa. Developed by The Dictionary Unit for South African English in consultation with The Molteno Project and READ Education Trust. 1997. xvi + 336 pp. ISBN 1-86859-015-1. Cape Town: Francolin Publishers
Wrestling with God
Rosenzweig's Bible
Rosenzweig's Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig's attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara Benjamin's innovative reading of The Star of Redemption places Rosenzweig's best-known work at the beginning of an intellectual trajectory that culminated in a monumental translation of the Bible, thus overturning fundamental assumptions that have long g…
How Jews Became Germans
Inventing Jewish Ritual – By Vanessa L. Ochs
Contested Rituals
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon
Building a Zion in German(y)
Among the diverse positions on the question of Zionism held by early-twentieth-century German Jewish intellectuals is the eccentric "non-Zionist" stance of Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929). In a translation and commentary called Sixty Hymns and Poems of Yehudah Halevi (1924; 2nd ed. 1927), Rosenzweig aimed to contribute to and shift the discourse concerning Jewish distinctiveness and belonging in German culture. Critical in this effort was Rosenzweig…
Building a Zion in German(y)
Among the diverse positions on the question of Zionism held by early-twentieth-century German Jewish intellectuals is the eccentric "non-Zionist" stance of Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929). In a translation and commentary called Sixty Hymns and Poems of Yehudah Halevi (1924; 2nd ed. 1927), Rosenzweig aimed to contribute to and shift the discourse concerning Jewish distinctiveness and belonging in German culture. Critical in this effort was Rosenzweig…
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon
Building a Zion in German(y)
Among the diverse positions on the question of Zionism held by early-twentieth-century German Jewish intellectuals is the eccentric "non-Zionist" stance of Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929). In a translation and commentary called Sixty Hymns and Poems of Yehudah Halevi (1924; 2nd ed. 1927), Rosenzweig aimed to contribute to and shift the discourse concerning Jewish distinctiveness and belonging in German culture. Critical in this effort was Rosenzweig…
How Jews Became Germans
Inventing Jewish Ritual – By Vanessa L. Ochs
Contested Rituals
Wrestling with God
Rosenzweig's Bible
Rosenzweig's Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig's attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara Benjamin's innovative reading of The Star of Redemption places Rosenzweig's best-known work at the beginning of an intellectual trajectory that culminated in a monumental translation of the Bible, thus overturning fundamental assumptions that have long g…
Francolin Illustrated School Dictionary for Southern Africa
Dorothea Mantzel and Bernd Schulz. Francolin Illustrated School Dictionary for Southern Africa. Developed by The Dictionary Unit for South African English in consultation with The Molteno Project and READ Education Trust. 1997. xvi + 336 pp. ISBN 1-86859-015-1. Cape Town: Francolin Publishers
Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America – By Ken Koltun‐Fromm
Zionism and the Roads Not Taken
Confronting Vulnerability
The Three Blessings
Tours That Bind
Prophets of the Past
Moses Mendelssohn
Not in the Heavens
Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism – By Jordan Rosenblum
The Obligated Self
The Obligated Self
There Is No 'Away
The "second law of ecology"-that all matter remains part of the earthly ecosystem-poses a theological challenge to Jewish monotheisms. Climate change has further underscored the urgency of understanding and acting in light of the interconnected materiality of the world. Yet Jewish theological discourse has remained largely detached from broader planetary conditions and from the metabolization of these conditions in the environmental humanities. T…
Laurie Zoloth, Ethics for the Coming Storm
Laurie Zoloth, Ethics for the Coming Storm: Global Warming and Jewish Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 254 pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9780197661345
Shifting Paradigms (Again)
Philosophy (18 works) · History (16 works) · Judaism (15 works) · Citation (14 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Theology (14 works) · Library science (13 works) · Classics (12 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (9 works) · Religious studies (9 works)