Zev Garber
Biographic Data
| ID | 383953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zev Garber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zev |
| FAMILY NAME | Garber |
| SIGNATURE | GARBER Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Los Angeles Valley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8571-0527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Triumph of Life
Israel and the Nations
Reason and Revelation
Reason and Revelation Zev Garber I. Teaching Torah in the Academy Successful teaching, I believe, is a learning exchange. Learning involves not only the information given but also the recipient's critical application of what that knowledge means to oneself as an individual and as a member of a community (faith-bound, or not). As a classroom teacher, my major concern is that I am less of a knowledge-dispenser and more of a knowledge-facilitator, w…
From Confrontation to Covenantal Partnership
Reviewed by: From Confrontation to Covenantal Partnership: Jews and Christians Reflect on the Orthodox Rabbinic Statement of “To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven” ed. by Jehoschua Ahrens, Irving Greenberg and Eugene Korn Zev Garber From Confrontation to Covenantal Partnership: Jews and Christians Reflect on the Orthodox Rabbinic Statement of “To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven.” Edited by Jehoschua Ahrens, Irving Greenberg, and Eugene Korn…
The Nun in the Synagogue
Reviewed by: The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov Zev Garber Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. Pp. 230. $84.95, cloth; $29.95, paper. At first glance, this volume by Merrimack College professor Polyakov appears to be a straightforward historical and ethnographic account of philosem…
Luke
Reviewed by: Luke: Illuminating the Sage of Galilee by Kenneth L. Hanson Zev Garber Kenneth L. Hanson, Luke: Illuminating the Sage of Galilee. Denver, CO: GCRR Press (imprint of the Global Center for Religious Research), 2022. Pp. 248. $38.00. Hanson (University of Central Florida) tackles issues of composition, interpretation, and scriptural message of the Gospel of Luke in an unusual way. His methodology to help the reader access teachings and …
Interreligious Studies
Reviewed by: Interreligious Studies: An Introduction by Rachel S. Mikva Zev Garber Rachel S. Mikva, Interreligious Studies: An Introduction. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 356. $34.99, paper. The emerging field of interreligious studies suggests the central role that religion and religious responses play in religious conflicts, large and small, within our religiously plural world. In the tradition of Hans Gustafson, ed., I…
Separated Siblings
Reviewed by: Separated Siblings: An Evangelical Understanding of Jews and Judaism by John E. Phelan, Jr Zev Garber John E. Phelan, Jr., Separated Siblings: An Evangelical Understanding of Jews and Judaism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Co., 2020. Pp. 340. $25.00, paper. The time is long overdue for American evangelical educators, clergy, and laity to penetrate responsibility into Christian scriptures in order to discover and appraise the …
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics
Reviewed by: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other ed. by Emma Polyakov O'Donnell Zev Garber Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other. Edited by Emma Polyakov O'Donnell. Series: Currents of Encounter 58. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill Rodopi, 2018. Pp. 193. $57.00, paper. A sane approach to this perplexing dilemma of Jew and Muslim dispa…
Symposium on the Pittsburgh Shabbat Massacre
Symposium on the Pittsburgh Shabbat Massacre:Reversing Evil to Love Zev Garber Pittsburgh Shabbat Massacre, language usage, Shoah/Holocaust, Antisemiism, anti-Zionism, Palestinianism, `Akedah, Nizzahon Vetus, Christian-Jewish dialogue May the Almighty comfort the afflicted of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre among the other mourners for Zion and Jerusalem, and may we all assert the message of love and live life to protract decrees and acts of ev…
The Pittsburgh Shabbat Massacre-Terms of Depiction and Destruction
Language is a reciprocal tool: It reveals, and, at the same time, it is revealing. We use language to explain the things that define our world, but, by the same token, the way we use language also necessarily discloses how we explain and define ourselves within that world. In general, everyone can instinctively grasp how a given word or phrase is used to demarcate, even create, that small bit of universe that it encompasses in linguistic terms. B…
Adam Kolman Marshak . The Many Faces of Herod the Great. Grand Rapids, MI
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The Neighbors Respond
Reviewed by: The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland Zev Garber (bio) The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland, edited by Anthony Polonsky and Joanna B. Michlic. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. 489 pp. $19.95. On June 22, 1941, German forces captured the town of Jedwabne, in the Łomza region in northeastern Poland. Less than three weeks later, on July 1…
Pesach Schindler. Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought. Hoboken
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Why Do We Call the Holocaust “The Holocaust ?” an Inquiry Into the Psychology of Labels
Journal Article WHY DO WE CALL THE HOLOCAUST “THE HOLOCAUST ?” AN INQUIRY INTO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LABELS Get access Zev Garber, Zev Garber LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE/UC RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce Zuckerman Bruce Zuckerman LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE/UC RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Book Notices
BOOK NOTICES Get access The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology. Edited by Yonah Sabar. Yale University Press, 1982. 250 pages. $30.00. Zev Garber Zev Garber Los Angeles Valley College and University of CaliforniaRiverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.1.190 Pu…
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access The Jews of Arab Lands A History and Source Book. By Norman A. Stillman, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980 xxx+473 pages, biblography, illustrations, index $14.95 ISBN 0-8276-0116-6. Garber Zev Garber Zev Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, December 1981, Pages 724–725, …
Judaica
JUDAICA Get access Persons and Institutions in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Brown University, Brown Judaic Studies, 3). Edited by William S. Green . Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1977. pages, bibliography, indices. $5.00. ISBN 0-89130-131-3. Zev Garber Zev Garber Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 1, March 1981, Pages 144–145, …
Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Journal Article ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES Get access By the Waters of Babylon: An Introduction to the History and Theology of the Exile. By James D. Newsome, Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979. 176 pages, appendices, bibliography, notes. $7.95. ISBN 0-8042-0016-5. Zev Garber Zev Garber Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVIII, Issu…
Biblical Books Translated from the Aramaic
The Sibylline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism
Judaica
Journal Article JUDAICA Get access Understanding American Judaism Toward the Description of a Modern Religion, vol. 1: The Rabbi and the Synagogue, vol. 2: Sectors of American Judaism. Reform, Orthodoxy, Conservatism and Reconstructionism. Edited by JACOB NEUSNER. New York: KTAV Publishing House/Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith, 1975. xv+326 pages; xxv+306 pages. $4.95 each. L.C No. 75-8946; 75-8937 ZEV GARBER ZEV GARBER Search for other wo…
Arts, Literature and Religion
ARTS, LITERATURE AND RELIGION Get access The Dual Image: The Figure of the Jew in English and American Literature. By HAROLD FISCH. New York: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1971. 149 pages. LC.No. 75-99207. ZEV GARBER ZEV GARBER LA Valley College California State UniversityLos Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLI, Issue 2, June 1973, Pages 294–295, h…
History of Judaism
HISTORY OF JUDAISM Get access One Man's Judaism. By EMANUEL BACK-MAN. New York: Philosophical library Inc., 1970. 397 $8.95. ZEV GARBER ZEV GARBER LA Valley College, University of CaliforniaRiverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XL, Issue 4, December 1972, Pages 598-b–599, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XL.4.598-b Published: 01 December 1972
Prophecy in the Mari Documents and the Bible
The Neighbors Respond
Reviewed by: The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland Zev Garber (bio) The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland, edited by Anthony Polonsky and Joanna B. Michlic. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. 489 pp. $19.95. On June 22, 1941, German forces captured the town of Jedwabne, in the Łomza region in northeastern Poland. Less than three weeks later, on July 1…
Why Do We Call the Holocaust “The Holocaust ?” an Inquiry Into the Psychology of Labels
Journal Article WHY DO WE CALL THE HOLOCAUST “THE HOLOCAUST ?” AN INQUIRY INTO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LABELS Get access Zev Garber, Zev Garber LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE/UC RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce Zuckerman Bruce Zuckerman LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE/UC RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Bibliography of Hebrew Publications on the Dead Sea Scrolls 1948-1964
Prophecy in the Mari Documents and the Bible
The Jews in Germany
History of Judaism
HISTORY OF JUDAISM Get access One Man's Judaism. By EMANUEL BACK-MAN. New York: Philosophical library Inc., 1970. 397 $8.95. ZEV GARBER ZEV GARBER LA Valley College, University of CaliforniaRiverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XL, Issue 4, December 1972, Pages 598-b–599, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XL.4.598-b Published: 01 December 1972
Arts, Literature and Religion
ARTS, LITERATURE AND RELIGION Get access The Dual Image: The Figure of the Jew in English and American Literature. By HAROLD FISCH. New York: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1971. 149 pages. LC.No. 75-99207. ZEV GARBER ZEV GARBER LA Valley College California State UniversityLos Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLI, Issue 2, June 1973, Pages 294–295, h…
Judaica
Journal Article JUDAICA Get access Understanding American Judaism Toward the Description of a Modern Religion, vol. 1: The Rabbi and the Synagogue, vol. 2: Sectors of American Judaism. Reform, Orthodoxy, Conservatism and Reconstructionism. Edited by JACOB NEUSNER. New York: KTAV Publishing House/Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith, 1975. xv+326 pages; xxv+306 pages. $4.95 each. L.C No. 75-8946; 75-8937 ZEV GARBER ZEV GARBER Search for other wo…
Biblical Books Translated from the Aramaic
The Sibylline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism
Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Journal Article ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES Get access By the Waters of Babylon: An Introduction to the History and Theology of the Exile. By James D. Newsome, Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979. 176 pages, appendices, bibliography, notes. $7.95. ISBN 0-8042-0016-5. Zev Garber Zev Garber Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVIII, Issu…
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access The Jews of Arab Lands A History and Source Book. By Norman A. Stillman, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980 xxx+473 pages, biblography, illustrations, index $14.95 ISBN 0-8276-0116-6. Garber Zev Garber Zev Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, December 1981, Pages 724–725, …
Judaica
JUDAICA Get access Persons and Institutions in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Brown University, Brown Judaic Studies, 3). Edited by William S. Green . Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1977. pages, bibliography, indices. $5.00. ISBN 0-89130-131-3. Zev Garber Zev Garber Los Angeles Valley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 1, March 1981, Pages 144–145, …
Book Notices
BOOK NOTICES Get access The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology. Edited by Yonah Sabar. Yale University Press, 1982. 250 pages. $30.00. Zev Garber Zev Garber Los Angeles Valley College and University of CaliforniaRiverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 190–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.1.190 Pu…
Why Do We Call the Holocaust “The Holocaust ?” an Inquiry Into the Psychology of Labels
Journal Article WHY DO WE CALL THE HOLOCAUST “THE HOLOCAUST ?” AN INQUIRY INTO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LABELS Get access Zev Garber, Zev Garber LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE/UC RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce Zuckerman Bruce Zuckerman LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE/UC RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Pesach Schindler. Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought. Hoboken
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Neighbors Respond
Reviewed by: The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland Zev Garber (bio) The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland, edited by Anthony Polonsky and Joanna B. Michlic. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. 489 pp. $19.95. On June 22, 1941, German forces captured the town of Jedwabne, in the Łomza region in northeastern Poland. Less than three weeks later, on July 1…
Adam Kolman Marshak . The Many Faces of Herod the Great. Grand Rapids, MI
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics
Reviewed by: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other ed. by Emma Polyakov O'Donnell Zev Garber Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other. Edited by Emma Polyakov O'Donnell. Series: Currents of Encounter 58. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill Rodopi, 2018. Pp. 193. $57.00, paper. A sane approach to this perplexing dilemma of Jew and Muslim dispa…
Symposium on the Pittsburgh Shabbat Massacre
Symposium on the Pittsburgh Shabbat Massacre:Reversing Evil to Love Zev Garber Pittsburgh Shabbat Massacre, language usage, Shoah/Holocaust, Antisemiism, anti-Zionism, Palestinianism, `Akedah, Nizzahon Vetus, Christian-Jewish dialogue May the Almighty comfort the afflicted of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre among the other mourners for Zion and Jerusalem, and may we all assert the message of love and live life to protract decrees and acts of ev…
The Pittsburgh Shabbat Massacre-Terms of Depiction and Destruction
Language is a reciprocal tool: It reveals, and, at the same time, it is revealing. We use language to explain the things that define our world, but, by the same token, the way we use language also necessarily discloses how we explain and define ourselves within that world. In general, everyone can instinctively grasp how a given word or phrase is used to demarcate, even create, that small bit of universe that it encompasses in linguistic terms. B…
From Confrontation to Covenantal Partnership
Reviewed by: From Confrontation to Covenantal Partnership: Jews and Christians Reflect on the Orthodox Rabbinic Statement of “To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven” ed. by Jehoschua Ahrens, Irving Greenberg and Eugene Korn Zev Garber From Confrontation to Covenantal Partnership: Jews and Christians Reflect on the Orthodox Rabbinic Statement of “To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven.” Edited by Jehoschua Ahrens, Irving Greenberg, and Eugene Korn…
The Nun in the Synagogue
Reviewed by: The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov Zev Garber Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. Pp. 230. $84.95, cloth; $29.95, paper. At first glance, this volume by Merrimack College professor Polyakov appears to be a straightforward historical and ethnographic account of philosem…
Luke
Reviewed by: Luke: Illuminating the Sage of Galilee by Kenneth L. Hanson Zev Garber Kenneth L. Hanson, Luke: Illuminating the Sage of Galilee. Denver, CO: GCRR Press (imprint of the Global Center for Religious Research), 2022. Pp. 248. $38.00. Hanson (University of Central Florida) tackles issues of composition, interpretation, and scriptural message of the Gospel of Luke in an unusual way. His methodology to help the reader access teachings and …
Interreligious Studies
Reviewed by: Interreligious Studies: An Introduction by Rachel S. Mikva Zev Garber Rachel S. Mikva, Interreligious Studies: An Introduction. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 356. $34.99, paper. The emerging field of interreligious studies suggests the central role that religion and religious responses play in religious conflicts, large and small, within our religiously plural world. In the tradition of Hans Gustafson, ed., I…
Separated Siblings
Reviewed by: Separated Siblings: An Evangelical Understanding of Jews and Judaism by John E. Phelan, Jr Zev Garber John E. Phelan, Jr., Separated Siblings: An Evangelical Understanding of Jews and Judaism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Co., 2020. Pp. 340. $25.00, paper. The time is long overdue for American evangelical educators, clergy, and laity to penetrate responsibility into Christian scriptures in order to discover and appraise the …
Reason and Revelation
Reason and Revelation Zev Garber I. Teaching Torah in the Academy Successful teaching, I believe, is a learning exchange. Learning involves not only the information given but also the recipient's critical application of what that knowledge means to oneself as an individual and as a member of a community (faith-bound, or not). As a classroom teacher, my major concern is that I am less of a knowledge-dispenser and more of a knowledge-facilitator, w…
Philosophy (18 works) · History (17 works) · Theology (14 works) · Judaism (13 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (12 works) · Classics (10 works) · Religious studies (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works)