Howard Jacobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Jacobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobson |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Le Mot juste
Anne-Marie Picard interviews British novelist, Booker Prize winner, and journalist Howard Jacobson about his satirical novel, Pussy (Penguin, 2016). In the shocking aftermath of Trump's election, with as much Dickens as Swift, and memories of Rabelais, the novelist writes “in a fury of disbelief,” wanting “a fast attack with no quarter given. No quarter given, not only to Fracassus,” the Trump character, “but the world in which his rise was made …
Asherah and Aphrodite
It has long been known that there is a significant connection between Aphrodite and Semitic goddesses. In Walter Burkert's recent words, ‘Behind the figure of Aphrodite there clearly stands the ancient Semitic goddess of love, Ishtar-Astarte.’ This was already recognized by Herodotus (1.105, 131) and Philo of Byblos (Eus. Prep. evang. 1.812). I want here to note a curious and striking item of connection that has not been noticed
Ovid's Heroidos
A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides . In his critical evaluation, Professor Jacobson takes into consideration the twofold nature of the work: its existence as a single entity with uniform poetic struc…
Exagoge of Ezekiel
Pseudo-Acro on Horace, Carm. 1.1.35–6
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Quattuor Latina
Where there's smoke there's fire
Tria Patristica
Two Greek Hero-Types in Ancient Jewish Texts
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 ZUTOT 6.1 Also available online – brill.nl/zuto TWO GREEK HERO-TYPES IN ANCIENT JEWISH TEXTS Howard Jacobson University of Illinois, Urbana Asahel’s Light Step The tale begins with the semi-divine horses at Iliad 20.226–7, who would traverse the fields of wheat without damaging the stalks. In Hesiod ( Eoiai fg. 62MW) this wondrous ability now belongs to the hero Iphiclus who ‘ran upon the tops of flowering asp…
Pedagogical Advice in the Haggadah
Aeneid 3. 635–7
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Notes on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Two Textual Notes on Theodotus
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Apuleiana Ii
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Artapanus and the Flooding of the Nile
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Artapanus Judaeus
God as Consuming Fire
Three times in Scripture, God is explicitly called a “consuming fire” (Deut 4:24; 9:3; Heb 12:29). A few other times he is compared to a “consuming fire” (Exod 24:17; Isa 30:27, 30; 33:14[?]). The church fathers often quote or allude to this notion of God as a “consuming fire.” In particular, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine do so a number of times. I want here only to point out that on several occasions these words (“God is a consuming fire”) are …
Two Notes on Berakhot 59B
Aeneid 1.647–55
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I Enoch 56.7
I E . ‘ A man will not know his brother, nor a son his father or his mother. ’ Unfortunately, the Dead-Sea fragments of Enoch shed no light on these sentences, so we are still in the dark as to the exact wording of the original. Commentators have not noticed that the author here is echoing, if not quoting, a biblical passage. In Deuteronomy : we read: ‘ He says of his father and mother: “ I do not know them ” ; his brothers he do…
A Philonic Rejection of Plato
Seneca, Epistulae Morales 12.5
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Medea 1250
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Philo, Lucretius, and Anima
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Aeneid 12.570–1
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The Oath of the Delian League
Ovid's Heroidos
A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides . In his critical evaluation, Professor Jacobson takes into consideration the twofold nature of the work: its existence as a single entity with uniform poetic struc…
Cacus and the Cyclops
Demo and the Sabbath
Ennian Influence in "Heroides" 16 and 17
Lucretius II 178-81
Ennian Influence in "Heroides" 16 and 17
A rabbinic argument in Milton's Paradise Lost
Ovid's Briseis
W HILE STILL YOUNG, OVID perceived, with an insight into the viability and flexibility of the genres of poetry that remained characteristic of him throughout his life, that Elegy, as it had been taken over with such brilliance by the Latin poets of the first century B.C., had reached the end of its road or-at the least-that he was not the person to continue its journey down traditional and well-worn paths. And, of course, he was right. But in tho…
Augustine and Dido
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The Oath of the Delian League
Two Jokes
A Legal Note on Potiphar's Wife
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Hermippus, Pythagoras and the Jews
Jacobson Howard. Hermippus, Pythagoras and the Jews. In: Revue des études juives, tome 135, n°1-3, janvier-septembre 1976. pp. 145-149
Wisdom XVIII 9
A Note On the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch
A NOTE ON THE GREEK APOCALYPSE OF BARUCH BY HOWARD JACOBSON Champaign, Ill., U.S.A. The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch relates that God created 360 rivers which flow into the sea, of which the first are 'Axpi«q, and r-?pLx6q (iv 7). The Slavonic version claims 333 and names nine: Aphia, Avaria, Agorenik, Dunav, Ephrat, Asavat, Zietnust, Ineus, Tigris 1). In this mythical landscape we should not expect to find real places and might do well to forego i…
Ovid's Heroides
A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides. In his critical evaluation, Professor Jacobson takes into consideration the twofold nature of the work: its existence as a single entity with uniform poetic struct…
Trees in Caecilius Statius
Demo and the Sabbath
A Note on Nag Hammadi II, 5
A Note On Nag Hammadi Ii, 5
Nomen omen. Lear's Three Daughters
Jacobson Howard. Nomen omen. Lear's Three Daughters. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 58, fasc. 3, 1980. Langues et litteratures modernes — Moderne taal- en letterkunde. pp. 595-603
Ketiah Bar Shalom
As far as we know, the rabbis were not well acquainted with Latin, but there are occasional examples in rabbinic literature of their ability to formulate or understand bilingual (Hebrew-Latin) puns. In Midrash Tanḥuma, for instance, there is a play on Latin corona /Hebrew qeren , and, according to an observation attributed to Yehoshua Guttman, at B.T. Ta‘anit 29a on Latin nasi (nasus) /Hebrew nasi . The talmudic anecdote quoted below can be best …
Tacitus and the Phoenix
The Exagoge of Ezekiel
The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in Greek in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew living in Alexandria probably at some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines - not isolated verses but forming several continuous passages - enough to give the shape of the play and to reveal Ezekiel as a tragedian of significance. For the student of Jewish literary history and thought Ezekiel is a most important…
Lucretius 1. 102–105
Bailey posed the problem succinctly and clearly: ‘Though you can be said to “fashion a dream for yourself”, it is not easy to see how you can do it for someone else.’ He agrees with Giussani: somnia = ineptae fabulae , which is unexceptionable. But in fact Bailey's objection to the ‘literal’ meaning of the text is baseless. Dream control was indeed practised in antiquity
Ritualistic Formulae In Greek Dramatic Texts
Ritualistic formulae and acts pervade the political, legal, societal and religious life of the ancient world. In many instances there are striking similarities between the formulae of the Greco-Roman world and those of the Near East. Often illumination exists from one to the other. Here I wish to notice a few passages in Greek drama where I think such illumination is possible
Joseph and His Brothers' Beds
Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Laudes Galli
Phoenix Resurrected
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