Prof Alexander Samely
Professor of Jewish Thought
Affiliations:
Links:
- Database for the Analysis of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity: several hundred works profiled according to the Manchester-Durham Inventory of literary description
- Database of Bible Interpretation in the Mishnah
- Typology of Ancient Jewish Literature (AHRC) Project Website
- The whole of the Inventory of literary description online as html.
Research interests
- Literary structures in ancient Jewish literature, including biblical and talmudic literature
- Ancient Jewish Bible interpretation, including Midrash, Targum, Pesher and Re-Written Scripture
- The legal discourse of talmudic literature
- The philosophical thought of Spinoza, Husserl, Rosenzweig, Buber and Levinas
- Theories of Reading
- Hebrew Manuscripts
- The Phenomenology of Reading
Projects
Research and projects
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European Regional Jewish Studies Hub in the North of the British Isles - Manchester
1/09/18 → 31/08/22
Project: Research