Human Histories of Knowledge
At a time when knowledge feels under threat, this Substack collects some smaller stories of knowledge-making--individual, local, embodied.
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Teachers and/as Students (opens the original)
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Thinking with Morris Jastrow Jr. about the American Lectures in the History of Religions (opens the original)
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I started this Substack as a place to collect in-process thoughts during my Guggenheim-funded sabbatical year (AY 2025-2026), dedicated to finishing the project on Forgetting that began as the 2018 Taubman Lectures. That year is now over. In August, I submitted the final MS—just under the wire! If all goes well, that book, Forgetting Ancient Judaism: The Second Temple Past and Its Jewish Receptions, should come out next year. During th
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