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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 49: Tuesday 06 July, 2021
Jewish Immigrant Encounters with Music and Theatre in the United States
Samantha M Cooper with Dorothy Glick Maglione and Dr Peter Graff
Samantha M Cooper, PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, New York University and Associate Executive Director of the ASJM Jewish…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoShelleg/Miller COZ Rescheduled! – to COZ 50: 13 July
‘Israeli Art Music as Art Music’
Dear Friends and ColleaguesHuge apologies to those trying to get into the COZ Room yesterday!
Though Mark and Lorry were away, we had made a good plan to open the room as usual –– but sadly it went wrong at the last moment and we were unable to open the ro…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited The Old Gods Are Fighting Back: Mono- and Polytheistic Tensions in Battlestar Galactica and Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe representations of religious tension between the polytheistic humans and the monotheistic Cylons in the Sci Fi (now Syfy) channel’s hit series Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009) is nowhere more evident than in the human “convert” to monotheism, Gaius Baltar, who struggles to proselytize his minority beliefs to other humans. Ancient Jewish…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited “Suspicion Is More Likely To Keep You Alive Than Trust:” Affective Relationships with the Bible in Octavia Butler’s Parables in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoOctavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents provide readers with often radical re- visions and critiques of biblical texts. This article asks how the principal characters’ affective engagements with Scripture vary, and considers the extent to which fiction may “play” with the Bible, despite its authoritative distanc…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited The Women of Noah in Early Twentieth-Century Science Fiction in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoModern science fiction writers often draw upon the biblical flood story as inspiration for their own narratives. It is not uncommon to find humans fleeing on space arks to escape some cosmic disaster. In the process of adapting the biblical narrative to contemporary circumstances, these writers also frequently transform the unnamed female…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Call it Science: Biblical Studies, Science Fiction, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIn the virtual world elaborated in Marvel’s movies (the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” or MCU), “science” is creatively, strategically confused with “magic” and/or “religion.” Key supernatural/magical elements of the franchise’s comic-book source material are “retconned” (retroactively granted new narrative coherence and continuity) as advanced…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited “In You All Things”: Biblical Influences on Story, Gameplay, and Aesthetics in Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article considers several instances of biblical reception in the science-fiction role-playing game Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony, 2017). The game’s characterisation of technology, science, and religion has led some commentators to understand Horizon Zero Dawn as presenting a firm rejection of religious narratives in favour of s…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoplease use this link for today’s COZ
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81104050877?pwd=YTlJTE13S2RUTC9oWEdXWVBncldWZz09
geraldine
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Chance Bonar deposited 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John: A Byzantine Question-and-Answer Dialogue in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIntroduction, Greek text, and English translation of 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John, a Byzantine question-and-answer dialogue between Abraham and John set after Jesus’s ascension.
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoCOZ 49: Israeli Art Music as Art Music Drs Assaf Shelleg and Malcolm Miller
Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 49:
Tuesday 29 June, 2021
‘Israeli Art Music as Art Music’Dr Assaf Shelleg Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and award-winning author, talks about his recent book ‘Theological Stain…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear Friends
In advance of our COZ 48 on Tuesday 22 June, about the music of British Composer Julian Dawes, we thought it would be good to share a link to ‘Echoes of the Soul’ CD extracts featuring music we shall discuss during the COZ, so participants can enjoy an aperitif. This is the l…[Read more] -
Jesse Rosenberg replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear Geraldine,
The video is now posted to the Bloch playlist:
Best regards,
Jesse
[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uh1mivMUQzA/hqdefault.jpg]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1mivMUQzA>
Ernest Bloch Society Meeting, 18 November 2020 – YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1mivMUQzA>
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 48: Tuesday 22 June, 2021
Composer in Focus: Julian Dawes
Malcolm Miller musicologist and pianist, Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK, and lecturer at the City Literary Institute and Morley College in dialogue with British Composer Julian Dawes prolific composer for the theatre and…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic IFJMS welcomes Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations. in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIFJMS Networks meeting 14 June 2021
Thank you all for coming to the networks meeting today – those who came to speak and those who came to listen and join in the discussion. All the presentations were very interesting. Many ideas popped up for finding ways of sharing zoom conversations and presentations of the various groups. As Gordon Dale of t…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 47: In Defence of Chazonus
Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
Yehuda MarxChazzan of Heaton Park Shul Manchestertalks to
Nathan GoldmanGraduate of Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute and cantor in Stuttgart since 2017on what led Yehuda to write his highly acclaimed book of the same title and about the problems Chazonim…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic IFJMS welcomes Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations. in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoJoin us for the IFJMS Jewish Music Networks – Meeting #2:
Monday 14 June 202109:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA / 17:00 UK / 18:00 Western Europe / 19:00 Israel
Zoom Log-in https://hcommons-staging.org/groups/jewish-music-1255310724/events/conversation-on-zoom/Share event on Facebook here https://fb.me/e/2hgjWjaD9
IFJMS Jewish…[Read more]
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Christine Mitchell deposited What to Do with All These Canaanites? A Settler-Canadian Reading of Biblical Conquest Stories in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoReading the biblical conquest stories in light of the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
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Christine Mitchell deposited David and Darics: Reconsidering an Anachronism in 1 Chronicles 29 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis note examines the use of the term “daric” in 1 Chr 29:7 for its ideological purposes, concluding that the anachronism was deployed purposely to signal resistance to imperial rule.
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues and Friends
Please join us for COZ 46: Tuesday 8 June, 2021
From Shtibl to Pirchei KodeshCantor Benjamin Maissner Cantor Emeritus of Holy Blossom Temple of Toronto and a teacher and performer world wide talks to Alex Klein Director of the European Cantors Association on his cantorial journey and philosophy
Share the cur…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Bloch Study Group in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoBloch and the Viola
Rivka Golani, talks to Alexander Knapp
Wednesday 9 June at 5.00pm British Summer Time
and we hear some of Rivka’s anmazing recordings of Bloch’s viola works
The Zoom link that takes you right to the session is:
https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98715929073?pwd=Wmo2ZjVMeE5MM2x6NVlWNmF2aXM0UT09i
n case you need it, the ID is…[Read more]
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