NCJSS Welcomes Marc Brettler and Edward Breuer

The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Marc Brettler and Edward Breuer to discuss their current project on "Jews and the Modern Critical Study of the Bible." Marc Brettler, a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature, is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University. The Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, he has also taught at Yale University, Brown University, Wellesley College and Middlebury College. Dr. Edward Breuer is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century Jewish intellectual History in Central and Western Europe. This includes work on the German-Jewish Enlightenment, and most especially on the writings of Moses Mendelssohn; on the rise of Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Reform movement; and on the study of the Bible in the modern era. He completed an annotated translation of Mendelssohn's Hebrew writings (edited with David Sorkin) that was published as part of the Yale Judaica Series in 2018. He is currently working with Marc Brettler (Bible, Duke University) on a study of the Jewish reception of biblical criticism from the 18th century to the present.