Emily's wedding

Its time for another posting.  I do seem to have re-started up dating on this blog.  Between this post and the last one. The High Holy Days have come and gone and so has Emily's wedding. High Holy Days first, this were OK/Good I enjoyed being a congregant at FPS and am now used to the Liberal HHD liturgy so all in all not bad.

I made a brief visit home. And will probably be going again this coming weekend. But the big thing that has happened between this blog entry and its predecessor is Emily and Renee's Wedding which was a lovely day. I conducted it, it was the first wedding I've ever done, I had a co-celebrant which was good because I was very very nervous maybe even more nervous than the brides themselves.

Emily brought me a new suit for the day so I looked very dapper even if I do say so my self.
They put so much thought into the day, which really showed in how unbelievably wonderful the whole day was, the booklets were stunning and the Harry Potter theme worked really really well. (I've kept both the booklet and my wand as a momento of the day.)


 I'm still doing (or more accurately trying to) teach some classes at FPS it was only meant to be three classes but even so health wise I've had to re-schedule a couple of times if I'm just not well enough on the day. Again still talmuding with both Tina and Francesca and that I think brings us up to date.

Assessments, training (PE) and other things

It feels as if the year has really gotten going now.  I am back in the flat in London although Emily is still away in Canada so its a little lonely.  Yesterday (Friday) I had my first training session with Danielle of the new year. I found it all a little harder than before the brake although nothing like as bad as I expected. Embracingly I forgot to give her her money. We both remembered only after we had gone our separate ways on the Tube. She was cool about it and I'll give her double next time we meet which will either be monday or Tuesday.
I also forgot to put my anti-nusia bracelets on, and only remembered I wasn't wearing them right at the end and I wasn't sick once. (Now there is an improvement).
In all seriousness I am so much fitter now than when I started and its only been a short time.  We moved where we meet to Parsons Green because of the weather so much rain and thunder and winds. But its not really cold at all C.F., with USA and Canada.

Then after training it was back home for a shower and a change of outfit and off the synagogue FPS., it was the evening before a Bar-Mitzvah and the boy although very nervous gave a truly exceptional D'var Torah.

Rabbi Rebecca was in good form and it was also nice to meet up with Kathy again and catch up.  I have also been working away on my assessments I have done quiet a few of them but still have four remaining so I need to a) Finish Liturgy (not to bad but I really want to do a good job with this one.) b) Finish Modern Jewish Thought. (I've already done quite a bit on it but its complex).  c) Progessive Jewish Decision making. (In effect I have to write a resonsa done some research and have been thinking about it but still have a long way to go. and finally d) An analysis of two academic articles for Research methods. shouldn't be that much trouble.

Tomorrow I go around to Matthew's for our much delayed winter celebration. Then it serious will be nose back to the grind stone.  Although I hope to be able to get in another visit back home.

MA Bibliography (and a short posting)

This is going to be a rather odd posting, as mostly its going to be a bibliography. But first yesterday was a nice day it had a really Shabbat like feeling, kind of like being back in Jlem. Partly this may have simply been down to the weather which was kind of like Israel very warm and muggy.  But it was also that on my walk to synagogue, and just by chance the people I met where on their way to synagogue as well. So it was nice to exchange greetings of 'Shabbat Shalom', even as I left the flat I hadn't decided which shul I was going to.  In the end I opted for FPS.  It was a really nice services and I got to have a very pleasant chat with Kathy who was there as well.  Its been ages since we have run into each other.

Then it was back to the flat for a meal I'd cooked, I really must get back into the habit of cooking more. The next day I went back to FPS, Rene was leading and again it was a very pleasant service.

Next week we have Kol Bo., and I still have one or two big things on but apart from that I am so much less busy than I was until recently.

This brings me to the bibliography.  I have updated my MA bibliography which was entitled, "Incest in the Ancestry of David: A Combined reading of Genesis 19, Genesis 38 and the Book of Ruth''.

I think that its a pretty good thesis and the bibliography is I think useful to others researching in this area so I wanted to put it on line and via my blog seemed like the easiest way of so doing.

Alexander, T., Desmond. ''Lot's Hospitality: A Clue to His Righteousness'' Journal of Biblical Literature (1985) Volume 104:2 289-291.

Alter, Robert The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York: Basic Books, 1981

Anderson, A., Arnold. ''The Marriage of Ruth.'' Journal of Semitic Studies (1978) 22 171-183.

Astour, C, Michael. ''Tamar the Hierodule an Essay in the Method of Vestigial Motifs.'' Journal of Biblical Literature (1966) 85:192-196.

Arbeitman, L., Yoel. ''Tamar's Name or is it?'' Zeitschrift fur die altterstamentilche Wissenschaft (2000) 112 Number 3 341-355.

Barker, R. James Women's rights in the Old Testament times. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992.

Bergson, Henri. La rire: Essai sur la Signification du Comique Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1900.

Brenner, Athalya. ''Naomi and Ruth'' Vetus Testamentum (1983) 33 Number 4 385-397.

-''On the semantic field of humour, laughter and the comic in the Old Testament: On Humour and Comedy in the Hebrew Bible''. Journal for the study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 92. (1990).

-Ed. ''Are we Amused? Humour about women in Biblical Worlds'' Journal for the study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 383. (2003).

Brown, F., Driver, S., R., and Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon Peabody Ma: Hendrickson Publishing, 1979.

Brooks, A., Beatrice. ''Fertility Cult functionaries in Old Testament'' Journal of Biblical Literature 60: 227-253 (1941)

Bush, W., Fredrick Word Biblical Commentary Number 9: Ruth and Ester. Dallas: Word Books Publishing, 1996.

Campbell, F., Edward The Anchor Bible: Ruth. Garden City NY: Doubleday and Company, 1975.

Childs S., Brevard Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture London: SCM Press, 1979.

Eissfeldt, Otto. Hexateuch-Synopse Leipzig, 1922.

Emertonn, J., Adney. ''Some Problems in Genesis XXXVIII. Vetus Testamentum (1975) Number 25 338-361.

• ''An Examination of recent structuralist interpretation of Genesis XXXVIII'' Vetus Testamentum (1976) Number 26 79-98.
• ''Judah and Tamar'' Vetus Testamentum (1979) Number 29 403-415.

Fish, Harold. ''Ruth and the Structure of Covenant History'' Vetus Testamentum Number 32 423-437.

Fuchs, Esther ''Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative'' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 310, (2000).

Golder, C., M. ''Genesis 38 in the Context of the Joseph Story'' Ph.D diss. The University of

Manchester. 1985.

Goldin, Judah. ''The Youngest Son or Where Does Genesis 38 Belong'' Journal of Biblical Literature (1977) Volume 96:1 27-44.

Hall, Sarah. ''Tamar, a polemic on Tamar? An intertextual discussion of the Juxtaposition between male and female comprehensions of the rules of relationships within 2^nd Samuel 13 and Genesis 38 narratives'' MA. Diss. The University of Manchester, 2000.

Hamilton, P., Victor. The Book of Genesis (Chapters 18-50). New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing.

Hubbard, L., Robert Jr. Ruth New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing.

Huddelstun, R., John. ''Unveiling the version: the tactics of Tamar in Tamar in Genesis 38:15'' Journal of Hebrew Studies (2001)Volume 3 325-343.

Ho Y., S., Graig ''The Stories of the Family Troubles of Judah and David: A Study of Their Literary Links'' Vetus Testamentum Volume 49:4 514-531

Jackson, Melissa. ''Lot's Daughters and Tamar as Tricksters and the Patriarchal Narratives as Feminist Theology'' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (2002) Number 98 29-46.

Kim, Dohyung ''The Structure of Genesis 38: A Thematic Reading'' Vetus Testamentum (2012) Number 62 550-560.

Lasine, Stuart. ''Guest and Host in Judges 19: Lot's Hospitality in an inverted World'' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. (1984) Number 29 37-59.

Leach, Edmund and Alan D, Aycock Structuralist Interpretation of Biblical Myth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Malamat, Abraham. ''Naamah, the Ammonite princess, King Solomon's Wife'' Revue Biblique 106 35-40.

Mars, Leonard. ''What was Onan's Crime'' Comparative Studies in Society and History (1984) Volume 26:3 429-439.

Morschauser, Scott ''Hospitality, Hostilities, and Hostages: On the Legal Background to Genesis 19:1-9'' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (2003), Number 27 461-485.

Myers, J., Martin. The Linguistic and Literary form of the Book of Ruth Leiden: Brill, 1955.

Niditch Susan ''The Wronged Woman Righted: An analysis of Genesis 38'' The Harvard Theological Review (1979) Number 1-2 143-149.

Noble, R., Paul ''Esau, Tamar and Joseph: Criteria for Identifying Inner-Biblical Allusions'' Vetus Testamentum (2002)Number 52:4 219-252.

Rendsburg, A., Gary ''David and His Circle in Gensis XXXVIII'' Vetus Testamentum (1986) Number 36 438-446.

Schungel-Straumar, Helen. ''Judah and Tamar'', in Great Couples of the Bible Soelle, Dorothee and Katharina Elliger., eds., Augsburg: Fortress Publishing, 2006.

Sharon, M., Diane ''Some Results of a Structural Semiotic Analysis of the Story of Judah and Tamar '' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (2005) Volume 29:3 289-318.

Soggin, J., Alberto. ''Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38)'' Of Prophets' Visions McKay, A., Heather and David, J., Clines eds., Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplementary Series.

Tonson, Paul. ''Mercy without Covenant: a Literary Analysis of Genesis 19'' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Number 95 95-116.

Trible, Phyllis. Text of Terror Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narrative: Overturnes to Biblical Theology 13 Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

Vesco, Jean-Luc. ''La Date du Liver du Ruth'' Revue Biblique (1967) Number 74 235-247.

West, A., Struat. ''Judah and Tamar: A scriptural enigma'' Dor le Dor (1984) 12:4 246-252.

Wolde Van, J., Ellen Ruth and Naomi London: SCM Press, 1997.

-''Texts in Dialogue with Texts: Intertextuality in Ruth and Tamar Narratives.'' Biblical Interpretatio: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches (1997) Volume 5:1 1-28.

Wenham, J., Gordon Word Biblical Commentary 2 Genesis 16-50 Nashvile: Nelson Publishing, 1994.

Westenholz, G., Joan ''Tamar, Qedesa, and Qadistu and Sacred Prostitution in Mesopotamia'' Havard Theological Review (1989) Volume 82:3 245-266.

Whedbee, J., William The Bible and the Comic Vision Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Wilson, R., Robert ''The Old Testament Genealogies in Recent Research'' Journal of Biblical Literature Number 94 169-189.