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Volume 6 of Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (2010) features four articles on the theme:

The philosophy of Martin Buber and His Biblical Hermeneutics: Between Germanness and Jewishness

特集 マルティン・ブーバーの思想とその聖書解釈の可能性: ドイツとユダヤの間で

It turns out that all of the articles of this journal appear in both English and Japanese. Thank you, JISMOR editors and authors!

Through digging around, I found the following information and links for each article. Continue Reading…

Before I turn my attention elsewhere, I’d like to introduce a few more “biblical studies” articles in past issues of the Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (JISMOR), published by Doshisha University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions.

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This time, I’d like to introduce a contribution to JISMOR by Job Y. Jindo, a former classmate at Harvard. I think that both Japanese and English readers will be happy to know that Jindo’s Japanese article in JISMOR has been revised and published in English as well.

Below, I have included bibliographic information and links for both articles, as well as a few additional links that may be of interest. Continue Reading…

Update (Jan 7, 2017): I found the original English version of this article after posting this last month. I have added new links and revised the bibliographical information below. Note, however, that I have kept my own translation of the Japanese version.

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In the last post, I introduced an article in the Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions, published by Doshisha University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (CISMOR).

I decided to go back and look at past issues, and I was happy to discover this article by Professor Peter Machinist, one of my professors at Harvard: Continue Reading…

On November 3, I attended the 2014 Fall Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study in Japan (Nihon Kyūyaku Gakkai). The one-day conference was held at Hokusei Gakuen University, in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

The Former Hokkaido Government Office Building (Red Brick Office)

Three women presented during the morning session (English titles are my translations): Continue Reading…

There will be a two-day biblical archaeology seminar in Tokyo this weekend called “Excavating the Biblical World: The Current State of Biblical Archaeology.” The seminar is being co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Tokyo and Sophia University’s Institute for Christian Culture. All lectures will be in Japanese.

Here is my translation of the session titles, followed by details in Japanese: Continue Reading…