Knowledge Commons | Tamar Marvin | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/trmarvin/activity/ Activity feed for Tamar Marvin. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a27cbc4c21a73cce2fbf033cb9a916ac Tamar Marvin deposited Sites of Controversy: Jews Debating Philosophy between Iberia and Occitania in the Fourteenth Century https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1632496/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:12:25 -0500 The extant sources of the Maimonidean controversies demonstrate that medieval
Jewish intellectual culture was fundamentally sited in actual encounters and interactions.
Such interactions often took place around the practices of writing, conveying,
receiving, and discussing letters, social activities governed by communal norms.
Whether in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d854f0663928de0d4c64e4881c9cf05 Tamar Marvin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1632328/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:30:43 -0500 0 6a2794a22b8d88d77c5275da772a1ec6 Tamar Marvin deposited CLASSICS OF THE JEWISH TRADITION (ONLINE) | JTS MDS 5102D in the group Pedagogy and Professional Practice https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620173/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:25:24 -0400 Covering the period from the close of the rabbinic canon to the present day, Classics of the Jewish Tradition will introduce students to the most influential texts that have shaped Jewish culture, in a variety of genres and languages representative of the diversity of Jewish creativity. Through close reading of selected primary sources and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 334921891513a7e7bb28cca66bf96a37 Tamar Marvin deposited CLASSICS OF THE JEWISH TRADITION (ONLINE) | JTS MDS 5102D in the group Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Literature, and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620172/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:25:22 -0400 Covering the period from the close of the rabbinic canon to the present day, Classics of the Jewish Tradition will introduce students to the most influential texts that have shaped Jewish culture, in a variety of genres and languages representative of the diversity of Jewish creativity. Through close reading of selected primary sources and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef6078971dd524d4f038393bd38685d9 Tamar Marvin deposited CLASSICS OF THE JEWISH TRADITION (ONLINE) | JTS MDS 5102D https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620135/ Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:48:58 -0400 Covering the period from the close of the rabbinic canon to the present day, Classics of the Jewish Tradition will introduce students to the most influential texts that have shaped Jewish culture, in a variety of genres and languages representative of the diversity of Jewish creativity. Through close reading of selected primary sources and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6ce3586c23f3353446f4e45bd6f8723 Tamar Marvin created the site Peshat, Derash & Beyond: Interpreting the Torah https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597354/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:14:21 -0500 0 d75bf356eb88e3361b72988af3cd99bc Tamar Marvin wrote a new post, Course Schedule, on the site Peshat, Derash & Beyond: Interpreting the Torah http://hucpeshat.ajs.hcommons.org/?p=1 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:14:20 -0500 See the table below for the schedule of topics, what texts to prepare for class, and assignment due dates.

Last updated: April 16, 2018

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Jan. 22
Introduction: What is (and […]

]]> 7c9ca5a8db0ae2e02b1e92deb6ddba62 Tamar Marvin wrote a new post, Teaching and Learning with the Commons, on the site Platypus http://team.hcommons.org/?p=27 Tue, 05 Dec 2017 12:00:37 -0500 A core value for me, as a scholar, is the open exchange of ideas—among scholars and among the public. Implementing this value requires access and transparency. As gratified as I’ve been, over the past decade or […]

]]> 05b4619849b652584c1efcd1e47815e4 Tamar Marvin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1580242/ Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:25:33 -0400 0 4628496e053e02b0d9e5aa2bcc351c3f Tamar Marvin created the site Miqraot Gedolot Course Website https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579756/ Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:25:43 -0400 0 7bdf1f21b51c7371fa5969db45df0bea Tamar Marvin created the site Tamar Ron Marvin https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575131/ Mon, 03 Jul 2017 17:01:50 -0400 0 d28d35e0e3d80ab33bd0041f9aacc21b Tamar Marvin deposited A Heretic from a Good Family? A New Look at Why Levi b. Abraham b. Ḥayim Was Hounded https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573873/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:12:56 -0400 Levi b. Abraham b. Ḥayim, a popularizer of rationalist philosophy active around 1300 in Occitania, was identified as a transgressor by proponents of a ban on the study of philosophy. The nature of Levi's transgressive activities and the reasons why he was targeted have remained elusive, though a consensus view suggests that his socioeconomic s…[Read more]

]]> 0 961eb86366a0fb46e903e097e87b7a93 Tamar Marvin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573871/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:04:26 -0400 0 02310388cad7c11c93960530a80fbde2 Tamar Marvin deposited The Making of "Minḥat Qenaʾot": The Controversy over Ideational Transgression in Fourteenth-Century Jewish Occitania https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560995/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 20:11:27 -0500 The Jewish communities of Occitania, known by medieval Jews as “Provence,” were unusually involved in the repeated outbreaks of public controversy over the integration of Greco-Islamic philosophy into Jewish intellectual culture. By the time of the early fourteenth-century controversy, Maimonideanism was a dominant cultural movement in the Med…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb5e5011eed19ce18bc2612e04041889 Tamar Marvin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560990/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:51:16 -0500 0 8dfda5e4af169fe7e771d6a142be3bd1 Tamar Marvin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558505/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:41:03 -0500 0