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Steven L. Jacobs
Associate Professor
Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies
Genocide and Holocaust Studies, Religion and Violence, History
of Judaism, Ancient Israelite Religion, Hebrew Bible, Modern
Religion and Politics in the Middle East
email: sjacobs@bama.ua.edu
office phone: (205) 348-0473
office: Manly 201
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Click here
for information on the Department of Religious Studies's minor
in Judaic Studies.
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Click here
for news about the Department of Religious Studies' Judaic
Studies Minor.
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Learn
about a Religion in Culture Lunchtime Discussion on
Prof. Jacob's work.
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Forthcoming in the Fall 08
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Forthcoming in the Fall 08
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Read Prof. Jacobs' report
from his week at a workshop sponsored by the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Steven Leonard Jacobs joined the Department
of Religious Studies as Associate Professor and Aaron
Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies on January 1, 2001 and
received tenure
as of August 2004. He received his B.A. from Penn State University;
and his B.H.L., M.A.H.L., D.H.L., D.D., and rabbinic ordination
from the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. A resident
of Alabama for more than three decades, he has taught at Spring
Hill College, Mobile; University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham-Southern College, Samford University, Birmingham;
the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Calhoun Community
College, Huntsville; as well as serving congregations in Birmingham,
Mobile and Huntsville.
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Dr. Jacobs' primary research foci are in Biblical Studies,
translation and interpretation, including the Dead Sea Scrolls;
as well as Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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His books include Shirot Bialik: A New and Annotated
Translation of Chaim Nachman Bialik's Epic Poems (1987);
Raphael Lemkin's Thoughts on Nazi Genocide: Not Guilty?
(1992); Contemporary Christian and Contemporary Jewish
Religious Responses to the Shoah (2 volumes, 1993); Rethinking
Jewish Faith: The Child of a Survivor Responds (1994);
The Meaning of Persons and Things Jewish: Contemporary
Explorations and Interpretations (1996); The Holocaust
Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought (1997);
The Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 volumes, 1999, Associate
Editor); Pioneers of Genocide Studies (2002, Co-editor);
and The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll: An Orthographical
Inquiry (2002); Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols
of the Elders of Zion (2003); Post-Shoah Dialogues:
Re-Thinking Our Texts Together (2004).
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His professional and civic involvements include the Alabama
Holocaust Commission; Board of Advisors, The Center for
American & Jewish Studies, Baylor University, Waco, TX;
International Editor, The Papers of Raphael Lemkin; International
Advisory Board of the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies,
Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia; Editorial
Board, "Studies in the Shoah," University Press
of America, Lanham, MD; Editorial Board of Bridges: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science, Monkton,
MD; Educational Consultant to the Center on the Holocaust,
Genocide, and Human Rights, Philadelphia, PA; Board of Advisors
of The Aegis
Trust for the Prevention of Genocide, England; and Secretary-Treasurer
of the International
Association of Genocide Scholars.
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Dr. Jacobs continually teaches REL
100 (Intro to the Study of Religion), REL
110 (Intro to the Hebrew Bible),
REL 223 (Holocaust In Historical Perspective), REL
224 (Judaism), REL
238 (Philosophies of Judaism), REL
332 (Figures In Contemporary Jewish Thought), REL
347 (Jewish-Christian Relations), and REL
490 (Capstone Seminar).
He has also taught UH 300 (Religion and Genocide; find syllabus
here
[PDF]). Here are some additional readings:
Readings
1 and Readings
2
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A recent copy of his cv can be found here
(PDF).
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