Dr Jonathan Kearney

Contract Lecturer in Jewish and Islamic Studies

Tel: +353 (0)1 708 3371
E-mail: Jonathan.Kearney@may.ie

Office Location: Room 2, Dunboyne House.

Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11 am

 

Biography:
Undergraduate and postgraduate studies in UCD (BA, MLitt and PhD). Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages UCD (1997-2007). Member of the Irish Biblical Association (executive committee 2005-2006).

Research Interests:

• • Semitic languages
  • Judaism and Islam and their textual traditions
  • The Torah commentaries of Rabbi Shelomo Yitzhaqi (Rashi, 1040-1105)
  • Religious and linguistic identity in the Near East

Select Publications:

• ‘Rashi’s Commentary on the Song of Moses: Soundings in Mediaeval Jewish Exegesis’, Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 29 (2006): 57-77.

  Rashi – Linguist despite Himself: A Study of the Linguistic Dimension of Rabbi Solomon Yishaqi’s Commentary on Deuteronomy. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. (London: T & T Clark, forthcoming).

  
  

Current Research:

• • The representation of the Nursayris/Alawis in modern Arabic historiography
  • Saadia Gaon’s Arabic translation of the Song of Moses
  • The autobiographical fragment of Muhammad Kurd Ali (1876-1955)

Courses 2009/2010

• • Introduction to Biblical Greek
  • Intermediate Biblical Greek
  • Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
  • Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
  • Advanced Hebrew Texts
  • Tradition and Diversity: Judaism from the First to the Twenty-First Century
  • Fencing the Torah: Jewish Biblical Exegesis from the Second Temple Period to the Present
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