Biografisk notat

Daniel Maoz (PhD, Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, France) is a Research Associate in the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is Vice President of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies and author of B'Qol Echad: The Sermon on the Mount and Rabbinic Literature (Bethesda: International Scholars Press, 1995), a critical analysis of rabbinic and New Testament parallels. He is presently completing the first volume of a two-volume reference work on ancient Jewish legend and lore literature written primarily in Aramaic: Aggadic Midrash I: Florilegium (Lewiston: Mellen Reference Library) provides sample readings in the original language and in translation of the aggadic corpus. Volume 2 will offer a systematic catalogue of various manuscripts and versions of the aggadot.Andrea Gondos is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Her doctoral dissertation examines the impact of printing on the popularization of Kabbalah in 17th Century Eastern and Central Europe. In general, she is interested in how technological changes in material culture, such as printing, transform the genres and content of the texts produced. Her research pays special attention to the interface between Jewish and Christian readers, who required new tools to cope with the printed panoply of Kabbalistic texts. She was selected as one of the graduate student participants at the Radcliffe Summer Workshop entitled, "History of reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in Early Modern Europe" held at Harvard University in 2008.