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Fine Publishes Review

By On July 26, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting 2018 was held from November 17-20, 2018, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Out of that meeting came a set of reviews for Robin Jensen’s The Cross: History, Art and Controversy (2018) and Dr. Steven Fine’s The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (2016), including one […]

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Miller is First Leon Charney Visiting Scholar

By On January 9, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Stuart S. Miller, professor of Hebrew, history and Judaic studies and a member of the classics and Mediterranean studies section of the Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, will be the first Leon Charney Visiting Scholar at YU’s Center for […]

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Fine Delivers Two Lectures

By On November 21, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, delivered two lectures recently.

On October 24, at the Merillat Centre for the Arts at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, Fine presented “‘He Went to the Synagogue as Was […]

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Fine Discusses History of Menorah on TLV1

By On July 27, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, was recently interviewed by “The Tel Aviv Review,” a program on TLV1, an English-language podcast network based in Tel Aviv.

In the interview, titled, “The Menorah: A Most Emblematic Emblem,” Fine analyzes […]

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Fine Publishes Article in AJS Perspectives

By On June 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinchos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, published a piece in AJS Perspectives, the magazine for the Association of Jewish Studies. Fine was a founding editor of the publication.

In a Forum on Pedagogy on the subject of “Embracing Discomfort,” Fine explained […]

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Fine’s Colored Arch of Titus Reconstruction Featured in Biblical Archaeology Review

By On April 24, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History, has just published “Digital Reconstruction Restores Original Brilliance to the Arch of Titus” in Biblical Archaeology Review, an account of the work that he and others have done on digitally restoring and coloring the menorah panel on the […]

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Fine Publication Subject of Symposium

By On January 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine’s The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard, 2016) will be the subject of a symposium at The Hebrew University, MA Program in Folklore and Popular Culture on Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and director of the YU […]

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Fine Contributes Essay to Metropolitan Museum of Art Publication

By On September 21, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of Yeshiva University’s Center for Israel Studies, has contributed an essay to the recent Metropolitan Museum of Art  publication Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World (2015).

The essay is part of a catalogue created for a popular […]

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Fine Receives Shohat Grant from International Catacomb Society

By On May 18, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of Yeshiva University’s Center for Israel Studies, was recently awarded a $6,500 Shohat grant by the International Catacomb Society for his research with the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project. The grant will fund Fine’s work in Rome this summer. Fine […]

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