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Dr. Steven Fine on the Cosmic Significance of the Menorah’s Branches

By On March 1, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine is Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies. He recently published “Menorah, Its ‘Branches’ and Their Cosmic Significance” in TheTorah.com.

As he explains, “Midrash Tanchuma relates how Moses didn’t understand God’s instructions for how to construct the menorah. […]

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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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Fine Reviews, is Reviewed and Speaks

By On March 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steve Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, reviewed Dr. Karen Stern’s Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) for Reading Religion (a publication of the American Academy of Religion).

In […]

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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’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 Discusses the Menorah and Writing

By On March 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, has two recent accomplishments.

On December 15, 2016, Fine gave a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on his book The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel. The 40-minute lecture, part of the MetSpeak […]

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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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