Faculty and staff
Benjamin Sax
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Assistant Professor |
211 Major Williams |
231-6047 |
Ph.D. in History of Judaism at the University of Chicago, 2008
Benjamin Sax's teaching areas are modern Jewish thought and history, medieval Jewish thought, religion and literature, Hebrew Bible, and German-Jewish history. Broadly speaking, in his research, he pursues the question: what makes anything “Jewish” in the modern and post-modern world. More specifically, he explores the convergence of literary theory (most specifically post-structuralism) and philosophical hermeneutics in the works of modern Jewish thinkers, how these thinkers use rabbinic, medieval and biblical texts to inform their arguments. I’ve published on topics relating to “Jewish atheism” and contemporary Jewish theology. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled: “A Hermeneutics of Citation: Tradition and Language in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig.”