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Reuven Firestone

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Reuven Firestone
Born27 January 1952
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materAntioch College
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
New York University

Reuven Firestone is an American academic and historian of religion, who serves as the Regenstein Professor in Medieval Judaism and Islam at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Skirball Campus in Los Angeles and Affiliate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California.[1]

Biography

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Firestone was born in Northern California and has lived with his family in Israel, Egypt, and Germany.[1] He regularly lectures in universities and religious centers throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.[1] He has initiated and continues to be involved in numerous projects and initiatives which bring together Jews, Muslims, and Christians, Jews and Arabs, and Israelis and Palestinians.[1]

Firestone earned his B.A. at Antioch College, his M.A. and Rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1982,[1] and was awarded his Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic studies from New York University in 1988. His scholarship focuses on Jewish studies, the Hebrew Bible and its exegesis, the Quran and its exegesis, Islamic–Jewish relations, religious phenomenology, comparative religion, and interfaith dialogue.[1] He has researched and written extensively on the topics of religious violence and holy war in Islam and Judaism.[2][3]

He is currently recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in Berlin and Sigi Feigel Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies at the University of Zürich.[1] He served as vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) and president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA).[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Reuven Firestone". www.huc.edu. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  2. ^ Cobb, Paul M. (July 2003). "Review - Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam. By Reuven Firestone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 62 (3). Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 222–223. doi:10.1086/380335.
  3. ^ Rodman, David (June 2014). "Review - Holy War in Judaism: The Fall and Rise of a Controversial Idea. By Reuven Firestone. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012". Israel Affairs. 20 (3). Taylor & Francis: 431–432. doi:10.1080/13537121.2014.897027. S2CID 145739976.
  4. ^ Monnot, Guy. Revue De L'histoire Des Religions, 209 (1) (1992), pp. 77–78. JSTOR 23671213.
  5. ^ Hoffman-Ladd, Valerie J. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 289, 1993, pp. 95–96. JSTOR 1357368.
  6. ^ Moreen, Vera B. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 111 (4) (1991), pp. 799–800. JSTOR 603418.
  7. ^ Ward, Seth. Shofar, 22 (3) (2004), pp. 131–135. JSTOR 42943683.
  8. ^ Gordon, Sheila C. “Religions 101.” CrossCurrents, 51 (4) (2002), pp. 550–554. JSTOR 24461284.
  9. ^ Johnson, James Turner. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 81 (2) (2013), pp. 560–563. JSTOR 24486030.
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