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Neta Stahl\u2019s primary research interests lie at the intersection of literature, religion, and culture. She works on a broad range of modern Hebrew writers, from S.Y Agnon and Uri Zvi Grinberg to the contemporary author Yoel Hoffmann.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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She won grants from\u00a0National Endowment for the Humanities<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture<\/em>\u00a0and received the Koret Publication<\/i> prize for first book in Jewish Studies.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Her most recent book,\u00a0The Divine in Modern Hebrew Literature<\/i> was published in March 2020 with Routledge. The book offers a panoramic and multilayered analysis of the various strategies in which modern Hebrew writers, from the turn of the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century pursued in their attempt to represent the divine in the face of metaphysical, theological, and representational challenges.<\/p>\r\n

Stahl is also the author of Other and Brother: The Figure of Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2013), which is an expanded English edition of her Hebrew book,\u00a0TZELEM YEHUDI<\/em> (Resling Press, 2008). \u00a0In 2017 she published her book Drawings of the Heart<\/em>: The Poetics of Yoel Hoffmann<\/em> (Reslings Press, in Hebrew). In this book, Stahl shows how basic reading norms are challenged in Hoffmann\u2019s novels. One of her main arguments is that a central motivation for Hoffmann\u2019s writing is a quasi-systematic literary study of the question: \u201cWhat is a Man?\u201d. Stahl suggests to read Hoffmann\u2019s work as a literary-anthropological project that is meant, in Hoffmann\u2019s words, to render \u201cthe precise man that we remember\u2026 the hero of this book that we\u2019re writing (and all of the books that we\u2019ve written to date).\u201d These lines are taken from two different paragraphs of Hoffmann\u2019s latest book, Moods\u00a0<\/em>(2010), which in many ways, summarizes the entire body of Hoffmann\u2019s work.<\/p>\r\n

Stahl has served as the director of the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies at Johns Hopkins since 2017. In 2020 she became the co-editor of\u00a0Lyre<\/i>:\u00a0Studies in Poetry and Lyric<\/i>\u00a0(Bar-Ilan University Press), which focuses on Jewish poetry.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>"],"ecpt_publications":["

Books<\/h4>\r\n

The Divine in Hebrew Literature<\/em> (New York & Oxfordshire : Routledge, March 2020).<\/p>\r\n

The Poetics of Yoel Hoffmann<\/em>: Drawings of the Heart<\/em> (in Hebrew). (Tel Aviv: Resling Academic Press, 2017).<\/p>\r\n

Other and Brother: The Figure of Jesus in the 20th-Century Jewish Literary Landscape<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Jesus Among the Jews: Representations and Thoughts<\/em> ed. Neta Stahl (London and New York: Routledge, 2012).
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TZELEM YEHUDI: Representations of Jesus in Twentieth Century Hebrew Literature<\/em>\u00a0(in Hebrew). (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2008). \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Book Chapters and Articles<\/h4>\r\n

\u201c\u2019Like a Cow That Gave Birth to a Seagull\u2019: Amos Oz, Yoel Hoffmann and the Birth of The Same Sea,<\/em>\u201d The Journal of Israeli History<\/em> 38:2 (2021), 1-19.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Aesthetics of the Divine in Anakreon Al Kotev Ha-Itzavon<\/em>,\u201d in Tamar Wolf-Monzon and Avidov Lipsker (eds.), The Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg in the 1920s<\/em> [in Hebrew] (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2020), 441-461.<\/p>\r\n

\"The Dead Christ: Ekphrasis in Three Turn-of-the-Millennium Israeli Novels,\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0The Place of Christianity in Modern Hebrew and Japanese Literature: Its Roots and its Contemporary Expressions - The 10th\u00a0CISMOR Annual Conference on Jewish Studies,<\/em>18-19 May 2019. Edited by Ada Taggar Cohen & Doron B. Cohen (Kyoto: The Center for Interdisciplinary Study of the Monotheistic Religions, Doshisha University, 2020), 27-47.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cBetween the Literary and the Historical Jesus: Teaching the Modern Hebrew Writers\u2019 Jesus,\u201d in Zev Garber (ed.), Teaching Jesus: Pedagogy and Exegesis<\/em>, (New York: Routledge, <\/em>2015), 109-120.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cJesus and the Pharisees through the Eyes of Two Modern Hebrew Writes: A Contrarian Perspective,\u201d Hebrew Studies<\/em> 56 (2015): 357-365<\/p>\r\n

\u201cJewish Writers and Nationalist Theology at the Fin de Si\u00e9cle,\u201d in Emma Mason (ed.), Theological Issues in Literature and the Abrahamic Faiths<\/em>, (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 75-85.<\/p>\r\n

\u201c\u2018He Who Employs Funny Rhymes in His Speech\u2019\u201d: Parodied Poetics in the Works of Uri Zvi Greenberg and S. Y. Agnon,\u201d Prooftexts: Journal of Jewish Literary History<\/em> 34:1 (2015), 53-78.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cTheomorphism and Modern Hebrew Literature\u2019s Search for the Divine: Brenner and Shlonsky as a Case Study,\u201d Jewish Studies Quarterly<\/em> 22<\/em> (2015), 62-85.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cConceptions of Time and History in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Train Stories,\u201d Comparative Literature<\/em>, 66:1 (2014), 322-339.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cJesus as the New Jew: Zionism and the Literary Representation of Jesus,\u201d Journal of Modern Jewish Studies<\/em>, 11:1 (2012), 1-22.<\/p>\r\n

\u201c\u2018We left Yeshu\u2019<\/em>: On Three Twentieth Century Hebrew Poets\u2019 Longing for Jesus,\u201d in Neta Stahl (ed.), Jesus among the Jews<\/em>, (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), 187-202.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cNot Being at One\u2019s Home: Yoel Hoffmann and the Formal Representation of Otherness,\u201d Prooftexts: Journal of Jewish Literary History<\/em>, 30:2 (2011), 217-237.<\/p>\r\n

\u201c\u2018Man\u2019s Red Soup\u2019: Blood and the Art of Esau in the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg,\u201d in Mitchell Hart (ed.), The<\/em>Significance of Blood in Jewish History and Culture<\/em> (London and New York: Routledge: 2009), 160-70.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cUri Zvi Before the Cross: The Figure of Jesus in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg,\u201d Religion & Literature<\/em>, 40:3 (2008), 49-80.<\/p>\r\n

\u201c\u2018Why Have You Forsaken Me?\u2019 \u2013 Avot Yeshurun and Jesus of Krasnitaw\u201d, Iggud: Selected Essays<\/em> in Jewish Studies<\/em>, Vol. III: Literature, Language, and Art (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 2007), 215-228.<\/p>"],"ecpt_cv":[""],"_thumbnail_id":["10022"],"ecpt_books_cond":["on"],"_searchwp_last_index":["1552650499"],"_ecpt_cv":["field_61e0871dac8e2"],"cv_file":["8902"],"_cv_file":["field_61e088d12999e"],"ecpt_job_abstract":[""],"_ecpt_job_abstract":["field_61e0873bac8e3"],"abstract_link":[""],"_abstract_link":["field_61e088f52999f"],"abstract_file":[""],"_abstract_file":["field_61e088f52999f"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/239\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}