ד"ר מרים פלדמן-קיי

Dr. Miriam Feldmann-Kaye

CV


Education

2009-2013

Ph.D. University of Haifa  
2005-2007 M.A. (first class)

University of London

 
2002-2005

B.A. (first class)

University of Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College

Faculty of Divinity
Post-Doctoral Studies
  Name of institution and department Grant
2013-2015 Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Dept. Comparative Religion Lady Davis Fellowship Trust;Mexican Friends of the Hebrew University
2016-2017 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace & Reconciliation (Associate)

Scholarships, Awards and Prizes

2008-2012 Doctoral Studies Grant,University of Haifa
2008-2012 Doctoral Studies Grant for Excellence,Israeli Ministry of Absorption for New Immigrants,Israeli Government
2005 Theological Studies Prize,Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Professional Experience and Public Positions

Visiting Assistant Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary – JTS

Co-founder and project manager, Faith and Belief Forum Middle East

Library Fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Member, Beit Hillel Rabbinic Forum

Fellow, Elijah Institute for Interreligious Relations

Junior Advisor to British Government on Faith Communities in the UK (Faith Communities Unit).

Publications

 

List of Publications

 

Doctoral Dissertation University of Haifa, 2013, English. 

“Provisional Theology in a Postmodern Age: A Comparative Study of Harav Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg) and Prof. Tamar Ross” 

Advisors: Prof. Menachem Kellner, Dr. Moshe Lavee, Prof. Hanoch ben Pazi 

Readers: Prof. Menachem Fisch, (Tel Aviv University) Prof. Daniel Rynhold (Yeshiva University) 

 

Book - Monograph:  

Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age, Liverpool University Press in association with Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019.  

Academic Articles: 

 

New Horizons in Twenty-First Century Jewish Theology, in Routledge Handbook for Judaism in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, 2023.

Alterity, Alacrity, Excess: Soren Kierkegaard, Franz Rosenzweig, Jacques Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion on the Biblical Character of Abraham, Religions, 2022.  

The Continental Philosophy of “Anatheism”:  A Study of Richard Kearney’s Critique of Post-Metaphysical Theology in the Burning Bush Narrative”, Journal of Religion and Theology, Brill, 2021, 125-152. 

Deconstructionist Philosophy and Multiple Truth Theory in the Tower of Babel, Tradition, 52:4, 37-43, 2020.   

Language and Interreligious Relations in Israel, Journal for Scriptural Reasoning, 2012.  

Dialogue and Religious Language in a Postmodern Age, De’ot51, 2012. [Hebrew] 

Accepted for publication: 

Emmanuel Levinas and the Phenomenology of ‘Evasion’: A Continental Hermeneutical Reading of the Biblical Character of Jonah, with Elena Dini and Doaa Baumi, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2022.  

A Dialogical Phenomenology of Exile: Between Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida, Festschrift for Ephraim Meir, Idra Press, 2022. 

Philosophical Themes in the Tanakh, Routledge Companion to Jewish Thought, Routledge, 2023.  

Freedom in Religion and Belief: Healthcare in Israel, Journal of Development Studies, 2023. 

Contemporary Judaism and Dialogue in Israel, Lexicon: Kaye Academic Journal, 2023. [Hebrew] 

Chapters in books: 

Philosophical Uses of Mystical Language in the Postmodern Theology of Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg), ed. Shlomo Zuckier, S., Yeshiva University Press, 2022. 

Playing the Wittgensteinian Language Game: The Philosophy of Language in the Theology of Tamar Ross, in Ruah Hadasha Mima’al La: Sefer Yovel Likhvod Professor Tamar Ross im Higiyah leGvurot (Heb) A New Spirit in the Palace of Torah - Jubilee Volume in Honor of Professor Tamar Ross, eds Irshai, R., and Schwartz, D., pp. 21*-53*, Bar Ilan University Press, 2019. 

Book Reviews: 

Nietzsche, Soloveitchik, and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, Daniel Rynhold and Michael Harris, Cambridge University Press, 2018 in Da’at Journal for Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, 2022. 

Who’s Afraid of the Unmoved Mover? Postmodern Philosophy and Natural Theology, (Oregon: Pickwick), in Journal of American Academy of Religion, 2020.  

The Postmodernism of Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg), Kipa, 2013 [Hebrew]. 

Books Edited: 

The Deconstructionist Philosophical Thought of Rav Shagar [Shimon Gershon Rosenberg] edited volume (in progress).  

 

Conferences:  

2022     Jewish Dialogical Thinkers in Conversation with Religious Existentialism: Resistance,    Ambivalence, and Influence 

International Conference on Modern Jewish Theology: Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation & Bar Ilan University. 

2022  Scriptural Reasoning: Jewish, Islamic and Christian Scholars in Conversation 

European Academy of Religion, Bologna, Italy 

2022    Time, Otherness and Holiness in the Thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel  

            British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies – Kings’ College London  

2022   A Deconstructivist Approach to Liturgy in Modern Jewish Philosophy      

Freie Universität Berlin – Invited lecturer “Intersections: Between Philosophy and Jewish Thought” 

2021 The Existentialist Biblical Figure of Abraham in Franz Rosenzweig  

University of Coimbra, Portugal,           International Conference of the Philosophical Thought of Franz Rosenzweig 

2021 A Continental Deconstructionist Philosophical Approach to ‘Anatheism’: A Reading of the Burning Bush as a Test Case from a Jewish Theological Perspective’           

American Academy of Religion  

2021 Post-Holocaust Philosophical Theology in Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida:  Deconstructionist and Ethical Dimensions of Jewish Continental Writers  

British Association of Jewish Studies 

2020 Literalism and Poesis in the Study of “Oral Torah”: Jewish Philosophical Hermeneutics in Theories of Revelation            (postponed)       

European Academy of Religion 

2020 “Tower(s) of Babel: Construction, Destruction and Deconstructionism according to Jacques Derrida in “Des Tours de Babel” (postponed) 

            Aix Marseille University, “Derrida Today”  

2018 Scriptural Reasoning at the University, Interreligious Dialogue. 

University of Cambridge 

2018  Religion and Monotheism in Israel            

Her Majesty the Queen of England’s Palace of St. George’s Ambassadors Corps, Westminster, London  

2017 The Role of the Physician in Philosophical Theology from a Jewish perspective       

University of Cambridge 

2015 Uses and Appropriations of Hasidic Language in the Writings of Rav Shagar (Invited Lecture) Conference on Jewish Philosophy and Hasidut 

Yeshiva University, New York 

2012 Deconstructionism in Continental Jewish Thought: Analysis of the Response of Rav Shagar  

British Association of Jewish Studies, University College London  

 

2017 Structuralist and Post-structuralist approaches to the Study of Philosophy and Religion        

World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

 

2017 Metaphor and Allegory in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Philosophy: Anti-Realist Approaches to Jewish Studies             

Hebrew University of Jerusalem World Congress of Jewish Studies 

 

 

Courses

course (Hebrew) 03-064-01 Jewish Dialogical Philosophy: Questions of Identity and Interpretation Annual credits equal  2 annual course hours ZOOM
course (Hebrew) 03-070-01 Jewish Dialogical Philosophy: Questions of Identity and Interpretation Annual credits equal  2 annual course hours ZOOM
course (English) 03-107-35 Jewish Philosophy for a Postmodern Age Annual credits equal  2 annual course hours On-Line
course (Hebrew) 03-152-01 workshop: Jewish Dialogical Philosophy: Questions of Identity and Interpretation Annual credits equal  2 annual course hours  

 

Research

Modern Jewish Philosophy; Continental Philosophy; the Study of Religions; Postmodern Theology; Jewish Thought in the Modern and Postmodern Era