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The following are lists of sources that each Working Group has agreed to use  to further its research on the assigned topic.

Holiness Working Group:
 

1. Baruch J. Schwartz, "Israel's Holiness: The Torah Traditions" in M.J.H.M. Poorthuis, ed., Purity and Holiness: The Heritage of Leviticus (Brill: 2000)
2. Eliezer Diamond, Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture (Oxford: 2004) (selections)
3. A miscellany of texts in Hebrew from Mishna and Talmud relating to holiness
4. A miscellany of medieval Hebrew responsa and codes texts on the holiness of the land of Israel
5. Selections from the Hebrew hasidic texts Qedushat Shabbatby Zadok Ha-Kohen of Lublin and Sefer Netivot Shalom, by Shalom Noah Barzofsky, translated by Eitan Fishbane
6. Chapter V, "On the Pure Devotion of All Acts to God Alone" from The Duties of Heart, by Bachya Ibn Paquda
7. Treatise V, "Concerning Merits and Demerits" from The Book of Beliefs and Opinions by Saadia Gaon
8. Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy (selections)
9. Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism, Chapter VII
10. Emil Fackenheim, The God Within: Kant, Schelling, and Historicity (selections) 

1. Jonas, Hans.   “The Burden and Blessing of Mortality” (Chapter 3). Mortality and Morality. Northwestern University Press, Evanston IL.   Ed. Lawrence Vogel.
2. Jonas, Hans. “Introduction,” “Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics” (Chapter 1);   “Contemporary Problems in Ethics from a Jewish Perspective” (Chapter 8); “Spinoza and the Theory of Organism” (Chapter 10) in Philosophical Essays.
3. Jonas, Hans. Memoirs. Ed Christian Wiese.  
4. Maturana, Humberto and Varela, Francisco.   Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding.  

1. Alter, Robert. “Revolutionism & the Jews: 2”
2. Arnow, David. “The Passover Haggadah: Moses and the Human Role in Redemption”
3. Daube, David. “Four Types of Question” in The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism.
4. Dabue, David. “The Significance of the Afikoman” in New Testament Judaism.
5. Daube, David. “He That Cometh” in New Testament Judaism.
6.  Daube, David. “Two Incidents of the Law Supper” in Concepts and Conventions.
7. Henshke, David. “'The Lord Brought Us forth From Egypt’ On the Absence of Moses in the Passover Haggadah,” AJS Review.
8. Hauptman, Judith. “How Old Is the Haggadah?”
9. Tsur, Muki. “Pesach in the Land of Israel: Kibbutz Haggadot”
10. Ophir, Adi. “From Pharoah to Saddam Hussein: The Reproduction of the Other in Passover Haggadah.”
11. Yuval, Israel. “Easter and Passover as Early Jewish-Christian Dialogue.”
12. Yuval, Israel. “Passover in the Middle Ages.”

1. Eliezer Schweid, “Jewish Messianism: Metamorphoses of an Idea”
2. Ezekiel 37-39; Isaiah 11:1-10; 24-27
3. Jacob Neusner, Messiah in Context
4. Martin Buber, “Prophecy, Apocalyptic and the Historical Hour,” in Pointing the Way (Schocken Books, 1974)
5. Gershom Scholem, “Toward an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism” in T he Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality (Schocken, 1971)
6. Moses Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Book Fourteen: Judges, Hilchot Melachim, 11-12   (the translation in the Yale Judaica Series)
7. Moses Maimonides, “Helek: Sanhedrin, chapter 10” in Isadore Twersky (ed.), A Maimonides Reader (Behrman House, 1972)
8. Walter Benjamin, “Theological-Political Fragment” in Michael Jennings (general editor), Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935-1938 (Harvard, 2002)                       
9. Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History” in Jennings (ed.), Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 4:1938-1940 (Harvard, 2003)
10. Moshe Idel, Messianic Mystics (Yale, 2000)
11. Gershom Scholem,   “The Neutralization of the Messianic Element in Early Hasidism,” in The Messianic Idea
12. Hermann Cohen, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, Chs.13-14
13. Franz Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption (Hallo trans.), “The Logic of   Redemption,” “The Peoples of the World: Messianic Politics”
14. Steven Schwarzschild, “The Personal Messiah – Toward the Restoration of a Discarded Doctrine” in The Pursuit of the Ideal (SUNY, 1990)
15. Steven Schwarzschild, “On Jewish Eschatology,” in The Pursuit of the Ideal
16. John J. Collins, “Pre-Christian Jewish Messianism: An Overview,” in Magnus Zetterholm (ed.), The Messiah in Early Judaism and Christianity (Fortress Press, 2007)
17. Abraham Miguel Cardozo, “Defending the Fallen Messiah: Epistle to the Judges of Izmir,” in Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality) (Paulist Press, 2001)
18. Lawrence H. Schiffman, “The Concept of the Messiah in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature,” Review and Expositor 84,2 (Spring 1987)
19. Peter Schaeffer, “Diversity and Interaction: Messiahs in Early Judaism,” in Peter Schaeffer and Mark Cohen (eds.), Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (Brill, 1998)
20. Emmanuel Levinas, “Messianic Texts,” in Difficult Freedom (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
21. Anson Rabinbach, “Between Enlightenment and Apocalypse: Benjamin, Bloch, and Modern German Jewish Messianism,” New German Critique 34 (Winter 1985), 78-124; reprinted in Rabinbach, I n the Shadow of Catastrophe (California, 1997)
22. Jacob Taubes, “The Price of Messianism” in Saperstein (ed.), Essential Papers
23. Jacob Katz, “Israel and the Messiah” in Saperstein (ed.), Essential Papers
24. Menachem Kellner, “Messianic Postures in Israel Today,” in Saperstein (ed.), Essential Papers [orig. Modern Judaism 6,2 (May 1986), 197-209]
25. Aviezer Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism (Chicago, 1996)   Ch.3