{"id":9495,"date":"2022-02-08T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/?post_type=profile&p=9495"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:26:32","slug":"michael-zank","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/michael-zank\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Zank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Zank (b. 1958) studied in G\u00f6ttingen, Kiel, Heidelberg, and Jerusalem before he entered the PhD program in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. A member of the BU Religion Department since 1994, Zank teaches introductory classes on the Bible and the afterlife of biblical traditions (including \u201cHoly City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and the Imagination<\/em>\u201d) and advanced courses in philosophy of religion and Jewish thought (including \u201cMaimonides\u201d<\/em>).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Zank\u2019s research on <\/span><\/span>Bible and biblical reception<\/em>, German-Jewish histor<\/em>y, the history of philosophy<\/em> and the philosophy of religion, Jewish thought, political Hebraism, political philosophy,<\/em> and other subjects is driven by the tensions in his cultural background as a migrant between German culture and Jewish identity in a post-Holocaust world for whom philosophy and the symbolic worlds of religious literature provide key \u201ctexts\u201d for our personal and collective struggles for orientation. Zank is grateful to have landed in a Religion department hospitable to his philosophical\/theological bent and allowed him to develop classes he loves to teach.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fun fact: Zank has been singing since his teens and played drums and other instruments for almost as long. Nowadays his favorite instrument is the bass clarinet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For more on Zank see http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Complete CV 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Books<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jerusalem: A Brief History<\/em><\/a>
\nBy Michael Zank
\nSeptember 2018, Wiley-Blackwell
\nBy now at Wiley<\/a>!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"9789402410808_p0_v2_s192x300\"Politics, Religion and Political Theology
\n<\/em><\/a>Editors: Allen Speight, Michael Zank
\nSpringer Netherlands, July 2017<\/p>\n

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\"Elie<\/a><\/em><\/a>Take a Teacher, Make a Friend<\/em><\/a>
\nEdited by Michael Zank and Leanne Hoppe
\n2014<\/p>\n

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\"TheThe Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience<\/em><\/a>
\nEdited by Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson
\nBrill, May 2015
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