Neta Stahl (Hebrew)
Assistant Professor
PhD, Tel Aviv University
Modern Hebrew literature, religion and literature, narrative theory, genre theory
410-516-2208
nstahl1@jhu.edu
Gilman 481
Office hours: T-Th 11:00-12:00
Neta Stahl’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of religion, literature and
culture. Her methodology is interdisciplinary, incorporating intellectual history, cultural
and social studies skills into her literary research. Stahl won grants from the Posis
Fellowship and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and received the Koret
Publication prize for first book in Jewish Studies. Her Hebrew book - TZELEM YEHUDI - on
the representation of Jesus in Twentieth Century Hebrew Literature was published in 2008.
An expanded English edition – Other and Brother - Jesus in the 20th Century Jewish Literary
Landscape was published in 2013 with Oxford University Press and a collection of articles
she edited titled Jesus among the Jews, appeared with Routledge (2012). Stahl is also
working on her next book titled, Modern Hebrew Literature and the Divine. The new book
explores the conundrum of a literature that presents itself as an ideological, secular break
from Jewish tradition, yet maintains a dominant dialogue with the Jewish God.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books:
1. Other and Brother: The Figure of Jesus in the 20th Century Jewish Literary Landscape
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). 248 pp.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/Judaism/?view=usa&
ci=9780199760008
2. Jesus among the Jews: Representations and Thoughts ed. Neta Stahl (London and New
York: Routledge, 2012). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415782586/
3. TZELEM YEHUDI: Representations of Jesus in Twentieth Century Hebrew Literature (in
Hebrew). Resling Academic Press: Tel Aviv, 2008. 231 pages.
Articles:
“Conceptions of Time and History in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Train Stories.”
Comparative Literature. Forthcoming.
“Jewish Nationalism and the Emergence of the Modern Hebrew God”, Theological Issues in
Literature and the Abrahamic Faiths (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014) forthcoming.
“Uri Zvi Greenberg and the Devine” in Tamar Wolf-Monzon and Aminadav Lipsker (eds.),
The Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg in the 1920s [in Hebrew] (Bar Ilan University Press,
forthcoming).
“Jesus as the New Jew: Zionism and the Literary Representation of Jesus,” Journal of Modern
Jewish Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2012, 1-22.
“ ‘We left Yeshu’: On Three Twentieth Century Hebrew Poets’ Longing for Jesus” in Neta
Stahl (ed.), Jesus among the Jews, (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), 187-202.
“Not Being at One’s Home: Yoel Hoffmann and the Formal Representation of Otherness,”
Prooftexts: Journal of Jewish Literary History, 30:2 (2011), 217-237.
“ ’Man’s Red Soup’ - Blood and the Art of Esau in the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg.” in
Mitchell Hart (ed.), The Significance of Blood in Jewish History and Culture (London:
Routledge: 2009), 160-70.
“Uri Zvi Before the Cross: The Figure of Jesus in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg”, Religion &
Literature Vol. 40.3 (2008), 49-80.
“ ‘Why Have You Forsaken Me?’ – Avot Yeshurun and Jesus of Krasnitaw” in Iggud: Selected
Essays in Jewish Studies, Vol. III: Literature, Language, and Art (Jerusalem: World Union of
Jewish Studies, 2007), 215-228.