Off the Press: February 2020

“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community.

Sarah Emanuel (Forum) shares three new publications: Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2020), “On The Eighth Day, God Laughed: ‘Jewing’ Humour and Self-Deprecation in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the Gospel of Mark” (Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2020), and “Letting Judges Breathe: Queer Survivance in the Book of Judges and Gad Beck’s An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin” (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2019).

Grace Ji-Sun Kim (EFSR) has two recent publications: Reimagining Spirit: Wind, Breath, and Vibration (Cascade 2019) and a volume she edited, Keeping Hope Alive: Sermons and Speeches of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. (Orbis 2019).

Kate Ott (Books/JFSR) preached on the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time for Catholic Women Preach.

N.B. If you are an FSR Board member and want something to be shared in a future “Off the Press” announcement, please contact the JFSR submissions editor, Lauren D. Sawyer ([email protected]).