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Stephen Spector
CHAIR. Professor,
Ph.D. Yale University, 1973. Religion and politics; Evangelical
Christianity, Israel, and the Bush
administration; Israel and the Ethiopian Jews; The Bible; Middle
English literature, especially religious drama
Current Course:
Fall 2009
- The English Language (EGL 380) MW 2:20-3:40
Spring 2010
Selected Publications
Books:
- Evangelicals
and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism.
Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Operation
Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews. Oxford
University Press, 2005.
- The
N-Town Play, Editor. Early English Text Society: Oxford
University Press, Supplementary Series, volumes 11 and 12, 1991.
- The
Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World,
co-editor. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.
- The
Genesis of the N-town Cycle. New York and London: Garland
Press, 1988.
- Essays
in Paper Analysis, Editor. Washington, London, Toronto:
Folger Shakespeare Library, 1987.
Articles:
- “I Will Bless Those Who Bless You,” Midstream, Summer 2009, 13-17.
- “Evangelical Support for Israel: Promise, Prophecy, Gratitude, Love and Remorse,” Jerusalem Post Christian Edition, May 2009.
- “What Every Jew Needs to Know about Evangelicals,” Jewish Week, May 6,
2009; reprinted in Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, May 22, 2009.
- “Feeding Crocodiles,” Oxford University Press Blog, April 8, 2009.
- “Five Questions for Sarah Palin,” Jerusalem Post, October 27, 2008.
- “Faith Tints Palin’s Political Palette,” Newsday, September 16, 2008,
reprinted in Chicago Tribune.com, September 16, 2008, Baltimore
Sun.com, September 16, 2008, South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com, September
16, 2008.
- “Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress’s Tale,” in Lee Patterson, ed.,
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales: A Casebook (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007), 183-209.
- “Unfinished Rescue of the Falas Mura,” The Jerusalem Report, January 9, 2006.
- "An American Heroine and the Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews: The Untold Story behind a Crisis,” Midstream, July-August 2005.
- “Leaving Ethiopia for Zion,” reprinted on the Spazio forum website (Italy), March 2005 (www.spazioforum.net/forum/index).
- “Leaving Ethiopia for Zion,” reprinted on the Jewish Agency for
Israel website (Israel), February 2005
(www.jafi.org.il/papers/2005/feb).
- “Leaving Ethiopia for Zion,” Jerusalem Post, February 13, 2005.
- “Time, Space, and Identity in the Play of the Sacrament,” in The
Stage as Mirror, ed. Alan Knight (Bury St. Edmunds: Boydel &
Brewer, 1997).
- “Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress’s Tale,” in The Olde Daunce:
Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World, Stephen
Spector, co-editor (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991).
- “The Oberammergau Passion Play,” Theologische Realenzyklopaedia, 1990.
- “Anti-Semitism and the English Mystery Plays,” reprinted in The Drama
of the Middle Ages, eds. Clifford Davidson, C.J. Gianakaris, and John
H. Stroupe (New York, 1982), pp. 328-41. Reprinted 1983, 1985.
- “New Light on Southerne’s The Disappointment, 1684,” The Library, 6th series, 2 (1980): 465-66.
- “Symmetries in Watermarks within Gatherings” (a summary of my work on manuscript collation), Manuscripta, 1979.
- “Paper Evidence and the Genesis of the Macro Plays,” Mediaevalia 5 (1979): 217-32.
- “Anti-Semitism and the English Mystery Plays,” Comparative Drama 13 (1979): 3-16.
- “The Provenance of the N-town Codex,” The Library, 6th Series, 1 (1979): 25-33.
- “Symmetry in Watermark Sequences,” Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978), 162-78.
- “The Composition and Development of an Eclectic Manuscript: Cotton Vespasian D. Viii,” Leeds Studies in English (1977): 62-83.
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Stephen
Spector's principal scholarly interests are in the Bible, Christianity,
and Judaism. He spent nearly twenty years editing a cycle of
fifteenth-century mystery plays that dramatize biblical and apocryphal
stories from Creation to Doomsday. In the process, he
addressed
many philological questions and bibliographic issues involving physical
evidence in manuscripts. He also analyzed the representation
of
the Jew in the drama and other medieval texts. He then
inexplicably turned to writing modern history and journalism in a book
about Operation Solomon, the Israeli rescue of the Ethiopian
Jews. His most recent book, Evangelicals and Israel, on Christian Zionism and its impact on the Bush administration, was published in 2009.
Professor Spector has won numerous fellowships and grants, as well as
prizes from the Medieval Academy of
America and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
He
has held research fellowships at the National Humanities Center and
Wesleyan University's Center for Humanities and was a Visiting Scholar
at Hebrew University.
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