ד"ר מרים פלדמן קיי

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miriam.feldmann-kaye@biu.ac.il
תחומי עניין

 

תחומי התמחות מדעיים:

Continental Philosophy, Jewish Thought, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Language, Phenomenology, Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, Theology, Study of Religions, Contemporary Religion, Interreligious Theology.

    קורות חיים

    השכלה:

    תואר ראשון          אוניברסיטת קיימברידג' -  בהצטיינות יתרה       Faculty of Divinity

    תואר שני -           אוניברסיטת לונדון – בהצטיינות יתרה              תיאולוגיה

    תואר שלישי         אוניברסיטת חיפה  החוג לתולדות ישראל – מחשבת ישראל

    פוסטדוקטורט       האוניברסיטה העברית  מחשבת ישראל – מדע הדתות - ליידי דייויס

    פוסטדוקטורט       האוניברסיטה העברית         מחשבת ישראל -מדע הדתות

    פוסטדוקטורט       האוניברסיטה העברית המכון למחקר שלום ע"ש הרי טרומן

     

     

    מלגות ופרסים:

    2004    University of Cambridge – Gonville & Caius College Prize for Contribution to College Life

    2005    University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, Theological Studies Prize

    2008-2011        University of Haifa and Israeli Ministry of Absorption, Doctoral Studies

    2011.   University of Cambridge and Three Faiths Forum - Cambridge Interfaith Programme

    2012 – 2013     Mexican Friends of Hebrew University Post-Doctoral Fellowship

    2013-2014       Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, Post-Doctoral Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for.       

    2020-2022       Scriptural Reasoning in Healthcare – Grant received from: Tamir-Sternberg Foundation and Institute for Development Studies, UK

     

    Academic Lectures: International Conferences – from 2021

    2024  “Transforming the Human Sphere”: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s conception of Sabbath and Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology of Time, World Congress of Philosophy, Rome.

     

    2024  “Mount Sinai and the Wasteland of Creation”: The Ecological Phenomenology of Hans Jonas, Association of the Continental Philosophy of Religion

    2024 “An Ethical Phenomenology”: John Caputo’s Theological Interpretation of Jacques Derrida’s Deconstructionism, European Society of Philosophy, University of Cardiff.

    2023        St Andrews University, Scotland, UK  European Academy of Religion, 2023 (1) Organised panel: Trajectories in New Jewish Theology (2) The Making of an Encyclopaedia of Jewish Theology.

     

    2023    Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany   European Congress of Jewish Studies        The Idea of ‘Sacred Text’ in Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: Beyond the ‘Biblical Deconstructionism’ of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida

    2023        Turku, Finland, Donner Institute for the Study of Religion Spirituality, Universities of Turku and Helsinki            Learning as an Idea: ‘Hospitality’ from a Philosophical Perspective      

    2022     Jewish Dialogical Thinkers in Conversation with Religious Existentialism: Resistance, Ambivalence, and Influence

    International Conference on Modern Jewish Theology: Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation & Bar Ilan University.

    2022  Scriptural Reasoning: Jewish, Islamic and Christian Scholars in Conversation

    European Academy of Religion, Bologna, Italy

    2022    The Phenomenological Influence of Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology of Time on Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Concept of Sabbath

                British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies – Kings’ College London

    2022    A Deconstructionist Approach to Liturgy in Modern Jewish Philosophy    

    Freie Universität Berlin – Invited lecturer “Intersections: Between Philosophy and Jewish Thought”

    2021 The Existentialist Biblical Figure of Abraham in Franz Rosenzweig

    University of Coimbra, Portugal International Conference of the Philosophical Thought of Franz Rosenzweig

     

    תפקידים נוספים:

    1. 2024 Member, Academic Committee, University of Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies.
    2. 2024 – Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities – Forum for Abrahamic Religions.
    3. 2024 -2025 – Blickle Fellowship for Jewish Leaders and Religious Relations

     

    4.      2023- present Member of first cohort of the ‘Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Scholars’ (Rabbi Sacks Legacy Foundation)

    5.      2021 –  present  Academic Editor, St Andrews University, International Encyclopaedia for Jewish Theology.

    6.      2020 -  present   Matanel Research Group for Continental French Jewish Philosophy, Member, Steering committee, Bar Ilan University.

    7.      2009 –  present Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Library Fellow

    8.      2017-   present   Member, Beit Hillel Rabbinic Organisation.

    9.      2014-   present   Member, International Scriptural Reasoning Society Research Group, University of Cambridge.

    10.  2013    Committee member, Jerusalem Centre for Ethics Panel on Religion

    11.  2013 - present Fellow, Elijah interfaith Institute

    12.  2012 - present Member, Textual Reasoning Society

    13.  Co-founder and Director of Faith and Belief Forum Middle East 2008-2021

    14.  2006-2008 Junior Advisor to the British Government on Faith Communities’ Capacity Building

    15.  2004-2005 Co-President, Cambridge University Jewish Society

    מחקר

    מענקי מחקר:

    1.      Religion, Philosophy, and Healthcare, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, New York, Faith and Belief Forum project, 2013-2015.

     

    2.      The Role of Memory in Philosophical Theology, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Research Group, with Prof. Steven Kepnes, co-head of research team, 2015.

    פרסומים

    Book - Monograph:

    Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age, Liverpool University Press in association with Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019.

     

    Book as editor

    1. Illuminated Fragments: The New Jewish Philosophy of Rav Shagar, forthcoming Idra Press, 2024, with Hanoch Ben-Pazi

     

               מאמרים בכתבי עת                                                       Articles in periodicals

     

    1. Hélène Cixous’ Contribution to Post- Shoah Jewish Theology in Light of Jacques Derrida’s ‘Hauntology’: Deconstructionist Anti-Theodicy in ‘Gare d’Osnabrück à Jérusalem’ (‘From Osnabrück to Jerusalem’), Modern Theology, Wiley, 4.9.2024.

     

    1. Scriptural Reasoning: Sacred Texts and Healing, co-author Hanoch Ben Pazi, Lexicon: Kaye Academic Journal, 2023. [Heb]

     

    1. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Alterity, Alacrity, Excess: Soren Kierkegaard, Franz Rosenzweig, Jacques Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion on the Biblical Character of Abraham, Religions, 2022. 16 pages. Religions | Free Full-Text | Alterity, Alacrity, and Excess: Continental Philosophical Interpretations of the Figure of Abraham According to Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion (mdpi.com)

     

    1. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Emmanuel Levinas and the Phenomenology of ‘Evasion’: A Continental Hermeneutical Reading of the Biblical Character of Jonah, co-authors Elena Dini and Doaa Baumi, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2023. 24 pages. Scriptural Reasoning in a Time of Social Distancing | The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning (virginia.edu)

     

     

    1. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, The Continental Philosophy of “Anatheism”:  A Study of Richard Kearney’s Critique of Post-Metaphysical Theology in the Burning Bush Narrative”, Journal of Religion and Theology, Brill, 2021, 125-152. 27 pages. “The Bush Burned with Fire and the Bush Was Not Consumed” in: Religion and Theology Volume 28 Issue 3-4 (2021) (brill.com)

     

    1. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Deconstructionist Philosophy and Multiple Truth Theory in the Tower of Babel, Tradition, 52:4, 37-43, 2020.  7 pages. trad52413.indd (traditiononline.org)

     

    1. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Scriptural Reasoning: Interreligious Theology & Israeli healthcare, 29-50. In Tadros, M. (ed.) What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, 2022. 24 pages. CREID_eBook_Chapter2.pdf (ids.ac.uk)

     

    1. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Language and Interreligious Relations in Israel, Journal for Scriptural Reasoning, 2012. 21 pages. Scriptural Reasoning with Israelis and Palestinians | The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning (virginia.edu)

     

    1. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Dialogue and Religious Language in a Postmodern Age, De’ot 51, 2012. [Heb] 8 pages. שיח בין-דתי בעידן פוסטמודרני / מרים פלדמן קיי - נאמני תורה ועבודה (toravoda.org.il)

     

     

     

    Accepted for publication:

    1. A Dialogical Phenomenology of Exile: Between Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida, Festschrift for Ephraim Meir, Idra Press, 2024.

     

    2. Philosophical Themes in the Tanakh, Routledge Companion to Jewish Thought, Routledge, 2025.

     

     

    Under Review:

     

    1. The Sabbath Concept of Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Phenomenological Influence of Edmund Husserl: “Eternal Time” and the “Transformation of the Human Sphere”.

     

     

    Chapters in books:

    Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, Bearing Witness: Reflections on October 7, in Simon Eder and Adam Zagoria-Moffet (eds) Voices of Hope, (London: Izzun Books), 2023. 

     

    New Horizons in Twenty-First Century Jewish Theology, in Routledge Handbook for Judaism in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, 2023.

     

    Philosophical Uses of Mystical Language in the Postmodern Theology of Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg), ed. Shlomo Zuckier, S., Yeshiva University Press, 2022.

    Playing the Wittgensteinian Language Game: The Philosophy of Language in the Theology of Tamar Ross, in Ruah Hadasha Mima’al La: Sefer Yovel Likhvod Professor Tamar Ross im Higiyah leGvurot (Heb) A New Spirit in the Palace of Torah - Jubilee Volume in Honor of Professor Tamar Ross, eds Irshai, R., and Schwartz, D., pp. 21*-53*, Bar Ilan University Press, 2019.

     

    Book Reviews:

    Nietzsche, Soloveitchik, and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, Daniel Rynhold and Michael Harris, Cambridge University Press, 2018 in Da’at Journal for Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, 2022.

    Who’s Afraid of the Unmoved Mover? Postmodern Philosophy and Natural Theology, (Oregon: Pickwick), in Journal of American Academy of Religion, 2020.

    The Postmodernism of Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg), Kipa, 2013 [Hebrew].

     

    תאריך עדכון אחרון : 15/12/2024