Curriculum Vitae of Martin Yaffe
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HOME ADDRESS
8400-302 Hickory Street
Frisco, Texas 75034
(972)335-9374
E-mail: mdyaffe@attbi.com
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PERSONAL STATISTICS
Born: February 19, 1942--Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Married: Connie Lynn Stern (1963)
Children: Michael John (born 3-16-69)
David Mark (born 1-1-73)
Citizenship: U.S.A.
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EDUCATION
B.A. (Honours Philosophy and History)
University of Toronto, 1959-63
Graduate Study (Philosophy)
University of Toronto, 1963-64 (Province of Ontario Graduate Fellowship)
Ph.D. (Philosophy)
Claremont Graduate School, 1964-68
Dissertation: "The New Thinking of Franz Rosenzweig"
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UNIVERSITY TEACHING
1998 - Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies
1990-98: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies
University of North Texas
1968-90: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies
University of North Texas (Tenure granted, 1971)
Spring, 1978: Adjunct Lecturer in Contemporary Jewish Thought
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1971-72: Lecturer in Philosophy
Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel
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UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION
Acting Chairman, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas (Spring 1974, Summer 1977)
Library Acquisitions, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas (1968-79)
Student Body President, Claremont Graduate School (1966-67)
OTHER ADMINISTRATION
Curriculum Consultant and Bar/Bat Mitzvah Director, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas (1973-present)
Research Director, Institute for Jewish Studies, Dallas, Texas (1972-83)
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PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS
1. Saint Thomas Aquinas. The Literal Exposition on the Book of Job: A Scriptural Commentary concerning Providence. Translated by Anthony Damico. Interpretive Essay and Notes by Martin D. Yaffe. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
2. Shylock and the Jewish Question. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. --revised paperback edition, 1999. --nominated for an Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion, 1998.
3.Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader. Selected, with an Introductory Essay. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2001.
B. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. "Civil Disobedience and the Opinion of the Many: Plato's Crito." Modern Schoolman 54 (1976-77): 123-36.--chosen for abstract by Literature of Liberty1.3 (July-September, 1978): 47-48
2. "Myth and 'Science" in Aristotle's Theology." Man and World 12 (1979): 70-88.
3. "Liturgy and Ethics: Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig on the Day of Atonement." Journal of Religious Ethics 7 (1979): 215-28.
4. "Providence in Medieval Aristotelianism: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Book of Job." Hebrew Studies 20-21 (1979-80): 62-74.--republished in The Voice from the Whirlwind: Interpreting the Book of Job, ed. W. Clark Gilpin and Leo G. Perdue (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991)
5. "On Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law: A Review Essay." Modern Judaism 9 (1989): 213-15.
6. "Autonomy, Community, Authority: Hermann Cohen, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss." In Autonomy and Community. Edited by Daniel H. Frank. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Prress, 1991.
7. "Leo Strauss as Judaic Thinker: Some First Notions." Religious Studies Review 17.1 (January 1991): 33-41.
8. "The Case Against the Great Books--And its Refutation." In The Core and the Canon: A National Debate. Edited by Robert Stevens et al. Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, 1993.
9. "One-Sided Platonism: Hermann Cohen on the 'Social Ideal' in Plato and the Prophets." Il cannocchiale 91 (1991): 45-58.
10. "Two Recent Treatments of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise: A Review Essay." Modern Judaism 13 (1993): 309-15.
11. "Biblical Religion and Liberal Democracy: Comments on Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise and Sacks's Commentary on the Book of Genesis." Political Science Reviewer 23 (1994): 284-341.
12. "On Beginning to Translate Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus." Il cannocchiale 94 (1994): 199-216.--includes translation of Preface to Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise
13. "'The Histories and Successes of the Hebrews': The Demise of the Biblical Polity in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." Jewish Political Studies Review 7 (1995): 57-75.
14. "An Unsung Appreciation of the Musical-Erotic in Mozart's Don Giovanni: Hermann Cohen's Nod Toward Kierkegaard's Either/Or." In International Kierkegaard Commentary on Either/Or I. Edited by Robert L. Perkins. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1995.
15. "Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise--A First Inside Look." In Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy. Edited by Douglas Kries. Foreward by Harvey C. Mansfield. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. Forthcoming--includes Appendix containing translation of Preface to Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (see also item 12, above)
16. "Shakespeare and the Jews: A Review Essay." Association for Jewish Studies Review. Forthcoming.
17. "Kenneth Hart Green on Leo Strauss and Maimonides." Jewish Political Studies Review 9 (1997): 77-86.
18. "Body and the Body Politic in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." In The Freedom to Philosophize, Piety and Peace: Studies on Spinoza's Tractatus Thrologico- Politicus'. Edited by Paul J. Bagley. Amsterdam: Kluwer, 1999. Pp. 160-189.
C. TRANSLATIONS
1. Translation from the Greek, with Anthony Damico, of Josephus, Antiquities 12.12-17, in Ellis Rivkin, A Hidden Revolution: The Pharisees' Search for the Kingdom Within (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1978), 320-21.
2. Translation from the Latin of Benedict Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise, Preface (see above, Articles, items 12 and 15).
D. REVIEWS
1. The American Movement to Aid Soviet Jews, by William W. Orbach (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979). Human Rights Inter-Net Newsletter 5.4-5 (December-January 1978-79): 118, 37.
2. George Berkeley in America, by Edwin S. Gaustad (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 49 (1981): 318.
3. The Jewish Return into History: Reflections in the Age of Auschwitz and a New Jerusalem, by Emil L. Fackenheim (New York: Schocken Books, 1979), Journal of the American Academy of Religion 49 (1981): 318.
4. Messianism in the Talmudic Era, ed. Leo Landman (New York: Ktav, 1979). Perkins Journal 24.3 (Spring 1981): 50-52.
5. Striking Roots: Reflections on Five Decades of Jewish Life, by Aaron Horowitz (Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 1979). Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 19 (1981): 142.
6. Theology as Comedy: Critical and Theoretical Implications, by George Aichele, Jr. (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980). Perkins Journal 24.4 (Summer 1981): 48-50.
7. The Chrysalis of Religion: A Guide to the Jewishness of Martin Buber's 'I and Thou', by Daniel S. Breslauer (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980). Hebrew Studies 22 (1981): 145-46.
8. What Can God Do?, by Frederick Sontag (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979). Hebrew Studies 22 (1981): 146.
9. Plato's 'Apology of Socrates': An Interpretation, with a New Translation, by Thomas G. West (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979), and Law and Obedience: The Arguments of Plato's 'Crito', by A.D. Woozley (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1979). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 21 (1982): 364-68.
10. Judaism and Psychology: Halachic Perspectives, by Moshe Halevi Spero (New York: Ktav and Yeshiva University Press, 1980). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 50 (1982): 156-57.
11. Formulation of Policy in the Catholic and Jewish Traditions, by Eugene F. Fisher and Daniel F. Polish (Notre Dame, Ind.,: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980). Hebrew Studies 23 (1982): 268-69.
12. The Theology of Abraham Bibago: A Defense of the Divine Will, Knowledge and Providence in Fifteenth-Century Spanish Jewish Philosophy, by Alan Lazaroff (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1981). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 50 (1982): 643-44.
13. Jewish Messianism and Christian Trinitarian Doctrine, by Pinchas Lapide and Jürgen Moltmann (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981). Perkins Journal 25.2 (Winter-Spring, 1982): 68-70.
14. The 'Laws' of Plato, trans. with Notes and an Interpretive Essay by Thomas L. Pangle (New York: Basic Books, 1980). International Philosophical Quarterly 22 (1982):108-9.
15. A Jewish Philosophy and Pattern of Life, by Simon Greenberg (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America Press, 1981). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 51 (1983): 507.
16. The Human Way: A Dialogic Approach to Religion and Human Experience, by Maurice Friedman (Chambersburg, Penn.: Anima Books, 1982). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 51 (1983): 706.
17. Joseph Ibn Kaspi's 'Gevia' Kesef': A Study in Medieval Jewish Philosophic Bible Commentary, by Basil Herring (New York: Ktav, 1982). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 52 (1984): 182.
18. Studies in Bemidbar (Numbers), by Nehama Liebowitz (Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization, 5740/1980). Hebrew Studies 24 (1983): 208-9).
19. Choices in Modern Jewish Thought: A Partisan Guide, by Eugene B. Borowitz (New York: Behrman House, 1983). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 53 (1985): 155-56.
20. The Territorial Dimension of Judaism, by W.D. Davies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982). Journal of the American Academy of Religion 53 (1985): 154-55.
21. Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' , by Wye Jamison Allanbrook (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983). Claremont Review of Books 3.3 (Fall 1984): 28.
22. The Imperative of Responsibility, by Hans Jonas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984). Claremont Review of Books 4.4 (Winter 1985): 17-18.
23. Socrates and the State, by Richard Kraut (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984). Journal of the History of Philosophy 24 (1986): 113-14.
24. Hermann Cohen: The Challenge of a Religion of Reason, by William Kluback (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1984). Modern Judaism 7 (1987): 325-30.
25. The Idea of Humanity: Hermann Cohen's Legacy to Philosophy and Theology (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987). Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne des Comtes rendus en Philosophie 8 (1987): 275-77.
26. The Education of Desire: Plato and the Philosophy of Religion, by Michel Despland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985). Thomist 52 (1988): 343-47.
27. Self-Knowledge in Plato's 'Phaedrus', by Charles Griswold (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986). Southwestern Philosophical Society Newsletter (September 1987): 9-10.
28. The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, ed. Richard Kennington (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1985). Southwestern Philosophical Society Newsletter (March 1988): 7.
29. Nietzsche's Teaching, by Laurence Lampert (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986). Southwestern Philosophical Society Newsletter (February 1989): 6-7.
30. The Judaic State: A Study in Rabbinic Political Theory, by Martin Sicker (New York: Praeger, 1988). Canadian Philosophical Reviews/ Revue Canadienne des Comptes rendus en Philosophie 9 (1989): 72-75.
31. The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig, ed. Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1988). Critical Review of Books in Religion (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989): 398-401.
32. Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age, by Jerry Weinberger (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985). Critical Review of Books in Religion (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990): 328-30.
33. Beyond the Secular Mind: A Judaic Response to the Problems of Modernity, by Paul Eidelberg (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989). Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne des Comtes rendus en Philosophie 10 (1990): 11-13.
34. The Legacy of Hermann Cohen, by William Kluback (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989). Jewish Quarterly Review 82 (1992): 586-87.
35. The Book of Theodicy: Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job, by Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi, trans. Lenn E. Goodman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988). Critical Review of Books in Religion (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991): 389-91.
36. Review of Aquinas and the Jews, by John Y.B. Hood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). Association for Jewish Studies Review 22. (1997): 122-125.
37. "Shakespeare and the Jews: A Review Essay." Association for Jewish Studies Review 23 (1998): 235-244.
38. Review of Steven B. Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996). Jewish Political Studies Review 10 (1998): 136-138.
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PROFESSIONAL PAPERS PRESENTED
1. "On Philosophizing in Plato's Apology of Socrates." North Texas (Area) Philosophical Association. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. March 1969.
2. "Civil Disobedience and the Opinion of the Many: Plato's Crito." North Texas (Area) Philosophical Association. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. March 1973.
3. "Liturgy and Ethics: Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig on the Day of Atonement." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. March 1978.
4. "Providence in Medieval Aristotelianism: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Book of Job." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. March 1979.
5. "Liturgy and Ethics." American Academy of Religion New England Region. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH April 1979.
6. "Hermann Cohen on Reconciliation." American Academy of Religion Eastern International Region. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. April 1979.
7. "Natural Science and Theology: A Critique of Stephen Toulmin." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Rice University, Houston, TX. March 1980.
8. "Love as an Operatic Idea: Hermann Cohen on Mozart's The Marriage of
Figaro." American Musicological Society Southwest Region. University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. October 1980.
9. "Judaism and Messianic Politics: Hermann Cohen and Martin Buber's Dialogue on Zionism." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Dallas, TX. November 1980.
10. "Love as a Dramatic and a Religious Idea: Hermann Cohen on Mozart's The Marriage of
Figaro." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Texas Women's University, Denton, TX. March 1981.
11. "Preface to Modern Religiosity: Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Texas Women's University, Denton, TX. March 1981.
12. "Amoral versus Immoral Love: Kierkegaard and Hermann Cohen on Mozart's Don Giovanni." American Academy of Religion Eastern International Region. D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY. April 1981.
13. "The Devil and the Philosopher in Thomas Aquinas' Literal Exposition on Job." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1982.
14. "The Architectonic Design of Thomas Aquinas' Literal Exposition on Job."
College Theological Society Annual Meeting. Mercy College, Detroit, MI. June 1982.
15. "Socratic Justice and Messianic Peace: Exhortation in Plato's Republic and Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. New York, NY. December 1982.
16. "Love and Suffering in Religion and Opera: Hermann Cohen on Mozart's The Magic Flute." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1983.
17. "Luther on Abraham's Binding of Isaac." Martin Luther Quincentennial Commemoration. North Texas State University, Denton, TX. November 1983.
18. "I-Thou in Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Dallas, TX. December 1983.
19. "Don Juan as Faust Figure: Hermann Cohen's Interpretation of Mozart's Don Giovanni." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1984.
20. "Donna Anna, Rape Victim or Infatuation Casuality? E.T.A. Hoffmann and Hermann Cohen on Mozart's Don Giovanni." American Academy of Religion Eastern International Region. McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. May 1984.
21. "The Architectural Design of Thomas Aquinas' Literal Exposition on the Book of Job." Conference on Linguistics and the Humanities. University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. March, 1985.
22. "'The Highest Religiosity Without Book-Religion': Hermann Cohen on Mozart's The Magic Flute." American Academy of Rel;igion Southwest Region, March 1985.
23. "Repairing the Fact-Value Distinction in Understanding the Holocaust: Leo Strauss and Ellis
Rivkin." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region, Dallas, TX. March 1985.
24. "Job's Integrity--Intellectual or Prophetic? Immanuel Kant versus Hermann Cohen." National Association of Professors of Hebrew Western Region. Occidental College, Pasadena, CA. March 1985.
25. "Post-Holocaust Optimism?" American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA. November 1985.
26. "1984: Orwellian Images of Evil in Print and on Screen." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1986.
27. "Leo Strauss on Athens versus Jerusalem." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1986.
28. "Socrates' Final Proof of Immortality in Plato's Phaedo." Philosophy Department Faculty Seminar, North Texas State University, Denton, TX. February 1987.
29. "Does the Bible Render its Revealed Character Evident to Literary Reason?" American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Irving, TX. March 1987.
30. "Lectio, Disputatio, and the Critique of Scholastic Pedagogy in Thomas Aquinas' Literal Exposition on Job." American and Canadian Societies of Church History. Hamilton, Canada. April 1987.
31. "Socrates' Swan Song: Pythagorean Misinterpretations of Immortality in Plato's
Phaedo." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. December 1987.
32. "Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: Not Anti-Jewish But (If Anti- Anything) Anti-Christian." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1988.
33. "Remarks on Nancy J. Duff, 'Prolegomena to Conversation [between Christian Bible-Sermonizers and Jews].'" American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1988.
34. "The Twofold Legacy of the Emerging Modern Jew: Joabin in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis." American Academy of Religion Mid-Atlantic Region. New York, NY. April 1988.
35. "Liberal Education versus Necessary Education: Mutually Incompatible or Mutually Indispensable?" Conference on Coherence in the Liberal Arts. University of North Texas, Denton, TX. October 1988.
36. "Heidegger on Aristotle's Concept of Nature (Physics B.1)." Fifth Annual Heidegger Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. December 1988.
37. "Anti-Historicism in Interpreting Jewish Sources: Leo Strauss versus Hermann Cohen on
Maimonides." Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, MA. December 1988.
38. "Hebraism and Hellenism in Medieval Aristotelianism: Maimonides and Aquinas on Genesis 1." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1989.
39. "The Ethics of Performance in Literature and Medicine." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1989.
40. "Autonomy, Community, Authority: Hermann Cohen, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss." Academy for Jewish Philosophy. Philadelphia, PA. June 1989.
41. "Death, YHWH, and Israel: The Political Regime in Moses' Farewell Speech." Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. September 1989.
42. "Great Books Programs--No Royal Road!" Conference on the Core and the Canon: A National Debate. University of North Texas, Denton, TX. October 1989.
43. "On the Merit of Hermann Cohen's Critique of Spinoza: Franz Rosenzweig and Leo Strauss." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA. November 1989.
44. "The Literary Character of the Creation Accounts in Genesis." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1990.
45. "Professor Mitchell on the Fiction of Human Power." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1990.
46. "Leo Strauss on Medieval Jewish Philosophy: The Example of
Maimonides' Guide." Southwestern Political Science Association. Fort Worth, TX. March 1990.
47. "Professors Elazar and Shulman on the Book of Deuteronomy." Southwestern Political Science Association. Fort Worth, TX. March 1990.
48. "Is Martin Buber's I-Thou Relation Biblical?" Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, MA. December 1990.
49. "Machiavellian Theology in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1991.
50. "Moral Vision and Moral Limits: A Commentary on Professors Peak and Pool." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1991.
51. "Joabin's Silence: Public and Private Life in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis." Academy for Jewish Philosophy. Cincinnati, OH. June 1991.
52. "Moderating Christian Anti-Judaism: Thomas Aquinas' De regimine Judaeorum and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Kansas City, MO. November 1991.
53. Hermann Cohen on the Divine Attributes." Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, MA. December 1991.
54. "Thomas Aquinas' Letter on the Jews: A Preliminary Reading." Texas Medieval Academy. University of North Texas, Denton, TX. February 1992.
55. "Freud on Moses." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1992.
56. "Remarks on Joseph in the Genesis Narrative." Academy for Jewish Philosophy. Philadelphia, PA. June 1992.
57. "Remarks on the Jew in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, American Political Science Association. September 1992.
58. "Hermann Cohen on the Connection between Platonic Philosophy and the Bible." Ninth Annual Heidegger Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. December 1992.
59. "Hermann Cohen on the 'Social Ideal' in Plato and the Prophets." Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, MA. December 1992.
60. "The Literary Presuppositions of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1993.
61. "Theologico-Political Implications of Ellis Rivkin's Unity Concept." Academy for Jewish Philosophy. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. June 1993.
62. "Heroes in War and in Love: Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing." American Political Science Association. Washington, DC. September 1993.
63. "The Un-Baconian Character of Genesis 1:26ff." Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, MA. December 1993.
64. "An Unsung Appreciation of the Musical-Erotic in Mozart's Don Giovanni: Hermann Cohen's Nod to Kierkegaard's Either/Or." International Kierkegaard Society and American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1994.
65. "Body and the Body Politic in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." Academy for Jewish Philosophy. University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA. June 1994.
66. "Leo Strauss as Jew and Philosopher: Remarks on Kenneth Hart Green's Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Dallas, TX. March 1995.
67. "The Mistreatment of Shakespeare's Shylock." Western Jewish Studies Association. San Diego, CA. April 1995.
68. "'The Histories and Successes of the Hebrews': The Demise of the Biblical Polity in Spinoza's
Theologico-Political Treatise." Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. September. 1995.
69. "Why Teach (or Study) Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise?" North American Spinoza Society, American Philosophical Association. New York, NY. December 1995.
70. "Shylock, Antonio, and Friends: Theology and the Social Bond in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Irving, TX. March 1996.
71. "Martin Heidegger: Dwelling at the Intersection of Philosophy and Architecture." North Texas (Area) Philosophical Association. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. April 1996.
72. "Moses as Political Leader: The Machiavellianism of Spinoza's
Theologico-Political Treatise." Western Jewish Studies Association. University of Denver, CO. April 1996.
73. "The Beginning and the End of the Biblical Imperium: Freedom (Libertas) in Spinoza's
Theologico-Political Treatise." Academy for Jewish Philosophy. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. June 1966.
74. "The Statesmanlike Rehabilitation of Jewish and Christian Theology in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." American Political Science Association. San Francisco, CA. September 1966.
75. "The Jewish Element in Hermann Cohen's Gloss on Mozart's The Marriage of
Figaro." Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, MA. December 1996.
76. "Business as Usual in Spinoza's Amsterdam? Or: What's Wrong with this Picture?" North American Spinoza Society, American Philosophical Association. Atlanta, GA. December 1996.
77. "'Idolatrous Fancy' in Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Irving, TX. March 1997.
78. "'Covenant' in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." Academy for Jewish Philosophy. New York, NY. June 1997.
79. "Spinoza"s Hermeneutics: Some Critical Comments." Modern Language Association. Toronto, Canada. December, 1977.
80. "Shylock and the Jewish Question: A Rejoinder." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Irving, TX. March 1998.
81. "Judaism and the Environmental Crisis: A Three-Way Interchange." Conference on Environmental Ethics and Emerging Issues, University of North Texas. April 1998.
82. "The Scholar, the Poet, and Education to the Political Art." American Political Science Association. Boston. August 1998.
83."The Sun and the Cave: Gulliver's Relationship to the Divine." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. March 1999.
84. "Jerusalem and Athens in Amsterdam: The Critique of Mainmonides in Spinoza's Tractatus
Theologico-politicus." Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. University of Dayton. Dayton, Ohio. April 1999.
85. "The Insufficiency of Spinoza's Ingenium." American Political Science Association. Atlanta. September, 1999.
86. "Natural Law in Maimonides?" at a conference on St. Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law, held at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, Michigan, June 2-3,2000.
87."Natural Law in Maimonides?" at a conference on St. Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law, held at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, Michigan, June 2-3, 2000.
88."Rediscovering the Sources of Modern Jewish Thought." Dallas Beyt Midrash (Academy for Jewish Higher Education). Richardson Civic Center, Richardson, Texas (6 sessions co-taught with Dr. Joshua
Parens, Department of Philosophy, University of Dallas.) Bi-Weekly, Fall 2000.
89."Spinoza's First Steps Toward Religious (and Political) Liberalism in the Theological-Political Treatise (1670)." Central Canada Seminar for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy. University of Toronto, Canada. September, 2000.
90."Shakespeare's Jewish Lawyers' Play: The Merchant of Venice." Dallas B'nai B'rith Bench and Bar Association. Belo Mansion, Dallas. October 28, 2000.
91."Un-Christian Husbands in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew," American Academy of Religion Southwest meeting, Irving, Texas, March 17, 2001.
92.Panel Moderator, "Spirit, Religion, Self," American Academy of Religion Southwest meeting, March 17, 2001.
93. "The Shocking Character of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." University of Dallas, Irving, Tex. October 2001.
94. "Spinoza and the Question of Jewish Identity." Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Oh. October 2001.
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INVITED LECTURES
1. "Thomas Aquinas and the Debate over the Meaning of Job's Suffering." Liberal Studies
Programme, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON, Canada. September 1990.
2. "Shylock's Bond: Toward an Understanding of the Jew in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." Department of English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. November 1991.
3. "'The Highest Religiosity Without Book-Religion': Hermann Cohen on Mozart's The Magic Flute." Gerdi B. Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture. Baltimore Hebrew University, Baltimore, MD. December 1991.
4. "The Mistreatment of Shakespeare's Shylock." Dallas Jewish Historical Society and American Jewish Committee. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. April 1996.
5. "Shakespeare and the Jews." Joys of Jewish Learning, Dallas Jewish Community Center, Dallas, TX. February 1997.
6. "Maimonides' Theology." Department of Philosophy, University of Dallas, Irving, TX. February 1997.
7. "Spinoza and Modern Judaic Stidies--Why Study the Theologico- Political Treatise?" Graduate Program in Jewish Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. April 1997.
8. "The Mistreatment of Shakespeare's Shylock." University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. April 1997.
9. "Old Thoughts on Franz Rosenzweig's 'New Thinking.'" Conference on the Passing of the Avant
Garde, Baltimore Hebrew University, Baltimore, MD. April 1997.
10. "The Founding-Document of Modern Judaism--Spinoza's Theologico- Political Treatise." Dallas Jewish Historical Society and American Jewish Committee. Southern Methodist University, Dalas TX. May 1997.
11. "Another Look at Shakespeare's Jewish Play," Yom Ha-Shoach ["Holocaust Day"] Conference, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, N.Y., April 23, 2001.
12. "Judaism and the Environmental Crisis." 2001 Jewish ArtsFest. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Tex. August 2001.
13. "Judaism Faces the Environmental Crisis." Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Oh. October 2001.
14. "Spinoza's Un-Theology." University of Dallas, Irving, Tex. November 2001.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
1. Spinoza, Benedict. Theologico-Political Treatise. Translated, with Notes and an Interpretive Essay.
2. Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn. Translation from the German of Strauss's Essays on Mendelssohn, with Notes and an Interpretive Essay. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.
3. Cohen, Hermann. The Dramatic Idea in Mozart's Opera Texts. Translated from the German with Notes and an Interpretive Essay.
4. Cohen, Hermann. "Spinoza on State and Religion, Judaism and Christianity," and "The 'Social Ideal' in Plato and the Prophets." Translated from the German for a volume of Cohen's Jewish Writings. Edited by Robert S.
Schine.
5. Dialectics of Jewish History: Essays on the Work of Ellis Rivkin [tentative title]. Edited by Martin D.
Yaffe.
6. "Theologico-Political Implications of Ellis Rivkin's Unity Concept." For item 5, above.
7. Manent, Pierre. "Strauss and Nietzsche." Translated from the French for Strauss, Reason, Revelation [tentative title]. Edited by Michael Platt and Martin D.
Yaffe. --Manent's original in Revue de métaphysique et de morale (1989): 337- 45.
8. Translation of "Das Testament Spinozas [Spinoza's Testament]," as found in Leo Strauss, Gesammelte
Schriften, ed. Heinrich Meier (6 vols.; Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler, 1996-- ), vol. 1, pp. 413-422.
9. "The Oracle and the Action in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Irving, Tex. March 2000.
10. "Aquinas and Maimonides: Natural Law and the Law of Reason." (Tentative Title) Conference on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition. Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, Mich. June 2-4, 2000.
11. Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader. Edited and Introduced by Martin D.
Yaffe. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001. "Bible Translation and the Rhetoric of
Theologico-Political Liberalism: The Case of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." Similarity and
Translation...edd. var. --tentative title for a collection of papers arising from a Conference on Similarity and Translation, American Bible
Society/Scuola Superiori per Interpreti e Tradutori , New York, N.Y., forthcoming.
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EXTRAMURAL GRANTS RECEIVED
1. National Endowment for the Humanities. "Translation of Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on Job." 1981-82. $28,937 (with Anthony Damico)
2. American Council of Learned Societies. "Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on Job." 1982. $1200.
3. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. "Anticipating the Modern Jew: Marlowe's Barabas, Shakespeare's Shylock, Bacon's Joabin." 1991. $20,583.
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LANGUAGES READ
French; German; Greek (philosophical); Hebrew; Italian (operatic); Latin; Yiddish.
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SPECIAL COURSES TAUGHT
Aesthetics
Business Ethics
Contemporary Jewish Thought
Great Books Seminar (Interdisciplinary)
Hebrew Bible
History of Philosophy: Ancient
Medieval
Modern
American
Contemporary
Honors Humanities Seminar (Interdisciplinary)
Introduction to Hebrew
Medical Ethics
Metaphysics
Philosophy and Journalism
Philosophy in Literature
Philosophy of Religion
Political Philosophy
Religions of the World
Seminar on the Holocaust
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CONSULTING
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Director, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, TX. 1977-present
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HOBBIES
piano; classical music; physical fitness
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Academy for Jewish Philosophy
American Academy of Religion (President, Southwest Region, 1989-90)
American Political Science Association
Association for Jewish Studies
International Hobbes Society
National Association of Professors of Hebrew
National Association of Scholars
North American Spinoza Society
Society for the Study of Ancient Greek Political Thought
Society for the Study of the History of Philosophy
Southwestern Philosophical Society
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EDITORIAL CONSULTANT
Hebrew Studies (Editorial Board 1980-86)
Jewish Political Studies Review
Journal of Environmental Ethics
Journal of the History of Philosophy
National Endowment for the Humanities
Publius
University of Chicago Press
Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy and Review of Politics
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