The deadline is 1 February 2004 for this issue of The Writing Instructor.

The Topic

Jewish texts preserve a 2500-year conversation between the
canons of Jewish thought (the TANAKH [the Hebrew Bible],
the Talmud) and other Jewish and non-Jewish texts. This
issue of TWI seeks essays, reviews, interviews, and hypertext
projects that might serve as introductions to this sustained
dialogue regarding the aims of teaching, this extended
record of teaching as a/n (inter)cultural practice.

Possible topics include but are not limited to the following
general areas:

• Representations of teaching and learning, teachers and
  students, in classic Jewish texts
• The role of learning in the construction of Jewish social
  life and Jewish identity
• The development and presentation of the Torah as a “pedagogical
  text”
• The construction of Jewish voices in a variety of educational
  settings
• Descriptions and analyses of Jewish literacy projects
  for both children and adults
• The history and development of “Jewish educational
  theory”
  
  Approaches and Goals in Holocaust Education
• Kabbalah and the transmission of divine knowledge
• Learning in the Diaspora: discussions of what Jews have
  learned about Judaism from non-Jews
• Stereotypes of Jewish learning and the Jewish intellectual
  

  Jewish contributions to the philosophy of dialogue (for
  example, comparisons of Buber and Bakhtin)

• Bibliographies and translations of primary and secondary
  texts crucial for the study of “Jewish teaching”

Please review TWI's format and submission
guidelines for additional information. All electronic
submissions should
be directed to David Blakesley at blakesle@purdue.edu.
The snail mail address is Department of English,
Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN 47907; phone: 765.494.3772; fax:
765.494.3780. Questions about this issue should be
directed to David
Metzger at dmetzger@odu.edu Deadline:
February 1, 2004. After that submissions
are accepted on a revolving basis (see below).