Ruth Nisse, 2005–2006 | National Humanities Center

Ruth Nisse (NHC Fellow, 2005–06)

Project Title

Jacob's Shipwreck: Powers of Diaspora in the Postbiblical Literature of the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2005–06

Ruth Nisse completed one of five chapters of her book Jacob's Shipwreck: Powers of Diaspora in the Postbiblical Literature of the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages, and drafted two other chapters. A version of her chapter on the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs will be published in Medieval Encounters.