Dr. Irven Resnick
Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies, Professor
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DR. IRVEN RESNICK has a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and holds the
Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies. He has been with the University of
Tennessee at Chattanooga since 1990. He has been a Corresponding Fellow at
the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University
(Israel) since 1996, and a Senior Associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (England) since 2003. In 2006 he was elected a faculty associate at Oxford University's Oriental Institute. For fall semester 2006, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2003 and 2006, Professor Resnick directed a five-week NEH summer institute for college and university faculty, "Representations of the 'Other': Jews in Medieval Christendom"; this program will be offered again in 2010 at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. (see www.utc.edu/neh); in summer 2008 he co-directed the NEH summer institute for college and university faculty, “Holy Land and Holy City in classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” (see www.utc.edu/NEHHolyland). All institutes are held at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (England).
Dr. Resnick's recent publications include:
Albert the Great’s Questions Concerning Aristotle’s ‘On Animals’. Trans. Irven M. Resnick and Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation 9. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008. xxxiii+574. ISBN 978-0-8132-1519-8.
Petrus Alfonsi’s Dialogue Against the Jews. Trans. Irven M. Resnick. Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, 8. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006. xxv+290. ISBN 0-8132-1390-8.
The Letters of Peter Damian, 151-180. Trans. Owen J. Blum and Irven M. Resnick. Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, 7. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. xxiv+310. ISBN: 0-8132-1425-4.
Albert the Great: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography (1900-2000). Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 269. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. xxii + 396. ISBN: 0-86698-312-0.
The Letters of Peter Damian, 121-150. Trans. Owen J. Blum and Irven M. Resnick. Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, 6. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004. xxvi+195. ISBN: 0-8132-1372-X.
Albertus Magnus On Animals. A Medieval Summa Zoologica. Trans. Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. and Irven M. Resnick. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 2 vols. xlii+1,827 pages. 32 plates. ISBN: 0801848237.
Two Theological Treatises of Odo of Tournai: On Original Sin, and a Debate with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the advent of Christ, the Son of God. Trans. Irven M. Resnick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. x+146. ISBN: 0812215400.
Power, Penance, and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's De divina omnipotentia. Leiden: E.J. Brill publishers, 1992. vii+128 pages. ISBN: 9004095721.
Books Forthcoming or in Press:
The Universal Doctor: Albertus Magnus on Theology, Philosophy, and the Sciences, edited by I.M. Resnick (Leiden: EJ Brill). Release anticipated in 2010.
Albert the Great’s Liber de causis proprietatum elementorum. Trans. and annotated by Irven M. Resnick (under contract with Marquette University Press; scheduled for publication in 2010)
Peter the Venerable’s Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews. Trans. and annotated by Irven M. Resnick (under contract with the Catholic University of America Press; scheduled for publication in 2013)
Book In Preparation:
Marks of Distinction: Christian Perceptions of Jews in the High Middle Ages. This work examines how Galenic humoralism was employed in the medieval Latin world to support theological and cultural images of the Jew as a host for disease and corruption.
