Summer 2000 marks the debut appearance of Vanderbilt Divinity Library’s Judaica Bibliography. The usefulness of a Judaica bibliography at Vanderbilt, whose divinity school, as well as Hebrew Bible and New Testament graduate program’s pronounce emphases on biblical studies and the social and religious history of the many phases of the early Israelites to the Judaisms of Hellenistic and Roman eras and beyond would seem self-evident. Some overlap with the Hebrew Bible and New Testaments bibliographies is to be expected.
*to help familiarize new students and patrons with our Judaic materials;
*to provide current, area-specific bibliographic lists for scholars and non-scholars researching those areas;
*to promote Vanderbilt student appreciation and appropriation of a wider range of Judaic materials;
*to increase local Jewish community awareness and utilization of Vanderbilt’s Judaica collection, an expressed intention of the Zimmerman family;
*to promote patron and browser awareness of the Judaic holdings in Special Collections.
(see, e.g., the Selective Bibliography of Judaica Held in Special Collections)