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Paul V M Flesher

Flesher, Paul V. M.

Director and Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Religious Studies Program

Department 3393

University of Wyoming

Laramie, WY 82071

pflesher@uwyo.edu

http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/relstds/Faculty/

Albany County

Biographical and Professional Information

A teaching professor at the University of Wyoming, Paul Flesher is an active writer and researcher in the academic study of religion. He is an expert in Late-Antique Judaism, specializing in the ancient origins and development of the ancient synagogue and in the Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible known as the Targums. He also writes the twice-monthly newspaper column called Religion Today, which is accessible as an online blog at:

http://religion-today.blogspot.com/

Genres

History

Nonfiction

Titles

Film & religion : an introduction (2007). Co-authored with Robert Torry. Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press. ISBN: 9780687334896.

Targum and Scripture : studies in Aramaic translations and interpretation (2002). Edited by Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher. Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN: 9004126775.
Targum Studies. vol. 2. Targum and Peshitta (1998). Edited by Paul V. M. Flesher. Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press. ISBN: 0788504479.
Ancient synagogues : historical analysis and archaeological discovery (1995). Edited by Dan Urman and Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher.2 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN: 9004099042.
Targum Studies. vol. 1. Textual and Contextual Studies in the Pentateuchal Targums (1992). Edited by Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher. Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press. ISBN: 1555407544.
Society and literature in analysis (1990). Edited by Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher. Lanham : University Press of America. ISBN: 0819176141.

Religion, science and magic : in concert and in conflict (1989). Edited by Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, and Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher. New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195056035.