SPRING 2011 LECTURES & EVENTS

“The Holocaust & Its Contested Histories”

A Panel Discussion featuring: Paula Hyman (Yale University), Helmut Walser Smith, (Vanderbilt University), Timothy Snyder, (Yale University) Moderated by Adam Tooze, Yale University

Thursday, March 24th, 2011, 5.00pm

Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Reception immediately following – Luce Hall Common Room

Judaic Studies Lecture Series

“Synagogue Buildings and the Patterns of American Jewish Life.”

presented by

Lee Shai Weissbach, University of Louisville

Monday, March 28th, 2011, 4.00pm

The MacMillian Center (Luce Hall) Rm. 202

34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven

This lecture was made possible by the Barbara and Morris Levinson Fund

Tuesday, April 5th , 4.00pm

“Mnemonic Topography: Landscape and Memory inRabbinicandRoman Text”

Gil Klein, Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College

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Wednesday, April 6th , 4.00pm

"New Developments in Late Antique Mesopotamian Intellectual History"

Yaakov Elman, Professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University and an Associate at Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies

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“The Passover Haggadah”

A Multimedia Presentation by

Nanette Stahl, Judaica Curator, Yale University Library

Thursday, April 7th, 4.30pm

Mores College Art Gallery

100 Tower Pkwy

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Judaic Studies Colloquium

Monday, April 11th, 2011

4:00pm

"Portraits of Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Jewry"

Presented by

Elli Stern, Assistant Professor, Judaic Studies

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"Finding the Elusive Lover: Early Rabbinic Re-Reading of the Song of Songs"

Presented by

Jonathan Kaplan, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate, Judaic Studies

Judaica Collection Reading Room,

Sterling Memorial Library

(SML 335b)

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Lecture Panel

“Arts of the Book”

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011, 4-6pm

Sterling Memorial Library (SML) – Lecture Hall

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JUDAIC STUDIES LECTURE SERIES
“Science as Revelation in Apocalyptic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Presented by
Jonathan Ben-Dov, Ph.D. University of Haifa, Israel

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011, 4.30pm
at
William L. Harkness Hall (WLH) , Rm. 208
100 Wall Street, New Haven

For more information contact
Renee Reed at renee.reed@yale.edu or (203) 432-0843
This lecture is made possible by the William & Miriam Horowitz Fund

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JUDAIC STUDIES LECTURE SERIES

“Jesus, Joshua, Bar Yochai: A Typology of a Galilean Hero”

Elchanan Reiner, Professor in the Department of Jewish History at Tel-Aviv Univeristy

Tuesday, January 18th at 5pm

W.L. Harkness Hall, Rm. 204

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Sid Resnik Lecture Series

"Translation at the Origin of Modern Jewish Literature"

presented by

Ken Frieden, B. G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies

Syracuse University

Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, 3:00pm

at

Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale

80 Wall Street, New Haven - 2nd floor Lecture Hall

For more information contact

Victor Bers at victor.bers@yale.edu or (203) 432-0988

This lecture is sponsored by

Judaic Studies Program & the Yale-New Haven Yiddish Reading Circle

Early Modern and Modern Jewish History Colloquium Spring 2011

All sessions will run from 12:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.

Silliman College, Dining Room Annex

January 25 - "From a Moment to a Movement: Jewish-American Immigration and Settlement in the Occupied Territories, 1967-1973" Sara Hirschorn, Ph.D Candidate, University of Chicago

MONDAY, February 7, Derek Penslar, University of Toronto

March 1 - "Solidarity Contested: Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and the Holy Land in the Eighteenth Century" Matthias Lehmann, University of Indiana

March 29 - "Twentieth Century Jewish Migration: Exceptional or Typical?" Tobias Brinkmann, Penn State University

April 5 - "Conversions of Conviction in Europe and America, 1815-2000" Todd Endelman, University of Michigan Emeritus

Ancient Judaism Workshop Spring 2011

All sessions will run from 11.35-12.50pm

Room HGS, Rm 221 (Hall of Graduate Studies)

February 2, Ishay Rosen-Zvi

February 23, Ross Kraemer, Brown University

March 30, "Allegory, Mashal, or Prefiguration? The Song of Songs in Early Rabbinic Interpretation" Jonathan Kaplan, Yale University

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FALL 2010 LECTURES

Judaic Studies Lecture Series

"Did Sara Sin? A Close Reading in Genesis 16 and 21 according to Medieval Jewish Commentators"

presented by

Dr. Amira Meir, Department of Biblical Studies,Beit Berl College, Israel

Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 4:00pm

Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208

Ancient Judaism Workshop Fall 2010

All sessions will run from 11.35-12.50pm in Room HGS 220A

September 22 - Dr. Jonathan Schofer, Harvard Divinity School - Room/WLH 21, presentation based on his forthcoming book, Confronting Vulnerability

October 6 - Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed, University of Pennsylvania “Messianism between Judaism and Christianity”

October 27 - Marcie Lenk, Boston University "Christians and the Law: The Model of the Apostolic Constitutions“

November 10 - Yoni Moss, Yale University “Fish eats Lion eats Man: Christians, Rabbis and the Question of Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia”

December 8 - Dr. Loren Stuckenbruck, Durham University (title TBA)

Early Modern and Modern Jewish History Colloquium Fall 2010

All sessions will run from 12:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. Room TBA

September 21 - Elli Stern, Yale University, "Berlin's Jewish Socrates, Vilna's Genius and the Origins of Modern Judaism"

October 12 - Beth Wenger, University of Pennslyvania, "Constructing Manhood in American Jewish Culture"

October 26 - Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University, "Currents and Currencies: East European Jewish Immigrants, Financial Failure and the Reshaping of the American Trans-Atlantic Commerce, 1873-1914"

November 9 - Rachel Gordan, Ph.D candidate, Harvard University, "Post-WWII American Judaism: People of the Book"

THE FRANZ ROSENZWEIG LECTURES

Made possible by a gift from the Estate of Arthur A. Cohen

“Uprooting the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives”

Presented by

Suzanne Last Stone
University Professor of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Professor of Law, and Director, Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

Sunday, October 10th, 4.00pm - Lecture One: Law, Ethics, and Narrative

Monday, October 11th, 7.30pm - Lecture Two: Revenge and Reconciliation, Justice and Mercy

Wednesday, October 13th, 7.30pm - Lecture Three: Law and Political Identity

All lectures will take place at the Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., RM. 129, New Haven, CT 06511

Sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies and the Yale Law School

ARFFA LECTURE SERIES - Feb. 2010

Richard Cohen, Hebrew University in Jerusalem

“Imagining Jews in Modern Culture and History”

February 3 - Moses Mendelssohn and the Vision of Enlightenment

February 10 - From Powerlessness to Power: Imagining the "Fighting Jew"

February 17 - Jewish Museums - Forms of Empowerment and Visibility (1945-2010)

All Lectures will be held at 4:00pm in the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale – Lecture Hall

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JUDAIC STUDIES PROGRAM SPRING 2010 LECTURE SERIES

January 21st 4.00pm

Yonatan Sagiv, Research Affiliate, Judaic Studies Program, Yale University

Series Title - "Looking behind the scenes of the hermeneutical process: Early Rabbinic interpretation to the scriptures - Tradition, Innovation and Debate"

2nd lecture - “Working with past traditions to face present needs: Using received hermeneutical traditions as a key part of the rabbinic commentary”

Harkness Hall (WLH), Rm. 117

January 28th 4.00pm

Yonatan Sagiv, Research Affiliate, Judaic Studies Program, Yale University

Series Title - "Looking behind the scenes of the hermeneutical process: Early Rabbinic interpretation to the scriptures - Tradition, Innovation and Debate"

3rd lecture - “The Hermeneutic process in debate: The case of the Pharisees and Zadokites and the Talmud and Methodius”

WHC 108

February 15th 12.00noon

Ronnie Ellenblum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“Droughts, Climate Change and the Decline of the

East-Mediterranean in the mid 11th Century”

100 Wall St. (WLH) Rm. 211

Kosher Lunch will be provided

Sponsored by Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies Program and Middle East Studies Council

February 23rd 4.00pm

Esther Chazon, Director of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Was the Temple's Destruction the Beginning of Jewish Liturgy?

LC (Lindsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street) Rm.209

April 8th 4.30pm

Maina Chawla Singh, Associate Professor, University of Delhi, Clendenen Scholar in Residence, American University

“Being Indian, Being Israeli: Culture and Identity Among Indian Jews in Israel”

(co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council)

William L.Harkness Hall (WLH) 100 Wall St., Rm. 116

April 29th 4.00pm

Maren Niehoff from the Department. of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel

EARLY MODERN & MODERN JEWISH HISTORY COLLOQUIUM - SPRING 2010

First meeting of the semester - January 26th, 12-1.30pm

Moshe Rosman, Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies

"The New History of Early Hasidism"

Location – Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 218

Moshe Rosman will discuss his paper: "The New History of Early Hasidism." Please make an effort to look over the paper, as the bulk of the colloquium time will be dedicated to discussion.

free copies of the paper will also be made available in the office of Renee Reed, Judaic Studies Administrator, 3rd Floor, Religious Studies Building, 451 College Street.
Since free lunch will be served, please make an effort to RSVP to nathan.kurz@yale.edu.

February 23rd

Hizky Shoham, Hilda & Jacob Blaustein Post-Doctorate Associate, Judaic Studies Program, Yale University

"Hebrew Queen Esther (1926-1929): Beauty, Nationalism, Intertextuality"

March 23rd

Elisheva Carlbach, Columbia University

"Calendar and Culture: Keeping Jewish time in the Christian World"

April 13th

David Engel, New York University

"The Twenty Years' Crisis of European Jewry, 1919-1939"

April 20th

Arie Joskowicz, Katz Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, and Vanderbilt University,

"Rethinking the Relationship between Antisemitism, Anticlericalism, and Anti-Catholicism in Modern Germany and France"

The colloquium will meet on several Tuesdays from approximately noon to 1:30 p.m. and will provide a free lunch for all those attending.We are still working on finalizing rooms but will convey that information as soon as we have it.

For more information, or if you have any questions or concerns, please contact the colloquium organizers: either Nathan Kurz (nathan.kurz@yale.edu) or Mordechai Levy-Eichel (mordechai.levy-eichel@yale.edu)

This colloquium was made possible by the following: Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor Fund, Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor Fund, and the Howard Holtzmann Fund

ANCIENT JUDAISM WORKSHOP - SPRING 2010

February 17 at from 12:00- 1:20 PM

Loren Spielman, Visiting Instructor in Religion at Wesleyan (Ph.D. Jewish Theological Seminary, 2009)

CO493, Rm. 105 (493 College St.)

"Sitting with Scorners: Early Jewish and Christian Reactions to Sport and Spectacle."

Kosher dairy lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to rachel.scheinerman@yale.edu

Arffa Lecture Series - Spring 2009

"Myth, History, and Prophecy in Christian-Jewish Relations"

Presented by: Professor Jeremy Cohen, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University.

Session 1 (2/4/09) - Christ, Antichrist, Jew: Jews and Judaism in Christian Eschatology

Session 2 (2/11/09) - The Power of the Passion Narrative in Jewish-Christian Interaction

Session 3 (2/17/09) - “The Guardian of Israel neither Dozes nor Sleeps”: The Blood Libel, Exegesis, Polemics, and Politics in Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah

Sponsored by Program in Judaic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, & the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.  Lecture Series times – 4:00pm. All lectures will be held at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street.

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The Ancient Judaism Workshop

Recent Trends in the Study of Ancient Judaism

Wednesdays 12.00-1.20

Faculty advisers: Steven Fraade and Christine Hayes

Workshop coordinators: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and Aviva Arad

Spring Semester 2009

Jan 14 

Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture, The Jewish Theological Seminary   

Reading the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmuds for Women's Ritual Lives: An attempt to determine what the rabbis expected of women and what women seemed to know and do

Jan 21 

Aviva Arad, PhD student, Yale University

The Pedagogue in Rabbinic Parables

TBA

Feb 4

Joel Baden, Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Yale University

Redactor = Rabbenu: A New Old Idea

Feb 18

Yonathan Moss, PhD student, Yale University

Disorder in the Bible: Rabbinic Responses and Responsibilities

March 4

Hindy Najman, Associate Professor, University of Toronto

"Living in the Soul Alone": Philo of Alexandria on the Virtuous Sage

Apr 1

Baruch J. Schwartz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

ביקשו חכמים לגנוז את ספר יחזקאל Some Sages Attempted to Withdraw the Book of Ezekiel from Circulation

Apr 8  

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, PhD student, Yale University

Monastic Traditions and Rabbinic Sources

Dorushe Annual Graduate Student Conference
on Syriac Studies, March 29, 2009

Conference pictures

Spring 2008 Lectures:

A THREE PART SERIES

by

DR. SHAI SECUNDA, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Post-doctoral Associate, Judaic Studies Program, Yale University

The Religious Context of the Babylonian Talmud and Sasanian Inter-religious Debate

The series will introduce the major religions of Sasanian Mesopotamia - Zoroastrianism, Eastern Christianity, and Manichaeism - and discuss the relationship between them and the Bavli. The sessions will focus specifically on inter-religious debate and examine polemical rabbinic, Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Eastern Christian, and magical texts

Wednesdays

April 16th

April 23rd

April 30th

All seminars will take place at 4:00pm

451 College Street, New Haven

4th Floor Lounge

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CHARLOTTE ELISHEVA FONROBERT, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University

THE RABBIS’ HERMAPHRODITE: GENDER AMBIGUITY AND LEGAL IDENTITY IN JUDAISM

THURSDAY, APRIL 10TH, 2008 at 4:00pm

William L. Harkness Hall (WLH)100 Wall Str., New Haven, Rm. 117

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Samuel D. Kassow, Charles Northam Professor, Trinity College

"A Historian in Hell: Emanuel Ringleblum in the Warsaw Ghetto" Thursday, February 28th @ 4:00pm - Joseph Flifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street, New Haven

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The 2008 Stanley H. Arffa Visiting Scholar Edward L. Greenstein, Professor of Bible and Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Distinguished Scholar at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel will be giving a Three Part Series: "Is God Just, or Just God"

Thursday February 7:

I. “The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job” (Lecture)

Wednesday, February 13:

II. “Job on Trial: Another Look at the Prose Tale”  (Seminar)

Wednesday, February 20:

III. “Is Everybody at Fault?: Another Look at the Dialogues in Job” (Seminar)

All Talks will take place at 4:00pm at Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street, New Haven. This series is sponsored by - The Program in Judaic Studies with the Department of Religious Studies, the Yale Divinity School, and Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale

Fall 2007 Lectures:

Thursday October 18, 4:00 PM

Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard C. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union

"Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation"

208 Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

Thursday October 25, 4:00 PM

Martin Goodman, University of Oxford

Title: Rome and Jerusalem: A Comparison of Lifestyles

211 Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.

Co-sponsored by History Department and Yale Divinity School

Wednesday December 5, 4:00 PM

Froma Zeitlin, Charles Ewing Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Princeton University

"Martyrdom Transfigured: The Holocaust and André Schwarz-Bart's The Last of the Just (Le dernier des justes)"

208 Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

2007-2008

The Ancient Judaism Workshop

Recent Trends in the Study of Ancient Judaism

Wednesdays 12.00-1.20

451 College St. Basement Seminar Room B-04

Faculty advisers: Steven Fraade and Christine Hayes

Workshop coordinator: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

Fall Semester 2007

Sept 12

Michael Tzvi Novick, PhD student, Yale University

Re-Citing Scripture: Between Lemma and Comment in Early Rabbinic Exegesis

Sept 19

Samuel Secunda, Postdoc in Judaic studies, Yale University

In or Out?: The place of Menstruants in Sasanian Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Texts

Oct 3

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, PhD student, Yale University

“And the LORD Said unto Me, Let it Suffice Thee; Speak No More unto Me of this Matter” (Deut 3:27) - Rav Lach in the Tannaitic Midrash Sifre Deuteronomy

Oct 17

Azzan Yadin, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University

Tannaitic Sources on the Life of Rabbi Aqiva and the Creation of the Rabbinic Ideal Type

Oct 31

Jashua Ezra Burns, PhD student, Yale University

The Pre-History of the Essene
Hypothesis: Recovering the Intellectual Foundations of the Earliest
Descriptions of the Qumran Community.

Nov 14

Vered Noam, Professor at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University

The Dual Strategy of Rabbinic Purity Legislation

Nov 28

Steven Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, Yale University

The Temple as a Jewish Identity Marker Pre- and Post-70 CE, with Particular Attention to the Holy Vessels in Memory and Imagination.

Spring semester 2008

Jan 16

Holger Zellentin, Assistant Professor of Rabbinics, Graduate Theological Union

Alcoholism and Theodicy according to Leviticus Rabbah

Jan 23

John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Yale University

What do we know about the sect behind the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Feb 6

Barry Wimpfheimer, Assistant Professor of Religion, Northwestern University

All Rise: The Significance of Courtroom Ritual in the Babylonian Talmud

Feb 20

Akiva Shapiro, PhD student, Yale University

"His Mother was a Whore": How the Rabbis Cut Goliath (and Other Enemies of Israel)Down to Size (or:the Problem of Lineage)

Mar 5

Yehuda Kurtzer, PhD student, Harvard University

From Tyre to Carthage: In Search of the Elusive Rabbis of the Mediterranean Diaspora

Apr 2

Yehuda Septimus, PhD student, Yale University

Title TBA

Apr 16

Ronit Ir-shai, Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and Judaism, Harvard Divinity School; lecturer of Jewish philosophy and feminism and a faculty member of the Gender Studies, Bar-Ilan University

Gender, Justice, and Jewish Law

Apr 23

Elitzur Avraham Bar-Asher, PhD Student, Harvard University; Visiting lecturer, Yale University

Reconsideration of the Use of Hebrew in Speaking and Writing in the First Centuries CE

Fall Semester 2008

Sep 10

Samuel Secunda, Postdoc in Judaic studies, Yale University

The Bavli and Middle Persian Literature: New Approaches to Bridging the Textual Divide

Sep 17

Ari Bergmann, PhD student, Columbia University

The Proto Talmud and the Stam - The Two Voices of the Talmud

Oct 7 (NOTE: A Tuesday date due to YK)

Richard Kalmin, Theodore R. Racoosin Professor of Rabbinic Literature, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Astrology and the Rabbis in Late Antiquity

Nov 19

Charlotte Hempel, Birmingham Fellow, University of Birmingham

The Significance and Context of 4QMMT

Fall Conference

Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai's World

On October 20-21 a conference will be held on the life work of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai whose papers are deposited in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

It will be held at the Whitney Humanities Center,

53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

For information: www.library.yale.edu/judaica/Amichai/index.html

Spring 2007 Lectures

Wednesday, January 24, 4:00 PM, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208

Lee Levine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

"Jews & Judaism Under a Triumphant Christianity: Powerlessness & Identity"

Tuesday, February 6, 4:00 PM, Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall Street, 3rd Floor

Gary Anderson of the University of Notre Dame:

"From Israel's Burden to Israel's Debt : Metaphors of Sin & Forgiveness in Ancient Judaism and Christianity"

Tuesday, February 20, 4:00 PM, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208

Guy Stroumsa of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

"Religious Dynamics Between Jews & Christians in Late Antiquity"

Monday, March 5, 8:00 PM, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208

Michael Stone of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

"Adam & Enoch: Vying Paradigms to Explain Evil"

Friday, April 13, 12:30 PM

Geza Vermes, Oxford University

Topic and place to be announced

Calendar
Interactive calendar of events.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FALL 2006 SEMESTER:

LEO STRAUSS: PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, JUDAISM
A Symposium on the Occasion of the Publication of Steven B. Smith’s Book, Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism

Panelists  
Mara Benjamin, Yale University
Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University
Warren Zev Harvey, The Hebrew University and Yale University 
Mark Lilla, University of Chicago and Columbia University
Eugene R. Sheppard, Brandeis University

Respondent
Steven B. Smith, Yale University

Sunday, December 10, 2006
2:00 - 5:00 P.M.
The Joseph Slifka Center Chapel,
2nd Floor, 80 Wall Street
Free and Open to the Public
Sponsored by the Rose & John Fox Endowment

THE FRANZ ROSENZWEIG LECTURES 2006

Arthur Green is Irving Brudnick Professor of Jewish Theology and Mysticism at Hebrew College and Rector of the Rabbinical School and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University.

The lectures took place at Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale in the fall of 2006.

A Jewish Mystical Theology for Today
God: An Evolutionist Approach
Torah: Word Out of Silence
Israel? Still Wrestling with the Angels

The Franz Rosenzweig Lectures are free and open to the public.

The Greco-Roman Lunch
Once a week during term, graduate students and faculty in several programs of the university, including Ancient Christianity, Ancient Judaism, Classical Archeology, Classics, History of Art, Medieval Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and New Testament meet for lunch and conversation and hear a brief, informal presentation by one of their number on work in progress. Attendance at this colloquium, which is voluntary and informal, provides a pleasant and friendly way to keep up with students and faculty in related parts of the university. During the 2005-2006 academic year, the Greco-Roman Lunch will meet in the Saybrook College Fellows Lounge, from 12:15-1:20 PM, with a dessert talk beginning at 12:45. Lunch is free for all graduate students and faculty.

The Judaic Studies Colloquium
The Judaic Studies Program Colloquium takes place every year during the spring semester. The colloquium presents an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to meet on an informal basis and learn about each other's current research projects. The meeting takes place in the Judaic Studies Reading Room of the Sterling Memorial Library. A graduate student nearing the completion of his/her dissertation and a faculty member of the Program each deliver a paper followed by a discussion in which colloquium participants exchange thoughts and ideas concerning the paper with the speaker. Spring 2006 speakers and topics will be announced later in the year.

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