PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE:
Thursday, February 2: Introduction/Orientation
Thursday, February 9: Shaye Cohen
Harvard University, Chair of CJS
Topic: "Antipodal texts: B. Eruvin 21b-22a and Mark 7:1-23 on the Traditions of the Elders and the Commandment of God and the two primary texts that are being juxtaposed"
Thursday, February 16: Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Topic: "Non-anaphoric uses of the demonstrative pronouns in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and their relevancy to questions of textual criticism of the Babylonian Talmud"
Thursday, February 23: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Tel-Aviv University
Topic: "Sayings of the Fathers: The Apophthegmata Patrum and Avot deRabbi Nata"
Thursday, March 1: Yishai Kiel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Topic: "Confessing Incest to a Rabbi: A Talmudic Story in Its Zoroastrian Context"
Thursday, March 8: Zvi Septimus, University of California, Berkeley
Topic: "Who Controls the Meaning of the Text? Exploring Three Bavli Author Functions"
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Thursday, March 22: Aryay (Ari) Finkelstein, Harvard University
Topic: "The Image of the Jew in Julian’s Imperial Program: Jewish Sacrifice as a Model for Hellenes and a Goad to Christians (Contra Galileos 305D-306A)"
Thursday, March 29: Meir Ben-Shahar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Topic: “The Babylonian Historian” and “Romance and Satire”
Thursday, April 19: Dov Weiss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topic: “Confrontational Theology in Tanhuma-Yelameddenu”
Thursday, April 26: Ofra Tirosh-Becker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Visiting Scholar)
Topic: "Rabbinic Excerpts"
Thursday, May 3: Rabbi Joseph Yuval Levi, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Florence, Italy (Silver Fellow)
Topic: "Joseph Shelomo Delmedigo: A Concealed Rationalist?"
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