“The Conception of Scripture among the Medieval Karaites within the Wider Tradition of Medieval Jewish Exegesis in the Islamic Milieu”

Sept. 23rd - The role of the Hebrew Bible in light of the changing relationship between "the oral" and "the written" in 10th century Judaeo-Arabic Culture: common denominators and the specific Karaite impetus.

 October 14th - The Bible as literature: novel Karaite perceptions of the biblical authorial-narrators (mudawwin).

October 21 - Karaite literary exegesis: uncovering the techniques of the authorial-narrator (mudawwin) in relation to midrashic gap-filling and other midrashic tools.

November 4 - The Bible as history: Karaite readings of the Bible as a "reliable" historical text and their reconstruction of the "reality" of biblical times.

 November 18th - Biblical characters between literature and history: uncovering biblical characterization ("voice", psyche and personality) in Karaite exegesis.

Presented by:

Prof. Meira Polliack, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies

 All Seminars are held from 12:00-1:30pm

at the

Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208

Seminar Series sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies & the Whitney Humanities Center