Lectures and Conferences

The Judaic Studies Program sponsors, often in conjunction with other departments and programs, a rich offering of lectures and conferences in the many fields of Judaic Studies. Notices of these are sent to all enrolled students in Judaic Studies, who are strongly encouraged to take advantage of them. To receive notices of upcoming programs, contact ivan.marcus@yale.edu.

Spring 2008 Lectures

A THREE PART SERIES

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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

The Judaic Studies Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar

Approximately once every other week, faculty and graduate students interested in Judaic Studies meet over lunch in the Whitney Humanities Center for an informal seminar, the topic of which changes every semester. Presentations are made by Yale faculty, visiting faculty, and invited guests on subjects of their research relating to the semester's topic, with ample time for discussion by all of the participants. This provides an important opportunity for conversation across temporal and disciplinary boundaries within Judaic Studies as well as an informal opportunity to integrate Yale's impressive resources in Judaic Studies. Regular attendance is expected of all students enrolled in the Judaic Studies graduate program and of participating faculty. Lunch is provided. Topic for Spring, 2008

New 2007-2008

The Ancient Judaism Workshop

Recent Trends in the Study of Ancient Judaism

Wednesdays 12.00-1.20

451 College St. 4th Floor

Faculty advisers: Steven Fraade and Christine Hayes

Workshop coordinator: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

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

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