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 renee.reed@yale.edu.

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 Fall 2008

Yale Interdisciplinary Workshop in Medieval

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Early Modern Jewish Studies

“The Urim and Thumim and the Limits of Christian Hebraism” presented by Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College

Thursday, September 25th, 12:00 p.m.

Branford College “Pit”

Kosher Lunch will be served

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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

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

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

TBA

Feb 4

Joel Baden, Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Yale University

Redactor = Rabbenu: A New Old Idea

Feb 18

Jonathan Moss, PhD student, Yale University

Egyptian in Rabbinic Literature and Beyond

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

Apr 15

TBA

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