"Rabbinic Judaism and its contexts."
When | November 10, 2019 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
Where | Classics Building, Room 21 |
Contact Information | Department of Classics |
Description | "Rabbinic Judaism and its contexts." Sunday 10 November 1:00pm. Welcome: David Nirenberg; Clifford Ando (Classics 2nd floor room 021) Session 1: Moderated by RAFE NEIS (Michigan) 1:30-2:30. SHULAMIT SHINNAR (Columbia University): “Duties to the Marginalized: Poverty and Illness in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature." 2:30-3:30. SIMCHA GROSS (The University of Pennsylvania): "The 'Secular' Sasanian Empire: Babylonian Rabbinic Stories and Strategies of Accommodation in Context 3:30-4:00. Coffee break Session 2: Moderated by REBECCA WOLLENBERG (Michigan) 4:00-5:00. AMIT GVARYAHU (Hebrew University): "Jewish and Roman Jurists on Navigating Financial Markets" 5:00-6:00. SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ (Fordham University): "Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism" Reception Monday 11 November Session 3: Moderated by AHMED EL SHAMSY (Chicago) 10:00-11:00. YEDIDAH KOREN (Tel Aviv University): "Real and Imagined Jews Maintaining Genealogical Information" 11:00-12:00. SHAI SECUNDA (Bard College): "Talmud as History: The Formation of the Talmud in its Sasanian Context" 12:00-1:30. Lunch Session 4: Moderated by ERIN WALSH (Chicago) 1:30-2:30. URIEL SIMONSOHN (The University of Haifa): "Assessing the confessional agency of Jewish women in the middle Islamic period – a few methodological suggestions" 2:30-3:30. TZVI NOVICK (The University of Notre Dame): "Early Rabbinic Legal Reasoning in its Roman Context" 3:30-4:00. Coffee break 4:00-5:00. Discussion. Moderated by JAMES T. ROBINSON (Chicago) NATALIE DOHRMANN (The University of Pennsylvania) JASON MOKHTARIAN (Indiana University) Sponsored by: The Eastern Mediterranean Seminar; the Divinity School; the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; and the Classics Department of the University of Chicago |
Categories | Conferences/Lectures, Workshops |
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