Thursday, April 10 Sponsored by: UC Berkeley School of Law Goldberg Room 297 The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.
Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University SESSION V: Ethical and Political Theory Stanford University 9:00-10:30AM Chair: David Biale (UC Davis) Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union Christine Hayes (Yale University) The Torah was not Given to Department of Rhetoric Ministering Angels: Rabbinic Aspirationalism Department of Near Eastern Studies Sergey Dolgopolski (SUNY Buffalo)
The Talmud as Political Thought Berkeley Center for the Study of COFFEE BREAK · 10:30-11:AM · DONOR Religion LOBBY College of Letters and Science, SECTION VI: Diaspora · 11:00AM- Arts & Humanities Division 1:00PM
Jonathan Boyarin (Cornell University) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Kinship and Kiddushin: Rabbinic TALMUDIC Anthropogeography in BT Kiddushin. Ch. 4. RANSGRESSIONS T : Galit Hasan-Rokem (Hebrew University) Charlotte Fonrobert Engaging the Work Heroic Conduct: Redefining the Wander- ing Jew with Danilo Kiš Ishay Rosen-Zvi of Daniel Boyarin
Charlotte Fonrobert Aharon Shemesh (Stanford University) Like the Gates of Jerusalem: the Gate of Moulie Vidas April 8th-10th 2014 Mahoza: The Place of Diaspora Moulie Vidas
CONCLUDING REMARKS 1:00PM Tuesday April 8 Wednesday, April 9 Wednesday, April 9 UC Berkeley School of Law Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Road Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Road
GREETINGS · 4:00PM GREETINGS · 9:00AM Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv University) Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford University) Arthur Holder (GTU, Dean and VP for Yonatan the Maccabee and the Founding Academic Affairs) Myth of the Galilee Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University) Naomi Seidman (GTU, Director, Center for SESSION IV: Bavli· 3:30-5:30PM Kenneth A. Bamberger (UCB, Jewish Law Jewish Studies) and Israeli Studies) Chair: Robert Alter SESSION II: Midrash · 9:15-11:15AM (UCB, Near Eastern Studies) SESSION I: Jewish-Christian-Muslim Interactions 4:15-6:30 PM Chair: Simon Goldhill (Cambridge University) Zvi Septimus (University of Toronto) Chair: Steven Weitzman Azzan Yadin-Israel (Rutgers University) Revisiting the Fat Rabbis (Stanford University) Authorial Intent: Human and Divine Barry Wimpfheimer (Northwestern Uni- Eliyahu Stern (Yale University) Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University) versity) The Talmud and Judeo-Christianity: An “A Radical Jew” revisited Footnotes to Carnal Israel: Folk Belief Introduction to Samuel Joseph Fuenn’s The and Jewish Law Paths of God Aharon Shemesh (Bar Ilan University) First Daniel: A Philological Inquiry into a Moulie Vidas Hindy Najman (Yale University) Midrashic and Talmudic Sugia on Nezirut (Princeton University) 4Ezra between Judaism and Christianity Space and the Genre of Talmud: Varia- COFFEE BREAK · 11:15-11:30 AM tions on a Theme Lena Salaymeh (UC Berkeley School of Law) SESSION III: Agaddah · 11:30AM-1:30PM Temporalities of Marriage RECEPTION· 5:30 PM
RECEPTION · WARREN ROOM · 6:30 PM Chair: Chana Kronfeld (UCB, Near Eastern Studies & Comparative Literature) KEYNOTE · GOLDBERG ROOM · 7:30- 8:30PM Shamma Boyarin (University of Victoria) Three Who Were Created Though Their Chair: Mark Griffith (UCB, Classics) Mother Never Slept With a Man: Is the Opening of the Alpha Ben Sira a Parody? Simon Goldhill (Cambridge University) Imperial Landscapes and the Biblical Gaze: Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown University) Constructing the Real in Palestine, with Sinful Sages, Dubious Heroes, and the Bavli’s Photographs Counter-Hagiographical Impulse
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