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Katharina Keim Rabbinic literature, especially the and the , (Dr., University of Manchester, England) is regarded in as the “oral ,” handed down di- rectly from God to Moses at Sinai together with the “written Gail Labovitz Torah,” the Hebrew . Originating in the divine, it has a (Professor, American Jewish University, USA) normative, canonical status and represents up to this day the main religious and cultural possession of the Jewish people. Lorena Miralles-Maciá Whatever challenges, catastrophes and revolutions confron- (Dr., University of Granada, Spain) ted the Jewish communities throughout the ages, rabbinic literature was (and still is) the invigorating source, from which The Reception of Biblical Women and Ronit Nikolsky every formulation of and practice orthodox- Gender in Rabbinic Literature (Dr., Universität Groningen, Netherlands) traditionalist, liberal, Zionist or secular is drawn.

Susanne Plietzsch Rabbinic literature is sometimes explicitly, but always impli- Monday, December 4th, 2017 (Professor, Universität Salzburg, Austria) citly an interpretation of the . It is the defining - Tuesday, December 5th, 2017 “other” to the Christian exegetical project of reading the Bible Natalie Polzer in Late Antiquity. Women and gender are constitutive com- (Professor, University of Louisville, USA) ponents of the biblical text. Since the authority of the bibli- cal text is for the indisputable, they must manoeuvre Olga Ruiz Morel between this tenet and their own gender concepts and as-

(Professor, University of Granada, Spain) sumptions, which are often challenged by the biblical text. Location: Topoi-Villa Because rabbinic literature is non-dogmatic, this challenge is Hittorfstr. 18 Devora Steinmetz answered in different ways by different rabbis, and all the va- 14195 Berlin (Professor, Drisha Institute, New York City, USA) rious opinions are reported in rabbinic texts side by side. The rabbinic reading of the Bible thus has led to the creation of Hannah C. Tzuberi an enormous corpus of diverse, kaleidoscopic, surprising and (Dr., Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) conflicting interpretations of the biblical text and its women and gender concepts. Dvora Weisberg (Professor, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, USA)

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Image: © “Ancient Jewish Art” by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Chartwell Books, Inc. (1985) pg 67 Program Aveirah Lishma 17:00 - 18:00 Buffet( Room 2.2058, Holzlaube; Fabeck- 16:40 - 17:20 Alexander Dubrau: Hannah, Female Monday, December 4th str. 23-25) Fertility and the Case of Sotah: Legal 09:00 - 09:40 Irmtraud Fischer: The Bible and Methodology and Gender in Bavli Women: An Interdisciplinary 18:30 Tal Ilan: Women Citing Scripture in Berakhot 31b Project on Bible Reception in Four Rabbinic Literature (Room 2.2058) 17:20 - 18:00 Judith Baskin: Female Prophets in Languages Bavli Megillah 09:40 - 10:00 Coffee Break Tuesday, December 5th Rabbinic Midrashim to Specific Biblical Books 19:00 Dinner The Reception of Biblical Gendered Law in 09:00 - 09:40 Lorena Miralles-Maciá: Women from Rabbinic Literature Israel, Women from the Nations: 10:00 - 10:40 Hannah C. Tzuberi: Biblical Ritual on Biblical Characters Participants (Im)purity and the Making of a 09:40 - 10:30 Susanne Plietzsch: Rabbinic Female Self Sarah in Judith Baskin 10:40 - 11:20 Dvora E. Weisberg: Remaking or 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Professor, University of Oregon, USA) Unmaking? Levirate in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Literature Case Studies in Later Yuval Blankovsky 11:20 - 12:00 Olga Ruiz Morel: Divorce, with her 11:00 - 11:40 Ronit Nikolsky: Sarah as eshet hayil in (Dr., Fellow at New York University, Law School) Consent or without it 11:40 - 12:20 Natalie Polzer: The Many Faces Dagmar Börner-Klein 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch of Eve in Avot de- Nathan (Professor, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf) and Beyond Women between Mishnah and Judith v. Bresinsky 13:30 - 14:10 Judith v. Bresinsky: “...when it is not 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) for the sake of marriage...” - A Midrash on Biblical Verses in tQiddushin 1:4 14:00 - 14:40 Katharina Keim: “For you have made Alexander Dubrau 14:10 - 14:50 Cecilia Haendler: Biblical Women in them unruly, like a woman who is (Dr., Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) Mishnah and Tosefta unchecked owing to immorality”: 14:50 - 15:30 Coffee Break Biblical Women as Examplars of Virtue Irmtraud Fischer and Disgrace in Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer (Professor, Universität Graz, Austria) Case Studies of Biblical Women 14:40 - 15:20 Dagmar Börner-Klein: Making Choices: 15:30 - 16:10 Gail Labovitz: The Hagar(s) of Rabbinic The on the Book of Esther Cecilia Haendler Imagining: At the Intersections of Gen 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) der, Class, and Ethnicity in Genesis Rabbah Sugyot in the Bavli Tal Ilan 16:10 - 16:50 Devora Steinmetz: Switched Before 16:00 - 16:40 Yuval Blankovsky: Seduction for the (Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Birth: Dina and the Patriarchal Covenant Sake of God: The Talmudic Sugya of