Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period: Graduate Seminar

Week 1 (15 January): Tessa Rajak (Somerville) and Martin Goodman, 'The reception of Josephus to 1750'

Week 2 (22 January): QUMRAN FORUM : Joan Taylor (King's College London), 'The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea' (chaired by Geza Vermes (Director of the Qumran Forum))

Week 3 (29 January): James Kugel (Bar-Ilan University and Harvard University), 'The book of Jubilees and ancient biblical interpretation'

Week 4 (5 February): Michael Avioz (Bar-Ilan University), 'Josephus' interpretation of the Book of Samuel'

Week 5 (12 February): Jang S. Ryu (University), 'Philo's discourses of knowledge between Alexandria and Rome'

Week 6 (19 February): Laliv Clenman (Leo Baeck College and King's College London) , 'The Palestinian Talmud and Pinchas the Zealot'

Week 7 (26 February): Arye Edrei (Tel-Aviv University), 'A split diaspora?'

Week 8 (5 March): George Carras (Washington and Lee University), 'Torah observance in diaspora Judaism: Josephus, Philo and Pseudo-Phocylides'

Data last updated 23 January 2013 , 02:07 PM.

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