Seminars are held at the Center on Wednesdays at noon unless otherwise noted.
If you are interested in attending a seminar, please rsvp to allenshe@sas.upenn.edu
| January 16 |
William Adler/ North Carolina State University
History and Counter-History in the Chronographiae of Julius Africanus
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| January 23 |
Paula Fredriksen / Boston University
Augustine and the Jews
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| January 30 |
Oded Irshai / Hebrew University
Shaping Christian Identity: The Jewish Component in Early Christian Historiography
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| February 6 |
Albert Baumgarten / Bar Ilan University
The Pharisees and the Tombs of the Prophets
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| February 13 |
Hindy Najman / University of Toronto
Conceptions of the Revelatory in Ancient Judaism: Reconsiderations of 4 Ezra
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| February 20 |
Ra’anan Boustan/University of California, L.A.
King Solomon in Constantinople
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| February 27 |
Stephen Fraade / Yale University
Temple as Jewish Identity Marker Pre- and Post- 70 C.E.: With Particular Attention to the Holy Vessels in Memory and Imagination
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| March 5 |
Yaakov Elman/Yeshiva University
Varying Degrees of Acculturation in Late Antique Babylonia and Their Cultural and Religious Effects
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| March 19 |
Kenneth Holum/University of Maryland
Caesarea in Palestine on the Verge of the Middle Ages
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| March 26 |
Hannah Cotton/Hebrew University
Roman Provincial Jurisdiction on Iudaea/Syria Palestina
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| April 2 |
Yuval Harari / Ben-Gurion University
Dealing with Demons: The Magical and the Rabbinical Ways
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| April 9 |
Adiel Schremer / Bar-Ilan University
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Rabbinic Judaism:
Recontextualizing the Rabbinic Enterprise
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| April 16 |
Joshua Levinson / Hebrew University
Rabbis on the Road: Travel Narratives in Rabbinic Literature
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