Events this person is hosting:

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Jewish Icons of Modernity - Spinoza, Da Costa, Mendelssohn, Jesus and Herzl - creating a Jewish Pantheon
  Professor Richard Cohen (Hebrew University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Arab-Jewish Film Screening - 'To Take a Wife'
  Popcorn provided! Please show your bod card upon entrance.
  TBA
  Judeo-Cinema Nights

Events this person is organising:

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Conflicting Intrapersonal Powers: A Study in Early Rabbinic and Pauline Anthropology and Hamartiology
  Dr Daniel Schumann (University of Munster)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Paul as persecutor in the history of Judaism
  Professor Martin Goodman (University of Oxford)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Monday 6 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Ancient Synagogues in Judaea/Palaestina: Community and Language
  Professor Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Beth She'arim: a congregation of cultures
  Professor Jonathan Price (Tel Aviv University)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Jewish Traditionality and Classical American Pragmatism: Venturing beyond the Atlantic Wall
  Dr Nadav Berman Shifman (Yale University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Why is it so hard to find women in Hebrew tours of hell? A history of a tradition
  Dr Tali Artman-Partok (KCL)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - There was no Hebrew Republic of Letters: Christian Hebraism, conceptual history and theory of citizenship
  Dr Dirk van Miert (Utrecht University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The representation of Arabs in late-antique apocalyptic literature
  Dr Helen Spurling (Southampton)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Monday 27 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - The Year 1700 and the Birth of the Jewish 18th Century
  Professor Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The Accusation of Incest in Psalms of Solomon 8:9: apologetics, halakha and exegesis
  Professor Jan Joosten (University of Oxford)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What's love got to do with it? The emotional language of early Zionism
  Please note start time is 17.00
  Professor Derek Penslar (Harvard University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Aspects of the appropriation of Flavius Josephus in medieval Greek and Latin literature
  Dr Theofili Kampianaki (University of Birmingham)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The silence of the idols: the story of ἄλαλος from classical into medieval (Judaeo-) Greek (Septuagint Forum)
  Dr Julia Krivovruchko (University of Cambridge)
  Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Pietistic Confraternity in Eighteenth-Century Padua
  Dr David Sclar (Harvard University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Friday 21 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:45 - Postgraduate Workshop: 70 Years of the Dead Sea Scrolls
  Various Speakers

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Thomas Wakefield (1500-75) and the Study of the Hebrew Bible in Tudor England
  Dr Benjamin Williams (University of Oxford)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - The Conceptualization of Music in Hebrew Philosophical Texts around 1500
  Dr Alexandre Cerveux (EPHE, Paris)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Ancient Architectural Descriptions of the Second Temple - History and Ideology
  Dr Hallel Baitner (University of Oxford)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - How Many Benedictions in the 'Eighteen Benedictions'? Traditions of Babylonia and the land of Israel
  Dr Binyamin Katzoff (Bar Ilan University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Sunday 10 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:10 - JOINT SESSION: Modern Jewish History Seminar and Long 19c Seminar
  Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (Leiden)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Muhammad's Jews: Arabian Judaism in the seventh century
  Professor Aaron Hughes (University of Rochester)
  The David Patterson Lectures
• 18:00 - Muhammad's Jews: Arabian Judaism in the Seventh Century
  Professor Aaron Hughes (University of Rochester)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:30 - Multilingualism in Mediaeval Egypt: An exploration of inclusion and segregation
  Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner (Woolf Institute and University of Cambridge)
  The fourth Edward Ullendorff memorial lecture
• 18:30 - 4th ULLENDORFF MEMORIAL LECTURE - 'Multilingualism in Mediaeval Egypt: An Exploration of Inclusion and Segregation'
  Refreshments to follow
  Professor Miriam Wagner (Cambridge)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - A Nazi in the Holy Language? On the Translation of Martin Heidegger into Hebrew
  Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  The David Patterson Lectures
• 18:00 - A Nazi in the Holy Language? On the translation of Martin Heidegger into Hebrew
  Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Tehran Children: On the trail of WWII refugees in Central Asia
  Professor Mikhal Dekel (City College, CUNY)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - 'With kind words lean towards her'... Singing for the Bride and Groom in Early Modern Ashkenaz
  Dr Diana Matut (University of Halle-Wittenberg)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - How urgent is the immediate on-site treatment of psychological casualties (or shock victims) in traumatic events? Testimony from the field
  Dr Zohar Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv University)
  Hilary Term Massada Public Seminars

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “From the Wells” A Jewish-Arab Educational Initiative Toward A Shared Society
  Professors Ayman Agbaria (Haifa University), Daniel Statman (Haifa University)
  Hilary Term Massada Public Seminars

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Expanding the Palace of Torah - Orthodoxy and Feminism
  Prof. Tamar Ross (Bar-Ilan University)
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Exploring Intertextuality: Detection of Inter-religious Contacts in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Sources
  Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlfu6grD8uHteXU7dojJbk8juO0Yr-SkT8
  Dr Moshe Lavee (University of Haifa)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - An Impostor's Diary: David HaReuveni and the Complex Nature of 'Truth
  In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcu2upz4uGde4lAtzRpOg6DmOzP23rUFJ
  Dr Ossnat Sharon Pinto (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Medieval Hebrew Treatises on the Jewish Calendar: a Reflection of History, Culture, Religion and Science
  In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdeiurjMsH9bY44jgwsdWSAHXQ6e--384
  Dr Ilana Wartenberg (Tel Aviv University)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Wednesday 9 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice’
  Professor Rachel B. Gross (San-Francisco State University)
  Seminar in Modern Jewish Thought

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - On Rabbis, Travellers and Amulets: Untold Stories from the Archive of the Jewish Community of Pisa
  In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcO2urTgtE9FBFQWuWP7EPth9V_jM5nYW
  Dr Francesca Valentina (University of Pisa)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Identity and Alterity in Pre-War Judeo-Spanish Literature (Salonika, 1930-1945)
  In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlceyuqjIoGtWD5y7d3qXres5nuasLMVG8
  Dr Sarah Gimenez (INALCO, Paris)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - The Book of Customs (Sefer ha-Minhagim) (Venice 1593) by Shimeon Guenzburg and Its Dissemination in the Ashkenazi World
  In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoduGpqzkoGN33OjtppkHPughW7nw9Lfca
  Dr Jean Baumgarten (CNRS-EHESS, Paris)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Book launch: ‘Chess in the Jewish Community of Palestine and Israel: A History'
  In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpc-yqqjMpGNeCWhTLBrn0WfDheqMj7Yo4
  Dr Avital Pilpel (University of Haifa), Dr Shahar Gindi (Beit Berl College)
  The David Patterson Lectures

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Sébastien Morlet’ (Sorbonne Université) - Textual plurality and manuscripts: the views of ancient commentators
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne Université)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Prof. Sébastien Morlet - The plurality inside the text: ancient views on the coherence or incoherence of the Biblical text
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne Université)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Bible inside the plurality of texts: its relation to other texts according to ancient commentators
  Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre (please consult at Porter’s lodge to gain 4-digit code for access) (Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar)
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne, Paris IV)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Prof. Martin Shuster, North Carolina University, will be discussing his book How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism
  Prof Martin Shuster
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Prof. Martin Goodman (Wolfson/OCHJS) “Herod and his many Wives”
  Professor Martin Goodman
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD