Events this person is hosting:

Monday 28 January 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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