– October 19th “Four Legal Texts in the Hebrew Bible that Evince a Concern for Animal Rights”
Dr. Saul M. Olyan (Brown University)
– October 27th “The Birth and Naming of Jacob’s Children: A Comparative Analysis of P, J, and E”
Emily Thomassen (University of Chicago)
– November 3rd “The Portrayal of Balaam in the Elohistic Narrative Arc as the Antithesis of the Prophet Moses”
Jaeseok Heo (University of Chicago)
– November 10th “An Introduction to the CEDAR Project”
Dr. Sarah Yardney, CEDAR Research Specialist (University of Chicago)
– December 1st “Aaron’s Muted Silence: the Effacement of Self and Intimacy as the Cornerstone of Divine Service in P”
Aslan Cohen Mizrahi (University of Chicago)
– January 12th “Out of Egypt? Old and New Paradigms for the Spread of the Early Alphabet”
Dr. Madadh Richey (Brandeis University)
– January 26th “One L” Book Discussion
– February 2th Accordance Software Webinar
– February 13th “More Than Just Mosaics: The Huqoq Synagogue”
Dr. Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
– February 23rd “The Biblical Hebrew Waw of Apodosis: The View from Semitic and General Linguistics”
Andrew Zulker (University of Chicago)
– March 2nd “The Flooded Womb: the sotah as Sovereign Threat”
Aslan Cohen Mizrahi (University of Chicago)
– March 30th “Phoenician Iconography and Religious Symbolism Across the Mediterranean: Two Case Studies”
Dr. Carolina López-Ruiz (University of Chicago)
– April 20th “Ancient Near Eastern Fibercraft 101”
Alexis R. Wolf (University of Chicago)
– April 27th “The identity of the satan in Job 1-2”
David Ridge (University of Chicago)
– May 4th “Competing Memory Cultures: The Literary Afterlives of Jerusalem’s Destruction”
Dr. Cathleen Chopra-McGowan (Santa Clara University)
– May 8th “The Book of Qohelet: a conversation”
with Dr. Simeon Chavel
and Dr. James T. Robinson (University of Chicago)
– May 18th “A Panel on the Interview Processes and Early Career Stage”
with Dr. Jessie DeGrado (University of Michigan)
and Dr. Charles Hughes-Huff (St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry)