End of Spring Quarter ’11 Schedule

JST_HB Workshoppers,

Below is the schedule of events for the rest of the Spring ’11 quarter.  Stay tuned for papers and other updates.

May 16th: Igor de Souza, University of Chicago PhD Candidate, on‘The First Purpose of this Treatise’: The Equivocal Terms of the Guide for the Perplexed in Some of its Commentaries.”

May 24 – A TUESDAY!: Prof. Michael Fishbane, Nathan Cumming Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School, on “Piyyut and Midrash: Between Poetic Invention and Rabbinic Convention.”

May 30th: Sam Boyd, University of Chicago PhD Candidate in NELC, on “Contact Linguistics and Textual Reuse in the Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Linguistic Examination.”

All events are in Swift Hall, rm. 403, @ 6pm.  ONLY Prof. Fishbane’s event is on a Tuesday, all others are a Monday.

Special Event:

Brought to you jointly by the Lumen Christi Institute, The Religious Ethics Club and the History of Judaism Club of the Divinity School and the JST_HB Workshop:

May 31st and June 1st:  Prof. David Novak,  J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.  More information to come shortly.

See you all there!