Entries from September 1, 2020 - September 30, 2020

Monday
Sep282020

JMRN Book Launch & Conversation

Jewish-Muslim Relations. JMRN Book Launch & Conversation 'Why Race Still Matters' with Alana Lentin (Western Sydney University) in conversation with Katharine Halls. In this conversation, Dr Lentin will discuss Chapter 4 of the book, Good Jew/Bad Jew, which examines the ways in which the objection to antisemitism has been used as a proxy for a commitment to antiracism on behalf of all racialized people, and responsibility for antisemitism is placed onto minoritized communities, in particular Muslims. 21 October 2020 10am. Further information.
Monday
Sep282020

Research Network Reading Group

Jewish Muslim Research Network. The next session of the JMRN reading group is on 30 September 2020, 4-5pm. Facilitated by Sarah Johnson. Readings: Chapters 2 & 5 of Yoav Di-Capua’s No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization (2018) and Aline Schlaepfer’s “Between Cultural and National Nahḍa: Jewish Intellectuals in Baghdad and the Nation-Building Process in Iraq (1921-1932)” (2011). Further information

Tuesday
Sep222020

Ehrhardt Seminar

Biblical Studies. Prof. George Brooke (University of Manchester, University of Chester) ‘Esoteric Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls’ 14:00 - 16:00 22 October 2020. Further information.
Friday
Sep182020

Religions & Theology Research Seminar

Biblical Studies. Dr Nijay K Gupta (Northern Seminary, Illinois) - “Reconstructing Junia's Imprisonment: Examining a Neglected Comment in Romans 16:7” 16:00 - 17:30 01 October 2020. Further information.
Wednesday
Sep162020

International Summer School, University of Leuven

Biblical and Jewish Studies. Philip Alexander contributed to a summer school on Biblical Hebrew Poetry, focusing on the 'Song of Songs and Its Reception in Judaism'. 7-11 September 2020. Further information.

Wednesday
Sep162020

Panel discussion, Oxford Three Faiths

Jewish Studies. CJS Hon. Research Fellow Michael Hilton will be contributing to an online panel on the topic of 'Our Journeys to the Holy Land'. Oxford Three Faiths, 7.30-8.45pm, 5 October 2020. For registration, see further information.

Wednesday
Sep162020

Public lectures, Sion Centre

Jewish Studies. CJS Hon. Research Fellow Michael Hilton will be podcasting on 'Why are the Jewish High Holydays so popular?' and 'The Jewish Festivals of Sukkot and Simchat Torah'. Sion Centre for Dialogue and Encounter, 2.00-3.30pm, 14 and 22 Sept 2020. For registration, see further information.

Wednesday
Sep162020

Public lectures, Liberal Jewish Synagogue

Jewish Studies. CJS Hon. Research Fellow Michael Hilton gave podcasts on preparation for the High Holy Days with talks on 'Faith versus good deeds' and 'The Scapegoat in Judaism and Christianity'. 8 and 15 Sept 2020. Further information.

Wednesday
Sep092020

Blog entry, 50 Jewish Objects

50 Jewish Objects Artwork. As part of the activities of the 50 Jewish Objects project, creative pieces are commissioned for contemporary artists in response to selected artefacts from the John Rylands Library and the research produced by Dr Stefania Silvestri. The third blogpost by artist Leo Mercer has now been published. Leo is creating poems inspired by the 50 Jewish Objects. Further information.

Tuesday
Sep082020

Postgraduate Forum in Jewish Studies

Online conference. Dr Katharina Keim is organising the first Nordic Postgraduate Forum in Jewish Studies. It will take place over two half-days on 22-23 September 2020. Papers will be presented by six current doctoral students from around the Nordic region working on projects that relate to the study of ancient and medieval Jewish history. Each paper will be presented in brief followed by comments from a respondent and general discussion. The programme also features a masterclass in reading Talmudic texts by Prof Philip Alexander (FBA, Emeritus Manchester) entitled, ‘“If they are not prophets, they are sons of prophets”: Tosefta Pesahim 4:13-14 and its reception in the Yerushalmi and the Bavli.’ The event will take place via zoom, and all are welcome. Further information.

Thursday
Sep032020

Biblical Hebrew Reading Group

Reading Biblical Hebrew. Philip Alexander will be giving a course on Biblical Hebrew, that is, a reading group focusing on the Book of Esther. The class will meet via Zoom once a week in semesters one and two. The primary aim of the (non-credit) course will be to provide students at BA, MA or PhD levels who have done some Hebrew with the opportunity to advance their knowledge by closely reading a biblical book. Further information.

Thursday
Sep032020

Electronic Resources

Jewish archives. The Jewish and Hebrew Collections at the John Rylands Library and Manchester University Library have now been listed as part of the Hidden Treasures project. Archives featured on the Hidden Treasures website are part of a national network of state, local and communal archives. Further information.

Tuesday
Sep012020

New publication

Biblical Studies. Alex Samely, 'How Coherence Works: Reading, Re-Reading and Inner-Biblical Exegesis' in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 9:2 (2020), 130-182. Further information.