DAVID PATTERSON SEMINARS

The Seminars take place at 8pm at Yarnton Manor - including the seminar of 10 March, which has been incorrectly advertised in the Gazette as starting at 5pm. (Note added on 8 March 2010)

HILARY TERM 2010

Week 1: 20 January
Dr Madhavi Nevader
(Oriel College)
When Prophets Start Levitating: Reading Elijah alongside Enoch

Week 2: 27 January
Dr Piet van Boxel
(OCHJS/Bodleian)
“Crossing Borders”: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Week 3: 3 February
Professor Albert Baumgarten
(Bar Ilan University)
An Extraordinary Historian of the Jews: the Life and Times of Elias Bickerman, 1897-1981

Week 4: 10 February
Professor Guy Stroumsa
(Lady Margaret Hall)
Gershom Scholem and Morton Smith

Week 5: 17 February
Professor Fred Astren
(OCHJS/San Francisco State University)
Shadows of Jews in the Early Medieval Muslim Conquests

Week 6: 24 February
Professor Elchanan Reiner
(OCHJS/Tel Aviv University)
From Joshua to R.Simeon bar Yohai: Towards a Typology of Galilean Hero

Week 7: 3 March
Dr Jordan Finkin and others
(OCHJS)
“The Joy of the Yiddish Word”: An Evening in Memory of Joseph Sherman

Week 8: 10 March
Professor Ora Limor
(Open University of Israel)
The Image of Judas Iscariot among Jews and Christians

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The Seminars are held at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Yarnton Manor, Yarnton, Oxford OX5 1PY (Tel. 01865 377946)
Wednesdays at 8pm

Light buffet from 7pm - All are welcome

THE OCHJS MINIBUS WILL DEPART FROM THE PLAYHOUSE, BEAUMONT STREET AT 6.40PM
AND 7.30PM AND WILL LEAVE YARNTON MANOR AT 9.30PM. SINGLE FARE £2.10
(STUDENTS MAY TRAVEL FREE ON PRODUCTION OF THEIR UNIVERSITY CARD.)