Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

The David Patterson Seminars

Convener: Dr Piet van Boxel

Wednesdays, 8.00pm at Yarnton Manor.
Light buffet from 7.00pm. All are welcome.

Week 1: 14 October

Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon
Oriental Institute
Making the Talmud Intelligible: Introducing the Penguin Classics Talmud Selection
BOOK LAUNCH

Week 2: 21 October

Dr Aaron Rosen
OCHJS/St Peter's College
The Art of Interfaith Dialogue: Looking at Pictures with Jews and Christians

Week 3: 28 October

Dr Tamar Drukker
SOAS
A 13th-Century Arthurian Tale in Hebrew: A Unique Literary Exchange

Week 4: 4 November

Professor James Kugel
Bar Ilan University/Harvard University

The Moment of Confusion: A Glimpse at How Some Ancient Israelites Conceived of God

Week 5: 11 November

Professor Alan Jones
Oxford
Moses, a Key Figure in the Qur'an

Week 6: 18 November

Dr Menachem Kallus
OCHJS/Haifa University
The Various Forms of Visual Depictions of Kabbalistic Doctrines: 1600-1900

Week 7: 25 November

Dr Joshua Walden
Merton College
Ernest Bloch's Concepts of Race and Composition, and the Representation of Hassidism
in Baal Shem

Week 8: 2 December

Professor Robert Hayward
Durham University
Aramaic Targum and the Angelic World

The OCHJS minibus will leave the Playhouse, Beaumont Street at 6.40pm and 7.30pm,
and leave Yarnton at 9.45pm. Single fare: £2.10 (Students may travel free on production of their University Card)
IT IS ADVISABLE TO TELEPHONE YARNTON MANOR TO CHECK THAT THE LECTURE IS TAKING PLACE: 01865-377946

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