Convener: Dr Piet van Boxel
Wednesdays, 8.00pm at Yarnton Manor.
Light buffet from 7.00pm. All are welcome.
Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon
Oriental Institute
Making the Talmud Intelligible: Introducing the Penguin Classics Talmud Selection
BOOK LAUNCH
Dr Aaron Rosen
OCHJS/St Peter's College
The Art of Interfaith Dialogue: Looking at Pictures with Jews and Christians
Dr Tamar Drukker
SOAS
A 13th-Century Arthurian Tale in Hebrew: A Unique Literary Exchange
Professor James Kugel
Bar Ilan University/Harvard University
The Moment of Confusion: A Glimpse at How Some Ancient Israelites Conceived of God
Professor Alan Jones
Oxford
Moses, a Key Figure in the Qur'an
Dr Menachem Kallus
OCHJS/Haifa University
The Various Forms of Visual Depictions of Kabbalistic Doctrines: 1600-1900
Dr Joshua Walden
Merton College
Ernest Bloch's Concepts of Race and Composition, and the Representation of Hassidism
in Baal Shem
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