Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Convener: Martine Goodman
Tuesdays at 2.15pm, Oriental Institute

Week 1: 15 January

Professor Martin Goodman (Oriental Institute)
Reconstructing Ancient Judaism from the Dead Sea Scrolls: the sectarians and the Temple in Jerusalem

Week 2: 22 January

Dr Esti Eshel (Bar-Ilan)
A marriage contract from Maresha (176BCE) and the Jewish ketubba

Week 3: 29 January

Professor Hanan Eshel (Bar-Ilan)
The value of economic documents for understanding the Bar Kokhba war

Week 4: 5 February

Dr Gaia Lembi (UCL)
Josephus on John Hyrcanus I

Week 5: 12 February

Dr Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (Oriental Institute)
Walled cities since the days of Joshua the son of Nun and the Roman pomerium

Week 6: 19 February

Dr Joan Taylor (UCL)
Dio Chrysostom on the Essenes

Week 7: 26 February

Dr Yehuda Cohn (Wolfson)
Were tefillin phylacteries?

Week 8: 4 March

Dr Vered Noam (Tel Aviv)
The dual strategy of rabbinic purity legislation

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