Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

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

Convener: Professor Martine Goodman

Tuesdays at 2.15 pm, Oriental Institute EXCEPT WEEKS 2 & 3

Week 1: 22 April

Dr Gaia Lembi (UCL)
Josephus on John Hyrcanus I

Week 2: 29 April

Professor Peter Schäfer (Princeton)
Jewish Cosmology in Rabbinic Literature (Catherine Lewis Master Class, at the Examination Schools)

Week 3: 6 May

Professor Peter Schäfer (Princeton)
Enoch, Metatron, Jesus and the Unity of God (Catherine Lewis Master Class, at the Examination Schools)

Week 4: 13 May

Professor James Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Rules for restoring lacunae in Qumran manuscripts

Week 5: 20 May

Professor Daniel Boyarin (Berkeley)
Lucian, Petronius, and the genre of the Talmud (OCLA seminar)

Week 6: 27 May

Professor Chaim Milikowsky (Bar Ilan University / All Souls)
Seder Olam within the twin contexts of Jewish historiography and Jewish exegesis in the
Hellenistic-Roman period : the earliest rabbinic work?

Week 7: 3 June

Dr Orit Peleg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Reconstructing Herod's 'Stoa Basileia'

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