DAVID PATTERSON SEMINARS

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)

Week 1: 28 April
Professor Barry Kosmin
(Trinity College, Hartford)
The changing profile of American Jewry, 1990-2008

Week 2: 5 May
Professor Alan Dowty
(University of Notre Dame/OCHJS)
The Four Stages of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Reinterpretation

Week 3: 12 May
Professor Jonathan Schneer
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Balfour Declaration: An Unexplored Dimension

Week 4: 19 May
NO LECTURE THIS WEEK

Week 5: 26 May
Dr Aharon Shemesh
(Bar Ilan University/OCHJS)
Pesher and Midrash in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Week 6: 2 June
Dr Simone Lässig
(Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research,
Braunschweig, Germany)
Civilising the Other and Civilising the Self:
Jews and 'Civil Improvement' in 19th-Century Germany

Week 7: 9 June
Professor Geza Vermes FBA
(Oriental Institute)
The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Week 8: 16 June
Dr Lutz Doering
(Durham University/OCHJS)
Jewish Letter Writing in the Second Temple Period

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