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You are here: Home / News / OSAJS Conference, ‘Philosophy in Scripture’: Jewish Philosophical Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Late Medieval Period

OSAJS Conference, ‘Philosophy in Scripture’: Jewish Philosophical Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Late Medieval Period

June 6, 2022

We are looking forward to the final conference of this term’s Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies, ‘Philosophy in Scripture’: Jewish Philosophical Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the Late Medieval Period. The conference will take place on 13 and 14 June from 9:00-17:00 UK Time each day in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre of the Clarendon Institute. There is no entrance fee, and no registration is necessary. A full programme will be posted in due course but, in the meantime, you may find the conference schedule below.

 

Monday, 13 June 2022

 

9:30-9:45—Introduction: Paul B. Fenton

 

9:45-11:15—Panel 1: Post-Maimonideanism in the Islamic East (1)

Chair: Raphael Dascalu

Y. Tzvi Langermann—‘The Philosophical Interpretation of Scripture among Yemenite Exegetes’

Paul B. Fenton—‘Philosophical Elements in R. David II Maimonides’ Torah Commentary’

 

11:15-11:30—Tea and Coffee Break

 

11:30-13:00—Panel 2: Post-Maimonideanism in the Islamic East (2)

Chair: Rachel Katz

Raphael Dascalu—‘Sa‘īd Ibn Dāwūd al-‘Adanī: Popularising Philosophy in 15th-Century Egypt and the Levant’

Ilan Moradi—‘The “Vision of the Divine” (Ex. 33, 18 and 23) according to the 17th-Century Judaeo-Persian Philosopher Rabbi Judah ben Eleazar’

 

13:00-14:00—Lunch Break (lunch provided for speakers only)

 

14:00-15:30—Panel 3: Science in the Hebrew Bible: Between East and West

Chair: Andrea Gondos

Tamás Visi—‘The Meteorological Interpretation of the Creation Narrative in the Late Middle Ages’

Oded Horezky—‘Biblical Law in Medieval Provence: Science vs Politics’

 

16:00-16:15—Closing Session

Oded Horezky—Presentation on Manuscript Database

 

19:00—Dinner (for presenters only)

 

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

 

9:30-11:00—Panel 4: The Confrontation between Kabbalah and Philosophy

Chair: Israel Sandman

Nathan Wolski—‘‘It does not sit well in my heart’: Allegorising the Eschatological Banquet in Midrash ha-Ne‘lam’

Andrea Gondos—‘Biblical Narratives in a Kabbalistic Key: Sin, Heresy, and the Destruction of Divine Unity in Ma‘arekhet ha-Elohut’

 

11:00-11:30—Tea and Coffee Break

 

11:30-13:00—Panel 5: Science and Scripture: Between Western Christendom and Western Islamdom

Chair: Shira Weiss

David Wirmer—‘Philosophical Solitude and Spiritual Medicine: Reading Ibn Bāǧǧa’s Tadbīr al-mutawaḥḥid’

Andrew Berns—‘Jewish Perspectives on Medicine in Scripture from Late Medieval Iberia and Italy’

 

13:00-14:00—Lunch Break (lunch provided for speakers only)

 

14:00-16:15—Panel 6: Continuity and Discontinuity in Post-Maimonidean Iberia

Chair: Oded Horezky

Rachel Katz—‘Embodiment (?) in Isaac Arama’s Works’

Shira Weiss—‘Scholastic Influences on Joseph Albo’s Book of Principles’

Israel Sandman—‘Philosophy and Tradition: Appreciating the Paradox of Judah ha-Kohen’s Midrash ha-Ḥokhmah’

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