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The Talmud Blog πληροφορούμαστε για το συνέδριο που διοργανώνεται στο Hebrew University στο διάστημα 23-25 Μαΐου 2011:
Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon: Scholarly Conversations between Jews, Iranians and Babylonians in Antiquity
Monday, May 23 to Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Rabin Building, Room 3001, Mt. Scopus
Organizers: Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda (Scholion, Hebrew University)
Preliminary program:
Δευτέρα, 23 May
16:00-18:30:
Greetings: Reuven Amitai
Introductory remarks: Shai Secunda and Uri Gabbay
Opening session: Introducing the Intellectual World of the Ancient Near East
Chair: Daniel Boyarin
Irving Finkel: Babylonian scholarship in cuneiform and the Babylonian Talmud
Prods Oktor Skjaervo: Ancient and Late Antique Zoroastrianism and its Priestly-Scholastic Tradition
Isaiah M. Gafni: The Intellectual World of Babylonian Jewry: Teachers, Students, Study-Circles, and Academies
19:00: Reception: Ground floor, Rabin Building
Greetings: Israel Yuval
Tuesday, 24 May
9:00-12:15: Society and Religion
Chair: Nili Wazana
Yaakov Elman: Contrasting Trajectories: The Mesopotamian Encounter of Iranian and Semitic Cultures
Ran Zadok: New sources for the presence of Israelites, Judeans and other foreign population groups in pre-Hellenistic Mesopotamia
10:30-10:45: coffee break
Caroline Waerzeggers: Studying Babylonian priests and its relevance to the Second Temple of Jerusalem
Geoffrey Herman: The Institutional History of Babylonian Jewish Society: Where Do We Stand Today?
Respondent: Daniel Schwartz
12:15-13:30: Lunch
13:30- 15:00: Jewish Law in Dialogue
Chair: Oded Ir-Shai
Kathleen Abraham: Jerusalem in Babylonia: New Evidence on a Judean Community in Babylonia During and After the Exile
Maria Macuch: Jewish Jurisdiction within the Framework of the Sasanian Legal System
Respondent: Robert Brody
15:00-15:30: coffee break
15:30-17:00: Magic: The Aramaic Incantation Bowls
Chair: Shalom Paul
James Nathan Ford: Ancient Mesopotamian Motifs in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls
Shaul Shaked: The Iranian Influence on the Aramaic Incantation Bowls
Respondent: Gideon Bohak
18:30-22:00: evening activity
Wednesday, 25 May
9:00-12:15: The incorporation of Mesopotamian and Iranian knowledge in Jewish Tradition
Chair: Rachel Elior
Nathan Wasserman: Old-Babylonian, Middle-Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Jewish-Babylonian? Thoughts about Transmission Modes of Mesopotamian Magic Through the Ages
Abraham Winitzer: Assyriology and Jewish Studies in Tel Aviv: Ezekiel among the Babylonian literati
10:30-10:45: coffee break
Jonathan Ben-Dov: Jewish Acquaintance with and Application of Mesopotamian Astral Sciences
Reuven Kiperwasser: The Encounter Between Iranian Myth and Rabbinic Mythmakers in the Babylonian Talmud
Respondent: Reimund Leicht
12:00-13:30: lunch
13:30-16:45: Hermeneutics and Scriptural Exegesis
Chair:
Eckart Frahm: Reflections on Babylonian text commentaries from the Achaemenid Period
Uri Gabbay: An Akkadian Midrash? Babylonian Commentaries and Rabbinic exegetical terms
15:00-15:15: coffee break
Shai Secunda: Between Rabbi and Dadwar: The Intersection between Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Hermeneutics
Yishai Keil: Shaking Impurity: Exegesis and Legal Innovations in Rabbinic and Pahlavi Literature
Respondent: Paul Mandel
16:45: Concluding remarks: Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda
