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SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE
IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
TUESDAYS, 2.30 TO 4 PM IN THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE
Week 1: October 15
Professor Chris Rowland (Queen's)
'The Open Heaven revisited''
Week 2: October 22
Dr David Noy (University of Wales Trinity St David)
'Jews in the western provinces of the Roman Empire'
Week 3: October 29
Professor Martin Goodman
'Jewish communal identities in the Graeco-Roman period'
Week 4: November 5
Dr Ruth Sheridan (Charles Sturt University)
'Tannaitic conceptions of the zekhut avot'
Week 5: November 12
Aron Sterk (Manchester University)
'Jews in the Latin West in Late Antiquity: forgotten communities and
texts'
Week 6: November 19
Dr Susan Walker (Ashmolean)
'Jewish gold-glass and funerary inscriptions from Vigna Randanini'
Week 7: November 26
Marton Ribary (Manchester University)
'Tannaitic counter-identity and changes of the "digital halakhah"'
Week 8: December 3
Dr Lutz Doering (Durham University)
'Fictive kinship terminology in Jewish texts of the Graeco-Roman
period'
Martin Goodman
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