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The Faculty of Divinity is a vibrant and dynamic research community which hosts a number of conferences every year in addition to prestigious lectures and research seminars, and less formal reading groups.

Visitors are welcome at many of these events. Event details are available on individual pages listed in the table below:

Special Lectures

A number of established lectureships throughout the academical year regularly bring international figures from outside Cambridge to contribute to our research culture.

  • 2024 Yerushah Lecture 
    Thursday 22 February at 5 p.m .

    Qohelet: A New Reading and a New Seeing
     

    Professor Menachem Fisch and Debra Band 

 

The Cambridge Faculty of Divinity is pleased to announce that the 2024 Yerushah Lecture will take place at 5 p.m. on Thursday 22 February, in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.  Professor Menachem Fisch (Tel Aviv University) and Deborah Band will speak on ‘Qohelet: A New Reading and a New Seeing.’ All are welcome, and refreshments will be served following the lecture. 

 

The two speakers will be on drawing on their analysis from their recent book on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes), Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living (Baylor University Press, 2023). 

 

Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University, TAU codirector of the Frankfurt–Tel Aviv Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies, and senior fellow of the Goethe University Frankfurt’s Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften. He is author of The View from Within: Normativity and the Limits of Self-Criticism (with Y. Benbaji) (Notre Dame, 2011), Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency (Chicago, 2017), and Covenant of Confrontation: A Study of Non-Submissive Religiosity in Rabbinic Literature (Hebrew) (Bar-Ilan, 2019). 

 

Debra Band draws upon her love of both the manuscript arts and the Jewish textual tradition in her acclaimed illuminated manuscripts. She is the author and illuminator of The Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden (JPS, 2005), I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms (with Arnold J. Band) (JPS, 2007), Arise! Arise! DeborahRuth and Hannah (with Arnold J. Band) (Honeybee in the Garden, 2012), and Kabbalat Shabbat: The Grand Unification (with Raymond P. Scheindlin) (Honeybee in the Garden, 2016), among other works. Her paintings have been widely exhibited across the United States and Canada.  

 

The annual Yerushah Lecture in the Faculty of Divinity was established with a benefaction from the Righteous Persons Foundation, created by Steven Spielberg from the proceeds of his 1993 film Schindler’s List. ‘Yerushah’ is the Hebrew word for ‘heritage’. The Yerushah Lecture is devoted to Jewish heritage in all its aspects, with an emphasis on the transmission of Jewish identity and values across the generations. 

 

 

Inaugural and Valedictory Lectures

Conferences

 

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