Hebrew, Jewish and Early Christian Studies Research Seminar
This seminar meets on Mondays at 2.30pm. The convenors are Professor Nicholas de Lange, Professor William Horbury, Professor James Aitken and Professor James Carleton Paget.
Papers at the seminar range over Hebrew and Jewish studies, on topics from the Greek and Roman periods onwards, and Roman-period Christianity in its Jewish setting. Foci of interest from time to time have included:
Philo and Josephus; Jewish inscriptions and papyri; rabbinic texts; Jewish biblical interpretation; Greek-speaking Judaism from ancient to modern times; Hebrew, Greek and Latin as Jewish languages; Jewish aspects of New Testament and patristic writings; Jews and Christians in the Roman empire; Roman Judaea; mediaeval Jewish-Christian relations; Hebrew in the church[ Jewish and Christian prayer and hymnody; the history of the synagogue; early modern reaction to Jewish mysticism, and Byzantine Hebrew literature.
Lent Term 2021 Programme:
HEBREW, JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES
RESEARCH SEMINAR
Lent Term 2021
Monday March 1st,
2.30pm
Marc Michaels (Cambridge)
“Sefer Tagin: The Strange and Ornamented Hebrew Letters in a Torah Scroll”
All colleagues, MPhil and PhD students in HJEC or other areas (such as Classics, History and Philosophy), from within and outside the faculty, are warmly welcome.
J.K.A.