Beit Midrash Summer Series—Session II
Date: Jul 22, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Sponsor: Public Lectures and Events
Location: JTS
Category: Beit Midrash Summer Series Public Lectures & Events
Session II: Interpreting Heretics: Strategies for Reading Rabbinic Literature in Context
Monday, July 22, 2024
5:00–6:30 p.m. ET
In Person at JTS
3080 Broadway, Beit Midrash (at 122nd Street)
New York City
With Benjamin Kamine, PhD Candidate and Adjunct Instructor in Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures, JTS
The texts on heretics and heresy in early Rabbinic literature give us only a few tantalizing clues about who and what the rabbis are objecting to. In this class, we will take a look at a wealth of parallel material from other sources in the ancient Jewish world to see if we can figure out, “What’s really bothering Rabbi Akiva?”
SUGGESTED DONATION: $18
Session I is July 11: The first session of Beit Midrash Summer Series is Rabbinic Philosophies of Forgiveness with Dr. Shira Billet, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTS
Session III is July 30: The third session of Beit Midrash Summer Series is Challenges to the Requirement of Reproduction in Talmudic Law: How the Talmud Makes Its Case with Dr. Marjorie Lehman, Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS
