Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise

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An International Online Conference (January 10-13, 2022) Chairs: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Rodney Caruthers, Shayna Sheinfeld, with Gabriele Boccaccini, Amy-Jill Levine, John Collins Secretary: Joshua Scott Language: English The study of Second Temple Jewish history, practice and belief is a global enterprise. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Enoch Seminar have invited 44 scholars […]

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UM Frankel Center Event – Queer Jews and Muslims: A Roundtable on Race, Religion, Gender and Sexuality

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Katrina Daly Thompson, University of Wisconsin – Madison Robert Phillips, Ball State University Edwige Crucifix, Bryn Mawr College Shanon Shah, King's College London With Adi Saleem Bharat, University of Michigan  JMRN Register at: https://myumi.ch/qgDEy   This roundtable brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences to reflect on historical […]

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UM Frankel Center Event – Religion and Materiality: Re-thinking a Complex Relation from the Angle of Food

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Dr. Birgit Meyer The concern of the material turn in the study of religion is to allow for fresh, detailed and conceptually challenging empirical research that lends itself to comparison. Compared to objects, images or buildings, so far food has received little attention in this research strand. Exploring Feuerbach’s ideas about the stomach as the […]

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