The Abrams Chair Conference: Jewish Religious Expression in Byzantine Palestine
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, Notre Dame Conference Center, McKenna Hall
Conference Schedule
Accommodations and Directions
The University of Notre Dame Theology Department and the Abrams family present this conference in honor of Professor Tzvi Novick’s appointment as Abrams College Chair of Jewish Thought and Culture.
Online Registration is now closed. Please contact Emily Hammock with questions!
Featured Speakers:
Marc Bregman
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
From Sermon to Scroll to Codex: The Early History of the Hebrew Book
Steven Fraade
Yale University
Language Switching in the Byzantine Synagogue Inscriptions and the Practice of Targum
Martha Himmelfarb
Princeton University
The Suffering Servant in the Seventh Century: The Messiah in a Liturgical Poem for the Day of Atonement
Michael Swartz
Ohio State University
As Above, So Below: Cosmology and Cult in Ancient Synagogue Poetry
Tzvi Novick
University of Notre Dame
Concluding Remarks