Conference Schedule
Jewish Religious Expression in Byzantine Palestine
Conference Schedule
October 31, 2012
Notre Dame Conference Center, McKenna Hall
- 2:00-2:15 PM: Coffee and Tea
- 2:15-2:30 PM: Tzvi Novick, University of Notre Dame, Opening Remarks
- 2:30-3:15 PM: Marc Bregman, University of North Carolina (Greensboro)
From Sermon to Scroll to Codex: The Early History of the Hebrew Book
- 3:15-4:00 PM: Martha Himmelfarb, Princeton University
The Suffering Servant in the Seventh Century: The Messiah in a Liturgical Poem for the Day of Atonement
- 4:00-4:15 PM : Coffee and Tea
- 4:15-5:00 PM: Michael Swartz, Ohio State University,
As Above, So Below: Cosmology and Cult in Ancient Synagogue Poetry
- 5:00-5:45 PM: Steven Fraade, Yale University
Language Switching in the Byzantine Synagogue Inscriptions and the Practice of Targum
- 6:00-7:00 PM: Dinner Reception, Lower Level, McKenna Hall
Tzvi Novick, University of Notre Dame, Closing Remarks