Colloquium in Jewish Philosophical Theology

December 28-30, 2015

Monday, December 28, 2015
8:30am	Registration and Refreshments King David Hall, Mt. Zion Hotel
9:15am	Welcoming Remarks Joshua Weinstein
9:30am	Speaker 1: Berel Dov Lerner (Western Galilee College) “Could Moses’ Hands Make War? Divine and Human Agency in the Hebrew Scriptures”
10:30am	Speaker 2: Jacob Wright (Emory University) “The Knowledge of God as a Central Teaching of Hebrew Scriptures”
11:30am	Coffee Break
12:00pm	Speaker 3: Alan Mittleman (Jewish Theological Seminary) “Holiness and Violence in Judaism”
1:00pm	Lunch
2:30pm	Speaker 4: Alex Sztuden (Independent Scholar) “Beyond the Euthyphro Dilemma: God’s Will, Nature and the Moral Law”
3:30pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm	Speaker 5: James Arcadi (University of Bristol) “Belonging to the Lord: Consecration, Divine Presence, and the Metaphysics of Holiness in the Hebrew Scriptures”
5:00pm	Cocktail
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
9:00am	Speaker 6: Yoram Hazony (Herzl Institute) “What does ‘Torah from Heaven’ Mean?”
10:00am	Speaker 7: Shira Weiss (Yeshiva University) “Reevaluating Theological Concepts in the Bible”
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Plenary
1:15pm	Lunch
3:00pm	Speaker 8: Shmuel Trigano (Nanterre University) “The Angel’s Descent”
4:00pm	Speaker 9: James Diamond (University of Waterloo) “Constructing a Jewish Philosophical Theology: A Prolegomenon”
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
9:00am	Speaker 10: Melis Erdur (Tel-Aviv University) “Torah From (but not in) Heaven”
10:00am	Speaker 11: Craig Bartholomew (Redeemer University College) “The God Who Acts in History”
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Speaker 12: Joshua Amaru (Yeshivat Eretz Hazvi) “Halachic Virtue and Wisdom”
12:30pm	Speaker 13: Lenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University) “The Holy One of Israel”
1:30pm	Lunch
3:00pm	Plenary
4:45pm	End of Workshop
6:00pm	Closing Dinner at Gavriel Restaurant