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 |