Conference Schedule

Sunday, December 20, 2015
1:30pm	Registration and Refreshments Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha’ananim
2:15pm	Mincha afternoon prayer (optional)
2:30pm	Opening Remarks Gavriel Lakser (The Herzl Institute) Yoram Hazony (The Herzl Institute)
3:00pm	Session 1 James Diamond (University of Waterloo) “Divine Being or Divine Becoming: The Perfection of Imperfection” Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis University) “The Personal God of Classical Theism” Session Chair: Dru Johnson (The Kings College)
5:00pm	Coffee Break
5:30pm	Session 2 Moshe Halbertal (NYU and Hebrew University) “God’s perfection and Biblical Midrashic Anthropomorphic Imagination” Session Chair: Joshua Amaru (Yeshivat Eretz Hazvi)
6:30pm	Cocktail
Monday, December 21, 201
9:00am	Session 3 Lenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University) “Toward a More Perfect Idea of God” Ed Halper (University of Georgia) “Anger and Divine Perfection” Session Chair: Jacob Wright (Emory University)
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Session 4 Shmuel Trigano (University of Paris X) “God’s Perfection in the Being’s Withdrawal” Session Chair: Ofir Haivry (Herzl Institute)
12:30pm	Lunch
2:00pm	Session 5 Michael Miller (University of Nottingham) “God’s Perfection and His Name” Zvi Grumet (The Jerusalem College) “Omnipotent God Meets Potent Man” Session Chair: Baruch Alster (Givat Washington College)
4:00pm	Coffee Break and optional Mincha afternoon prayer
4:30pm	Session 6 Heather Ohaneson (Columbia University) “Turning From the Perfection of God to the Wondrousness of God” Brian Leftow (Oxford University) “Perfect Being Theology and the Bible” Session Chair: Shira Weiss (Yeshiva University)
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
9:00am	Session 7 Randy Ramal (Claremont Graduate Institute) “The Problem of Subliming God’s Existence” Howard Wettstein (University of California Riverside) “The Imponderable God” Session Chair: Michael Antony (University of Haifa)
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Session 8 Yoram Hazony (Herzl Institute) “Is God Perfect Being?” Session Chair: Yitzhak Lifshitz (Shalem College)
12:30pm	Lunch
2:00pm	Session 9 Oliver Crisp (Fuller Theological Seminary) “A Parsimonious Model of Divine Simplicity” Joshua Weinstein (The Herzl Institute) “On God’s Imperfect Unity” Session Chair: Craig Bartholomew (Redeemer University College)
4:00pm	Coffee Break and optional Mincha afternoon prayer
4:30pm	Walking Tour: the First Communities Outside of the Old City Walls (optional)
Wednesday, December 23 , 2015
9:00am	Session 10 Berel Dov Lerner (Western Galilee College) “Is God a Stander or a Walker?” Shalom Rosenberg (Hebrew University) “The Divine Perfection – Notes and Comments” Session Chair: Melis Erdur (Tel Aviv University)
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Session 11 Alex Sztuden (Independent Scholar) “Divine Attributes: Biblical, Talmudic, and Philosophical Perspectives” Session Chair: Aaron Koller (Yeshiva University)
12:30pm	Lunch (Closing session for participants in the Young Scholars Workshop in th Pastel room)
2:00pm	Session 12 Alan Torrance (University of St. Andrews) "Divine Perfection and the Reality of God’s Self-Disclosure: Are Mixed Relations Mixed Up?" Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University) “Elohim: Knower of Good and Evil” Session Chair: Patrick Monaghan (Doane College)
4:00pm	Coffee Break and optional Mincha afternoon prayer
4:30pm	Session 13 Alan Mittleman (Jewish Theological Seminary) “Trusting God and Being Ourselves” Session Chair: Yehuda Gellman (Ben Gurion University)
5:30pm	End of Conference
6:30pm	Closing Dinner at Kedma restaurant for Conference Speakers, Session Chairs, and Participants in the Young Scholars Workshop