Conference Schedule

Sunday, June 18, 2017
3:00pm	Registration and Refreshments Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha’ananim
3:30pm	Mincha afternoon prayer (optional)
4:00pm	Opening Remarks Gavriel Lakser (The Herzl Institute) Yoram Hazony (The Herzl Institute)
4:30pm	Session 1 Lenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University) “Revelation”
5:30pm	Cocktail
Monday, June 19, 2017
9:00am	Session 2 Session Chair: Rafi Eis (The Herzl Institute) Shawn Zelig Aster (Bar–Ilan University) “Historical Issues Connected to Sinai” Ben Tzion Katz (Independent Scholar) “A Traditional, Yet Modern Approach to Torat Moshe MiSinai”
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Session 3 Session Chair: Joshua I. Weinstein (The Herzl Institute) Richard Briggs (Durham University) “’Never Since Has There Arisen a Book in Israel like the Books of Moses’ : Canonical Constructions of the Theological Priority of the Written Torah” Mitchell Rocklin (The Tikvah Fund) “Creative Tradition”
1:30pm	Lunch
3:00pm	Session 4 Session Chair: Shira Weiss (Yeshiva University) Shalom Carmy (Yeshiva University) “G-d, Israel, Moses: The Formation of the Ongoing Learning Community”
4:00pm	Coffee Break and optional Mincha afternoon prayer
4:30pm	Session 5 Gil Student (Independent Scholar) “Rethinking Revelation: Three Talmudic Scholars Grapple With Bibilical Criticism” James Diamond (University of Waterloo) “When is Torah Not From Heaven? Profiling the False Prophet”
6:30pm	End Day 2
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
9:00am	Session 6 Session Chair: Baruch Alster (Givat Washington College) Steven Kepnes (Colgate University) “From Torah Min Ha-Shamayim to Talmud Torah: Revelation and Interpretation” Heather Ohaneson (George Fox University) “Teaching From Zion: When Heaven Touches Both City and Mountain”
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Session 7 Session Chair: Stephanie N. Nordby (University of St. Andrews) Yoram Hazony (Herzl Institute) “Torah From Heaven: Moses and Sinai in Exodus”
12:30pm	Lunch
2:00pm	*Tour: Khirbet Kayafa and the Earliest Davidic Cities(optional)*** Bus to leave from the Windmill parking lot. Return about 7:00pm.
Wednesday, June 21 , 2017
9:00am	Session 8 Session Chair: Yehuda Gellman (Ben Gurion University) Joshua Amaru (Yeshivat Eretz Hazvi) “Revelation and Halakha” Joshua I. Weinstein (The Herzl Institute) “Between Normativity and Givenness: Torah mi-Shamayim in Several Dimensions”
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Session 9 Session Chair: Dru Johnson (The King’s College) Cao Jian (Sun Yat-sen University) “Chinese Faces of Moses in Modern China”
12:30pm	Lunch Closing session of the Young Scholars Workshop in the Fostel Hall.
2:30pm	Session 10 Session Chair: David Worsley (University of York) Jonathan Burnside (University of Bristol) “Moses contra Bentham: Deconstructing the Influence of Legal Positivism on Biblical Law” Jeremiah Unterman (The Herzl Institute) “Sinai Law and the Hammurabi Code – A Comparative Study”
4:30pm	Coffee Break and optional Mincha afternoon prayer
5:00pm	Session 11 Session Chair: Lenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University) C. John “Jack” Collins (Covenant Theololgical Seminary) “How Does the Hebrew Bible Speak About God’s Action in the World?”
7:00pm	Dinner at Sheyan Restaurant for Conference Speakers, Sessions Chairs, Participants in the Young Scholars’ Workshop, and Spouses
Thursday, June 22, 2017
9:00am	Session 12 Session Chair: Jeremiah Unterman (The Herzl Institute) Alex Sztuden (Independent Scholar) “Revelation, Authority, and the Space Between” H. Norman Strickman (Touro College) “Torah From Heaven – Which Torah?”
11:00am	Coffee Break
11:30am	Session 13 Session Chair: Yoram Hazony (The Herzl Institute) Shira Weiss (Yeshiva University) “God’s Self-Description at Sinai” William J. Abraham (Southern Methodist University) “The Challenge of Unbelief and Skepticism in the book of Exodus”
1:30pm	Lunch and Farewells