| Monday, July 22, 2013 | |
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3:00pm
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Registration and Refreshments Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha’ananim |
| 4:00pm |
Opening Remarks Yoram Hazony (Institute for Advanced Studies at the Herzl Institute) |
| 4:15pm |
Invited Speaker: Kenneth Seeskin (Northwestern University) "Genesis 2:18: It is Not Good for Man to Be Alone" Session Chair: Yoram Hazony |
| 5:15pm | Coffee Break |
| 5:30pm |
Invited Speaker: Roslyn Weiss (Lehigh University) "A Violin Playing Second Fiddle: Aaron’s Unique Virtue" Session Chair: Naomi Weiss (Bar Ilan University) |
| 6:30pm | Cocktail |
| Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | |
| 9:00am |
Session 1 Shmuel Trigano (University of Paris X, Institute for Advanced Studies at the Herzl Institute) "The Second Being: The Ontological Landscape of Otherness in the Book of Genesis" Jeremiah Unterman "The Stranger גר in the Jewish Bible and the Ancient Near East" Session Chair: Joshua Weinstein (Shalem College) |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break |
| 11:30am |
Session 2 James Diamond (University of Toronto) "Biblical Questioning: Philosophy Begins in Anguish" Douglas Kries (Gonzaga University) "Thomas Aquinas’ Hebraic Political Philosophy" Session Chair: Friedrich Hansen |
| 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 3:00pm |
Invited Speaker: Yoram Hazony "Maybe God Does Have a Hand? Metaphor and Reality in Hebrew Scripture" Session Chair: Hannah Hashkes |
| 4:00pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:30pm |
Optional Tour. Advance Registration Required. |
| Wednesday, July 24, 2013 | |
| 9:00am |
Session 3 Timothy P. Jackson (Emory University) "Evil, Immortality, and the Holiness of God: Some Hebrew (and non-Hebrew) Conceptions" Renee Kohler-Ryan (University of Notre Dame Australia) "The Justice of Jeremiah’s Tears" Session Chair: Marton Ribary (University of Nottingham) |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break |
| 11:30am |
Session 4 Dru Johnson (Kings College, NYC) "Revisiting Human Action and the Hebrew-Greek Mind Problem in Analytic Theology" Eric Smith (Nebraska Christian College) "Ancient Near Eastern myth as speculative philosophy" Session Chair: Yitzhak Lifshitz (The Shalem Center) |
| 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 3:00pm |
Session 5 Jaco Gericke (North-West University, South Africa) "The Love of Wisdom in Proverbs 8: A Comparative-Philosophical Clarification" Chaim Saiman (Villanova Law School) "Talmud Torah as a Way of Knowing" Session Chair: Perry Huesmann (Vrije University, Amsterdam) |
| 5:00pm | Coffee Break |
| 5:15pm |
Invited Speaker: Ronna Burger (Tulane University) "In the Wilderness: Moses as Lawgiver and Founder" Session Chair: Nehemia Polen (Hebrew College, Newtown, MA) |
| Thursday, July 25 , 2013 | |
| 9:00am |
Session 6 Berel Dov Lerner (Western Galilee College) "Temporality and Human Agency in the Exodus" Josh Weinstein (Shalem College) "On the Unity of Torah" Session Chair: Eveline Goodman-Thau |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break |
| 11:30am |
Invited Speaker: Lenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University) "Biblical Logic" Session Chair: Ofir Haivry (Institute for Advanced Studies at the Herzl Institute) |
| 12:30pm | Lunch |
| 2:30pm |
Session 7 Simon May (Kings College London) "Love and the Promise of Homeland" Rachel Adelman (Hebrew College, Newtown, MA) "'Strangers in a Land not their Own' – The Conditional Gift of the Land in the Covenant with Abraham" Session Chair: Yechiel Leiter (Institute for Advanced Studies at the Herzl Institute) |
| 4:30pm | End of Conference, book sales |
| 6:30pm | Closing Dinner for Conference Speakers, Session Chairs, and Participants in Young Scholars Workshop |
