The NYU Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and the Center for Ancient Studies present
Rabbinic Narratives
Monday and Tuesday, June 4-5, 2018
9:30am Session 1
The Deposition of Rabban Gamliel: Talmud and the Political Unconscious
Zvi Septimus (Cornell University)
Bio-Power and the Badly Behaved Donkey in Bavli Shabbat Chapter Five
Beth Berkowitz (Barnard College)
11:30am Session 2
From Place to Space: The Talmuds’ Travelers Revisited
James Redfield (St. Louis University)
The All-Night Seder in Bene Beraq: A Literary and Cultural History
Jay Rovner (Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
2:30pm Session 3
"Hornets Came and Consumed Her:” Gender, Animality, and Hunger in Bavli Sanhedrin’s Stories of Sodom and Noah
Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown University)
Hell and Gentiles in Rabbinic Literature
Dov Weiss (University of Illinois)
4:30pm Session 4
Bava ben Buta and Essential Law
Barry Wimpfheimer (Northwestern University)
Tuesday, June 5th
9:00am Session 5
The Travelling Gaze: Travel and Foundation Narratives in Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Literature
Joshua Levinson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Reading Talmudic Narrative in the Context of a Tractate: The Righteous Women of Bavli Sotah
Jane Kanarak (Hebrew College)
11:00am Session 6
Mishnah as Story: Aspects of the Reception of the Mishnah in Midrash and Piyyut
Tzvi Novick (University of Notre Dame)
The Story-Cycles of the Bavli
Jeffrey Rubenstein (NYU)
If you are interested in attending this conference, please contact Jeffrey Rubenstein at jr6@nyu.edu
Rabbinic Narratives
