The NYU Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies presents
Biblical Studies in Memory of Baruch A. Levine
Wednesday - Thursday, April 6-7, 2022
via Zoom
All times are EST
Day 1: Wednesday, April 6
10:00 am Session One - Chair: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Greetings
Lawrence H. Schiffman and Jeffrey Rubenstein
The Epic Background of the Balaam Story
Ed Greenstein
Source Criticism and Text Criticism: The Case of Exodus 4:21
Baruch Schwartz
The Tabernacle: A Virtual Reality
Carol Meyers
Rewriting the Book of Ruth in Jewish Late Antiquity
Moshe Bernstein
1:00 pm Session Two - Chair: Mahri Leonard-Fleckman
Inheritance and Ancestor Traditions in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Dylan Johnson
Battle of the Gods: Monotheism and Empire in 1 Kings 18
Michael Stahl
Ethnicity, Modernity, and Biblical Studies: 'Gentilics' as a Case Study
Ki-Eun Jang
Word Matters in Psalm 1: Sonant Particles and Parallelism, with Speculation on the Poem’s Scribal Production
Mark Smith
Day 2: Thursday, April 7
10:00 am Session Three - Chair: Rami Arav
The Book of Ruth: A Folktale, Analyzed according to the Morphology of V. Propp
Lisbeth S. Fried
Yahweh before Israel: A Pastoralist People of the Levantine Interior
Daniel Fleming
Rethinking the Origins of Ritual Baths
Stuart Miller
Solomon ibn Gabirol and Job
Ross Brann
1:00 pm Session Four and Concluding Remarks - Chair: Alex Jassen
Forbidden Fats in the Bible and Second Temple Literature
Lawrence Schiffman
Wingèd words: from Sumer to America via Torah
Eva von Dassow
Persecution and Storytelling in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Alex Jassen
The Use of Verba Solemnia from Late Bronze Age Syria to the Mishnah
Andrew Gross
Concluding Remarks
Daniel Fleming
This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, visit this link: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1MWaBxOkS2a-y34PVhuLpQ