The 3rd Symposium on Jewish Studies

Judaism in Modern Era- Interpretative Studies of Ancient and Current Texts

Date：	2018/08/19 8:30-18:00
Place：	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lecture：	Paul Mendes-Flohr Kotaro Hiraoka Fumio Ono Masato Goda Joel Swanson Tetsu Kitamura Ada Taggar-Cohen Zev W. Harvey Anri Ishiguro Yu Amano Tzvi Schoenberg Ori Werdiger Moses Lapin Orr Scharf David Cohen
Summary：
【Program】 8:30-8:40 Opening words – Ada Taggar-Cohen, Director of CISMOR Greetings by Prof. Uzi Rebhun, Vice Dean of the Humanities ■Chair: Zev W. Harvey 8:40-9:10 Paul Mendes-Flohr, “Jewish Studies in Historical Perspective” 9:10-9:40 Kotaro Hiraoka, “Martin Buber’s Reception of Hassidism” 9:40-10:10 Fumio Ono, “Religious Anarchism and Bipolarity in the Thought of Martin Buber” 10:10-10:40 Masato Goda, “On Spinoza’s ‘Abrégé de grammaire hébraïque’” 10:40-10:50 Break ■Chair: Paul Mendes-Flohr 10:50-11:20 Joel Swanson, “Speech and Silence: Two Modern Readings of Psalm 115” 11:20-11:50 Tetsu Kitamura, “The Lack of ‘Zion’ in the Book of Ezekiel” 11:50-12:20 Ada Taggar-Cohen, “Religious prohibitions in the Bible and Hittite Cultures:　What does “Holiness” mean in Both Cultures?” 12:20-13:30 Lunch Break ■Chair: Kotaro Hiraoka 13:30-14:00 Zev W. Harvey, “Maimonides and Bialik on Spoken Hebrew” 14:00-14:30 Anri Ishiguro, “Progress and Ambiguities: Kaufmann Kohler’s Vision for　Jewish Women and Zionism during the Transitional Period of the Reform Movement” 14:30-15:00 Yu Amano, “Western Influence on Jewish Intellectuals in Iraq” 15:00-15:10 Break ■Chair: Fumio Ono 15:10-15:40 Tzvi Schoenberg, “Language and Ordinary Experience in Early Hasidism:　Preliminary Remarks” 15:40-16:10 Ori Werdiger, “Secularism According to two 20th Century Jewish Mystics: A. I. Kook’s and　Léon Askenazi’s Explications of a Talmudic Tale narrating the Rabbinic Victory Over Idolatry” 16:10-16:40 Moses Lapin, “What is Medieval Political Philosophy? Our Averroes and Averroes’ Plato” 16:40-17:10 Orr Scharf, “Hermann Cohen's Reading of the Sinai Revelation: Between Observance and　Remembrance” 17:10-17:40 David Cohen, “A World Founded on Chesed; the Source and Content of the　Ethical-Halachic Life” 17:40-17:50 Closing Remarks 18:30 – Dinner
A collaboration between CISMOR and the Faculty of Theology, Doshisha University and The Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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