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Biblical Poetics and Interpretation:
A Conference Honoring Adele Berlin
Sunday, May 3, 2009, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Art-Sociology Building, Rm. 2309
Conference Program
9:00
Greetings
Hayim Lapin, Director, Meyerhoff Center, University of Maryland
Kent Cartwright, Chair, Department of English, University of Maryland
9:15 Session I
Biblical Poetry and Song
Benjamin Sommer, Northwestern University
The Genre of Heavenly Praise in the Book of Psalms and Ancient Israel
Andrea L. Weiss, HUC-JIR, NYC
Mixed Metaphor in Biblical Poetry
10:30 Coffee
10:45 Session II
Men, Women and Biblical Comportment
Marc Z. Brettler, Brandeis University
A Woman's Voice in the Psalter:
A New Understanding of Psalm 113
Ziony Zevit, American Jewish University
Was Eve Punished?
Nili Fox, HUC-Cincinatti
Biblical Sanctification of Dress
12:30 Lunch Break
2:00 Session III
Who Owns this Text?
Bernard Levinson, University of Minnesota
Reading the Bible in Nazi Germany: Gerhard von Rad’s Attempt to Reclaim the Old Testament for the Church
Michael V. Fox, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Text Criticism as Text Interpretation
3:15 Coffee
3:30 Session III, cont'd
Mordechai Z. Cohen, Yeshiva University
The Non-Halakhic Legal Exegesis of Two Talmudists: Using Rashbam to Illuminate Maimonides’ Biblical Interpretation
Jeffrey Tigay, University of Pennsylvania
The Torah as a Jewish Icon
4:45
Adele Berlin, University of Maryland
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