Breakfast - 8:30-9:00
Session 6 - 9:00-10:30: Sources of Knowledge, Relationship, and Reality
- Jessica Spencer, “Abba kayem? Kinship and Loss in the Rabbinic Imagination”
- AJ Berkovitz, ”Shir Shel Pegaim: A Historical Hypothesis”
- Madalina Joubert, “Taxonomies of the Real in Rabbinic Thought”
Half-Hour Coffee Break
Session 7 - 11:00-12:30: Folklore and Narrative Intertexts
- Gal Sela, “Theorizing Rabbinic Folklore: The Miraculous Sleep of the Holy Man”
- Moshe Pinchuk, “The Divine Nod: From Ambrosial Hair Locks to The Finest Incense”
- Steven Fine, “Between Manuscript and Artifact: Titus and the Gnat in its Material Contexts”
Lunch - 12:30-2:00 Lunch
Session 8 - 2:00-3:00: Textual Transmission
- Shira Schmidman, “Margin Notes as the Key to Discovering the History of the Erfurt Manuscript of the Tosefta”
- Aaron Koller, “The Qur'an's use of the Mishnah and its Textual and Historical Implications”
- Eva Mroczek, Response in light of Mroczek, Tales from the Cave: Losing and Finding the Biblical Past, forthcoming, Yale University Press
Half-Hour Coffee Break
Session 9 - 3:30-4:30 - Slavery and Xenophobia
- Mira Wasserman and Marjorie Lehman, “Unshackling our Reading Practices: A New Approach to the Canaanite Slave”
Appetizers before dinner: 4:30-5:00
Session 10 - 5:00-6:00: Thematic Reflection and Discussion
- Beth Berkowitz and Erez DeGolan
Dinner - 6:00-7:00
Forthcoming Book Presentation - 7:00-7:30
- Jesse Mirotznik, In Bad Faith: Pagan Worship in the Ancient Jewish Imagination, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2025
Dessert - 7:30-8:00
