Breakfast - 9:00-9:30
Session 1 - 9:30-11:00: Textual Evolutions
• Isaac Roszler, “The Amazing Adventures of Rabbi Pinhas ben Yair”
• Matthew Goldstone, “Blurring the Lines Between Rewriting and Commentary from Qumran to the Bavli”
• Jane Kanarek, “Lashon Ha-ra and Talmudic Redaction: B. Sotah 34b-35a and B. Arakhin 15a-16b”
Half-Hour Coffee Break
Session 2 - 11:30-1:00: Second Temple Traditions
• Tzipporah Machlah Klapper, “Did the Rabbis Know of the Conversion of Helena of Adiabene?”
• Richard Hidary, “New Light on the History of Hanukah and Its Commemoration”
• Shlomo Zukier, “Depleting the Treasury: Soul Theology from Second Baruch to the Rabbis”
Lunch - 1:00-2:30
Session 3 - 2:30-3:30: Language
• Danny Golde, “That Sounds Familiar: Interlingual Homophony in Greco-Hebrew”
• Lennart Lehmhaus, “A Mad's Get - the condition of Qordiyaqos and mental illness in Talmudic literature”
• Eva Kiesele, “Retrieving Rabbinic Conceptions of Language, and Why They Matter”
15 minute Coffee Break
Session 4 - 3:45-4:15: Language Response and Discussion
• Steven Fraade, Response in light of Fraade, Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism: Before and After Babel, Cambridge University Press, 2023
Appetizers before dinner: 4:15-5:00
Session 5 - 5:00-6:00: Identity and Community
• Joanna Homrighausen, “Penning Proverbs, Reeding Virtues: The Reed as a Symbol of Jewish Identity in Late Antique Jewish Texts”
• Moshe Shoshan, “Mishnah Avot's Transmission Narrative as Internally Directed Apologetic”
• Holger Zellentin, “Bavli Sanhedrin 43a and Qur'an Q 4 al-NisÄ 157 as responses to Toledot Yeshu”
Dinner - 6:00-7:00
New Book Presentation - 7:00-7:30
• Chaya Halberstam. Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice, Oxford University Press, 2024
Dessert - 7:30-8:00
