Conference To Examine Bible

UC's Department of Judaic Studies will offer a conference honoring UC Professor Emeritus Anthony D. York on his retirement.
 
DATE: Friday, March 7, 2003
 
CO-SPONSORS: Department of English and the Program in Religious Studies,
University of Cincinnati McMicken College of Arts and Sciences
 
SCHEDULE:
9:30-11:45 a.m. -  The Bible in the Ancient World
Chair: Richard Sarason, Hebrew Union College

• Anthony D. York, English and Judaic Studies, UC
  "The Reception History of Job: Some Modern Examples"
• David Weisberg, HUC
   "Scripture in Context -- An Elegant Way to Read the Bible"
• John Brolley, Judaic Studies and Religious Studies, UC
  "The Bible in Syriac Christian Amulets"
• Steven Bowman, Judaic Studies, UC
  "Yosippon at Play: The Old and New Testaments in a Medieval Midrash
   

1-3:30 p.m. -  The Bible from Luther to Freud
Chair: Lowanne Jones, Romance Languages, UC

• Richard Schade, German Studies, UC
   Luther's Bible Translation and Literary Culture in Germany
• Kristi Nelson, Art History, UC
  Visually Representing the Sacrifice of Isaac in the Age of Rembrandt
• Jay Twomey, English and Comparative Literature, UC
   The Outcast:  American Contexts for the Book of Ruth
• Gila Safran-Naveh, Judaic Studies, UC
   The Biblical Tamar and Modern Psychoanalysis

Closing Comments:  Anthony D. York and Steven Fine, head of Judaic Studies
 
LOCATION:  Hillel Jewish Center,  2615 Clifton Ave.

COST: Free and open to the public.

INFORMATION: Department of Judaic Studies, (513) 556-2297 or judaic.studies@uc.edu