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Visiting Speaker Andrew Gross, March 10th

Visiting Speaker Andrew Gross, March 10th

Ancient Texts and Modern Techniques: Producing A New Edition of the Temple Scroll (lecture) March 10th6 PMGilman 130G The Temple Scroll was an attempt by the authors of the Dead […]

Visiting Speaker Eliot Wolfson, February 20th

Visiting Speaker Eliot Wolfson, February 20th

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute & Stulman Program for Jewish Studies present a talk on Jewish mysticism with Eliot Wolfson, the Marsha and Jay Glazer Professor of Jewish Studies at […]

Upcoming Lecture from Guest Speaker Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi

Upcoming Lecture from Guest Speaker Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi

Thursday, November 7th 5 PM Gilman 479 Armageddon In Our Time?  Professor Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thirty-seven acres of “real estate” in Jerusalem, encompassing the Temple […]

Two Upcoming Lectures from Guest Lecturer Hannah Pollin-Galay

Two Upcoming Lectures from Guest Lecturer Hannah Pollin-Galay

Hannah Pollin-Galay will lead a seminar on October 30 and present a lecture on her new book on October 31.

The 18th Lavy Colloquium

The 18th Lavy Colloquium

Oct. 27th, 2024 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Johns Hopkins Hillel Center 3109 N. Charles Street

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Save the dates for our fall events

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Landscape, Garden, Monster

Landscape, Garden, Monster

Rethinking the Female Body in the Hebrew Bible Dr. Rhiannon Graybill University of Richmond September 12, 2024 • 5:30 PM (EST) Lecture at Gilman Hall room #17 followed by a […]

Spinoza: 6 Reasons For The Excommunication of the Philosopher

Spinoza: 6 Reasons For The Excommunication of the Philosopher

Film screening, followed by conversation with the film’s director, David Ofek, and Yitzhak Y. Melamed (JHU) September 6th 11:00AM (EST) SMOKLER CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE 3109 N. Charles St. Baltimore

Congratulations to Giacomo Loi

Congratulations to Giacomo Loi

 Congratulations Giacomo Loi for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, entitled: “Our Quarrel Is Of Old”: Classical Reception In Modern Hebrew Literature. Mazal Tov from all of us! 

Christian Kabbalah 16th Lavy Colloquium

Christian Kabbalah 16th Lavy Colloquium

The aim of the 16th Lavy Colloquium was to assess the state of research on Christian Kabbalah, fill lacunae in existing scholarship, and chart directions for future inquiry. The Colloquium focused […]