{"id":1350,"date":"2026-02-06T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:21:42","slug":"announcing-the-annual-lavy-conference-scribes-and-scribal-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/2026\/02\/06\/announcing-the-annual-lavy-conference-scribes-and-scribal-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Annual Lavy Conference: Scribes and Scribal Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lavy\u00a0Conference\u00a02026: Scribes and Scribal Communities<\/strong><br><em>at The Smokler Center for Jewish Life<\/em><br><em>3109 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218<\/em><br>February 15th, 8 AM &#8211; 4:30 PM\u00a0<br>February\u00a016th, 8 AM &#8211; 4 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Abstract:<\/em>&nbsp;Ancient Jewish communities did not exist apart from their wider world; they existed at the crossroads (or in the midst!) of some of the most powerful empires in the ancient world. Scribes and scribal communities were on the front lines of communication between these different cultures. The 2026&nbsp;Lavy&nbsp;Symposium in Jewish Studies will address more classic veins of scholarship on Jewish scribal communities but also offer insights into new avenues of inquiry, with special attention to the materiality of scribal practice and the growing evidence for the complexity and diversity of ancient scribal communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alice Mandell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andrew Gross<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aren WIlson-Wright<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Vanderhooft<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drew Longacre<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James Nati<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Cooley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Stackert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeremy Smoak<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julia Rhyder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liane Feldman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lisa Cleath<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Madadh Richey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mahri Leonard-Fleckman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Molly Zahn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roger Nam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rotem Avneri Meir<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Timothy Hogue<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William Schniedewind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Programming made possible by<br>Princeton University Judaic Studies\u00a0Program<br>Stulman Program in Jewish Studies<br>Alexander Grass Humanities Institute<br>Virginia Fox Stern Center<br>The Singleton Center<br>Department of Near East Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavy\u00a0Conference\u00a02026: Scribes and Scribal Communitiesat The Smokler Center for Jewish Life3109 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218February 15th, 8 AM &#8211; 4:30 PM\u00a0February\u00a016th, 8 AM &#8211; 4 PM Abstract:&nbsp;Ancient Jewish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":1347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}