Bernard Levinson and includes twenty-five leading scholars, among whom CNES Alum Molly Zahn. The international conference
will discuss different approaches to the formation of the Pentateuch, and will be held at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, where Professor Levinson is currently on research leave.
For more information on the conference: http://ias.huji.ac.il/convergence
Bernard Levinson's Academic Website: https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/bernardlevinson/home
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Date: May
12-13, 2013
Location: Israel
Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University.
The
Pentateuch lies at the heart of the Western humanities. Yet despite nearly two
centuries of critical scholarship, the human origins of this monument of
civilization remain shrouded in the past. Indeed, the traditional conception of
a unified, self-consistent foundation narrative has long been given up. Critical
scholarship has isolated multiple layers of tradition, inconsistent laws, and
narratives that could only have originated from separate communities within
ancient Israel, and were joined together at a relatively late stage by a
process of splicing and editing.
Recent
developments in academic biblical studies, however, jeopardize the
revolutionary progress that has been made over the last two centuries. The so-called
"Documentary Hypothesis" has dominated academic discourse on the Pentateuch
since the end of the nineteenth century. More recently, however, the
source-critical method has come under unprecedented attack. In fact, in many
quarters it has been rejected entirely. While new perspectives
are constantly being generated to replace traditional paradigms, the past forty
years of scholarship have witnessed not simply a proliferation of intellectual
models, but the fragmentation of discourse, especially among Israeli, European,
and North American scholars.
This
conference seeks to further international exchange and re-establish a shared intellectual.
Presentations will be offered by a group of twenty-five international
scholars, drawn from the fields of Biblical Studies, Second Temple/Dead Sea
Scrolls, and Jewish Studies, with extensive time for discussion and debate.
Organizers: Bernard M. Levinson, University of Minnesota;
Konrad Schmid, University of Zurich; Baruch J. Schwartz, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem; and Jan Christian Gertz, Heidelberg University.
Speakers: Joel
Baden, Yale University; Mark J. Boda, McMaster Divinity College; David Carr,
Union Theological Seminary; Cynthia Edenburg, The Open University of Israel;
Jan Joosten, University of Strasbourg; Reinhard G. Kratz, University of
Göttingen; Christoph Levin, University of Munich; Noam Mizrahi, Tel Aviv
University; Christophe Nihan, University of Lausanne; Thomas Römer, University
of Lausanne and Collège de France; Christopher Rollston, George Washington
University; Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Tel Aviv University; Michael Segal, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem; Jean Louis Ska, Pontifical Biblical Institute;
Jean-Pierre Sonnet, Pontifical Gregorian University; Jeffrey Stackert,
University of Chicago; Jakob Wöhrle, University of Münster; David Wright,
Brandeis University; Molly Zahn, University of Kansas.
For
more information: ias.huji.ac.il/convergence
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