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Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar 2024 - 2025

Past Activities 2022- 2023

Past Activities 2009 - 2022

  • May 18, 2022
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Dr. Drew Longacre, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen Fellow, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
    “Scribes and their Psalters: Situating Ancient Psalm Collections in Their Scribal Contexts"
    18:00–19:30 Israel time // 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. EDT.
    To join the meeting, please click here.
    For the Program please click here
  • March 23, 2022
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Prof. Marcello Fidanzio, Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano
    “Material Context of Dead Sea Scrolls: The Qumran Caves Publication Project">
    18:00 Israel time; 12:00 pm EST
    For the Program please click here
  • April 6, 2022
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Dr. Jonathan Darby, PhD candidate, University of Manchester, Orion Research Scholar,
    “Singing, Performance and Textuality in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice"
    18:00 Israel time; 12:00 pm EST.
    For the Program please click here
  • March 23, 2022
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Prof. Marcello Fidanzio, Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano
    “Material Context of Dead Sea Scrolls: The Qumran Caves Publication Project">
    18:00 Israel time; 12:00 pm EST
    For the Program please click here
  • January 12, 2022
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Prof. Jean-Sébastien Rey, Department of Theology and the Center of Research “Écritures” - University of Lorraine
    “A Critical Look Back at our Forthcoming Critical Edition of the Hebrew Manuscripts of Ben Sira"
    19:00 Israel time, 12:00 p.m. EST
    Chair: Prof. Menahem Kister- Departments of Bible and Talmud, The Hebrew University
    The lecture will be held in English.
    For the recording of the lecture, click here
  • December 22, 2021
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Dr. Michael B. Johnson, Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow and Orion Visiting Scholar:
    “Generating Data for the Material Reconstruction of 4QHa: A 3-D Modeling Approach” (In English)
    19:00 Israel time, 12:00 p.m. EST
    For the recording of the lecture, click here
  • November 17, 2021
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Prof. Devorah Dimant, Departments of Bible and Jewish History, University of Haifa:
    “Tobit and the ‘Torah for Exile’ in Light of the Qumran Texts” (In English)
    19:00 Israel time, 12:00 p.m. EST
    Please contact the Orion Center to register for the seminar.
    For the recording of the lecture, click here
  • April 27, 2021
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Asaf Gayer, PhD candidate, Department of Bible, University of Haifa, Orion Research Scholar:
    “A New Material Reconstruction of 4QIsaiahc (4Q57): The Question of Functionality and Usage of the Scroll. ” (In English)
    18:00–19:30 Israel time; 11:00–12:30 pm EDT.
    For the recording of the lecture, click here
  • March 16, 2021
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Prof. Noam Mizrahi, Department of Bible, The Hebrew University
    Topic: “Towards a New Interpretation of the Cycle of Tongues in the Eighth Sabbath Song ”(in English)
    18:15–20:00 Israel time; 12:15 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EST
    For the recording of the lecture, click here
  • January 12, 2021
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Dr. Hila Dayfani, Orion Center Matlow Scholar
    Topic: “Rethinking the Text-Critical Value of 4QpaleoGenEx(l)”
    17:30–19:00 Israel time; 10:30-12:00 pm EST
    For the recording of the lecture, click here
  • June 2, 2020
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Dr. Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority and Orion Matlow Scholar,
    Topic: “The Kittim and the Historical Context of the War Scroll” (In English)
    18:00-19:30 Israel time; 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST
    For the recording of the lecture, click here
    To read the invitation, please click here

  • June 17, 2020
    International Greenfield Scholars Seminar
    Zoom meeting
    Avigail Aravna, doctoral student, Department of Bible, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Orion scholarship recipient
    Topic: “Exegesis and Reception of Isaiah 24-27 in the Bible and in Postbiblical Literature” (In Hebrew)
    12:30-14:00 Israel time
    For the recording of the lecture, click here
    To read the invitation, please click here

  • January 5, 2019
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    14:30 - 16:00
    Dr Adina Moshavi, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Bar-Ilan University: “ולוא יעשה כל דבר: Is דבר a Negative Polarity Item in the Language of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben-Sira”
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • January 6, 2020, 2019
    Dead Sea Scrolls Colloquium, in conjunction with the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies
    16:00–19:00.
    “New Readings in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
    Prof. Michael Segal, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University, Opening remarks (in Hebrew)
    Prof. Eibert Tigchelaar (KU Leuven): “A Garland of Newly-Identified Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls” (in English)
    Dr. Eshbal Ratzon (Ariel University): “How Many Calendars at Qumran? New Evidence from a Digital Reconstruction of 4Q318” (in Hebrew)
    Asaf Gayer (doctoral student, University of Haifa) “New Joins in the Section on ‘Wisdom of the Hands’ in 4QInstruction and their Implications for the Structure of the Composition” (in Hebrew)
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • December 12, 2019
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:30–14:00
    Dr. Michael Brooks Johnson, Azrieli International and SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Orion Visiting Scholar : “Farewell to Teacher Hymns and Community Hymns: A Generic Reassessment of the Hodayot” (in English)
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • June 12, 2019
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:30–14:00
    Dr. Hillel Mali, Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University; Orion scholarship recipient:
    "Double Impurity from Qumran to Rabbinic Literature "
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • May 14, 2019
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:30–14:00
    Ari Silbermann, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Bible, Bar-Ilan University; 2018 Orion Matlow Scholar:
    Harlots, Demons, and Cosmology: The Second Temple Context of 4Q184 (in English)
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • April 4, 2019
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:30–14:00
    Joshua M. Matson, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Religion, Florida State University; research associate, Scripta Qumranica Electronica, University of Haifa;
    Orion scholarship recipient: “New Reconstructions of Two Manuscripts of the Twelve Prophets from Qumran, and Thoughts about Nomenclature” (in English)
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • March 26, 2019
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:30–14:00
    Richard W. Medina, Ph.D candidate, Department of Hebrew Language, Hebrew University;
    Orion scholarship recipient: “The Order of the Direct Object in Qumran Hebrew” (in Hebrew)
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • January 15th, 2019
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15–14:00
    Adam Lloyd-Alfia
    "4QpPsa (4Q171) in its Exegetical Context: A Workshop in Reading a Sectarian Interpretation of Psalm 37"
    To read the invitation, please click here
    To read the poster, please click here


  • November 27th, 2018
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    14:30–16:00
    Prof. Timothy H. Lim - New College, University of Edinburgh
    "A New Reading in the Habakkuk Pesherand its Implications for the Practices of the Kittim" (in English)
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • May 23, 2018
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    10:15-12:00
    הלל מאלי - המחלקה לתלמוד, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן
    will lecture on: "שלוש כיתות ופסח אחד: הקרבת הפסח במקדש, מספר היובלים אל הספרות התנאית"
    To read the invitation, please click here


  • January 10, 2018
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    10:15-12:00
    Dr. Yakir Paz - Buber Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University will lecture on: "The Torah of Moses? The Torah as an Authorless Text in Tannaitic Literature in Light of Second Temple"
    To read the invitation, please click here
    To read the poster, please click here
  • November 8, 2017
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00
    Prof. David Lambert - Dept. of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, EURIAS Fellow will lecture on: "Between Philology and Philosophy: Problems in the History of the Self and Bible Translation"
    To read the invitation, please click here
    To read the poster, please click here

  • April 26, 2017
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    16:15-18:00
    Prof. Ruth Langer, Dept. of Theology, Boston College, Lady Davis Fellow: -New Perspectives on the Antiquity of Obligatory Prayer in Israel- (in Hebrew)
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • March 22, 2017
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    16:00-17:30
    Dr. Nadav Sharon,Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University: -The -Vision of the Four Kingdoms- at Qumran? A Reexamination- (in Hebrew)
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • January 17, 2017
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00
    Prof. Gary Anderson Hesburgh, Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Notre Dame:
    "The Place of the Commandments in the Book of Tobit and the World of Legal Piety in Second Temple Judaism"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • December 5, 2017
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    14:15-16:00
    Prof. Steven Fraade - Department of Religious Studies, Yale University will lecture on: "Reflections on Writing a Dead Sea Scroll Commentary to the Damascus Document"
    To read the invitation, please click here
    To read the poster, please click here
  • December 7, 2016
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00
    Prof. Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita, Boston University, Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University:
    "How Jewish is God? Divine Ethnicity in the Letters of Paul"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • June 1, 2016
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    14:15-16:00
    Dr. Shira Golani, Dept. of Bible, The Hebrew University, Orion Postdoctoral Fellow:
    "Lists as Manifestations of Scribal Techniques and Cultural Memory inSecond Temple Judaism: Some Observations from the Dead Sea Scrolls"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • December 16, 2015
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    14:00-16:00
    Prof. Menahem Kister, Depts. of Bible and Talmud, Hebrew University: "Qumran, Jubilees, and the Fragment, 2 Cor 6:14-7:1" (in Hebrew)
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • March 18, 2015
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-13:45
    Prof. Dr. Lutz Doering(Institutum Judaicum and Cluster of Excellence, "Religion and Politics," University of Munster):
    "Jeremiah, Baruch and the Development of Early Jewish Diaspora Letters"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • December 31, 2014
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:30-14:00
    Prof. Hindy Najman(Yale University):
    "Wisdom and Cosmology in 4QInstruction"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • June 1, 2014
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    16:15-18:00
    Prof. Jan Joosten(University of Strasbourg):
    "The Original Language of the Psalms of Solomon"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • April 30, 2014
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00
    Prof. Betsy Halpern-Amaru (Professor Emeritus of Religion, Vassar College):
    "Redemption Revealed: Behind the Scenes of the Exodus"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • February 25, 2014
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    16:15-18:00 p.m.
    Prof. Menahem Kister (Jerusalem University):
    Paul and the Hebrew Bible in Light of Writings of the Second Temple Period and Midrashim
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • January 9, 2014
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-2:00 p.m.
    Dr. Jonathan Ben-Dov (Department of Bible, University of Haifa ):
    "The Aramaic Copies of the Enochic Astronomical Book: Codicology and Ideology" (in Hebrew)
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • December 31, 2013
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    4:15-6:00 p.m.
    Prof. Vered Noam, Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel-Aviv University :
    "Why did the Heavenly Voice Speak Aramaic? Or: On Historical Chronicles from Qumran to Rabbinic Literature" (in Hebrew)
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • November 14, 2013
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
    Prof. Maxine Grossman, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Maryland:
    "Body, Emotion, and Sectarian Relationships" (in English)
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • April 7, 2013
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00
    Dr. Ryan E. Stokes, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, U.S.A
    "Satan and Sin in Jubilees,1 Enoch, and the Dead Sea Scrolls"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • March 13, 2013
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00
    Prof. Eileen Schuller, Dept. of Religious Studies McMaster University, Canada
    "Column IV of 1QHa and Issues in the Current Study of the Hodayot"
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • December 26, 2012 - POSTPONED -
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00
    Dr. Eshbal Ratson, Haifa University; Orion Center Matlow Scholar
    "The Structure of the Universe in 1 Enoch and its Sources" (in Hebrew)
  • November 28, 2012
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00
    Dr. Michael Segal, Department of Bible, The Hebrew University;
    Dr. Serge Ruzer, Department of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University
    "The `Son of Man` from Daniel to the Gospels" (in Hebrew)
    To read the invitation, please click here
  • April 17, 2012
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:30-14:00
    Prof. Loren T. Stuckenbruck, (Richard Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies Princeton Theological Seminary)
    -Conflicting Stories: The Spirit Origin of Jesus- Birth- (in Hebrew).
    To read the invitation, please click here
    • For the abstract please click here.
  • January 19, 2012
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    10:15 a.m-12 p.m.
    Prof. Vered Noam, (Tel-Aviv University) -The Story of King Jannaeus in b. Qiddushin 66a-A Pharisaic Reply to Sectarian Polemic- (in Hebrew).
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • December 28, 2011
    An Evening Colloquium - Beit Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 501
    The event celebrates the publication of two new books by Orion founder Michael E. Stone:
    Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views
    Noah and His Book(s), edited with Aryeh Amihay and Vered Hillel
    For more information please click here
  • December 7, 2011
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-2:00 p.m.
    Dr. Atar Livneh, (University of Haifa and the Orion Center) --With My Sword and Bow-: Literature, Exegesis, and History in Jubilees- (in Hebrew).
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • May 29, 2011
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    10:15-12:00 a.m
    Prof. Andrei Orlov, Marquette University, U.S.A
    "What is Below": The Mysteries of Leviathan in Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Mishnah Hagiga 2:1

    Dr. Reuven Kiperwasser, The Open University
    Leviathan and Behemoth from the Enochic to the Amoriac Literature: Midrashic Perspectives

    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • May 19, 2011
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00 a.m
    Dr. Cana Werman, Ben Gurion University
    The Book of Jubilees: Covert Interpretation in Overt Rewriting
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • April 7, 2011
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    10:30-12:00 a.m Prof. Jan Joosten, Universit- Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France, Facult- de th-ologie protestante
    The Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (HTLS): Reflections on a projected research tool
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • November 10, 2010
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-2:00 p.m. Prof. Menahem Kister, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Shraga Bar-On, The department of Jewish thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Yakir Paz, The department of Talmud, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    -The Lord-s Allotment is his People- From Ancient Post-Biblical Interpretation to Late Midrash(in Hebrew)
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • December 15, 2010
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-2:00 p.m. Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz - scholars- seminar Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    -Josephus on the Conquest of Pella (Antiq. 13.397) : On Conversion and Circumcision in the Hashmonean Period
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • May 11
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-2:00 p.m. Dr. Guy Stiebel (The Hebrew University ; Orion Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2009): -New Findings in Qumran Archaeology- (in Hebrew) To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • March 11
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-2:00 p.m. Dr. Liora Goldman (Departments of Bible and Jewish History, University of Haifa ; Orion Matlow Scholar): -4Q408: A Praise for God- (in Hebrew)
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • December 16, 2009
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00. Dr. Mats Eskhult - Associate Professor of Semitic Languages, Dept. of Linguistics and Philology (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden): -Circumstantial Phrases and Clauses in Late Biblical Hebrew In the Light of Classical Biblical Hebrew and Other Semitic Languages- (English)
    Chairperson: Prof. (Emeritus) Avi Hurvitz Depts. of Bible and Hebrew Language, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    To read the English invitation, please click here
  • December 1, 2009
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00. Dr. Moshe Morgenstern, Department of Hebrew Language, University of Haifa: -Jewish Literature and Mandaic Literature- (in Hebrew)
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • March 18, 2009
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00. Dr. Esther Eshel (Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University): -Women in the Genesis Apocryphon- (in Hebrew)
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • April 23, 2009
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00. Prof. Menahem Kister (Department of Talmud, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): -The Growth of a Text: Dynamics of Textual Development in Serekh Hayahad)- (in Hebrew).
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • May 19, 2009
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00. Dr. Ariel Feldman (Department of Bible, University of Haifa; Jean Matlow Orion Fellowship recipient): -The Reworking of 1-2 Kings in 4Q382- (in Hebrew)
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here
  • June 10, 2009
    Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars- Seminar
    12:15-14:00. Dr. Ronnie Goldstein (Department of Bible, The Hebrew University Jerusalem): -A New Look at Two Late Babylonian Tablets- (in Hebrew)
    To read the Hebrew invitation, please click here