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Messianism Symposium (details) (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:03:52 EST
From: Robert Kraft <kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <ioudaios-l@lehigh.edu>
Subject: Messianism Symposium (details)
Forwarded message:
> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 96 11:03:17 EST
> From: "Mark R. Cohen" <MRCOHEN@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU>
> Subject: symposium
> ... here are the details, courtesy of me and Peter Schaefer:
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Symposium on Messianism
>
> March 17 - 18, 1996
>
>
> Institute for Advanced Study
> School of Historical Studies
>
> Princeton University
> Program in Jewish Studies
>
> Princeton, New Jersey
>
>
> Sunday, March 17
> Princeton University
> Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School, Bowl 1
>
>
> 9:00 am - 9:15 am Harold T. Shapiro, President,
> Princeton University
>
> Opening Remarks
>
>
> 9:15 am - 10:00 am John Gager, Princeton
> University
>
> Messiahs and their Followers
>
> 10:00 am - 10:30 am BREAK
>
>
> 10:30 am - 11:15 am Michael Fishbane, University
> of Chicago
>
> Midrash and Messianism: A
> Holistic Approach
>
> 11:15 am - 11:45 am BREAK
>
>
> 11:45 am - 12:30 pm Rachel Elior, Hebrew
> University
>
> The Lubavitch Messianic
> Resurgence: The Historical
> and Mystical Background
>
>
> 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH
>
>
> 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Robert Wistrich, Hebrew
> University
>
> Theodor Herzl and Political
> Messianism
>
>
> 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm BREAK
>
> 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Moshe Idel, Hebrew University
>
> The Ronald O. Perelman Lecture Sabbatian Messianism: A New
> Approach
>
>
> Lunch (vegetarian) available for $10.75. Call by March for reser-
> vation at 609 258-4280 and mail check payable to "Princeton
> University" to Program in Jewish Studies, Jones Hall 110, Princeton
> University, Princeton NJ 08544.
>
>
> Monday, March 18
> Institute for Advanced Study
> West Building Auditorium
>
>
> 9:00 am - 9:15 am Phillip Griffiths, Director,
> Institute for Advanced Study
>
> Opening Remarks
>
>
>
> 9:15 am - 10:00 am James Tabor, University of
> North Carolina - Charlotte
>
> Patterns of the End: Textual
> Weaving from Qumran to Waco
>
> 10:00 am - 10:30 am BREAK
>
>
> 10:30 am - 11:15 am Richard Landes, Boston
> University
>
> The Jews in the Christian
> Grammar of Apocalyptical Per-
> ceptions: On the Origins of
> Popular Antisemitism in
> Eleventh-Century Europe
>
> 11:15 am - 11:45 am BREAK
>
> 11:45 am - 12:30 pm Yisrael Yuval, Hebrew
> University
>
> Jewish Messianic Expectations
> towards the Year 1240 and
> Christian Reactions
>
> 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH
>
>
> 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Yohanan Friedmann, Hebrew
> University
>
> The Ahmadiyya as a Messianic
> Movement
>
> 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm BREAK
>
>
> 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Peter Schafer, Freie
> Universitat Berlin
>
> The Andrew W. Mellon Lecture Salvation without a Messiah
>
>
> Lunch available (cafeteria buffet). Call by March 8 for reservation
> at 609 734-8317.
>
> The Symposium is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The
> Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Jewish Studies
>
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