Conf/Prog - The Bible in the Renaissance, 22-25 May 2017, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM

ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

FONDAZIONE PER LE SCIENZE RELIGIOSE GIOVANNI XXIII

BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY

THE LECHTER INSTITUTE FOR LITERARY RESEARCH

The Bible in the Renaissance

May 22-25, 2017

All lectures will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, on the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus

Organizer:

• Yaakov-Akiva Mascetti (Bar-Ilan University)

Scientific Committee:

• Noam Flinker (Haifa University & The Technion)
• Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• William Kolbrener (Bar-Ilan University)
• Jenn Lewin (Haifa University & The Technion)

Program

Monday, 22 May

09:00 - 09:30: Registration

09:30 - 10:30: Opening Speeches and Acknowledgments

• Chair: Yaakov Mascetti (Department of Comparative Literature) 
• Opening and Acknowledgments

10:30 - 11:30: Keynote Lecture I 

• John Monfasani (State University of New York (SUNY)) 
• "In Defense of Erasmus's Critics"

11:30 - 11:45: Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00: Historical Perspective I: The Jews and the Bible in the Renaissance 

• Sara Offenberg (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)։ 
• “'When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do': On Some Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts of the Bible in Renaissance Italy" 
• Debra Kaplan (Bar-Ilan University) 
• "The Bible, Gender, and Early Modern Solicitations for Charity" 
• Anna Nizza (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) 

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30: Historical Perspectives II 

• Jeffrey Miller (Montclair State University) 
• Judith Maltby (University of Oxford) 
• "'Hearing the Word': the Bible and Public Worship in Post-Reformation England" 
• Alec Ryrie (Durham University) 
• "Reason, Inspiration and Doubt in Protestant Views of Scripture's Authority"

15:30 - 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:15: Historical Perspectives III 

• Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester) 
• "The Renaissance Bible and Channels of Influence" 
• Raz Chen-Morris (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 
• "'Allegories Lost': Reading the Bible and Observing Nature in Early Modern Europe" 
• Serena Di Nepi (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") 

20:00 - 22:30։ Reception

Tuesday, 23 May

09:00 - 09:15։ Coffee Break

09:15 - 10:15 Keynote Lecture II

• James Nohrnberg (University of Virginia)
• "'Witness and Allusion': Renarrativizing and Re- plotting Scripture in the Italian and English Poets, from Dante to Milton"

10:15 - 10:45։ Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:30 Historical Perspectives IV 

• Jon Whitman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 
• “Reversing the Roles in Early Modern Christian Thought: Jews, Christians, and the ‘Literal Sense’ of Scripture” 
• Jonathan Stavsky (Tel Aviv University) 
• "Scripture and Literature: Biblical Memes and Their Medieval Afterlives" 
• Alison Knight (University of Cambridge) 
• “The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the Most Part According to Tremellius”’ 
• Kirsten Macfarlane (Oxford University) 
• "'Translating the ‘Hebraeo-Hellenic Apostles': Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) and the intellectual contexts of the English New Testament"

12:30 - 13:30։ Լunch

13:30 - 15:00։ Shakespeare and the Bible 

• Thomas Fulton (Rutgers University) 
• Kirsten Poole (University of Delaware) 
• “Hamlet’s Puns and Allegorical Hermeneutics” 
• Steven Marx (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
• "Shakespeare reading Paul: Pious and Impious Fraud in The Winter’s Tale”

15:00 - 15:15։ Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:45։ The Bible in Late-Medieval and Renaissance

• Drama 
• Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) 
• "Monarch, Maiden, and Fool: The Book of Esther in Early Modern English, German and Yiddish
• Sharon Aronson-Lehavi (Bar-Ilan University)
• Yair Lipshitz (Tel Aviv University)
• "From Text to Textile: Biblical Allusion and Stage Costumes in Leone de' Sommi's 'Comedy of Betrothal'"

10:15 - 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:15 The Bible in English Renaissance Literature and Early-Modern Political Thought and Theology 

• Martin Elsky (Brooklyn College – CUNY) 
• Rocco Coronato (University of Padova) 
• "'Head Carrier': Shakespeare and the Baroque Judith" 
• William Kolbrener (Bar-Ilan University) 
• Travis DeCook (Carleton University) 
• "The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Theology"

12:15 - 13:15: Lunch

13:15 - 14:45: The Bible in English Renaissance Literature I 

• Peter Herman (San Diego State University) 
• “Back to Basics: Samson Agonistes and the Book of Judges Revisited” 
• David Marno (University of California, Berkeley) 
• "Psalm Translations and Devotional Poetry in Early-Modern England" 
• Noam Flinker (University of Haifa) 
• "Homer and the Rewriting the Hebrew Bible: George Chapman and John Bunyan"

14:45 - 15:00: Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30: The Bible in English Renaissance Literature II 

• Feisal Mohamed (City University of New York) 
• “Uzzah, Hobbes, and the Plight of the Modern Subject”
• Beatrice Groves (Oxford University) 
• "The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature" 
• Jeffrey Shoulson (University of Connecticut) 
• “Holy Land Maps and Jewish History in Early Modern Bibles”

16:30 - 16:45: Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:15: The Scriptures on the Stage 

• Tovi Bibring (French Studies) 
• "The Art of Biblical Phrase in the Service of the Art of Seduction: Imanu'el Ha-Romi as a case study"
• Jenn Lewin (University of Haifa)
• Abigail Marcus (University of Chicago)

Thursday, 25 May

Excursions - Old City of Jerusalem and Galilee