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'"
16:45 - 17:05: Coffee Break
17:05 - 18:05: John Milton and the Bible
- Noam Reisner (Tel Aviv University)
- "Rethinking Milton's Hebraic God"
- Tzachi Zamir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- “Paradise Lost and Contemporary Philosophy of Literature”
- Jason Rosenblatt (Georgetown University)
- "Synthesizing Imaginations: John Selden and John Milton"
20:30 - 22:45: Biblical Dinner at "Eucalyptus"
Wednesday, 24 May
09:00 - 09:15: Coffee Break
09:15 - 10:15 Keynote Lecture III
- Debora Shuger (University of California, Los Angeles)
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