15 Nov 2017 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building |
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Description
Free event but Online Registration is required for this event. Fully booked. If you want to be on the waiting list please click here
Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)
Andrea Schatz (King's College London)
Contrary to the Enlightenment view that Biblical commentaries ought to establish the definitive meaning of ambiguous statements, pre-modern traditions, such as the Jewish Midrash, used commentaries to establish multiplicity of meanings and acknowledge ambiguity as the nature of truth. This session asks how the ‘truth’ of a text is transformed when it is read through a pre-modern hermeneutic.
Papers are pre-circulated and should be read in advance.
Please contact Dr Ruth Jackson (rej34@cam.ac.uk) to sign up and receive the readings by email.
Open to all. Limited places. Online registration required. This event is fully booked now.
Part of Theologies of Reading Research Group Seminar Series
Administrative assistance: gradfac@crassh.cam.ac.uk