15 Nov 2017 5:00pm - 7:00pm Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building

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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.

 

 

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Part of Theologies of Reading Research Group Seminar Series

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