Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
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New Horizons in Jerusalem Studies: An Integrative Framework for the Analysis of the Development of Modern Jerusalem
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThis lecture presents new research that offers an integrative framework for analyzing Jerusalem’s modern development from the late Ottoman period to the present. The project utilizes a newly compiled database […]
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What’s God Playing At? Law as Performance
105 Law BuildingIn late antiquity, some Jews began to think of the Torah as a natural law — absolute, immutable, and transcending historical time. Other ancient Jews, particularly the Talmudic rabbis, resisted […]
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Sympotic Rabbis, Truth, and the Glorious Uncertainty of Law
297 Goldberg Room 225 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Talmud is famous for its labyrinthine debates and dialectical subversions. By situating the Talmud in the broad tradition of the late antique symposium, we gain insights into the rabbis’ […]
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