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International conference at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, New York, on November 10-11, 2024.
Sponsored by Columbia University and Princeton University.

Click here to download the conference poster.

PROGRAM

Sunday, November 10, 2024

• 12.45 - 13.00 Greetings and opening remarks
• 13.00 - 14.30 
  • "And God created the human in his Image": Reflections on Justice in the Bible
    Amir Eshel, Stanford University
  • "A Somehow Different Violence": Justice and the Bible in Walter Benjamin's "Toward the Critique of Violence"
    Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp / Hebrew University
• 15.00 - 16.30
  • David's Inner Court: The Fictional Petition of the Wise Woman of Tekoa
    Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University
  • Bodies, Politics, and the Possibility of Reconciliation: Reflections on Antigone and Rizpah
    Clémence Boulouque, Columbia University
• 17.00 - 18.15
  • The Faces of Injustice: On Moral Outrage in the Biblical Tradition
    Moshe Halbertal, NYU / Hebrew University

Monday, November 11, 2024

• 10.00 - 11.30 
  
  • The Bible and Christian Normativity in Late Antiquity
    Emmanuel Fiano, Fordham University
  • Biblical Undertexts: The Prophetic Idiom in Russian-Jewish Political Thought around 1825
    Ofer Dynes, Columbia University
• 13.00 - 15.15
  
  • Justice and Mercy: From the Hebrew Bible to New Legal Theories
    Suzanne Stone, Yeshiva University
  • Prophetic Justice on Trial: The Bible and the Emergence of "Law and Literature"
    Shira Billet, Jewish Theological Seminary
  • Justice Reborn as Compassion: Jonah's Afterlives
    Wendy Zierler, Hebrew Union College
• 16.00 - 17.30
  • On Justice and Creation: Job between Genesis and Ecclesiastes
    Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University
  • A Brief Biblical History of Poetic Justice
    Steve Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania