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January 2017
An Allusion to the Bible in Early Shīʽī Theological Discourse: Some Thoughts
Dr. Roy Vilozny (University of Haifa) Invitation
Find out more »“The Romans will win!” A Qur’ānic prophecy (Q 30:2-7) in light of 7th c. political eschatology
Dr. Tommaso Tesei (The Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study, Jerusalem) Invitation
Find out more »The Yemenite Tarnsmission Channel of Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir
Dr. Doron Ya'acov (The Academy of the Hebrew Language and Herzog College)
Find out more »February 2017
TAU-Halle 2017 Joint Workshop
Talks by Arik Sadan, Meriva Nadler-Akirav, Meria Polliack and Sivan Nir
Find out more »May 2017
Yefet ben Eli’s Exegesis of the Books of Ezra
Mr. Yair Zoran הזמנה-למפגש-הרביעי-של-חוג-בנעט-קיסטר-תשעז
Find out more »June 2017
A Reexamination of Saadia Gaon’s Dictum “Humankind is more sublime than angels”
Dr. Nabih Bashir (Biblia Arabica Project) Invitation
Find out more »Jewish Arabic Biblical Folk Tales from the Firkovich Collection
Dr. Rachel Hasson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) הרצאה-דר-רחל-חסון
Find out more »July 2017
Jewish Tragedy and Islamic Identity: The Image of the Jews as Portrayed in Muslim Narratives Dealing with the Destruction of Jerusalem
Yolanda Yavor (Tel Aviv University)
Find out more »‘And Esther found Favor in the eyes of all who saw her’: ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Character of Esther
Sivan Nir (Tel Aviv University)
Find out more »September 2017
Biblia Arabica Series, volume 5
Volume 5 of the Biblia Arabica series is now available online and in print from Brill: Hjälm, Miriam L. Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Biblia Arabica 5. Leiden: Brill, 2017. DOI: 10.1163/9789004347403. ISBN: 9789004347403 (online), 9789004347168 (print). From the publisher: Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition offers recent findings on the reception, translation and use of the Bible in Arabic among Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims from the early Islamic…
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