Rescheduled: Lunch Seminar: Hindy Najman

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE/TIME/LOCATION CHANGE:

Wednesday, September 13, 11am, Pettigrew Hall

The Vitality of Scripture Within and Beyond the “Canon”

Lunch Seminar with Hindy Najman, Oxford University
For UNC and Duke faculty and graduate students
Co-sponsored by: Duke Graduate Program of Religion, Hebrew Bible / Old Testament track

Lunch will be served; RSVP required.

A pre-reading will be emailed to all registered guests in advance of this seminar.

Hindy Najman (MA and PhD Harvard) is the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, a fellow at Oriel College, and the director and founder of the Centre for the Study of the Bible. At Oxford, she is a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Classics. Prior to Oxford, she held posts at the University of Notre Dame, University of Toronto, and Yale University. Her areas of research include Reading Practices in Jewish Antiquity; Comparative Philology; Formation of the Self and the Subject; Collection and Canon; Authority and Author Function; Biblical Figures and Exemplarity; Practices of Pseudepigraphy; Revelation; Diaspora and Exile; Trauma Studies; and Nature and Law. Her major publications include Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: An Analysis of 4 Ezra (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Past Renewals: Interpretive Authority, Renewed Revelation, and the Quest for Perfection (Leiden: Brill, 2010); and Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 2003).  She has published over 50 articles and has edited 18 volumes. She is currently associate editor for the Journal of Biblical Literature, the thematic issues editor for Dead Sea Discoveries, and associate editor for the Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series. She is currently completing a volume for Oxford University Press entitled, Vitality of Scripture: Reading Practices in Ancient Judaism.