PSCO 59 | Law and Justice in Antiquity

Co-chairs: Reyhan Durmaz, Simcha Gross

 

All of the talks will start at 6:30 pm Eastern Time and will be conducted over Zoom, in 2021-22. You can register for the talks by e-mailing pscoseminar@sas.upenn.edu.

 

September 30, 2021

“Sacred Things between Law and Justice in Late Antiquity: Two Case Studies”

Mary Farag, Princeton Theological Seminary

 

October 28, 2021

“Documents, Places, and Practices of Women’s Incarceration in Antiquity“

Mark Letteney, University of Southern California & Matthew D. C. Larsen, University of Copenhagen

 

February 17, 2022

“Aspects of Qur’anic Law-making“

Joseph Lowry, University of Pennsylvania

 

March 17, 2022

“‘Know Before Whom You Are Standing!’ The Religious Dimension of Jurisdiction in Rabbinic Writings”

Katell Berthelot, CNRS / Aix-Marseille University

 

April 7, 2022

“Cultivating Rabbinic Expertise at the Dinner Table”

Krista Dalton, Kenyon College

 

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