Workshops and Events

Cylinder seal and modern impression: oblique lines, c. 2600–2500 BCE, Mesopotamia (CC0 Public Domain)

Aesthetics and Ancient Jewish Literature 
Upcoming
Organized and chaired by Michael A. Lyons

Texture Summer Seminar Series
Annual international workshop – St Andrews, Scotland; Cambridge, MA; or Portland, OR
Meetings to date: 2024, August 6–9; 2023, August 14-19; 2022, July 25-29; 2022, November 17-22; 2021, August 9-12; 2020, August 10-13; 2019, July 29-August 5; 2018, July 28-August 4; 2017, July 31-August 4; 2016, June 2-6

Analogical Structures in Ancient Jewish Literature 
2017, November 18-20 – Harvard University
An international workshop supported by an anonymous fund

Inner-biblical Exegesis and Literature in the Second Degree 
2016, June 3-5 – University of St Andrews

Standards of In/Coherence in Ancient Jewish Literature
2015, September 7-8 – University of St Andrews
An international workshop supported by a grant from the Carnegie Trust

Comprehension and Cognition of Ancient Jewish Literary Art
2014, October 27-28 – Harvard University
An international research workshop supported by the List Fund for Jewish Studies and the Center for the Study of World Religions