Sonntag (Sunday), 31.10.2010
Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Strasse 28-30, Berlin Mitte. Vortragssaal (ehemalige Frauenempore)
19:00 Eröffnung / Opening speeches
20:00 Günter Stemberger: Frauen im Opferkult zu Jerusalem? – Did Women Actively Participate in the Sacrificial Cult of the Temple of Jerusalem?
21:00 Reception
Montag (Monday), 01.11.2010
TOPOI-Villa der Freien Universität Berlin, Hittorfstrasse 18, Berlin Dahlem
09:00-10:30 Session 1 (Chair: Tamara Or)
09:00-09:45 Dalia Marx, Tractate Qinnim: Between Margins and Center
09:45-10:30 Klaus Herrmann, Do Women have Access to the Divine Realm? Temple Ideology in Judaism
10:30-11:00 Kaffeepause / Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Session 2 (Chair: Judith Hauptman)
11:00-11:45 Aryeh Cohen, Mishkan as the Masculine to Shabbat’s Feminine
11:45-12:30 Christiane Steuer, From the Temple to the Kitchen. Laws of Im/Purity and Kashrut
12:30-14:00 Mittagspause / Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Session 3 (Chair: Eva Kiesele)
14:00-14:45 Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Women Condemned in the Temple: The Case of Sotah
14:45-15:30 Marjorie Lehman, The High Priest and his Wife: A Critique of the Yom Kippur Avodah (Sacrifice?) as Seen Through the Lens of Tractate Yoma, Chapter 1
15:30-16:00 Kaffeepause / Coffee break
16:00-18:15 Session 4 (Chair: Tirzah Meacham)
16:00-16:40 Dvora Weisberg, The Origins of Beit Honyo and the Feminization of the Priests in Tractate Menahot
16:45-17:30 Reuven Kiperwasser, The Body of the Story about the Disciples of R. Ishmael (bBekh 45a) and the Boundaries of the Fe/Male Body
17:30-17:45 Round-up (Tal Ilan)
Dienstag (Tuesday), 02.11.2010
09:00-10:30 Session 5 (Chair: Klaus Herrmann)
09:00-09:45 Federico Dal Bo, Women to "Think with": Sexual Transgressions as Heuristics in Tractate Keritot
09:45-10:30 Jane Kanarek, All are Obligated: Sacrifice, Sight, and Study
10:30-11:00 Kaffeepause / Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Session 6 (Chair: Thomas Ziem)
10:45-11:30 Sarra Lev, Metaphors of Me'ilah: The 'metaphoric' use of the word מעל in Tanakh and in Rabbinic Sources
11:30-12:15 Moshe Lavee; Birth, Seminal Emission and Conversion: Gender and Self-Control in Massekhet Bekhorot
12:30-14:00 Mittagspause / Lunch break
14:00-15.30 Session 7 (Chair: Harry Fox)
14:00-14:45 Gail Labovitz, The Omitted Adornment: Women and Men Mourning Destruction
14:45-15:30 Andreas Lehnardt, The Scent of Women. Incense and Perfume in ySheq 5:2
15.30-16:00 Kaffeepause / Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Session 8 (Chair: Mark Geller)
16:00-16:45 Monika Brockhaus, אתנן זונה ומחיר כלב: How Do the “Harlot” and the “Dog” Effect the Sacrifice (Temurah)
16:45-17:30 Tal Ilan, Males are for God, Females are for Us: Sacred and Kosher Slaughter Rhetorics in Seder Qodashim and Tractate Hullin
Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Berlin Dahlem
17:30-20:00 Round-up and Dinner