The Seminar Series is part of the German-Israel Fund (GIF) Project: Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven: Judeo-Christian Encounters and the Last Lingua Sacra of Europe.

Program

20.4.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Hindy Najman
27.4.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Translatio: Problems of Reconstruction
Rainer Kampling
4.5.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Solomon, Ashmedai, Kitovras and others
Reuven Kiperwasser
11.5.2016
18:00 - 20:00
The heavenly ladder. Transformations of Gen 28 in the apocryphal “Ladder of Jacob”
Christfried Böttrich
Dieter Fahl
Sabine Fahl
18.5.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Depicting Heaven in Medieval Kabbalah: Visible Maps of the Invisible
Giulio Busi
25.5.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Heavenly Ascent in the Apocalypses: Genre and Its Discontents
Martha Himmelfarb
1.6.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Once Again Elisha\'s Visit to Heaven: A New Reading of the Story
Daniel Boyarin
8.6.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Joseph - A Demon in the Rabbinic Study House
Tal Ilan
15.6.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Wakers not Watchers
Markham J. Geller
22.6.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Heavenly Journeys in Byzantium
Emmanouela Grypeou
29.6.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Biblical allusions and quotations in the literature of Russian Modernism
Roman Timenchik
6.7.2016
18:00 - 20:00
Visitor(s) from Heaven: The Annunciations in the Gospel of Luke 1
Glenn W. Most
13.7.2016
18:00 - 20:00
The divine messengers and the narrating of world history in Slavia Orthodoxa. Preliminary observations
Dimiter Peev