Please join the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures for a workshop with Professor Lynn Kaye, Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought at Brandeis University.
Professor Kaye will workshop material from her new book in progress titled Power and the People: Lay Advocacy and Judicial Formation in Talmudic Narrative. This workshop is geared toward faculty and graduate students, but all are welcome. Participants are asked to read a text in advance, which will be circulated the week prior to the workshop. A pizza lunch will follow the workshop. Please RSVP through the link below to save your space.
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Lynn Kaye is an Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought at Brandeis University. Her areas of interest include Rabbinic law and narrative, philosophies of time, legal theory, and critical and literary theory. She completed graduate training in Hebrew Bible at the University of Cambridge and in Rabbinic Literature at NYU, during which time she held fellowships at Cardozo Law School and NYU Law School. She is on the editorial board of Oqimta: Studies in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature. She has taught courses in rabbinic literature, Classical Hebrew grammar and theories of time.
