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X-WR-CALNAME:Haskell Lecture - Humor and Play in Rabbinic Literature: Laugh
 ing at God
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DESCRIPTION:A Haskell talk by Professor Christine Hayes\n\nIn many legends 
 and stories\, the Talmudic rabbis depict God in shockingly human terms: th
 e divine being wears tefillin and prays\, studies Torah\, weeps\, makes mi
 stakes\, and suffers correction by humans.  Were the rabbis just having fu
 n? Or were these anthropomorphic representations of God grounded in a subv
 ersive resistance to prevailing Greco-Roman ideas about the divine? This l
 ecture considers the ancient rabbis' use of humor to explore and express t
 he "seriously" distinctive character of Israel's God.\n\nChristine Hayes i
 s Sterling Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies\, Yale University\, where s
 he taught courses in talmudic and midrashic studies\, Bible\, and ancient 
 Jewish history and culture. Her publications include Between the Babylonia
 n and Palestinian Talmuds (1997 Salo Baron prize)\; Gentile Impurities and
  Jewish Identities (2003 National Jewish Book Award finalist)\; What’s D
 ivine about Divine Law: Early Perspectives? (2015 National Jewish Book Awa
 rd\; 2016 American Publishers Association Award\; 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Bo
 ok Award)\; three edited collections\; two introductory volumes (The Emerg
 ence of Judaism and Introduction to the Bible)\; and numerous journal arti
 cles. Hayes has been the Gruss Visiting Professor of Jewish law at Harvard
  Law School and U Penn Carey Law School\, and has held visiting positions 
 at the Buchmann Faculty of Law in Tel Aviv and Reichman University. She is
  a Senior Research Fellow with the Shalom Hartman Institute of North Ameri
 ca\, and past President of the Association for Jewish Studies.
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LOCATION:Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall\, Science Center
SUMMARY:Haskell Lecture - Humor and Play in Rabbinic Literature: Laughing a
 t God
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 play-in-rabbinic-literature-laughing-at-god
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