#  Lecture: “Bodies of Poetry: Tyre’s Failure in Ezekiel 27” 

 



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 **February 12, 2020** 

 04:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

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 **CMES 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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 The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations warmly invites you to attend an upcoming public lecture with **Dr. Jacqueline Vayntrub, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School**, entitled **“Bodies of Poetry: Tyre’s Failure in Ezekiel 27”**

 **Abstract:** In Ezekiel 27, the Phoenician island city of Tyre is depicted as a ship. Yet the poetry takes the literary form of body descriptions. As a ship, Tyre’s heavy trade wealth determines its seaworthiness. As a body, Tyre’s interactions with others bring about initial success but ultimately, the city’s demise. Together, these images produce a surprising statement on why political communities fail.

 **Speaker biography:** Jacqueline Vayntrub is assistant professor at Yale Divinity School and currently a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of *Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms* (Routledge 2019) and articles on poetry, wisdom, and the history of biblical interpretation in *Harvard Theological Review*, *Vetus Testamentum*, *Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft*, *Biblical Interpretation*, *Catholic Bible Quarterly*, and *Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel*. Volumes in the Yale Anchor Bible Reference Library and the SBL Writings from the Ancient World series are forthcoming.



 

 



 

 

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