# "What is the Mishnah?" an International Zoom Workshop Sponsored by Harvard University - Panel 4 #### calendar\_today Date and Time **January 14, 2021** 11:00AM - 01:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **On Zoom** **Links to join the individual sessions are pasted below, please register in advance:** (after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting) **Panel 1: The Mishnah and History - Tuesday Jan 5, 2021 11:00AM - 1PM EST** **Shaye Cohen: Opening Remarks** **Martin Goodman: The Presentation of the Past in the Mishnah** **Hayim Lapin: The Mishnah as a Historical Document [https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuduiprTMtEt3cEaCPtrMb5g-u\_9-2Ui6j](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJEuduiprTMtEt3cEaCPtrMb5g-2Du-5F9-2D2Ui6j&d=DwMF_Q&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Y2U1x71MIfqke1yZ9q7AkQ75CzsdOJZu-2qZiV2ZHRc&m=RbVZPssjCP9u9BErfq5lmi29NoibfY-eFtVB_0qhHKI&s=TLCTIwTUillX658jfG2RvC5UMro9bzx6ci_OUnk8AbA&e=) **Panel 2: The Mishnah in its Historical Context - Thursday, Jan 7, 2021 11:00 AM - 1PM EST** **Vered Noam: Mishnah and the Dead Sea Scrolls** **Catherine Hezser: Mishnah and Greco-Roman Law **Jonathan Milgram: Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law [https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcO6przkjEtCrFH0TErF-a4sYmett3a8N](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJIkcO6przkjEtCrFH0TErF-2Da4sYmett3a8N&d=DwMF_Q&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Y2U1x71MIfqke1yZ9q7AkQ75CzsdOJZu-2qZiV2ZHRc&m=RbVZPssjCP9u9BErfq5lmi29NoibfY-eFtVB_0qhHKI&s=O12KoHi7IbKeIc_BKQ2y04b-3A2HtlqfLocq-paJWJs&e=) **\*\*NOTE NEW DATE FOR PANEL 5\*\* Panel 5: Mishnaic Discourse - Monday January 11, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST** **Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal: Mishnaic Hebrew/Language Beth Berkowitz: Rhetoric (including mahloket) Moshe Shoshan: Narrative [https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqdequrjIjGN0C1FLg5vFszqAryoXhxanb](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJEqdequrjIjGN0C1FLg5vFszqAryoXhxanb&d=DwMF_Q&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Y2U1x71MIfqke1yZ9q7AkQ75CzsdOJZu-2qZiV2ZHRc&m=RbVZPssjCP9u9BErfq5lmi29NoibfY-eFtVB_0qhHKI&s=3ZlHY2nKLM-LvTL5eRtMn8v0sA4u-Ll7kGm5n2ZJSa4&e=) **Panel 3: The Social World of the Mishnah - Tuesday January 12, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST** **Adiel Schremer: Heretics Ishai Rosen-Zvi: Gentiles Gail Labovitz: Women and Gender [https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0od-CvpzovG9MRa7eg3RwTWmzOBkWgMpH2](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJ0od-2DCvpzovG9MRa7eg3RwTWmzOBkWgMpH2&d=DwMF_Q&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Y2U1x71MIfqke1yZ9q7AkQ75CzsdOJZu-2qZiV2ZHRc&m=RbVZPssjCP9u9BErfq5lmi29NoibfY-eFtVB_0qhHKI&s=TbxVbbw0ywUz87k60LB5Fv3N5B3XXTpwJR4lWUqrcy0&e=) **Panel 4: The Mishnah in its Literary Context - Thursday January 14, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST** **Yair Furstenberg: The Literary Evolution of the Mishnah **Shamma Friedman: Mishnah and Tosefta Azzan Yadin-Israel: Mishnah and Tannaitic Midrash [https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsceqoqTktGdL8GsJJFGcKPDBZbMwi84n1](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJwsceqoqTktGdL8GsJJFGcKPDBZbMwi84n1&d=DwMF_Q&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Y2U1x71MIfqke1yZ9q7AkQ75CzsdOJZu-2qZiV2ZHRc&m=RbVZPssjCP9u9BErfq5lmi29NoibfY-eFtVB_0qhHKI&s=a6lPic6bWD8c_CkPC53dqof1DURh1K84wAyqmTGn4uo&e=) **Panel 6: Composition, Transmission and Reception - Tuesday January 19, 2021 11:00 AM- 1:00 PM EST** **David Stern: Early Transmission/Publication of the Mishnah Uziel Fuchs: From the Geonim to the Age of Print Chanan Gafni: From the Age of Print to the Nineteenth Century [https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqd-6sqTktH9dz6157bh1tqpR6n-dd1zok](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJIqd-2D6sqTktH9dz6157bh1tqpR6n-2Ddd1zok&d=DwMF_Q&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Y2U1x71MIfqke1yZ9q7AkQ75CzsdOJZu-2qZiV2ZHRc&m=RbVZPssjCP9u9BErfq5lmi29NoibfY-eFtVB_0qhHKI&s=zFF7dl_-dMVujQ-gh4Fs1lDr6xLePL_IK2Id2IL5dzw&e=) **Panel 7: The Mishnah and Judaism - Thursday January 21, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST** **\*\*NOTE SPEAKER CHANGE\*\* Jonathan Klawans: Priests and Pietists Chaya Halberstam: Mishnah and Torah **Sarit Gribetz: Holiness in the Mishnah Naftali Cohn: Mishnah as Utopia [https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkf-yurj0iH90AxAxDU\_ES4QCE5ccTlKy9](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJAkf-2Dyurj0iH90AxAxDU-5FES4QCE5ccTlKy9&d=DwMF_Q&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Y2U1x71MIfqke1yZ9q7AkQ75CzsdOJZu-2qZiV2ZHRc&m=RbVZPssjCP9u9BErfq5lmi29NoibfY-eFtVB_0qhHKI&s=S9FY1tvzax0YYV0wH9H6OfEOq36WkuC_xAdtMPj5m_k&e=) \*\*\* **Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal**, Associate Professor, Department of Hebrew Language, Hebrew University **Beth Berkowitz**, Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor, Department of Religion, Barnard College **Shaye JD Cohen**, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University **Naftali Cohn**, Professor, Department of Religions and Cultures, Concordia University, Montreal **Shamma Friedman**, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary **Uziel Fuchs**, Senior lecturer Department of Oral Torah, Herzog College and Department of Talmud, Bar Ilan University **Yair Furstenberg**, Assistant Professor and Chair, Talmud Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem **Chanan Gafni**, Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev **Martin Goodman**, Professor of Jewish Studies, Fellow of Wolfson College, and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford **Sarit Gribetz**, Associate Professor of Classical Judaism, Department of Theology, Fordham University **Chaya Halberstam**, Associate Professor of Judaism, Department of Religious Studies, King's University College at Western University, Canada **Catherine Hezser**, Professor of Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London **Jonathan Klawans**, Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, Boston University **Gail Labovitz**, Professor of Rabbinic Studies, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University **Hayim Lapin**, Robert H Smith Professor of Jewish Studies and History and Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland **Vered Noam**, Professor of Talmud, Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel Aviv University **Jonathan Milgram**, Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Department of Talmud and Rabbinics, The Jewish Theological Seminary **Ishay Rosen-Zvi**, Professor of Rabbinic Literature, Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel-Aviv University **Adiel Schremer**, Professor of Jewish History, The Israel & Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar Ilan University **Moshe Shoshan**, Senior Lecturer, The Joseph and Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University **David Stern**, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University **Azzan Yadin-Israel**, Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - 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