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"What is the Mishnah?" an International Zoom Workshop Sponsored by Harvard University - Panel 5

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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...

"What is the Mishnah?" an International Zoom Workshop Sponsored by Harvard University - Panel 6

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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...

"What is the Mishnah?" an International Zoom Workshop Sponsored by Harvard University - Panel 7

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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...

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations introduces students to the ancient and modern peoples, languages, cultures, and societies of the Near and Middle East. Loosely defined as stretching from Morocco in the west to Iran and...

Yiftach Ofek

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My current work is the thought of Jacob Taubes (1923-1987), who is chiefly remembered today for his posthumous book The Political Theology of Paul, a political interpretation of the antinomian theology of Paul the Apostle. In this work, Taubes argues...

The Place of Ethics in Islamic Law w/ Professor Ahmed El Shamsy

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Organizer of Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents The Place of Ethics in Islamic Law Ahmed El Shamsy Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago...

The Catastrophe of Translation

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The Mahindra Center for the Humanities Rethinking Translation Seminar presents Adriana X. Jacobs Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature; Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford Adriana X...

The Textbook Tradition and Higher Research: Kātibī's Shamsiyyah on Disputed Points in Logic

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Najm al-Din al-Katibi (d. 1276) wrote a logic text for intermediate students, The Epistle on Logical Rules for Shams al-Din. It became wildly successful, read by most students in the course of their madrasah education. What made it such a bestseller? Some...

Armenian and East Christian Studies

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Photo courtesy Walters Art Museum This track focuses on the history, religion, literature, and material culture of Armenians and their relations to other East Christian traditions. It is expansive and interdisciplinary in scope, highlighting the...

Undergraduate Program Overview

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations introduces students to the ancient and modern peoples, languages, cultures, and societies of the Near/Middle East. Loosely defined as stretching from Morocco in the west to Iran and Afghanistan in...

Tal Grebel

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) has a long and rich history at Harvard. The Division of Semitic Languages, created in 1880, was precursor to NELC. Professor Crawford H. Toy taught courses that greatly expanded the...