Jewish Divination
March 17-18, 2015
Divination is very relevant to our understanding of some specific manifestations of culture. Some of the divinatory practices still in use were introduced or re-introduced in the West by Semitic peoples, and Jews played an important role in their preservation and diffusion. This workshop is focused on the Jewish contribution to divinatory practices since the Bible to modern times. Astrology, oneiromancy, geomancy, palmistry, medical prognosis, etc. are going to be considered, as well as parallel practices in Christian and Muslim cultures. The purpose is to explore the different forms of divination among Jews, its distinctive character, and any original contribution.
Programme
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome Address |
| 9:15 a.m. | The Employment of Foreign and Exotic Lan
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guages (including Hebrew or Pseudo-Hebrew)
in Medieval Arabic and Latin divination Prof. Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute, University of London) |
| 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Divination as Transaction:
Rhetorical and Social Dimensions of
Ancient Jewish Divination Texts Prof. Michael D. Swartz (Ohio State University) |
| 11:45 a.m. | Sephardic (Judeo-Spanish) Male
and Female Folk Divination Prof. Eliezer Papo (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) |
| 12:45 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 2:15 p.m. | Jewish Oneiric Divination:
From Biblical Dreams to the Dream
Requests of the Cairo Genizah Alessia Bellusci, PhD candidate (Tel Aviv University) |
| 3:15 p.m. | Ibn Sirin in the Judaeo-Arabic Dream
Manuals from the Cairo Genizah Blanca Villuendas, PhD candidate (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid) |
| 4:15 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4:45 p.m. | Round table |
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
| 10:00 a.m. | Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Views of
Astrology as Reflected by the
Introductions to his Astrological Treatises Prof. Shlomo Sela (Bar Ilan University) |
| 11:00 a.m. | Power and Powers in Hellenistic
And Medieval Astrology Dr. Josefina Rodríguez Arribas (IKGF, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 p.m. | How horoscopes may have been
compiled in Second Temple Judaism Dr. Helen R. Jacobus (University College of London) |
| 2:30 p.m. | Remedies for possession:
A note in a manuscript found in Yemen Dr. Anne Regourd (University of Copenhagen) |
| 3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4:30 p.m. | Round table |
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International Consortium for Research in the Humanities
"Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe."
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