Please find the conference poster here and the program below.
Report by Elisha Fishbane
Schedule:
Thursday, June 13
Afternoon: Arrival, Welcoming
Friday, June 14
I SCIPTURE – RESOUNDING VOICES
Chair: Navid Kermani
9:00-11:30 Ruth HaCohen / Michael Fishbane
Recitation of Tora / Tora veHaftara
12:00-13:30 Archdeacon Stephanos / Christoph Markschiess
Recitation of Psalms / Evangelium and Lectio
15:30-17:30 Abu Zaid / Angelika Neuwirth
Recitation of the Koran / Koran and Sermon
II: SCRIPTURE – EVOKING IMAGES
19:30-20:00 Almut Bruckstein
Text-Cultures as Vision and Voice
20:00-22:00 Claudio Lange / Elliot Wolfson
European Images of Islam (Slides by Claudio Lange)
Downcast Eyes? - Backlashes of True Faith
Saturday, June 15
III SCRIPTURE AND TEACHING
Bet Midrash / Madrasa / Collegium
Chair: Stefan Wild
9:00-11:00 Galit Hasan-Rokem / Moshe Halbertal
Rabbinic and Midrashic Literature – Text and Commentary
11:30-13:30 Farid Esack / Saeid Edalat
Tafsir – Koran and Commentary
15:30-17:30 Christoph Markschiess / Daniel Boyarin
Patristic Commentary
Sunday, June 16
IV SCRIPTURE AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
9:00-10:00 Keynotes: Daniel Boyarin / Abdulkader Tayob
Polis and Scripture – The (De)-Politization of Religion
10:30-13:00 Panel: Jewish and Islamic Hermeneutics as a Cultural Critique
Daniel Boyarin / Abu Zaid / Almut Bruckstein / Farid Esack / Navid Kermani