The Bible in the Renaissance - Final Draft of the Program

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FONDAZIONE PER LE SCIENZE RELIGIOSE GIOVANNI XXIII VICE-PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH – BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY THE LECHTER INSTITUTE FOR LITERARY RESEARCH – BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY THE LEWIS FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES IN THE HUMANITIES – BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY The Bible in the Renaissance May 22-25, 2017 All lectures will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, on the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus Organizer: Yaakov Akiva Mascetti (Bar-Ilan University) Scientific Committee: Noam Flinker (University of Haifa) Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) William Kolbrener (Bar-Ilan University) Jenn Lewin (University of Haifa) Program Monday, 22 May 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 10:00 Opening Speeches and Acknowledgments Yaakov Mascetti (Bar-Ilan University) 10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Lecture I Chair: Elliott Simon (University of Haifa) John Monfasani (State University of New York SUNY) "In Defense of Erasmus's Critics" 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 - 12:30 Historical Perspective I: The Jews and the Bible in the Renaissance Chair: Serena Di Nepi (Universita' "Sapienza" Roma) Sara Offenberg (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) "'When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do:' On Some Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts of the Bible in Renaissance Italy" Debra Kaplan (Bar-Ilan University) "The Bible, Gender, and Early-Modern Solicitations for Charity" Anna Nizza-Caplan (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) 2 "Illuminating the Biblical Law: a Renaissance Mishneh Torah" 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 15:00 Historical Perspectives II Chair: Euan K. Cameron (Union Theological Seminary – Columbia University) Jeffrey Miller (Montclair State University) "Drafting the King James Bible" Judith Maltby (University of Oxford) "'Hearing the Word': the Bible and Public Worship in Post-Reformation England" Alec Ryrie (Durham University) "Reason, Inspiration and Doubt in Protestant Views of Scripture's Authority" Bruce Gordon (Yale Divinity School) "Antichrist and History, 1550-1650" 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break 15:15 - 16:45 Historical Perspectives III Chair: Jeffrey Shoulson (University of Connecticut) Gordon Campbell (University of Leicester) "The Renaissance Bible and Channels of Influence" Raz Chen-Morris (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "'Allegories Lost': Reading the Bible and Observing Nature in Early-Modern Europe" Serena Di Nepi (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") "The Ghetto and the Bible: Jewish Books and Libraries in the 3 Age of Censorship (Rome, 16th-17th century)" 16:45 – 17:00 Coffee Break 17:00 – 18:30 Renaissance and Early-Modern Translations of the Bible Chair: Tamar Hess (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Yaacov Deutsch (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Hebrew Translations of the New Testament in the Early-Modern Period - Some Preliminary Remarks" Chava Turniansky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "'Vayoymer -- un er hot gezogt': The Yiddish Translations of the Bible" Claudia Rosenzweig (Bar-Ilan University) "Between Tradition and Counter-Reception: Uses of the Bible in Early-Modern Yiddish Culture 20:30 - 23:00 Reception 4 Tuesday, 23 May 09:00 - 09:15 Coffee and Cake 09:15 - 10:15 Keynote Lecture II Chair: Jenn Lewin (University of Haifa) James Nohrnberg (University of Virginia) "Witness and Allusion: Re-narrativizing and Re-plotting Scripture in the Italian and English Poets, from Dante to Milton" 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 - 12:30 Historical Perspectives IV Chair: Daniel Feldman (Bar-Ilan University) Jon Whitman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Reversing the Roles in Early-Modern Christian Thought: Jews, Christians, and the 'Literal Sense' of Scripture" Jonathan Stavsky (Tel Aviv University) "Scripture and Literature: Biblical Memes and Their Medieval Afterlives" Alison Knight (University of Cambridge) "The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the Most Part According to Tremellius" Kirsten Macfarlane (University of Oxford) "Translating the 'Hebraeo-Hellenic Apostles': Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) and the Intellectual Contexts of the English New Testament." 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 15:00 Shakespeare and the Bible Session Chair: David Malkiel (Bar-Ilan University) 5 Thomas Fulton (Rutgers University) "Political Theology on the Pulpit and the Stage" Kirsten Poole (University of Delaware) "Hamlet's Puns and Allegorical Hermeneutics" Steven Marx (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) "Shakespeare reading Paul: Pious and Impious Fraud in The Winter's Tale" 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break 15:15 - 16:45 The Bible in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Drama Chair: Peter C. Herman (San Diego State University) Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) "Monarch, Maiden, and Fool: The Book of Esther in EarlyModern English, German and Yiddish Drama" Sharon Aronson-Lehavi (Tel Aviv University) "Performing Biblical Women: The Convention of CrossDressing on the Medieval Stage" Yair Lipshitz (Tel Aviv University) "From Text to Textile: Biblical Allusion and Stage Costumes in Leone de' Sommi's 'Comedy of Betrothal'" 16:45 - 17:05 Coffee Break 17:05 - 18:30 John Milton and the Bible Chair: Yaakov Mascetti (Bar-Ilan University) Noam Reisner (Tel Aviv University) "Rethinking Milton's Hebraic God" 6 Tzachi Zamir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Paradise Lost and Contemporary Philosophy of Literature" Jason Rosenblatt (Georgetown University) "Synthesizing Imaginations: John Selden and John Milton" 20:30 - 22:45 Biblical Dinner at "Eucalyptus" 7 Wednesday, 24 May 09:00 - 09:15 Coffee and Cake 09:15 - 10:15 Keynote Lecture III Chair: William Kolbrener (Bar-Ilan University) Debora Shuger (University of California, Los Angeles) "Elizabethan Bibles, Platonic Forms, and Book History" 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 12:15 The Bible in English Renaissance Literature and EarlyModern Political Thought and Theology Chair: Jason Rosenblatt (Georgetown University) Martin Elsky (Brooklyn College – CUNY) "The Literary Uses of Biblical Typology: The Emergence of Typological Criticism in the Wake of the Second World War" Rocco Coronato (Universita' degli Studi di Padova) "'Head Carrier': Shakespeare and the Baroque Judith" William Kolbrener (Bar-Ilan University) "Party Politics and the Art of Lying: Shaftesbury and Acts 19" Travis DeCook (Carleton University) "The Origins of the Bible and Early-Modern Political Theology" 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch 13:15 - 14:45 The Bible in English Renaissance Literature I 8 Chair: Ellen Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University) Peter C. Herman (San Diego State University) "Back to Basics: Samson Agonistes and the Book of Judges Revisited" David Marno (University of California, Berkeley) "Psalm Translations and Devotional Poetry in EarlyModern England" Noam Flinker (Haifa University) "Homer and the Rewriting of the Hebrew Bible: George Chapman and John Bunyan" 14:45 - 15:00 Coffee Break 15:00 - 16:30 The Bible in English Renaissance Literature II Chair: Rocco Coronato (Universita' degli Studi di Padova) Feisal Mohamed (City University of New York) "Uzzah, Hobbes, and the Plight of the Modern Subject" Beatrice Groves (University of Oxford) "The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early-Modern English Literature" Jeffrey Shoulson (University of Connecticut) "Holy Land Maps and Jewish History in Early-Modern Bibles" 16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break 16:45 - 18:30 Scriptures on the Stage and Beyond Chair: Thomas Fulton (Rutgers University) Tovi Bibring (Bar-Ilan University) "The Art of Biblical Phrasing in the Service of the Art of 9 Seduction: Imanu'el Ha-Romi as a case study" Jenn Lewin (Haifa University) "Shakespeare and the Psalms" Abigail Marcus (University of Chicago) "'Songs in the Night': Henry Vaughan's Variations on Job" Shiran Avni (University College London) TBN – Closing Event – Renaissance Music and Lecture by Rev. Dr. Euan K. Cameron 1 Thursday, 25 May Excursions - Old City of Jerusalem and Galilee 1