The Many Lives of Biblical Poems: A Scholar’s Roundtable

Princeton Theological Seminary will host this roundtable on Biblical poetry in partnership with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

The keynote address, “Poetry, Prophecy, and Catastrophe: On the Weak Prophetic Voices of H.N. Bialik,

M. NourbeSe Philip, and Neomi Hashmonai,” will be provided by Dr. Yosefa Raz of the University of Haifa. Raz is a poet, translator, and scholar based in Tel-Aviv. Her work has recently appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, Entropy, and Guernica, and has been translated into Hebrew and Czech. She is currently completing a book about the poetics of prophecy.

Following her presentation, participants will hear from a roundtable of scholars including:

Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University

Chip Dobbs-Allsopp, Princeton Theological Seminary

A.J. Berkovitz, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Elaine James, Princeton Theological Seminary

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