Templeton Foundation grant and conference

THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is offering support for projects on the philosophical theology of early Jewish texts. Announcement on the H-JUDAIC list:

From: "Mendelsohn, Adam D"
List Editor: "Mendelsohn, Adam D"
Editor's Subject: CFP: "Philosophical Investigation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Talmud, and Midrash," Jerusalem, July 2012
Author's Subject: CFP: "Philosophical Investigation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Talmud, and Midrash," Jerusalem, July 2012
Date Written: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:01:00 -0500
Date Posted: Wed, 07 Feb 2012 11:01:00 -0500

In Fall 2010, the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, launched an initiative aimed at developing a Jewish “philosophical theology” that will seek to advance the study of the ideas of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Talmud and Midrash in the academic setting. This initiative is part of a broader “Analytic Theology” project of the Templeton Foundation, which will also support Christian centers for philosophical theology at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The Jewish component of the project envisions the development of a uniquely Jewish discipline that will use philosophical tools and methods for examining classical Jewish sources. The project is open to Jewish and non-Jewish scholars interested in the philosophical elucidation of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Talmud and Midrash.

In the context of this project, the department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion (PPR) at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference on “Philosophical Investigation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Talmud and Midrash,” to be held in Jerusalem on July 22-26, 2012.

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