Online lecture: "Akkadian Midrash?"

H-JUDAIC: Event: Akkadian Midrash? Thoughts on the Connections between Akkadian Commentaries and Jewish Midrash (Sara Ben-Isaac).

Lecture
Date:
November 15, 2023

Subject Fields: Ancient History, Jewish History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology

Online lecture from Uri Gabbay, Associate Professor of Assyriology at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The lecture will focus on hermeneutical techniques, and the terms used for these techniques, in Akkadian commentaries on cuneiform clay tablets from the first millennium BCE. The speaker will compare these techniques and terms to Rabbinic Midrash, and will raise the question whether we can assume a connection between the two corpora. Uri Gabbay deals with the religious and intellectual history of ancient Mesopotamia, especially in the first millennium BCE. He is the author of the book The Exetetical Terminology of Akkadian Commentaries (Brill, 2016).

Follow the link for additional details and the eventbrite link. The lecture is free.

For more on Uri Gabbay's work, see here, here, here and links.

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