Next week, Daniel Boyarin, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, will give a series of Mellon Lectures on the Babylonian Talmud and its relationship to the Diaspora.
The series, titled "A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora," consists of three talks: "Dispersing Diaspora: The Talmud as Diasporist Manifesto" (Monday, February 18 at 5:00 p.m.), "The Philology of Diaspora: The Talmud Enacts Diaspora" Tuesday, February 19 at 5:00 p.m.), and "Searching for the Routes: The Talmud Makes Diasporas" (Thursday, February 21, 5:00 p.m.).
All three lectures will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Terrace Room of Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Please visit Penn's Jewish Studies Program events page for more details.
