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SUMMARY:Reading the Story of Dinah in Context and in the Age of #MeToo
DESCRIPTION:Dinah\, the only (mentioned) daughter of the patriarch Jacob\, emerges in Genesis 34\, only to disappear from the text. Dinah goes out to visit the women of the land. She is seen by Shechem\, the prince of the local village\, also named Shechem\, who takes her and has sex with her (Gen 34:2). He then wants to marry her. Her brothers\, Jacob’s sons\, insist that Shechem and his people be circumcised. They consent\, and while they are recovering from their circumcision\, Simeon and Levi massacre them\, while the other brothers plunder the town. Feminist scholars have debated what happens to Dinah in Genesis 34:2. Was she raped? Abducted? Something else? How can we read sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible and within the context of ancient Israel? When reading the Hebrew Bible\, with attention to linguistic and historical realities\, how do we also read in our contemporary context? \nThis talk will address the questions of what happens to Dinah\, what’s at stake in the reading of this story\, and how can we deal with this biblical story and others like it in the age of #MeToo? \n  \nAlison L. Joseph is Senior Editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Civilization and Culture. She earned her PhD in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research explores the processes by which the Hebrew Bible was produced\, bringing together historiographical\, literary\, and gender criticism as it illuminates the author/redactor’s role in interpreting and rewriting earlier texts. Her current project\, Damning Dinah: The Priestly Battle against Intermarriage\, looks at intermarriage and women’s sexuality in the Hebrew Bible and explores how late authorial voices reflect a growing concern with foreign infiltration. Her first book\, Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics (Fortress\, 2015)\, received the 2016 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. She is co-editor of the recently published Reading Other Peoples’ Texts: Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions (Bloomsbury\, 2020). \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Required for Zoom Access:\n[gravityform id=”107″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/reading-the-story-of-dinah-in-context-and-in-the-age-of-metoo/
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SUMMARY:Can Sacrifice be Literary?  Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Inauguration Day Episode
DESCRIPTION:One of the most enduring conclusions in pentateuchal studies is that the legal and narrative elements of the Pentateuch have distinct origins. Yet this argument is based more on outdated ideas of what counts as “literary” than on any textual or compositional evidence. In this talk\, I will present an example from my recent book (The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source). I will argue that the seemingly non-standard ritual procedures in Lev 9 can only be understood when read in light of the section’s broader narrative context\, and that the adaptation of the ritual procedure in Lev 9 then becomes the catalyst for a narrative scene in Lev 10. I use this example to highlight two main points: 1) the pentateuchal priestly source is characterized in large part by the mutual dependence of its ritual and narrative materials\, and 2) by foregrounding the possibilities of narrative artistry\, we can generate new insights about religious thought and literary composition in the ancient world. \n  \nLiane Feldman is an Assistant Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her work focuses primarily on priestly literature\, with an emphasis on the literary representation of sacrifice and sacred space in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple literature. She is the author of The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source (Mohr Siebeck\, 2020). \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Required for Zoom Access:\n[gravityform id=”104″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/can-sacrifice-be-literary-ritual-and-narrative-in-the-priestly-inauguration-day-episode/
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SUMMARY:Nicolas Poussin’s Visual Adaptation of Two Biblical Themes
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will discuss Nicolas Poussin adaptation of two biblical narratives in two masterpieces: “The Plague at Ashdod” (1630) inspired by an episode in 1 Samuel\, namely the theft and desecration of the Arc of the Covenant by the Philistines; and “Eliezer and Rebecca” (1648) inspired by the episode in Genesis in which Abraham sends his servant Eliezer on a mission from Canaan to Babylonia to find a bride for Isaac\, his son. In these paintings\, Poussin is willfully unfaithful to important aspects of the biblical texts that inspired him\, and he freely invents characters and details that are central to his purposes\, and yet not present in the biblical texts. In the case of “The Plague at Ashdod” Poussin transforms the theme of the “wrath of God” against infidels into a meditation on human suffering and compassion; and in the case of “Eliezer and Rebecca” the French painter transforms the theme of the marriage proposal from private to a public event\, in which the offer is not made to the bride’s male relatives\, as in the biblical text\, but directly to the young woman herself. In the talk I’ll discuss these transformations of the biblical passages into paintings\, and speculate on their significance. \n  \nEfraín Kristal is Distinguished Professor and Chair of UCLA’s Department of Comparative Literature. Kristal specializes in Latin American literature and intellectual history in comparative contexts from the 16th century until the present. He is also interested in aesthetics and works on the role of translation in the creative process of writers who translate\, as a creative process in its own right\, in the transmission of culture\, and as a practice with philosophical implications. He is the author of over one hundred scholarly articles and several books including Temptation of the Word. The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa and Invisible Work. Borges and Translation. Kristal is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and an honorary professor at the Universidad del Pacífico in his native Lima\, Peru. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Required for Zoom Access:\n[gravityform id=”108″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/two-biblical-themes-of-the-jewish-past-adapted-by-nicolas-poussin-in-his-paintings/
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SUMMARY:Studying Buddhism to Study Women: Sources\, Topics\, and Questions from Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Taking the example of Northern Wei Empress Dowager Ling (d. 528 CE) as a case study\, this talk asks the question of “What new things can we learn about women in medieval China through Buddhist Studies?” Particularly\, by contrasting the ways in which the Empress Dowager is depicted in normative dynastic histories and other historiographical material against the image of her that arises by surveying Buddhist materials\, the presentation shows how\, for women’s history\, Buddhist sources constitute an extraordinary and relatively untapped archive of potentially ground-breaking source material. Looking to this archive\, the paper argues\, allows us to tell completely different stories about women who lived in China between the 4th and 6th centuries than the ones that we are accustomed to reading and hearing. With their stories told in in donative and mortuary epigraphy\, and reflected in architectural remains and the sponsorship of Buddhist texts and monastic communities\, many women in early medieval China actively supported the popularization and spread of Buddhism in East Asia. We will meet many such women in this talk and try to answer the question of why it was that Buddhism\, per se\, was so attractive to them. \n  \nStephanie Balkwill is Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture at The University of Winnipeg\, in Canada. Her research area is medieval Chinese Buddhism and she publishes on Buddhist literatures of sexuality and gender\, Buddhism and the state\, and the lives of Buddhist women. She is currently completing a monograph on elite Buddhist women at the court of Northern Wei Empress Dowager Ling. She is looking forward to joining the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA in 2021. \n  \n  \nRSVP Required for Zoom Access:\n[gravityform id=”106″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/studying-buddhism-to-study-women-sources-topics-and-questions-from-medieval-china/
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