The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life proudly presents the first colloquiuim of the semester, "The Ark, Gone But Not Forgotten: Cultural Memorary and Material Culture in the Hebrew Bible", presented by Daniel Fisher of University of California - Berkeley.
Daniel Fisher is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores social, historical, and literary questions in the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish biblical interpretation. He is currently completing a dissertation entitled, “Memories of the Ark: Cultural Memory, Material Culture, and the Construction of the Past in Biblical Societies.” This project develops a cultural biography of the Ark of the Covenant, exploring its use and reuse as a site of memory, both before and after its loss. It examines the central role that objects play in the Hebrew Bible, considering the ways that biblical writers and early biblical interpreters engaged with objects—at times claiming, reimagining, and contesting them, but almost always remembering with them.
All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend.
Where: Dodd 162 at 1:30pm on Thursday, September 17, 2015.
Please RSVP to judaicstudies@uconn.edu
More information about the event can be found here.
For more information, contact: Rae Asselin / Judaic Studies at 860-486-2271 / rae.asselin@uconn.edu