Professor Tzvee Zahavy speaks at Bard College on "Six People You Meet in the Synagogue: Visions of Social Order in Early Rabbinic Prayer"

A conference, April 2010 at Bard College.

Judaic and Christian Visions of the Social Order -- Describing, Analyzing and Comparing Systems of the Formative Age

"Six People You Meet in the Synagogue: Visions of Social Order in Early Rabbinic Prayer," Tzvee Zahavy

List of Presentations

• Foreword: How does religion imagine society? William Scott Green and John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami

Ancient Israel

• From the Repertoire of the Hebrew Bible: Visions of the Social Order, Baruch A. Levine, New York University

Judaism

• 1 Enoch’s Vague Visions of a Future Social Order Foils to its Vivid Portrayals of the Present Chaos, George W. E. Nickelsburg, The University of Iowa
• Visions of the Social Order: the Qumran Library, James C. VanderKam, University of Notre Dame
• The Mishnah and Concepts of the Social Order, Alan J. Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross
• The Social Vision of Rabbinic Judaism, a professor, Bard College
• Six People You Meet in the Synagogue: Visions of Social Order in Early Rabbinic Prayer, Tzvee Zahavy, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Christianity

• Paul’s theory of the social order, Bruce D. Chilton, Bard College
• Early Christian Martyrology, Scripture, and the Social Order, Frederick W. Weidman, Auburn Theological Seminary
• Irenaeus of Lyons (130-200) Re-Imagining the Cosmos From the Perspective of the Oppressed, J.A. McGuckin, Columbia University
• Origen’s Social Vision of Christian Life, Petra Heldt, Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel
• Eusebius’s (and Constantine’s) theory of the political order, Bruce D. Chilton, Bard College
• Augustine’s theory of world order, J. A. McGuckin, Columbia University

Conclusions

• Comparing theories of the social order: Concluding Remarks, John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami

The Institute of Advanced Theology of Bard College presents this conference.