Friedberg Genizah WorkShop Toronto 2017

day 1

session #1: Aristotelian, Greco-Arab and Islamic Moral Theories: A Comparative Study of Jewish Medieval Tort Theory


• Welcome and greeting by Albert D. Friedberg, Zvi Stampfer
• Yuval Sinai (Orot college) and Benjamin Shmueli (Bar-Ilan University)
• Ernest J. Weinrib (University of Toronto)
• Yishai Kiel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Discussion
• end of session


session #2: Mu‘tazilite Underpinnings of an 11th Century Qaraite Legal Treatise


• Gregor Schwarb (SOAS, London)
• Haggai Ben-Shammai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Wissem Gueddich (EPHE-Sorbonne)
• Discussion


session #3: Contradictory Evidence as a Legal and a Philosophical Problem


• Daniel Caine (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Zvi Stampfer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman (Vanderbilt University)
• Discussion

Public lecture by Dr Ben Outhwaite (University of Cambridge) The Cairo Genizah: the Greatest Medieval Archive?

day 2

session #1: The Nature of Language in Maimonides' Writings: Philosophy and Jurisprudence


• Aviram Ravitsky (Ariel University)
• Moshe Kahan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• James A. Diamond (University of Waterloo)
• Discussion


session #2: On the Self-Sufficiency of the Divine Law


• Joseph E. David (Sapir Academic College)
• Harry Fox (University of Toronto)
• Moshe Kahan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Discussion


session #3: The Interplay of Theological and Legal Canonization in the Geonic, Islamic, and Zoroastrian Traditions


• Yishai Kiel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Dennis Halft (CSOC, Ben-Gurion University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• Keren Abbou Hershkovits (CSOC, Ben-Gurion University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• Discussion


session #4: Theological Concept in Judaeo-Arabic Judicial Works


• Zvi Stampfer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman (Vanderbilt University)
• Tirzah Meacham (University of Toronto)
• Discussion

day 3

session #1: Legal-Theological Revolutions: On the Relationship between Changes in the Perception of God and Developments of the Legal System


• Benjamin Porat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Hanina Ben Menahem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Chaim Hames (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• Discussion


session #2: The Imagination and Fantasy: The Style in Which Maimonides Opposes the Breaking of Theological Principles


• Gideon Libson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Zefat Academic College)
• Juni Hoppe (University of Cambridge)
• Albert D. Friedberg (the Friedberg Manuscript Society)
• Discussion


session #3: Concluding panel discussion Hosted by Zvi Stampfer Albert D. Friedberg and James A. Diamond


Mini workshop: Two Sessions on 'Friedberg Genizah Project' for scholars and students


• An Introduction to the Friedberg Genizah Project and its Benefits for Research by Ezra Blaustein (University of Chicago)


• Tips and Tricks for the advanced FGP user by Amir Ashur (CSOC, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)