03/01/2010 - 12:00pm to 03/01/2010 - 1:00pm

Location:
Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU
Cramer 494
Portland State University
1825 SW Broadway
Portland, OR

Class Description:
Personifying Evil: The Role of Samael in the Midrashic Narrative”
a research talk by Rachel Adelman

Rachel Adelman completed her doctorate in Hebrew literature, with a specialty in midrash, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008. Her doctoral research has been turned into a recently published book, The Return of the Repressed – Pirqe deRabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha (Brill, 2009), which explores mythic narratives that were excluded from the rabbinic canon and resurface in later midrashic composition. She has held the Ray D. Wolfe post-doctoral fellowship in Judaic Studies at the University of Toronto , and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University , Ohio . She also has extensive teaching experience in the Women’s Torah Institute (MaTaN) of Israel , and writes a monthly column on women and the Bible for the Jerusalem Post.


More Info:
E-mail judaicst@pdx.edu for more info

*This is a free class.