Moses
Maimonides: His Life and His Love of GodA conference at Yale University
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Moses
Maimonides: His Life and His Love of God
A conference at Yale University
Sunday, September 12, 2004
2004 marks the 800th anniversary of the death of the renowned medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar and Jewish leader, Moses ben Maimon or Maimonides (1138-1204). Maimonides was the most original and influential Jewish thinker in pre-modern times. In addition to producing a centrally important corpus of legal and philosophical writings that shaped Jewish thinking and practice in many regions of the world over the centuries, his Guide to the Perplexed entered Western history through St. Thomas Aquinas, who quoted Maimonides in Latin translation. Though born in Cordoba, Spain, he lived most of his life in Egypt where he served as physician to the Jewish community and to the Moslem court. The conference will explore writing a biography of Maimonides (Joel Kraemer and Sherwin B. Nuland) and the spirituality of Maimonides (Daniel Lasker and Menachem Kellner).
Locations of Conference Sessions
Whitney Humanities Center (Yale University), 53 Wall Street, New Haven
Sterling Memorial Library, 130 Wall Street, New Haven
Whitney Humanities Center
| 9:00 | Coffee and pastries |
| 9:45 | Welcome: Maria Rosa Menocal, Director, Whitney Humanities Center |
| 10:00-12:00 |
Writing the Life of Maimonides: Two Perspectives Moderator: Ivan G. Marcus (Yale University)
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Follow-up Discussion |
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| 12:00-1:45 | Lunch break (on your own) |
Session II: Maimonides as Lover of God
Sterling Memorial Library
| 1:45 | Welcome: Nanette Stahl, Judaica Curator, Yale University Library |
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| 2:00-3:00 | The Love of God in Maimonides' Philosophy Daniel Lasker (Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel and Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies, Yale University) |
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Follow-up Discussion |
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3:00 |
Coffee break |
| 3:30-4:30 |
Philosophical Spirituality: Maimonides on the Liturgy |
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Follow-up Discussion |
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4:30-6:00 |
Reception by the Yale University Press to mark the appearance of Menachem Kellner's translation in the Yale Judaica Series of Maimonides, The Book of Love, Part 2 of Maimonides' Code |
Exhibit
Conference
Sponsors
Program in Judaic Studies at Yale (David Oestreich Fund)
Yale University Library
Whitney Humanities Center
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale
and Yale Hillel
Yale University Press
Planning Committee
Ivan G. Marcus, chair
Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History
Nanette Stahl, co-chair
Judaic Curator, Yale University Library
Maria Rosa Menocal
R Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portugese and
Director , Whitney Humanities Center
Robert G Babcock
Curator of Early manuscripts, Beinecke Library and Professor of Classics
Larisa Heimert
Executive Editor, Yale University Press
Rabbi James E. Ponet
Jewish Chaplain, Yale University and
Director, Yale Hillel and Slifka Center
Hotels in New
Haven
If you are planning on staying in New Haven and need hotel accomodations, you
might try the following:
Comments
Please send any comments or suggestions to Prof. Ivan Marcus (Email: ivan.marcus@yale.edu)
or Nanette Stahl (Email: nanette.stahl@yale.edu)
Professor Ivan Marcus
Hall of Graduate Studies 225
PO Box 208236
New Haven, CT 06520
Telephone: (203) 432-1379
Nanette Stahl, Judaica Curator
Sterling Memorial Library
130 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Telephone: (203) 432-7207
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