Ringvorlesung Sommersemester 2016: Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven
20.4.2016
Praying with the Angels: Transformation of the Self and the Text in Ancient Judaism
Hindy Najman – Oriel College, University of Oxford, UK
27.4.2016
Translatio: Problems of Reconstruction
Rainer Kampling – Seminar für Katholische Theologie, Freie Universität Berlin
4.5.2016
Solomon, Ashmedai, Kitovras and Others
Reuven Kiperwasser – Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin
11.5.2016
The Heavenly Ladder. Transformations of Gen 28 in the Apocryphal “Ladder of Jacob”
Christfried Böttrich – Lehrstuhl für Neues Testament, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Dieter Fahl – Lehrstuhl für Neues Testament, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Sabine Fahl – Lehrstuhl für Neues Testament, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
18.5.2016
Depicting Heaven in Medieval Kabbalah: Visible Maps of the Invisible
Giulio Busi – Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin
25.5.2016
Heavenly Ascent in the Apocalypses: Genre and Its Discontents
Martha Himmelfarb – Department of Religion, Princeton University, USA
1.6.2016
Once Again Elisha's Visit to Heaven: A New Reading of the Story
Daniel Boyarin – Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA
8.6.2016
Joseph - A Demon in the Rabbinic Study House
Tal Ilan – Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität Berlin
15.6.2016
Wakers not Watchers
Markham J. Geller – Excellence Cluster Topoi
22.6.2016
Heavenly Journeys in Byzantium
Emmanouela Grypeou – Lehrstuhl für Ältere Kirchengeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
29.6.2016
Biblical Allusions and Quotations in the Literature of Russian Modernism
Roman Timenchik – Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
6.7.2016
Visitor(s) from Heaven: The Annunciations in the Gospel of Luke 1
Glenn Most – Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy
13.7.2016
The Divine Nessengers and the Narrating of World History in Slavia Orthodoxa. Preliminary Observations
Dimiter Peev – Institut für Slawistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin