from GTU: Jewish and Islamic Cultural Exchange, Oct 14

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The Graduate Theological Union and University of California, Berkeley Joint Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies presents CROSS CURRENTS: JEWISH AND ISLAMIC CULTURE EXCHANGE, 600-1250 C.E.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14TH 370 DWINELLE HALL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY   SPONSORED BY Center for Jewish Studies  at the Graduate Theological  Union (GTU) University of  California, Berkeley (UCB) Program for Muslim and Jewish Relations  at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (UCB) Admission Free and Open to the Public For more information contact cjs@gtu.edu	PROGRAM 9:00AM–RON HENDEL (UCB) Coffee and Welcome 9:30AM–HOLGER ZELLENTIN (GTU) "Confirming That which is with Them": The Quran and Ethics of Late Antiquity 10:15AM–FRED ASTREN (San Francisco State Univ.) Urbanization, Readerships and Paper: Jewish Sectarianism in the Early Islamic Near East 11AM–COFFEE BREAK 11:15AM–LENA SALAYMEH (UCB) Near Eastern Customary Law: A Jewish and Islamic Case Study 2:00PM–STEVE WASSERSTROM (Reed College) Hermes as Intermediary between Muslim and Jew: Notes towards a History of Jewish Islamicate Hermeticism, 750-1250 C.E. 2:45PM–DEENA ARANOFF (GTU) Modern Orientations towards the Medieval Past 7:00PM–PETER COLE (Yale University) The Poetry of Kabbalah: When is Hebraic Mystical Poetry Islamic? 8PM–RECEPTION Peter Cole Lecture and Reception are sponsored by the Judaica Collection at the UC Berkeley Library.
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