Kessler talk
Sponsor: Dept. of Religion
When:September 8 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: Kohlberg 115
Conceiving Israel
Gender, Ethnicity, and the RabbinicFetus
A talk by Professor Gwynn Kessler
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Kohlberg 115 at 4:30
Gwynn Kessler, currently Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rabbinic Literature, and Gender Studies in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida, Gainsville, received her Ph.D. in Rabbinics, with a specialization in Midrash from the Jewish Theological Seminary (May 2001). Her first book, Conceiving Israel: The Fetus and Its Development in Palestinian Aggadic Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press), will appear next year. Her current research uses feminist and queer theories to interpret (and critique) rabbinic constructions of gender and the body. In addition to teaching courses on rabbinic literature, gender and the Hebrew Bible, and Introduction to Judaism, she teaches a course on GLBTQ Jews and Judaism and a
Conceiving Israel
Gender, Ethnicity, and the RabbinicFetus
A talk by Professor Gwynn Kessler
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Kohlberg 115 at 4:30
Gwynn Kessler, currently Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rabbinic Literature, and Gender Studies in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida, Gainsville, received her Ph.D. in Rabbinics, with a specialization in Midrash from the Jewish Theological Seminary (May 2001). Her first book, Conceiving Israel: The Fetus and Its Development in Palestinian Aggadic Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press), will appear next year. Her current research uses feminist and queer theories to interpret (and critique) rabbinic constructions of gender and the body. In addition to teaching courses on rabbinic literature, gender and the Hebrew Bible, and Introduction to Judaism, she teaches a course on GLBTQ Jews and Judaism and a course on biblical and rabbinic constructions of God’s gender.
Sponsored by the Department of Religion
course on biblical and rabbinic constructions of God’s gender.
Sponsored by the Department of Religion
Conceiving Israel
Gender, Ethnicity, and the RabbinicFetus
A talk by Professor Gwynn Kessler
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Kohlberg 115 at 4:30
Gwynn Kessler, currently Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rabbinic Literature, and Gender Studies in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida, Gainsville, received her Ph.D. in Rabbinics, with a specialization in Midrash from the Jewish Theological Seminary (May 2001). Her first book, Conceiving Israel: The Fetus and Its Development in Palestinian Aggadic Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press), will appear next year. Her current research uses feminist and queer theories to interpret (and critique) rabbinic constructions of gender and the body. In addition to teaching courses on rabbinic literature, gender and the Hebrew Bible, and Introduction to Judaism, she teaches a course on GLBTQ Jews and Judaism and a
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