Gilles Ménage said of Louis Picques, the seventeenth-century
Paris librarian and orientalist, that “to be his friend, one had to
know Coptic, Egyptian, or Samaritan, or at least speak Arabic”.
Picques’s letters show that he had many such friends...
This talk will sketch the history of academic study of China in
the U.S., beginning in 1920, with attention to how it differed from
European Sinology. I see it as a story with intersecting
trajectories, including U.S.-China relations and...
The history of “Oriental studies” especially during in the late
modern period is still a largely neglected field. This gap is
astonishing, given the vibrant scholarship on the “Science of
Judaism” (“Wissenschaft des Judentums”) during the same...
The claim is absurd: everybody knows that the order of value
goes the other way. By many commonly-cited criteria, physics is
better than sociology. On their side, the natural sciences have
Method, experiment, and quantification; they progress and...
This presentation will explore the nature of the Elijah
traditions in rabbinic literature and their connection to the
wisdom tradition. By examining the diverse Elijah traditions in
connection to the wisdom and apocalyptic traditions, I aim to
shed...
For a political scientist, the contradictory themes surrounding
the Arabs and their region before the coming of Islam often seem
strange and incomprehensible. Although there are no major barriers
posed by rivers or mountain ranges, numerous...
In the year AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted with devastating
force, burying the nearby town of Pompeii under more than thirty
feet of volcanic debris. Pompeii was wiped off the map, yet below
the surface the material remains of the town were preserved...
The Study of Pre-modern Hebrew Philosophical and Scientific
Terminology as a new Chapter in the Intellectual History of Europe
and the Islamicate World: PESHAT
in Context.
Speakers: Giuseppe Veltri (University
of Hamburg), Reimund
Leicht (Hebrew...
