Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg,
02. - 04.12.2010

Exodus: Border Crossings in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Texts and
Images

Interdisciplinary Conference, 2nd-4th December 2010

Organized by Annette Hoffmann

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut
EXC "Asia and Europe", D3: Images of Alterity

Funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung

Location:
Karl-Jaspers-Centre, Voßstraße 2, Building 4400, 69115 Heidelberg

2 December Thursday

18.00 Evening Lecture: Helmut Utzschneider (Neuendettelsau): "Und Gott
nahm wahr..." (Ex 2, 25), Ästhetik und politische Theologie in der
Exoduserzählung.

3 December Friday

10.00 Welcome and Introduction: Annette Hoffmann (Florenz/Heidelberg):
Exodus. A story of Passover(s)
Chair: Annette Hoffmann (Florenz/Heidelberg)
10.30 Wolfgang Oswald (Tübingen): Auszug aus der Vasallität - Die
Exodus-Erzählung (Ex 1-14*) und das antike Völkerrecht
11.15 Coffee Break
12.00 Rella Kushelevsky (Ramat-Gan): Border Crossing and Liminallity in
rabbinic narratives of Moses' Death and the 'Dead of the Desert':
Analogical Aspects
12.45 Kara Schenk (Baltimore): The Exodus Narrative and 'Anti-Roman
Polemic' in the Dura-Europos Synagogue

13.15 Lunch Break

Chair: Annette Weber (Heidelberg)
14.30 Galit Noga Banai (Jerusalem): From the Desert to Loca Sancta: a
Contribution to Dominus legem dat
15.15 Sarah Offenberg (Beer-Scheva): Crossing over from Earth to
Heaven: The Image of the Ark and Merkavah in the London Miscellany
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 Susanne Talabardon (Bamberg): The Paradigm of Second Exodus in
Jewish Tradition
17.15 Silvan Wagner (Bayreuth): Bewegung in der altdeutschen Exodus als
translatio veritatis, Heilsempfang und Übersetzung

4 December Saturday

Chair: Tobias Frese (Heidelberg)
10.00 Hannah Baader (Florenz): Erythra Thalassa. Das Meer als Grenze,
Abgrund und Ort des Durchzugs
10.45 Thomas Böhm (Freiburg): Die Theophanien des Moses aus
patristischer Perspektive
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00 Uri Rubin (Tel Aviv): The Israelite Exodus and the Lost Tribes in
the Qur'an and in Islamic tradition: further considerations

12.45 Lunch Break

Chair: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg)
14.00 Sarah Bowen Savant (London): Muhammad's companion, Salman
al-Farisi, and his legendary movement from Iran to Medina
14.45 Rachel Milstein (Jerusalem): From Darkness to Light, from
Displacement to Self: the Iconography of Exodus in Islamic Lands
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Mika Natif (Worcester): Moses: The Man Who Crossed Worlds.

16.45 Final Discussion

http://www.khi.fi.it/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung278/index.html

Empfohlene Zitation:
Annette Hoffmann: Exodus: Border Crossings (Heidelberg, 2-4 Dec 10).
In: H-ArtHist, 17.11.2010.
<http://www.arthist.net/new.php?pn=archive&id=512>.