We thank Corey Gold ’19 for his work staffing the Jewish Studies Reading Room in Widener Library for the past two years and wish him all the best as he graduates!
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- Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Conference: The Transmission & Reception of the Qur'ān in Light of Recent Scholarship December 7, 2019 at 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138 PanelistsShady Nasser, Harvard University (Chair)Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of Notre DameWalid Saleh, University of TorontoDevin Stewart, Emory UniversityBehnam Sadeghi, University of Oxford François Déroche, Collège de FranceAlba Fedeli, Universität HamburgGeoffrey Khan, University of CambridgeIntisar Rabb, Harvard Law School For more information and to RSVP:https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/quran-conference Co-sponsored by The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University; The Center for Middle Eastern…
- Geoffrey Khan: The Rediscovery of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of the Hebrew Bible December 9, 2019 at 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, RM 201, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Geoffrey Khan, Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of CambridgeIn the tenth century C.E. the activities ofthe Masoretes in Tiberias came to an end. After the death in the tenth centuryof the two final Masoretic masters, Aharon ben Asher and Moshe ben Naftali, theoral Tiberian reading tradition rapidly fell into oblivion. This constituted amajor punctuation in…