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A Queen in the Tomb of the Kings: An Ancient Monument and its Modern Legacy
Mar 4, 2024 By Sarit Kattan Gribetz | Public Event video | Video Lecture
According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from her kingdom in northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem to worship the Jewish God in the temple. She ended up staying in the city, building a palace in the south and a monumental family tomb to the north. This queen was not forgotten: she appears in early Christian writings and rabbinic literature, she stars in medieval Jewish-Christian polemics, and there is a street named after her in contemporary Jerusalem.
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Between Suns: Twilight in Rabbinic Sources
May 15, 2023 By Sarit Kattan Gribetz | Public Event video | Video Lecture
Rabbinic sources imagine the period of twilight between the six days of creation and the Sabbath to be a mystically productive time. It was then, they explain, that God created the rainbow and the manna, letters and writing, Abraham’s ram and Moses’s staff. But when is twilight and how long does it last? Does it belong to the day that is ending, the day that is beginning, or to both days at once? These questions are not merely theoretical鈥攖heir answers determine important matters of Jewish practice.
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Even God Makes Time for Leisure: Rabbinic Narratives About God鈥檚 Work, Play, and Rest Schedule
Oct 11, 2021 By Sarit Kattan Gribetz | Public Event video | Video Lecture
Genesis 2:2-3announces that, after working hard to create the worldand humanity over the course of six days, God took a day off to celebrate the Sabbath. Other passages in the Bible build uponGod鈥檚 dayof rest to mandate that all created beings rest, andthat heads of householdsensure that everyone under their control be allowed to rest on the seventh day. Divine time, we learn, alternates between periods of creative work and deliberate rest. But what does God鈥檚 work entail,how does God manage divinetime,does God make time forleisure, anddoes God have a schedule?
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