Скачать или смотреть The Bible and Human Rights: Law, Literature, and Political Thought, session IV

Can we speak of human rights in the Bible and is the Bible relevant to contemporary discussions of human rights? During this online conference, special attention was given to the interrelationship between law and literature in diverse biblical texts and to the ways in which the Bible has been evoked in reflections on basic human rights in modern literature and thought.

Session IV: June 9, 2021
Chair: Chiara Caradonna (Hebrew University)
Ilana Pardes (Hebrew University):
The Right to Glean: The Book of Ruth and the Potential of Goodness
Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp/Hebrew University):
Arendt and Kafka’s Abraham
Amir Eshel (Stanford University):
Dani Karavan and the Sacredness of the Person
Concluding Remarks: Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University)

Conference organized by The Center for Literary Studies (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); The Center for Bible, Culture, and Modernity (CBCM); The Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp); The Program in Judaic Studies (Princeton University); and The Department of Comparative Literature (Hebrew University).