Tag Archives: Society of Biblical Literature

SBL Notes 2009: Daphna Arbel — Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity

By David Larsen | Published: December 3, 2009
Daphna Arbel (read by Robin Griffith-Jones) Moshe Idel and Religious Experience in the Hekhalot Literature Moshe Idel’s research features an open methodology – a pluralistic/interdisciplinary approach His work is  representative of a new scholarly view of Judaism – based on experiential orientation The focus of his research principally covers Judaism of the 4th to 9th [...]
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Upcoming Conferences I’m Attending

By David Larsen | Published: October 22, 2009
I will be having the extraordinary opportunity to attend two fantastic conferences in the next month or so.  I will be taking meticulous notes that I plan to share with you all soon afterwards. The first conference, held October 31 in London, England, is the 3rd Temple Studies Symposium, organized by Margaret Barker and the [...]
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SBL Experiences

By David Larsen | Published: December 1, 2008
I got back from the Society of Biblical Literature conference in Boston late Wednesday night. It was a great experience! I drove there and back (about a day long journey) with my whole family and we had the good fortune of being able to stay with our good friends Dan and Bunny French who we [...]
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