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Since the 6th c. BCE, Judeans and later Jews have been organized as a distinct community living within – or in the shadow of -- a succession of empires. Jewish communal structures, models of leadership, identity formation, and cultural production have been profoundly shaped by the complex interaction of law and violence at the heart of imperial authority. This workshop draws from legal theory, empire studies, and subaltern studies to examine the role of law in constraining, managing, directing, and/or encouraging violence in the imperial contexts of Jewish life from antiquity to the early medieval period. The workshop aims to illuminate the complex dialectic between law’s stability and law’s violence in Jewish history; between Jews as the victims of law’s violence and as its beneficiaries; between Jewish vulnerability and Jewish empowerment.  
 

Conference schedule can be found HERE.

Breakfast & lunch will be provided. Please include any dietary restrictions and sessions you will be joining in your RSVP. Dietary laws will be observed. 

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