Perceptions of Epidemic in Hebrew Poetry: From Biblical Antiquity to Early Modernity
Perceptions of Epidemic in Hebrew Poetry: From Biblical Antiquity to Early Modernity
Religion, Challenge and Change seminar College of Arts
Date: Thursday 18 February 2021
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Venue: Zoom
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Speaker: Yehoshua Granat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchclusters/religion-challenge-change/news-and-events/
The lecture will examine the ways in which epidemics are perceived in Hebrew poetic texts: from descriptions of plague as divine punishment, or demonic threat, in biblical Psalms, to the religious yet strikingly naturalistic attitude of a Hebrew poet from Padua who experienced the Italian Plague of 1629–1633.
Dr Yehoshua Granat is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; his main fields of research are Hebrew poetry of Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Period.
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