Biblical Creatures - Fachbereich Philosophie und

How are animal allegories used by pre-modern
authors to establish or justify normative orders?
Both Jewish and Christian authors use discourses on the allegorical meanings of animals to
express their attitudes towards God and the
world, religious and social orders and the interdependence between nature and culture. Albeit
with reference to a common authoritative text
– the Hebrew Bible –, Jewish and Christian authors develop different religious, social, political,
philosophical, and scientific ideas through their
respective hermeneutic approaches. Different
interpretations of the same reference text show
how they distance themselves from the other
religion’s hermeneutic traditions, but also how
they exchange ideas and integrate them into
their own discourse, adapting them to their
specific requirements.
VENUE
Seminar Center Freie Universität Berlin
Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
CONTACT
Prof.Dr. Astrid Lembke
[email protected]
Freie Universität Berlin
FB Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
Institut für deutsche und niederländische Philologie
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin
Berlin, 5.–6. December 2016
Biblical Creatures
The Animal as an Object of Interpretation in
Pre-Modern Jewish and Christian Hermeneutic Traditions
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/biblische-tiere
The CONFERENCE is supported
by the Initiative for Excellence at
Freie Universität Berlin.
The conference is open to the public.
Registration is free:
kristin.janik @fu-berlin.de
Noah’s Ark, Copyright of the University of Manchester
MONDAY, 5 . 12.
TUESDAY, 6. 12.
Seminar Center L 116
9.15 Introduction
Astrid Lembke (Freie Universität Berlin)
9.45 Back to Paradise: The Raven, the Dove,
and the End of Noah’s Flood
Bernd Roling (Freie Universität Berlin)
10.30 The Bride and the Wounds – »columba
mea in foraminibus petrae« (Ct 2 :14)
Beatrice Trînca (Freie Universität Berlin)
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 The Raven in Old Yiddish Literature
Seminar Center L 116
15 .15 »Thou hast heard me from the horns of
the unicorns «: The Biblical Unicorn in
Zoological and Religious Perspective
Oren Roman (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf )
13.00 Lunch break
Elke Koch / Johannes Traulsen (Freie Universität Berlin)
Julia Weitbrecht (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Reigning Cats and Dogs: Angelic Animals
in Medieval Jewish Culture
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Textual Animals Turned into Narrative
Fantasies: The Imaginary Middle Ages
David Rotman (Tel Aviv University)
David Shyovitz (Northwestern University)
17.15 Of Dogs and Donkeys. Animals in
Jewish-Christian Polemics
12.15 Monstrous Encounters in Heinrich’s
von Neustadt ›Apollonius von Tyrland‹
Jutta Eming (Freie Universität Berlin)
Martin Przybilski (Universität Trier)
Kristin Janik (Freie Universität Berlin)
12.15 A Man Fighting a Lion: The Cases of
Samson, David, and Jesus
9.45 The Animal In-Between. Creatures in
Visions in Medieval Christian Literature
18.00 Coffee break
18.15 The Jewish Dog and Shehitah (Keynote Lecture)
Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa)
19.15 Reception
13.00 Lunch break
14.30 The Dragon entangles the Elephant’s Legs.
Allegory and Religious Difference in Ulrich’s
von Lilienfeld ›Concordantiae Caritatis‹
Thomas Lentes (Westfälische WilhelmsUniversität Münster)
Seminar Center L 113
14.30 »Is My Heritage to Me like a Hyena’s Lair ? «
Jeremiah 12 :9 in Premodern Natural History
Andreas Kraß (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
15.15 Animal Attraction: Hidden Polemics in
Medieval Illustrations of Biblical Animals
Sara Offenberg (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
19.00 Dinner
Brauhaus Vaust, Pestalozzistr. 8, 10625 Berlin

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