The Lives of Religious Books (RBS-Mellon Symposium)

Date: 3 April 2016 – 4 April 2016
Time: Times vary
Location: Holsti-Anderson Room, Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, Duke University Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Duke University Center for Jewish Studies

Duke Divinity School Professor Jennie Grillo has organized a symposium featuring David Stern of Harvard University and Dagmar Riedel of Columbia University as well as a number of local scholars presenting their research on histories of religious books in various traditions.

Stern is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and professor of comparative literature at Harvard, and Riedel is an associate research scholar at Columbia.

Grillo, assistant professor of Old Testament, organized the event as part of a Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School. It was also co-sponsored by an Intellectual Community Planning Grant from Duke University awarded to Grillo, Divinity School Professor Maria Doerfler, Marc Brettler, Laura Lieber, and colleagues from other departments.

See the event website for more information and the symposium poster for full schedule details.

Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, Duke University Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Duke University Center for Jewish Studies.