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The Greatest Medieval Masoretic Pentateuch: The Lailashi Codex-the Crown of Georgian Jewry
28 May, 2024
We are deeply honoured to welcome a Panel of Distinguished Scholars to present the Greatest Medieval Masoretic Pentateuch-The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry.
The Lailashi Codex emerged into the Western world awareness from Dr Thea Gomelauri’s book The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry published in October 2023. The provenance of the Lailashi Codex and its trajectory is as mysterious as its authorship and ownership. According to the legend, it was brought to Lailashi (Georgia), a remote village at the footstool of the Caucasian mountains, on an angel’s wings. It became the best-kept secret of Georgian Jewry.
Panel Members:
Dr Thea Gomelauri is the Author of "The Lailashi Codex: The Crown of Georgian Jewry", Associate Member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, and Inaugural Director of the Oxford Interfaith Forum.
Professor Geoffrey Khan FBA is a Regius Professor of Hebrew at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics and is the senior editor of the Journal of Semitic Studies. His most recent books are Language Contact in Sanandaj: A Study of the Impact of Iranian on Neo-Aramaic (De Gruyter Mouton, 2024); Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2024); and the two-volume The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2020).
Professor Ori Z. Soltes is a Professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, USA. He teaches across a range of disciplines, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, and has curated more than 90 exhibitions across the country and overseas. He has authored or edited 25 books and several hundred articles and essays. Recent volumes include: Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications, with Rachel Stern, (Fordham University Press, 2024); The Problem of God and How Humans Have Tried to Solve it Across History (Generis, 2023); Between Thought & Action: An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen (Blue Dome, 2022); Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture (Canal Street Studios, 2016, and second edition: Eshel Books, 2022); Growing Up Jewish in India: Synagogues, Ceremonies, and Customs from the Bene Israel to the art of Siona Benjamin (Niyogi Books, 2021); Magic and Religion in the Greco-Roman world: the Beginnings of Judaism and Christianity (Academia-West Press, 2017); Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Searching for Oneness (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008); Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source (Westview Press, 2005).
Debra Band is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Interfaith Forum. She is a distinguished visual artist, scholar of Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, calligrapher, and illuminator. Debra draws upon her love of both the manuscript arts and the Jewish textual tradition in her acclaimed illuminated manuscripts. She is the author and illuminator of Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, with Menachem Fisch (Baylor University Press, 2024); The Song of Songs: the Honeybee in the Garden (JPS, 2004); I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms with Arnold J. Band (JPS, 2007); Arise! Arise! Deborah, Ruth and Hannah, with Arnold J. Band, (Honeybee in the Garden, 2012); and Kabbalat Shabbat: the Grand Unification, with Raymond P. Scheindlin, (Honeybee in the Garden, 2016), among other works. Debra’s paintings are widely exhibited across the United States and Canada.
More information about Debra’s work is available at Judaic Artwork.
Moderated by Dr Ben Outhwaite FRAS FSA Director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.
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