“Little Women: Lesser-Known Characters from the Hebrew Bible,” A Conference
March 11 – 13, 2007
A conference exploring the reception history of stories of “minor” female characters in the Hebrew Bible. Speakers included religious historian Stephen Prothero; Bible scholars Katheryn Pfisterer Darr (Boston University), J. Cheryl Exum (University of Sheffield), Martien Halvorson-Taylor (University of Virginia), Erin Runions (Pomona College), and Ken Stone (Chicago Theological Seminary); art historians Gauvin Bailey (Boston College), Susanna Bede Caroselli (Messiah College), and Ena Heller (Executive Director, Museum of Biblical Art, New York); literary scholars Esther Schor (Princeton University) and Jay Twomey (University of Cincinnati); and writers Gregory Maguire, Jacqueline Osherow, and Robert Pinsky.
Click here for the conference schedule, including a full list of speakers, topics, times and locations.
This conference was co-sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, and is being organized in cooperation with the Centre for the Reception History of the Bible at the University of Oxford.