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The significance of the Menorah in ancient Judaism
08 March 2023, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Talk by Professor Lutz Doering
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Sara Ben-Isaac
Reflections on the Significance of the Menorah in Ancient Judaism by Professor Lutz Doering
This paper traces variety and development in the significance of the menorah from the Second Temple period to late antiquity, in both material culture and textual evidence, pointing to differences according to context and time. The paper discusses the menorah as marking objects connected with priests; as creating a link with the Jerusalem Temple; as symbolising Jewish worship and hope; and as indicating a person’s “Jewishness”, similar to the role of the cross in Christian contexts.
About the Speaker
Professor Lutz Doering
Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism at University of Muenster
Professor Lutz DoeringLutz Doering has been Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism at the University of Muenster since 2014, where he also heads the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum. Before coming to Muenster, he taught at King’s College London and Durham University. His research focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts, Jewish Apocalypticism, Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism, halakhah and festivals in ancient Judaism and their early Christian reception as well as letter writing and communication in ancient Judaism and Christianity.
Selected publications: Schabbat: Sabbathalacha und -praxis im antiken Judentum und Urchristentum (Tübingen, 1999); Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography (Tübingen, 2012); [Tosefta] Seder II: Moëd, 1: Schabbat (Stuttgart, 2019); (ed. with Andrew R. Krause) Synagogues in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: Archaeological Finds, New Methods, New Theories (Göttingen, 2020); (ed. with Daniel Schumann) Tosefta Studies: Manuscripts, Traditions, and Topics (Zurich, 2021).