TeTra Lecture | Hagith Sivan "Rabbinic views on the transmission of knowledge to daughters"

The fourth TeTra Lecture | May 22, 2023.
Hagith Sivan (The University of Kansas)
•Why not teach girls Greek and Torah? Rabbinic views on the transmission of knowledge from fathers to daughters in late antiquity•
Hagith Sivan is professor emeritus of the department of History of the University of Kansas. She has worked for decades along two main paths, the world of Late Antiquity and ancient Judaism. Currently she is hard at work on a large scale project on Jewish childhood in antiquity, a fascinating topic that has not yet received the attention it deserves. She is a co-founder of the international series of conferences ‘Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity'.
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