Activities
2023
Bishop Burchard, Rabbi Kaduri, and the Marvelous Adventures of an EggOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
8 May 2023
, Premodern Jewish Magical Affairs: Textual Transmission, Authority, and Practices of Esoteric KnowledgeOthering and Identity in the Ancient Near EastOrtal-Paz Saar (Organiser)
26 Jan 2023
Annual symposium of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO-Day)Ortal-Paz Saar (Organiser)
26 Jan 2023
, Annual symposium of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO-Day)2022
Migraine and Other Headaches in the Mesopotamian Incantation BowlsOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
27 Oct 2022
, DIAGNOSIS: Late Antique Taxonomies in Medicine and HealingGender and the Mesopotamian Incantation BowlsOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
4 Apr 2022
, The Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Their Late Antique Jewish ContextsDe Gruyter (Publisher)Ortal-Paz Saar (Editor)
2022 → …
2021
Incantations and Nursery Rhymes: Text Stability in Jewish MagicOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
21 Oct 2021
2020
Time in Jewish Historic Texts: A Digital Humanities ApproachOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
11 Mar 2020
, Chronos Conference: Time & Society in Ancient Cultures2019
Cursing beyond the Grave: Imprecations and Jewish Funerary CultureOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
7 Nov 2019 → 8 Nov 2019
A Time for Every Purpose: Extracting Dates from Hebrew and Aramaic TextsOrtal-Paz Saar (Speaker)
11 Sept 2019 → 13 Sept 2019
, DH Benelux Conference2018
Justice and Aggression in some Late-Antique Curse TextsOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
18 Sept 2018
All That Remains: The Education and Conservation on Jewish Funerary CultureOrtal-Paz Saar (Organiser)
11 Jun 2018 → 12 Jun 2018
Digital Humanities and Jewish EpigraphyOrtal-Paz Saar (Organiser)
19 Feb 2018 → 21 Feb 2018
2017
Emotions in Late-Antique Jewish Epitaphs: Palestine and the DiasporaOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
11 Jul 2017
, British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 2017A Sea of Stone: Digitally Analyzing Jewish Funerary InscriptionsOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
4 Jul 2017
, DH Benelux2016
"Letters in the Dust: the Epigraphy, Archaeology and Conservation of Medieval Jewish Cemeteries"Ortal-Paz Saar (Organiser)
7 Nov 2016 → 8 Nov 2016
PEACE: Portal of Epigraphy, Archaeology, Conservation and Education on Jewish Funerary CultureOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
7 Oct 2016
, Digital Humanities Community Event"Manuscripts as Magical Agents", Hamburg University Centre for the Study of Manuscript CulturesOrtal-Paz Saar (Invited speaker)
10 Jul 2016