Contact information
Name:
Prof. Robert Cohn
Phone:
610-330-5182
Email:
Cohnr@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Monday, February 20, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Where:
Kirby Hall Auditorium 104
Presenter:
Professor Jennifer Knust, Department of Religion, Boston University
The story of Ham's encounter with Noah's nakedness, and the curse that
followed, offers a particularly notorious example of what today we might
call a "sex scandal." Though the specifics of Ham's infraction are far
from clear, the shame that was then affixed to whomever was designated as
one of his descendants is not. Adapting the insights of affect theory and
addressing larger biblical notions of sexual morality and kinship,
Jennifer Knust will consider the way that the Canaanites became disgusting
objects, not only in the Torah but in later Jewish and Christian
interpretation.
Sponsored by:
Department of Religious Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program