Saul Olyan in Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy

The Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series is back with another exciting programme of distinguished speakers.

Join us for our final event in this season's programme, organised by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law.

Professor Saul Olyan (Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University) will present "Does Isaiah 66:3 Equate Animal Sacrifice with Murder?" on Wednesday , 18th March, 5-6.30pm (UK time) on Zoom.

Please note that the link to connect to this Zoom event will be sent 2 hours - 30 minutes before the start of the event.

This event is open to all and a recording will be made available on our website afterwards.

About Saul Olyan: Saul M. Olyan is Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He is author of Human, Divine, and Textual Relationships: Essays on the Hebrew Bible (Brill, 2024); Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2023); Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2019); Friendship in the Hebrew Bible (Yale University Press, 2017); Social Inequality in the World of the Text: The Significance of Ritual and Social Distinctions in the Hebrew Bible (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011); Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions (Oxford University Press, 2004); Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult (Princeton University Press, 2000); "A Thousand Thousands Served Him": Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism (J.C.B. Mohr/Paul Siebeck, 1993); and Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel (Scholars Press, 1988). He is editor or co-editor of thirteen volumes, including Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible (Brown Judaic Studies, 2018); Ritual Violence in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2015); Social Theory and the Study of Israelite Religion (SBL, 2012) and Household and Family Religion in Antiquity (Blackwell, 2008), and the author of various journal articles, essays and reviews.

For more information, see https://animalrightslaw.org/talkinganimals