Imperial Terror and Communal Trauma at Qumran
Katz Center
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.
Featuring
Xandy Frisch
George Mason University
Xandy Frisch is an assistant professor of Judaic studies at George Mason University. She holds a Ph.D. in Second Temple Judaism from New York University, an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School, and an M.A. in Jewish Education from Baltimore Hebrew University.
Frisch was a 2012–13 scholar-in-residence at the Tikvah Center for Jewish Law and Civilization at NYU and a 2009–11 fellow at the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo Law School. Frisch has held a long interest in the literary deployment of representation of the body in Second Temple literature, and this fellowship year will expand this interest to questions of trauma and healing.
