The Book of Daniel: Reading the Writing on the Wall and other Queer Things (Feb 27, 2022)

Ruach HaYam teaching presented by Penina Weinberg
February 27, 2022

The book of Daniel contains such famous lines as “the writing on the wall,” and “into the lion’s den” but over all is probably not well known. We’ll take an excursion through the tales of Daniel, Belshazzar’s feast, the fiery furnace, the lion’s den, and the apocalyptic world view. We’ll find hints of Joseph as dream reader and of Esther and the outsized and comical Ahasuerus.

Reading the book of Daniel in advance https://www.sefaria.org/Daniel could be helpful to those unacquainted, but is by *no* means required.

Look here https://tinyurl.com/RuHay-Daniel for a slide show of images and more to come.

Banner is from a medieval manuscript of Silos Apocalypse. Author: Beatus of Liebana. Illustrator: Petrus. Production: Spain (Silos), 1109©The British Library, All rights reserved. ADD. MS 11695, Folio 239.
http://www.ahorie.net/On_Daniel.htm

At 7 pm ET, meeting will be open for logging in, schmoozing and solving any technical issues. Study begins at 7:15 ET. We will go until 8:45 pm.
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Penina Weinberg is an independent Hebrew bible scholar whose study and teaching focus on the intersection of power, politics and gender in the Hebrew Bible. She has run workshops for Nehirim and Keshet and has been teaching Hebrew bible for 10 years. She has written in Tikkun and HBI blog, and is the leader and founder of Ruach HaYam.

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