KolRinahSTL.org • 829 N. Hanley Road • St. Louis, MO 63130 • 314.727.1747 Scholar in Residence: Rabbi Dr. Pamela Barmash Saturday, September 7, 2019 Exodus! No other event in Jewish history has so captured the emotions and thoughts of Jews through the millennia like the Exodus. It has stirred Jews in times of despair and shaken them in periods of complacency. We will study how Jews have reshaped the story of the Exodus through innovative religious, social, and cultural strategies. Pamela Barmash has published widely on biblical and ancient Near Eastern law and on history and memory. Barmash received her BA from Yale, rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and PhD from Harvard. In her academic scholarship, she addresses issues of law and justice in her book Homicide in the Biblical World (2005, Cambridge University Press) and in her edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law (2019, Oxford University Press). She shows how Jews have transformed the story of the Exodus and the celebration of Passover to meet changing needs and concerns in Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations (2015, Lexington Books, edited with W. David Nelson). She is currently finishing a monograph on the Laws of Hammurabi, and she is editing a book on how the transition from one empire to another in antiquity influenced how communities remember and imagine themselves. In her rabbinic writing, she is the author of teshuvot (rabbinic responsa) on contemporary issues in Judaism. Barmash teaches courses at Washington U.niversity on modern perspectives on the Bible, law and justice, mythology, the problem of evil, traditional Scriptural interpretation, and biblical and ancient Jewish history, culture, and religion. She is the editor of Hebrew Studies, and has served as the director of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies at Washington University from 2005-2011. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies and Study Abroad Advisor for the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies. She has been a fellow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Bu ilding & Growing Together The Interplay Between Exodus Past and Present. 11:00 am Sermon during Shabbat Services 12:30 pm Further study after Kiddush in the Sara Myers Community Room