Performance in Studying Late Ancient Hymnody

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2024-01-19

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Laura S. Lieber is a Professor of Religious Studies and Classical Studies at Duke University and the Director of the Duke University Center for Jewish Studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and received her rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Her primary area of research is in the area of synagogue poetry (“piyyut”) from Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period. Professor Lieber examines these works from a variety of perspectives, including literary, performative, and comparative (particularly with early Christian hymnography in Syriac and Greek), and also as a genre of early Jewish biblical interpretation. In recent years, she has begun to integrate the study of material culture into her analysis of these literary works, as part of taking a more fully “contextual” approach to literary analysis. Her most recent work approaches late ancient hymnography through the lens of theater studies and performance. https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/thematic-international-interfaith-reading-groups/eastern-christianity-in-interfaith-contexts/setting-the-stage-the-rose-of-performance-in-studying-late-ancient-hymnody/