Fear of Sin

The German-Israeli Minerva School "Fear of Sin in Jewish Literature" was dedicated to discuss the cultural and historical significance of the function of negative emotions and the role that the fear of sin plays in medieval and early modern Jewish literature. Due to the lack of substantive studies on this topic, the Minerva School attempted to lay the theoretical and methodological foundations for mapping out the different categories, discuss the potential of new research questions, and share historical materials that deal with notion of fear and anxiety related to past as well as future wrongdoings.

The German-Israeli Minerva School was held between June 27-29, 2022 at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg, and it was organized jointly with the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan. The event was funded by the Minerva Stiftung of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science.

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