CHS Open House | Becoming Moses: Deuteronomy 32 in Performance, with Keith Stone


Keith Stone, CHS Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Study of Ancient Texts, Instructional Design, and Research Publications, will join the CHS community for an Open House discussion on Deuteronomy 32 in Performance. The discussion will be streamed live on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and will be recorded.

Watch the discussion live on the Hour 25 website or the YouTube channel, where you can also post questions during the event.

You may like to read following passages to get ready for the discussion:

Deuteronomy 31.9–32.47

Psalm 24

Gregory Nagy, Poetry as Performance, 60–61

Keith Stone earned his PhD in 2013, in Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Hebrew Bible). His dissertation has been published as Singing Moses’s Song: A Performance-Critical Analysis of Deuteronomy’s Song of Moses (Boston: Ilex, 2016). Within ancient Israelite literature, religion, and history, his research focuses on the dynamics of performing in traditional settings, particularly within traditions linked to founders. Among his secondary interests are Northwest Semitic languages and inscriptions, land ideology, the psychology of abuse and trauma in biblical texts, and ancient Greek myth and hero cult.