2024 PSGS Alumni Luncheon

At the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting

Date: Sunday, November 24, 2024
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm PST
Location: Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, 333 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101

Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D. headshotRabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D., The Effie Wise Ochs Professor Emerita of Biblical Literature and History at HUC-JIR, will be delivering the Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of The Society of Biblical Literature (the oldest and largest scholarly society of Bible, founded in 1880) on November 23 in San Diego. Rabbi Dr. Eskenazi is the current President of the SBL (2024). She is the first woman from HUC-JIR, and the fifth member of HUC-JIR faculty to hold this position, following distinguished scholars such as Julian Morgenstern (1941), Sheldon Blank (1952), Samuel Sandmel (1961), Harry Orlinsky (1970).