Sitting with Scorners: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to Sport and Spectacle: a research talk by Loren Spielman. Loren Spielman is a visiting instructor at Wesleyan University where he is teaching courses on Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature and Jewish leisure in antiquity. His dissertation is a broad historical overview of Jewish attitudes towards athletic competitions, theatrical performances, gladiatorial bouts, beast hunts, staged executions and horse races from 40 BCE to the 7th century CE. Noon in Neuberger Hall, Room 491H. For more information, visit www.judaic.pdx.edu or email Linda Maizels at lmaizels@pdx.edu.