Category: Online Interreligious Events

The Dead Sea Scrolls at 75: The Texts, Their Contexts, and the Coalescence of Jewish and Christian Scholarship

Sunday, July 2nd, 11 am Chicago time, 5 pm UK time, 7 pm Israel time RegistrationWe are delighted to announce our next session of Praying Together in Jerusalem in the form of a webinar, held in conjunction with the Parliament of Religions, in advance of the upcoming Parliament meeting in Chicago in August. Climate Change …

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Judaism and Christianity have had a long and entwined history ever since the early Christian church emerged from first-century Judaism. Today some Christians also identify as being Jewish (a.k.a., Messianic Jews), and many Christians, known as Christian Zionists, support the modern state of Israel for theological reasons. This course will discuss the background and present-day complexities of these Christian identifications with (or attachments to) Judaism.

Panelists: Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College), Brian Robinette (Boston College), and Joanna Kline (Gordon College) In our time when productivity is equated with virtue, the practice of keeping Sabbath has emerged as a strategy for achieving work-life balance, as a kind of “wellness program” without connection to religious meaning and without recognition of the profound traditions and …

Sabbath as Gift and Command: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Read More »

Miriam Goldstein will present "The Bible in Baghdad: A Medieval Karaite Interprets Genesis" at the Tauber Institute's Jewish Studies Colloquium The next meeting of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry's Jewish Studies Colloquium will feature Miriam Goldstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem presenting the paper "The Bible in Baghdad: A Medieval Karaite Interprets Genesis." Registration …

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One feature of medieval Jewish thought, in contrast with rabbinic thought, is the recognition of meaningful distinctions among non-Jewish religious groups, which ones were "closer to" and "further from" Jewish doctrine and practice. This talk will address the emergence of this mode of thought as well as some of the formulations of specific thinkers such …

Jonathan Decter, "Ranking Religions in Medieval Jewish Thought" Read More »

The Babylonian conquest of Judah and its aftermath—the destruction of the Temple and the exile of a significant portion of its population—left a mark throughout the Bible, including the book of Psalms. Even after the return of some of the exiled Judeans and the rebuilding of the Temple, the restoration was, in the eyes of those Judeans, never complete, for Judah was no longer a sovereign nation and the Davidic dynasty did not continue. This lecture will look at a few psalms in which the themes of exile and restoration are prominent. Among them we find a nostalgic look back to the First Temple, a “memory” of the exilic experience, praise to God for rebuilding Jerusalem, and the hope for the restoration of Davidic kingship.

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Weekly course on Wednesdays, 11 Oct. – 15 Nov. 2023 https://store.southampton.ac.uk/short-courses/lifelong-learning/weekly-evening-courses-non-language/jewish-history-and-culture-through-the-ages This course offers an overview of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across time – from Antiquity to the late-20th Century – by drawing upon art, literature, and film. Sessions include insights into religious and cultural history in the Ancient and Medieval world, as well as modern examples of …

Jewish History and Culture through the Ages: Jewish/non-Jewish Relations from the Ancient World to the Silver Screen (5 week course) Read More »