Orientalism and Monotheism: Renan on Judaism and Islam
Lecture by Guy G. Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, followed by roundtable conversation with John M. Efron, University of California, Berkeley
Throughout the nineteenth century, the birth of what one may call philologia orientalis and the discovery of the linguistic similarities...
“Our Father”: The Medieval Abrahamic Religion(s)
Sarah Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In contemporary parlance, the term “Abrahamic religions” serves to indicate the common ground of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The...
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. U.S. Policy in the Middle East: Human Rights and/or National Interests?
Ambassador (Ret.) Daniel C. Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
Please note: This event will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required....
2021 David Noel Freedman Lecture
Dr. Steed Davidson: "Archiving Words. Contesting Space: The Interruptions of Postcolonial Languages and Ephemera in an Archive of the Bible"
Objects form the critical deposits of museums and archives. This becomes obviously true in the case of biblical museums and archives that...
