Department of Religious Studies
Levinson Lectures
| Date |
Speaker |
Title of Lecture |
March 27, 2012
7:30pm |
Dr. John Gager,
Princeton University |
Turning the World Upside Down: An Ancient Jewish Life of Jesus |
| March 31, 3:00pm |
|
Dedication of the Henry Samuel Levinson Seminar Room |
March 31, 2011 |
Dr. David J. Halperin |
UFOs--Visitors from Inner Space |
| October 22, 2009 |
Dr. Jon Schofer |
Stewardship or Vulnerability? Ancient Jewish Rainmaking
and the Foundations of Environmental Ethics |
| August 27, 2009 |
Dr. Eyal Zisser |
The Influence of Syria & Iran on Peace in the Middle East:
An Expert's Perspective |
November 16, 2008 |
Dr. Lee Levine |
"The Revolutionary Impact of Archaeology on our Understanding of Jewish History"
|
April 29, 2008 |
Dr. Ellen Haskell |
"Divine Domesticity: Women, Marriage and the Home in Jewish Mysticism"
|
EVENT CANCELED |
Dr. Richard Friedman |
“Before the Apple - What Was Life Like Before the Events in Eden?”
|
| March 22, 2007 |
Dr. Michael Stone |
“Adam and Enoch: Vying Paradigms for Explaining Evil ” |
September 11, 2006 |
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine |
"Creating Anti-Semites: How the Church and the Academy Misunderstands Both Jesus and Judaism"
|
February 2, 2006 |
Dr. Marc Bregman |
"Envisioning the Sacrifice of Isaac"
|
September 14, 2005 |
Dr. Paula Fredriksen |
"History and Hollywood: Jews and Gentiles from Mel Brooks to Mel Gibson"
|
| October 26, 2004 |
Dr. Frances Malino |
"Jewish Sisters in Muslim Lands:
The Teachers of the Alliance Israélite Universelle" |
March 30, 2004 |
Dr. Henry Levinson |
"Why the Great American Religious Thinkers Would Have Been Better Off Jewish"
|
| March 2, 2004 |
Dr. Jonathan Sarna |
"The Emergence of American Judaism"
|
| February 4, 2003 |
Dr. Stephen Whitfield |
"Judaism in the South"
|
| April 15, 2002 |
Dr. Ross Kraemer |
"Rehabilitating Salome: Herodian Jewish Princess and the Death of John the Baptist"
|
September 21, 2000
|
Dr. Moshe Halbertal |
"Controversy About Controversy: The Rabbis’ Argument About Argument" |
| March 23, 2000 |
Dr. Peter Ochs |
"Judaism and Christianity After the Holocaust"
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