Upcoming Events

Winter 2024 Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Joel Kaminsky

    Online
CTU

Sibling Rivals: How the Idea of Chosenness Unites and Divides Jews and Christians   The idea that God specially chose the people of Israel is central to the theology of the Hebrew Bible yet is among the most maligned and misunderstood biblical concepts. This talk aims to introduce major aspects of the Hebrew Bible’s election […]

Spring 2024 Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

    In-Person & Online
CTU

It's complicated! Network analysis and Jewish-Christian relationships in the Babylonian Talmud.   This talk will introduce a new set of methodological tools for understanding the connections between Jews and Christians in late antiquity. Together with a zoologist, Prof. Yossi Yovel, Bar-Asher Siegal will use network analysis, commonly used in sciences, to generate models of inter-religious […]

Fall Shapiro Lecture

    Lecture
In-person/Online

What Bible, Whose Bible:  Studying the Scripture of Others “The” Bible does not exist. Different religious communities have different Bibles, with different books, in different orders, and different languages—and this matters.  How can we be fully sensitive to these when we study the scriptures of others?  By reflecting on The Jewish Annotated New Testament and […]