NATE AND ANN LEVINE ENDOWED LECTURE SERIES IN JEWISH STUDIES
Created through a generous $125,000 gift from local residents, Nate and Ann Levine, the series brings to SMU distinguished scholars in all areas of Jewish studies, including history, religion, philosophy, literature, art, and interfaith relations. Lectures are held twice a year, September through November and February through April, in McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall. All lectures are free and open to the public and free parking is available on SMU campus.
Upcoming Levine Lectures
Spring 2012
TWELFTH NATE AND ANN LEVINE ENDOWED LECTURE IN JEWISH STUDIES
Monday, March 5, 2012, 7:30pm, McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall 306
On March 5, 2012, Dr. Steven Fine will speak on “The Menorah and the Cross: A New Discovery Illuminates the Jewish-Christian Split in the Roman World.” The "parting of the ways" between Christianity and Judaism has long fascinated Christian and Jewish scholars; this academic conversation has often provided a litmus test for the state of Jewish-Christian relations in the modern world. Dr. Fine’s talk will present new evidence for the "parting of the ways" from Laodicea in Asia Minor, assessing the significance of this discovery for the history of both ancient and modern Jewish-Christian relations.
Professor of Jewish History at the Yeshiva University in New York, Dr. Fine is widely renowned for his work on archeology and Jewish art of the Second Temple period as well as on the relations between Jews, Christians, Samaritans, and polytheistic cultures in late antiquity. His publications include This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue during the Greco-Roman Period, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New “Jewish Archaeology,” and more than fifty articles.
| Fall 2006 |
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"Jews, Jesus, and 'Gospel Dynamics':
Reversing Intentional Ignorance"
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Michael J. Cook, Bronstein
Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati |
| Spring 2007 |
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"Maintaining Jewish Identity in a Challenging Christian Environment: The Case of Medieval Europe"
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Robert Chazan, S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University |
| Fall 2007 |
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"From Jesus to Shylock: The Merchant of Venice in Theological Context"
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Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College |
| Spring 2008 |
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"Jesus and Judaism"
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Amy-Jill Levine, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University |
| Fall 2008 |
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"Faith after Auschwitz: Jewish and Christian Responses to the Holocaust"
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Zev Garber, Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies, Los Angeles Valley College |
| Spring 2009 |
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"The Binding of Isaac and the Crucifixion of Jesus"
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Jon Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard Divinity School |
| Fall 2009 |
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"Reading the Bible after the Holocaust"
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Marvin A. Sweeney, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Claremont School of Theology, and Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate University |
| Spring 2010 |
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"Christian Jews? The New Communities of Jewish Believers in Jesus"
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Yaakov Ariel, Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Fall 2010 |
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"Johnny Cash in the Holy Land: Christian Zionism and American Popular Culture." |
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Shalom L. Goldman, Professor of Hebrew and Middle Eastern Studies, Emory University |
| Spring 2011 |
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"Scriptural Community, Scriptural Conflict: Judaism, Christianity, Islam" |
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David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought, University of Chicago |
| Fall 2011 |
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“The Truly Other Jewish World History: The Ten Lost Tribes between Jews and Christians" |
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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Acting Director of Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University |
If you have questions or comments or would like to be included in the series' e-mail list, please contact Dr. Serge Frolov at 214-768-4478 or sfrolov@smu.edu .