The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning provides links to streaming videos of past Center events and to lectures by Center staff. You may also search the Center's YouTube channel for past events hosted by the Center.
Antisemitism
Christ Jesus the Jew in the Wake of October 7th (2024)
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Amy-Jill Levine, Karma Ben Johanan, Michael Azar, and Katharina von Kellenbach
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Where Do We Go From Here? Rising Antisemitism and Jewish-Christian Relations (2024)
Rita George-Tvrtkovic, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Malka Simkovich, and Glenn Dynner
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Kristallnacht and the Anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler: On the
Interaction of Malicious Intentions and Unplanned Circumstances (2023)
Michael S. Bryant
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Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023)
Magda Teter
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Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front (2022)
Charles R. Gallagher, S.J.
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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood (2021)
Mark Oppenheimer
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White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism: Lessons from the Capitol Attack (2021)
Jonathan D. Sarna
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Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance (2020)
James Bernauer, S.J.
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Is There a New Anti-Semitism? (2020)
James Bernauer, S.J., Susannah Heschel, Mark Silk
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Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism: The Uneasy Connection (2009)
Robert Wistrich
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Contemporary Christian-Jewish Dialogue
Christ Jesus the Jew in the Wake of October 7th (2024)
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Amy-Jill Levine, Karma Ben Johanan, Michael Azar, and Katharina von Kellenbach
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Sabbath as Gift and Command: Jewish and Christian Perspectives (2023)
Susannah Heschel, Brian Robinette , and Joanna Kline
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2023 International Council of Christians and Jews Annual Conference Opening Program and Seelisberg Prize (2023)
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Jews, Christians, & Civil Society: Bergoglio in Argentina (2023)
Rabbi Sergio Bergman
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Constantine's Sword: 20 Years Later - A Retrospective (2022)
James Carroll
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Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations: What Are the Challenges and Opportunities? (2022)
Jesper Svartvik
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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood (2021)
Mark Oppenheimer
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White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism: Lessons from the Capitol Attack (2021)
Jonathan D. Sarna
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How Should We Approach Jerusalem? A Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (2021)
Philip Cunningham and Ruth Langer
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ICCJ-Webinar "Interreligious Dialogue About the Land" (2021)
Anette Adelmann; David Neuhaus, SJ; Ruth Langer; Jesper Svartvik; Philip A. Cunningham; Adam Gregerman
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Book Launch: "Enabling Dialogue About the Land" (2020)
Philip A. Cunningham, Adam Gregerman, Ruth Langer, Jesper Svartvik
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Religious Pluralism without Relativism (2020)
Raphael Jospe
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Is There a New Anti-Semitism? (2020)
James Bernauer, S.J., Susannah Heschel, Mark Silk
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Jewish in the Age of Trump (2018)
Susannah Heschel, Ruth Langer, Mark Silk
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Beyond Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: A New Paradigm (2011)
Daniel L. Lehmann
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Are Jews and Christians Living in a Post-Polemical World (2011)
David Berger
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Is this the Golden Age in Jewish-Catholic Relations? (2010)
Richard J. Sklba
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Seeing Judaism Anew in Our Time (2006)
Mary C. Boys, Philip Cunningham, Alice Eckardt, Eva Fleischner, Walter Harrelson, Rueven Kimelman, Michael Paulson, Ruth Langer, John Merkle, Gilbert Rosenthal, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Karla Suomala
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Should Catholics Seek to Convert Jews (If Jews Are in True Covenant with God?) (2005)
Philip Cunningham, Michael Himes, Frederick Lawrence
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Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik: An Interreligious Dialogue, 40 Years Later (2003)
Eugene Korn and Panel
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Bible and Bible Interpretations
The Book of 2 Esdras: Jewish, Christian, Both, Neither (2024)
Matthew Goff
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A Jewish Paul: Restoring the Apostle Paul to His Roots (2024)
Matthew Thiessen
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How Does a Woman Get To Be a Prophet in Ancient Israel? (2023)
Susan Ackerman
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Scriptural Reasoning, Medieval Style: Interfaith Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Paris (2022)
Frans van Liere
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The Suffering Jewish Jesus and Christian Memory (2022)
Barbara U. Meyer
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Jesus the Jew and his Christian Followers (2022)
Jesper Svartvik
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Paul of Tarsus among Jews and Gentiles (2022)
Jesper Svartvik
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The Epistle to the Hebrews--or against Them? (2022)
Jesper Svartvik
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Jesus the Jewish Divine Physician: Understanding Healing in Early Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts (2022)
Frances Flannery
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Judas and Betrayal ("Do you betray me with a kiss?") (2022)
Ruth Langer and Jesper Svartvik
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Good Friday or Bad Friday (2021)
Jesper Svartvik
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The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (2020)
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler
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Reading the New Testament Without Presupposing Supersessionism: Four Fundamental Issues (2020)
Jesper Svartvik
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Neither Moloch nor the Velveteen Rabbit (2019)
Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.
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The Psalms: Jewish-Catholic Dialogue through Shared Praise (2017)
Andrew Davis
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A Rebellious Son? Jesus and His Mother at the Wedding in Cana (John 2) (2016)
Adele Reinhartz
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In Quest of the Jewish Mary (2014)
Mary Christine Athans
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The Gospel of John and the "Parting of the Ways" (2014)
Adele Reinhartz
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The Word Set Free: Presenting the New Testament in its First-Century Context (2010)
Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.; Chris Leighton; David Michael; Celia Sirois
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Christ's Passion: What's at Stake for Christians Jews? Personal Meditations for Holy Week (2005)
Philip Cunningham; Raymond Helmick, SJ; John Michalczyk; Louis Roy, OP
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History of Jewish-Christian Relations
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023)
Magda Teter
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The Babylonian Talmud and Jewish-Christian Literary Relations in Late Antiquity (2023)
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
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Scriptural Reasoning, Medieval Style: Interfaith Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Paris (2022)
Frans van Liere
Video
Constantine's Sword: 20 Years Later - A Retrospective (2022)
James Carroll
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Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front (2022)
Charles R. Gallagher, S.J.
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Cushing, Spellman, O'Connor: How Three American Cardinals Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations (2012)
James Rudin
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Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism: The Uneasy Connection (2009)
Robert Wistrich
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The Jewish-Christian Debate in the Early Modern Period: Spinoza, Modena, and Isaac of Troki (2005)
Daniel J. Lasker
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Estranged [Br]others: Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity (2005)
Adiel Schremer
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For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity (2004)
Irving Greenberg and Panel
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Shoah (Holocaust)
Auschwitz and Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor (2024)
James Bernauer, S.J.
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Kristallnacht and the Anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler: On the Interaction of Malicious Intentions and Unplanned Circumstances (2023)
Michael S. Bryant
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The German Churches, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust (2023)
Rebecca Carter-Chand
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The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel (2023)
Emma Polyakov
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Two Jewish Fathers Who Changed History: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Elie Wiesel (2022)
Susannah Heschel, Elisha Wiesel
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Faith and Politics in a Complex Time: Christian-Jewish Relations in the Third Reich (2022)
Susannah Heschel
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The Arts in the Terezin Concentration Camp (2022)
Mark Ludwig
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The Holocaust-Era Archives of Pope Pius XII: The State of the Question (2021)
Suzanne Brown-Fleming, David Kertzer, Robert Ventresca, Iael Nidam-Orvieto
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The Shoah in Film: History from the Ashes (2021)
John Michalczyk and Susan Michalczyk
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Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance (2020)
James Bernauer, S.J.
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Germany's Post Holocaust Payout: Compensation, Reparations, and Transitional Justice (2020)
Nir Eisikovits
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Formation of the Religious Conscience after the Shoah: Bonhoeffer's Spirituality for Today (2006)
Lisa Dahill, Mark Krell, Stephen Pope, Victoria Barnett
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Jews, Christians, and the Holy Land
The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel (2023)
Emma Polyakov
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How Should We Approach Jerusalem? A Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (2021)
Philip Cunningham and Ruth Langer
Video
ICCJ-Webinar "Interreligious Dialogue About the Land" (2021)
Anette Adelmann; David Neuhaus, SJ; Ruth Langer; Jesper Svartvik; Philip A. Cunningham; Adam Gregerman
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Book Launch: "Enabling Dialogue About the Land" (2020)
Philip A. Cunningham, Adam Gregerman, Ruth Langer, Jesper Svartvik
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The Significance of Jerusalem in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2020)
Raphael Jospe
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Between the Holocaust and the Nakba: When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History, Jaffa 1949 (2020)
Alon Confino
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Where We Are and How We Got There (2009)
Mark Tessler
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Social Justice
A Book Event for Shai Held's "Judaism is About Love" (2024)
A Dialogue between Shai Held and Stephen Pope
Video
Jews, Christians, & Civil Society: Bergoglio in Argentina (2023)
Rabbi Sergio Bergman
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (Panel Discussion) (2021)
Martin Doblemeier and Susannah Heschel
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Christian Privilege, Christian Fragility, and Gospel of John: How American Race Relations inform Jewish-Christian Dialogue (2018)
Amy-Jill Levine
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Heschel and King: Legacy and Responsibility (2006)
Cornel West
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Costly Discipleship and Contemporary Culture: Bonhoeffer as a Model for Religious Activism (2006)
Or Rose; David Gushee; James Bernauer, SJ; Clifford Green
Video
Religious Resources to Combat Racism
Narrative, Restorative Justice and the Need for Truth in Racial Equality (2020)
Yavilah McCoy and Joshua Snyder
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Toward Understanding Another's Reality: Narrative Empathy, Reconciliation, and Racism (2020)
Theresa O'Keefe and Rabbi Benjamin Samuels
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Mining the Christian Tradition for Resources to Combat Racism (2020)
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones and Vincent D. Rougeau
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Discussions About Race in the Classroom: Cultivating Helpful Dynamics (2021)
Marina McCoy and Meghan Sweeney
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Discussions About Race in the Classroom: Creating Constructive Conversations (2021)
Elizabeth Antus and Gregory Fried
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Discussions About Race in the Classroom: Developing Practical and Integrative Assignments (2021)
Matthew Kruger and Mary Troxell
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Teaching First-Generation Boston College Students
Teaching First-Generation Boston College Students (2021)
Rossanna Contreras-Godfrey, Yvonne McBarnett, and Andy Petigny
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The Socio-Economic Factors Shaping the First-Generation and Montserrat Experience (2021)
Burt Howell
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How to Support First-Generation BC Students (2021)
Dacia Gentilella
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Theology as Requirement: The Challenges of Teaching Theology in the Modern Academy
Introducing Theology (2022)
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones and Nathan D. Wood-House
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Complicating Theology (2022)
Jeffrey L. Cooley and Domenik Ackermann
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Practicing Theology (2022)
Meghan Sweeney and Katie Mylroie
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Jewish-Christian Lecture Series
The Book of 2 Esdras: Jewish, Christian, Both, Neither (2024)
Matthew Goff
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Kristallnacht and the Anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler: On the Interaction of Malicious Intentions and Unplanned Circumstances (2023)
Michael S. Bryant
Video
The German Churches, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust (2023)
Rebecca Carter-Chand
Video
Faith and Politics in a Complex Time: Christian-Jewish Relations in the Third Reich (2022)
Susannah Heschel
Video
Constantine's Sword: Twenty Years Later - A Retrospective (2022)
James Carroll
Video
Jesus the Jewish Divine Physician: Understanding Healing in Early Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts (2022)
Frances Flannery
Video
The History of Jewish Mysticism (2020)
David Maayan
Video
The Significance of Jerusalem in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2020)
Raphael Jospe
Video
Germany's Post Holocaust Payout: Compensation, Reparations, and Transitional Justice (2020)
Nir Eisikovits
Video
Annual John Paul II Lectures
Humans as the Image of God: The Bible and John Paul II (2023)
David Novak
Video
Why Did God Choose the Jews? A Christian Reflection in Conversation with Jewish Thought (2022)
Kendall Soulen
Video
MESSY MONOTHEISM: The Crowded Cosmos of Ancient Jews and Christians (2021)
Paula Fredriksen
Video Lecture Handout
"Walking You Make the Road": Discerning the Way in Jewish-Christian Relations Today (2021)
Mary C. Boys
Video
Between the Holocaust and the Nakba: When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History, Jaffa 1949 (2020)
Alon Confino
Video
Christian Privilege, Christian Fragility, and the Gospel of John (2018)
Amy-Jill Levine
Video
2023 Corcoran Chair Conference
Session 1
Devorah Schoenfeld: "How Many Lovers are in the Song of Songs? The Construction of Unified Protagonists in the Commentaries of Rashi, Bede, and the Glossa Ordinaria" [HANDOUT]
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger: "New Perspectives for the Study of Bilingual Psalters from Medieval England"
Robert A. Harris: "Speaking To and About the Other: Terms for Christians and Christianity Among 12th Century Rabbinic Exegetes" [HANDOUT]
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Keynote Address
Frans van Liere: “Hebraeus – Judaeus: A Thousand Years of Christian Ambivalence in Two Words" [HANDOUT]
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Session 2
Deeana Copeland Klepper: "Shared Scripture? Nicholas of Lyra’s 'On the Differences between the Hebrew Letter and Our Translation' (1333)"
Görge K. Hasselhoff: "The Impact of the Parisian Talmud Trials on Christian Theology: Translating the Talmud, Rashi, and Maimonides"
Johannes Heil: "The Other Diaspora - Roman Jews and Latin Jewish Texts (400-800)"
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Session 3
Boyd Taylor Coolman: "The Old Law and the Trinity: A Trinitarian Reading of the Decalogue in the 'Summa Halensis'" [HANDOUT]
Franklin T. Harkins: "Moses Maimonides and Albertus Magnus on Job and Divine Providence"
Christopher Ocker: "Juan de Segovia: a Hierarchy of Errors, the Bible, and the Jews"
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2022 Corcoran Chair Conference
Session 1
Jesper Svartvik: “Therefore Every Scribe Who Has Been Trained for the Kingdom of God Is Like the Master of a Household Who Brings Out of His Treasure What Is New and What Is Old”
Judith Hershcopf Banki: “Nostra Aetate – A Jewish Perspective”
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Session 2
Matthew Tapie: “I Have Called You Friends: The Catholic Church’s Affirmation of Rabbinic Judaism as Resource for Christian Theology”
Michael G. Azar: “Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations and Orthodox Christian Theology”
Adam Gregerman: A Jewish Response
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Session 3
Barbara U. Meyer: “A Lutheran Dogmatics of Halakhah: The Way of Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt”
Randall Zachman: “‘God's Blessing Still Rests Among Them:’ Overcoming Contempt for the Jews in the Reformed Tradition”
Amy-Jill Levine: A Jewish Response
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Session 4
Mary C. Boys: “How Do We Transform Traditional Christian Representations of the Pharisees? Components of a Strategic Pedagogy” [HANDOUT]
Peter A. Pettit: “Getting Traction: Problems and Possibilities in the Journey Forward” [HANDOUT]
Video
2021 Corcoran Chair Conference
Session 1
Jesper Svartvik: “Those Who Trust Us Educate Us”: Daniel Deronda’s Quest for His Origins and New Testament Studies
Wendy Farley: Radical Compassion During Days of Rage
Video
Session 2
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski: The Parable of the Vineyard and the Dynamics of Covenant
Mary C. Boys: “Questions at the Heart of our Faith”: The Gifts of Non-Supersessionist Christianity
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Day 1 Closing Session
Daniel Boyarin
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Session 3
Daniel C. Ullucci: Supersessionism, Sacrifices, and the Destruction of the Second Temple
Dieter T. Roth: Transfiguring the Transfiguration: Reading Luke 9:35 Adversus Marcionem
Video
Session 4
Peter C. Phan: Non-Supersessionism and Asian Ecclesiology and Christian Mission
R. Kendall Soulen: Jesus and the Unspoken Name: On Recovering a Differentiated Apophaticism
Video
Day 2 Closing Session
Daniel Boyarin
Video
Student Internship Research Projects
Loving the Stranger: Christian and Jewish Responses to Migration in the United States (2023)
Owen Fletcher and Mark Massa, S.J.
Video
The Natural Law Foundation of Interreligious Social Advocacy: A Civil Rights Movement Case Study (2021)
Dennis Wieboldt and Mark Massa, S.J.
Video
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