Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, Judaism...the Middle Ages (1996), Anti-Judaism: The Western...
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Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. How have Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived with and thought about one another in the past, and what can that past tell us about how they do so today? About the Speaker Thursday, May 12th 5:30pm, UCSD Faculty Club David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of History, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, as well as Dean of the Social Sciences Division. His books include Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (1996), Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (2013); Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, Medieval and Modern (2014), and Aesthetic Theology and its Enemies: Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics (2015). Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, Judaism A talk in memory of Jerome & Miriam Katzin by Prof. David Nirenberg, University of Chicago Light dinner and wine will be served. Introducer: Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Literature Katzin Chair in Jewish Civilization
Transcript of Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, Judaism...the Middle Ages (1996), Anti-Judaism: The Western...
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. How have Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived with and thought about one another in the past, and what can that past tell us about how they do so today?
About the Speaker
Thursday, May 12th5:30pm, UCSD Faculty Club
David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of History, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, as well as Dean of the Social Sciences Division. His books include Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (1996), Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (2013); Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, Medieval and Modern (2014), and Aesthetic Theology and its Enemies: Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics (2015).
Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, Judaism
A talk in memory of Jerome & Miriam Katzin
by Prof. David Nirenberg, University of Chicago
Light dinner and wine will be served.
Introducer: Lisa Lampert-Weissig, LiteratureKatzin Chair in Jewish Civilization
