Please join us for a  Public Lecture on Monday, March 10, 2014 at 5:00pm in Class of ’47 Room, Library Building.

Exile in the Eye of the Beholder: Jews, Christians, and the Embrace of Exile in Medieval Europe

By: Dr. Deeana Klepper, Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University

Professor Klepper teaches Christianity and medieval and early modern European religious history, with special interests in the place of Bible in medieval culture, the social contexts of mysticism, Christian-Jewish relations and other cross-cultural religious encounters, and the history of science. Her research focuses on approaches to biblical interpretation in the Middle Ages and medieval Christian responses to Jews and Jewish tradition.  She is the author of The Insight of Unbelievers (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), which explores the complicated and contradictory attitudes toward Hebrew texts held by a variety of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Christian scholars.

This seminar is part of a series sponsored by UConn Vice President for Research, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, Departments of English, History, Philosophy, Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the Programs in Medieval Studies and Middle East Studies, and the Konover Chair of Judaic Studies

 

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