Please join us for a  Research Seminar on Monday, March 10, 2014 at 12:15pm in Class of ’47 Room, Library Building.

 Jewish Difference and the Parish Priest: Jews and Christian Society in Medieval Pastoral Manuals.

 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.

The seminar is open to graduate students and faculty and there will be pre-circulated readings.  Please contact judaicstudies@uconn.edu to  RSVP and to receive these materials.

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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