Tortured Readings: Hermeneutics & the Authorization of State Violence

Starts:
12:00 pm on Friday, January 25, 2019
Ends:
1:30 pm on Friday, January 25, 2019
URL:
http://www.bu.edu/cura/colloquium-18-19/
Address:
232 Bay State Rd.
Room:
505
Contact Organization:
CURA
Contact Name:
Arlene Brennan
Contact Phone:
353-5241
Fees:
free
Speakers:
Alexandra Zirkle, Post-Doctoral Associate, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies
Audience:
public
CURA Colloquium Zirkle's working paper chapter explores how in both a 19th-c German context and a 21-c US context, scriptural hermeneutics have been weaponized to justify imperial violence against religious minorities. This chapter will be appearing in a forthcoming Routledge volume, Is There a Bomb in this Text? Exploring Relationships Between Scripture and Violence, eds. Julia Snyder and Daniel H. Weiss. Reading the paper in advance is required for attendance. Email cura@bu.edu for a copy. Co-sponsored with the School of Theology