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
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
- Speakers:
- Alexandra Zirkle, Post-Doctoral Associate, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies
- Audience:
- public
- Address:
- 232 Bay State Rd.
- Room:
- 505
- Fees:
- free
- Registration:
- http://www.bu.edu/cura/colloquium-18-19/
- Contact Organization:
- CURA
- Contact Name:
- Arlene Brennan
- Contact Phone:
- 353-5241