Jennifer Knust in Sunday’s Boston Globe.
“BU religion professor Jennifer Wright Knust, 44, on the Bible’s ambiguous stance on holy matrimony.” by James Sullivan February 27, 2011 Click here to read the full article.
Unprotected Texts…Discussion & Book Signing featuring Prof. Jennifer Knust
Prof. Knust is featured in articles in Newsweek and CNN
Thursday: Department of Religion 15th Annual Lecture
Click here to listen to WBUR’s broadcast of the lecture. David Frankfurter Exorcising the World: New Perspectives on Christianization and Culture Join us for a lecture by BU’s William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, David Frankfurter, when he discusses the spread of Christianity in the ancient world. What was Christianity’s appeal as […]
Edwin Seroussi: “The Musical Other Within”
Starts: 5:00 pm on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Ends: 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Location: BU Hillel House (Reform Chapel) URL: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111748668897013 Ethnomusicologist and Hebrew University Professor Edwin Seroussi will lecture on “Musical Others Within: Sephardic Liturgy and the Soundscape of the Reform Movement of Judaism.” The lecture will be followed by a […]
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, December 27-30, 2010
KARL JASPERS SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA I. KJSNA Social Event “Grundgedanken zum Denken und Danken” Monday Evening, December 27th 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Harvard Room, 3rd Floor Reception in honor of founding members Leonard H. Ehrlich, Edith Ehrlich, and George B. Pepper on the occasion of our 30th Anniversary II. KJSNA Group Session GI-3: Monday […]
Are Americans God’s Chosen People?
Andrew Bacevich and Stephen Prothero, Video of event held October 27, 2010 available on BU Today.
November 29 , 2010
Classic Jewish Thought in Germany A conference hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies with the generous support of the Boston University Humanities Foundation “Hermann Cohen’s Discovery of the Transcendental” by Frederick Beiser (Syracuse) “Why Study Hermann Cohen” by Reinier Munk (Amsterdam) Moderated by Michael Zank (Boston University) […]
November 30, 2010
The Mendelssohn-Kant Debate by Professor Reinier Munk (Amsterdam) A talk hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies with the generous support of the Boston University Humanities Foundation Moderated by Daniel Dahlstrom (Boston University) November 30, 20103:30 – 5 pmBoston UniversitySchool of Theology, Room 508745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Massachusetts […]
November 17 , 2010
An Ottoman Tableau of Faith DUNYA ENSEMBLE An exploration of shared scriptural traditions Musical group DUNYA returns to Boston University, this time exploring scriptural music across Sufi Muslim, Christian and Jewish sacred traditions, exploring dialogues among them. Location: Boston University HIllel House, 4th Floor Time/Date: November 17, 2010 6pm Presented by the BU Program for […]
“”The Other Within” at the National Yiddish Book Center
On Nov 7, 2010, a group of nineteen BU students, faculty, and staff visited the National Yiddish Book Center, located on the campus of Hampshire College in the beautiful region of Western Massachusetts. On the way, David Braun, docent and lecturer in Yiddish language and literature, offered an introduction to Yiddish history and culture. The […]