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"Does Christianity Matter for Judaism - and Vice Versa?" Adult Ed Class with Dr. Eli Sacks

Past Sessions
Thursday, August 8, 2024 4 Av 5784 - 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, August 1, 2024 26 Tammuz 5784 - 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, July 25, 2024 19 Tammuz 5784 - 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, July 18, 2024 12 Tammuz 5784 - 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

What can Jews learn from Christianity, and what can Christians learn from Judaism? What do we have to gain from inter-religious dialogue, and what challenges can such conversations pose? To what extent does a commitment to Judaism or Christianity benefit from—or perhaps even require—learning about the other tradition, and what sorts of risks might arise from these encounters? We will explore diverse answers to these questions, examining the changing ways in which Judaism and Christianity have interacted with one another, and wrestling with sources from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to works of post-Holocaust theology. 

Elias Sacks is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he studies Jewish thought, philosophy of religion, Jewish-Christian relations, religious ethics, and religion and politics. He is the author of Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (2017), as well as articles on medieval and modern thinkers including Mendelssohn, Moses Maimonides, Baruch Spinoza, Nachman Krochmal, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Jacob Taubes. Previously, Sacks served as Director of The Jewish Publication Society.

This class will be a hybrid experience - both in-person and on Zoom.

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