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Monday, March 05, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall
Dr. Steven Fine will speak on "The Menorah and the Cross: A New Discovery Illuminates the Jewish-Christian Split in the Roman World." The "parting of the ways" between Christianity and Judaism has long fascinated Christian and Jewish scholars; this academic conversation has often provided a litmus test for the state of Jewish-Christian relations in the modern world. Dr. Fine's talk will present new evidence for the "parting of the ways" from Laodicea in Asia Minor, assessing the significance of this discovery for the history of both ancient and modern Jewish-Christian relations.
Professor of Jewish History at the Yeshiva University in New York, Dr. Fine is widely renowned for his work on archeology and Jewish art of the Second Temple period as well as on the relations between Jews, Christians, Samaritans, and polytheistic cultures in late antiquity. His publications include This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue during the Greco-Roman Period, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New "Jewish Archaelogy," and more than fifty articles.
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