Event

Flegg Family Annual Lecture - What is Divine about Divine Law?

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 17:00to18:30
Chancellor Day Hall Room 200, 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA
Price: 
Free Admission. All Welcome.

Christine Hayes, Professor of  Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University,  will be speaking about her forthcoming book:

Christine  Hayes is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Rabbinic Judaism and greatly in demand as a speaker. Her many works include Gentile Impurities  and Jewish Identity: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud; The Emergence of Judaism, and her very popular Introduction to the Bible (available on-line at the Open Yale  Course Series).

Professor Hayes's  book may be ordered after the lecture at a special discounted price.

David Flatto, Associate Professor of Law, Religion, and History at Penn State Law,  will be the respondent.

David Flatto received Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University, a J.D. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. (with distinction) from Harvard University. His research interests include Legal History, Constitutional Law, and Hebraic Political Theory. His recent articles include "The King  and I: The Separation  of Powers in Early Hebraic Political Theory," and "Its Good to be a King: The Monarch's Role in the Mishnah."

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