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Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
in its thirty-eighth year
under the auspices of
The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Religious Studies
201 Logan Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104
Current Topic: "The Wild Wild West: Religious and Societal Transformations
on the North African Frontier"
Chairs: William Gruen and Shira Lander (University of Pennsylvania)
The next meeting of the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins will be
Thursday, Nov. 30 at 7 PM in the 2nd floor lounge of Logan Hall,
University of Pennsylvania. Claudia Setzer, Asst. Professor of Religious
Studies at Manhatten College, will speak on "Jewish-Christian Relations in
Third Century Carthage." She will consider evidence for Jews and Judaism
in third century North Africa, and consider the challenges of identifying
Jews as distinct from Christians and others.
Claudia Setzer works on social relations between Jews and early
Christians, with a special interest in North African Christianity. She has
served for several years as chair of the Early/Jewish Christian Relations
group at the Society of Biblical Literature. Her book _Jewish Responses to
Early Christians_ discussed the reactions of Jews to the earliest
generations of believers in Jesus. She has also published articles on the
historical Jesus, Mary Magdalene and the witness of women in proclamation
of the resurrection, and Jews and Jewish-Christians in North Africa. You
can read more about her on her website
http://www.manhattan.edu/arts/rls/faculty/setzer.html .
As usual, we will meet for a light dinner at 6 PM in the lounge. Please
RSVP to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] if you
plan to join us.
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Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html
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