Dartmouth professor to present on April 28-29
LEXINGTON Ky. (April 21, 2015) — Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, will present a pair of lectures at Transylvania University.
On April 28 at 7 p.m. she will present “Scholarship and Ethics: How Do Jews and Christian Connect?” in Carrick Theater.
At 7 p.m. on April 29, Heschel will present “The Life and Legacy of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity” at the Ohavay Zion Synagogue. The talk is about her late father, who was a well-known scholar and involved with the civil rights movement.
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
Heschel, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, has authored numerous books, including “The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany” and “Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus.”
She also holds a Guggenheim Fellowship and is writing a book about the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam.
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