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SUMMARY:HOW MOSES BECAME A LEVITE
DESCRIPTION:The Bible presents Moses as Israel’s prophet par excellence and among the most prominent members of the Israelite tribe of Levi. But how does this picture of Moses square with actual history? How did the memory of an early Transjordanian holy man become part of a priestly tradition in ancient Israel? Answering these (and other) questions requires rethinking not only the biblical sources but how warfare\, economics\, and politics led to different corners of Israelite society “claiming” Moses for themselves…including the Levites. \n  \nMark Leuchter is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at Temple University in Philadelphia. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2003 and has held positions as Coordinator of Biblical Studies at the University of Sydney and as Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on the relationship between memory\, myth\, and text production in exilic and Persian period Jewish and in early rabbinic literature. His favorite band is Rush. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP:\nE-mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu \n\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/how-moses-became-a-levite/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T160000
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SUMMARY:Atheism in Buddhism and Nietzsche as Challenges to the Philosophy of Religion
DESCRIPTION:This lecture seeks to clarify the status of Buddhism as a non-atheistic religion\, that is\, a set of religious concerns that aren’t supported by the various structures of theism: the creator\nGod\, divine beings\, and corresponding practices such as worship\, obedience\, and supplication. Comparing Buddhist non-theism to atheism in the West we summarize Friedrich Nietzsche’s “death of God” proclamation\, his critique of both Christianity and Buddhism\, and the patterns of cultural nihilism associated with them. These reflections are directed toward a challenge to the contemporary philosophy of religion in its incapacity to understand religion on broader\, more historical grounds than theism can provide. \n  \nDale S. Wright is the Gamble Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies Emeritus at Occidental College in Los Angeles.  He is author of books in the field of Buddhist Studies including Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism (Cambridge University Press\, 1998)\, The Six Perfections: Buddhism and the Cultivation of Character (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, What Is Buddhist Enlightenment? (Oxford University Press\, 2016) \, co-editor of a series of Oxford University Press books on Zen Buddhism as well as author of numerous essays\, articles\, and reviews. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below: \n\n[gravityform id=”73″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/atheism-in-buddhism-and-nietzsche-as-challenges-to-the-philosophy-of-religion/
LOCATION:Royce 243
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T170000
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SUMMARY:Strangers\, Neighbors\, Friends
DESCRIPTION:Muslim-Christian-Jewish Reflections on Compassion and Peace \nKelly James Clark\, Aziz Abu Sarah\, Nancy Kreimer \n\n\n\nStrangers\, Neighbors\, Friends is an informed and robust Abrahamic defense of compassion toward neighbors\, strangers and even enemies. It aims to show that Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam have the resources to motivate respect and love for those of very different faith traditions. According to Eboo Patel\, President of Interfaith Youth Corp\, “[t]hese essays are like rays of light. They provide insight into the Abrahamic traditions\, but more importantly\, they illuminate the path to common life together.” \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”71″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/strangers-neighbors-friends/
LOCATION:Royce 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T160000
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SUMMARY:Letters from Corinth: The Correspondence of Dionysios of Corinth and the Shape of Early Christianity
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Prof. Concannon tells the story of Dionysios of Corinth\, a largely forgotten Christian bishop from the late second century CE.  While Dionysios was forgotten by ancient Christians and modern scholars\, the traces that remain of his writings suggest that he was connected to a series of early Christian networks bigger than the apostle Paul’s\, that he was active in the major debates among Christian communities in the second century\, and that he was involved in complicated negotiations around memory\, money\, and hospitality.  Recovering the story of Dionysios allows us to see early Christianity from a new perspective. \n  \nDr. Cavan W. Concannon is associate professor of religion at USC.  He is the author of Assembling Early Christianity: Trade\, Networks\, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth (Cambridge University Press\, 2017) and ‘When you were Gentiles’: Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence (Yale University Press\, 2014).  He is the co-director of the Mediterranean Connectivity Initiative and holds a PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity from Harvard University. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”74″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/letters-from-corinth-the-correspondence-of-dionysios-of-corinth-and-the-shape-of-early-christianity/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T120000
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SUMMARY:DWELLING ON THE PAST AND LONGING  FOR HOME: ISRAEL IN EXILE
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the effect of the sixth century BCE deportations to Babylonia on Israelite identity. Paying close attention to the prophetic book of Ezekiel\, whose community was deported from Jerusalem to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar\, it explores how the experience of forced migration changed the way the people talked about themselves\, their past\, and their homeland. To help make sense of these changes\, it places Ezekiel’s reactions in conversation with the responses of more recent forced migrants to similar experiences. \n  \n\nDr. Carly L. Crouch is David Allen Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller\nTheological Seminary and author of several volumes\, including War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East (2009)\, The Making of Israel (2014)\, Israel and the Assyrians (2014) and An Introduction to the Study of Jeremiah (2017). Her research focuses on the intersection of theology\, ethics\, and community identities\, with a historical focus on the social and intellectual world of ancient Israel and a contemporary interest in the relevance of this work for twenty-first century ethics. She is especially interested in integrating insights from other disciplines\, such as anthropology\, refugee studies\, and postcolonial theory\, into biblical studies. Her current work addresses the effects of Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of Jerusalem on Israelite and Judahite identities and is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\nE-mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/dwelling-on-the-past-and-longing-for-home-israel-in-exile/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T160000
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SUMMARY:Finding Faithfulness in all the Wrong Places
DESCRIPTION:Finding Faithfulness in all the Wrong Places: Making Sacred Sense of Drunkenness\, Deceit\, and Debauchery in the Hebrew Bible \n\n\n\nThis talk will be “birthed” out of Dr. Peter Lanfer’s current book project (Reading Sacredness in the Badly Behaving Bible) exploring the morally questionable stories of the Hebrew Bible that early Jewish and Christian interpreters had difficulty receiving as scripture. In the interpretive tradition\, many of these stories are whitewashed and/or spiritualized in dramatic ways. For example: David’s illicit marriage to Bathsheba and murder of Uriah the Hittite disappear from the rewritten narratives of 1+2 Chronicles; Abraham is told to lie about Sarah being his sister (and God protects her while inside Pharoah’s harem)\, Noah’s drunken stupor becomes an occasion for prophetic revelation; and Jephthah who sacrifices his daughter is celebrated as a hero of faith. Through an examination of the reception and interpretation of narratives of Drunkenness\, Deceit\, and Debauchery in the Hebrew Bible\, Dr. Lanfer will consider the impact of the textualization/scripturalization of oral narratives on the reception of them in early Jewish and Christian literatures. \n\nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”72″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/finding-faithfulness-in-all-the-wrong-places/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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