UCLA
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION
This talk looks at a few examples of Paul’s ethical reasoning and then discusses how his ethical discourse compares with those of several types current today. RSVP required for…
Read MoreIn biblical texts, we find preserved the “mark of contradictions, fragmentations, and adjunctions,” as intellectual historian Michel de Certeau once wrote (The Writing of History 1988: 313). This talk…
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This talk centers on the little-known story of the children of illicit unions that resulted from a highly unusual situation in post-Holocaust Munkacz, a SubCarpathian town that had been…
Read MoreIt is often noted how the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of ancient Judaism, radically expanding our evidence for Jews and Judaism prior to the…
Read MoreDrawing on her in-progress book project on Forgetting, this seminar will explore the place of memory and forgetting in the reception of Second Temple Judaism, revisiting the supposed Rabbinic…
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The nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the last century’s most revered figures, has exerted enormous influence across the world. Gandhi was himself greatly influenced by Jainism, an…
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With the exception of the cross, the apple—as the forbidden fruit—may be the most widely-recognized biblical image. Yet the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew original does not name the…
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Periodization is a critical tool for historians, but it is also practice fraught with difficulty. As scholars have come to recognize, the division of historical narratives into broad analytic rubrics…
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Source: Shakyamuni Buddha – Jataka (Previous Lives). 1800, Zanabazar Mongolia National Museum, Mongolia, https://www.himalayanart.org/items/50191. Accessed 22 Sept. 2022. The practice of ahiṃsā (non-violence) has a long and illustrious history…
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