The Abraham and Rebecca Solomon and
Ida Schwartz Distinguished Lecture Series
in Judaic Studies

October 28, 2001

Professor Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor and Director, Graduate Program, New School for Social Research, New York, “Levinas: Evil and the Temptation of Theodicy.”

October 23 and 24, 2003

Professor Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls” and “Jerusalem in the Era of Herod the Great.”

March 16, 2004

Professor Alexander H. Joffe, SUNY, Purchase and Director of Research and Global Policy Exchange, “Israel in the Eyes of Historians: The Legacy of Jewish Historians on Nationalism, Zionism, and Israel.”

October 6, 2006 

Professor Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Harvard University, Lecture on “God and Humans in the Creation Stories of Genesis.”  

 

 

Contact Information

Gilya Gerda Schmidt, Ph.D.
Chair, Judaic Studies Program
Professor and Head of Department of Religious Studies
501 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0450

Phone: 865-974-6985
Fax: 865-974-0965
Email: gschmidt@utk.edu