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Antisemitism
Christian Nationalism, Religious Pluralism, and the 2024 Election (2024)
Robert P. Jones
Christ Jesus the Jew in the Wake of October 7th (2024)
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Amy-Jill Levine, Karma Ben Johanan, Michael Azar, and Katharina von Kellenbach听
Where Do We Go From Here? Rising Antisemitism and Jewish-Christian Relations (2024)
Rita George-Tvrtkovic, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Malka Simkovich, and Glenn Dynner
Kristallnacht and the Anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler: On the
Interaction of Malicious Intentions and Unplanned Circumstances (2023)
Michael S. Bryant
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023)
Magda Teter
Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front (2022)
Charles R. Gallagher, S.J.
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood (2021)
Mark Oppenheimer听
White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism: Lessons from the Capitol Attack (2021)
Jonathan D. Sarna
Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance (2020)
James Bernauer, S.J.听
Is There a New Anti-Semitism? (2020)
James Bernauer, S.J., Susannah Heschel, Mark Silk
Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism: The Uneasy Connection (2009)
Robert Wistrich
Contemporary Christian-Jewish Dialogue
Christian Nationalism, Religious Pluralism, and the 2024 Election (2024)
Robert P. Jones
Christ Jesus the Jew in the Wake of October 7th (2024)
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Amy-Jill Levine, Karma Ben Johanan, Michael Azar, and Katharina von Kellenbach听
Sabbath as Gift and Command: Jewish and Christian Perspectives (2023)
Susannah Heschel,听Brian Robinette , and Joanna Kline听
2023 International Council of Christians and Jews Annual Conference Opening Program and Seelisberg Prize (2023)
Jews, Christians, & Civil Society: Bergoglio in Argentina (2023)
Rabbi Sergio Bergman
Constantine's Sword: 20 Years Later - A Retrospective (2022)
James Carroll
Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations: What Are the Challenges and Opportunities? (2022)
Jesper Svartvik
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood (2021)
Mark Oppenheimer
White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism: Lessons from the Capitol Attack (2021)
Jonathan D. Sarna
How Should We Approach Jerusalem? A Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (2021)
Philip Cunningham and Ruth Langer
ICCJ-Webinar "Interreligious Dialogue About the Land" (2021)
Anette Adelmann; David Neuhaus, SJ; Ruth Langer; Jesper Svartvik; Philip A. Cunningham; Adam Gregerman
Book Launch: "Enabling Dialogue About the Land" (2020)
Philip A. Cunningham, Adam Gregerman, Ruth Langer, Jesper Svartvik
Religious Pluralism without Relativism (2020)
Raphael Jospe
Is There a New Anti-Semitism? (2020)
James Bernauer, S.J., Susannah Heschel, Mark Silk
Jewish in the Age of Trump (2018)
Susannah Heschel, Ruth Langer, Mark Silk
Beyond Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: A New Paradigm (2011)
Daniel L. Lehmann
Are Jews and Christians Living in a Post-Polemical World (2011)
David Berger
Is this the Golden Age in Jewish-Catholic Relations? (2010)
Richard J. Sklba
Seeing Judaism听Anew in Our Time (2006)
Mary C. Boys, Philip Cunningham, Alice Eckardt, Eva Fleischner, Walter Harrelson, Rueven Kimelman, Michael Paulson, Ruth Langer, John Merkle, Gilbert Rosenthal, Jean-Pierre Ruiz,听Karla Suomala
Should Catholics Seek to Convert Jews (If Jews Are in True Covenant with God?) (2005)
Philip Cunningham, Michael Himes,听Frederick Lawrence
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik: An Interreligious Dialogue, 40 Years Later (2003)
Eugene Korn and Panel
Bible and Bible Interpretations
Search Me, O God: An Interfaith Musical Exploration of the Psalms (2024)
Deus Ex Musica听
Reasoning for Repair: Studies of Reparative Reasoning in Jewish and Catholic Traditions (2024)
Peter Ochs
The Book of 2 Esdras: Jewish, Christian, Both, Neither (2024)
Matthew Goff
A Jewish Paul: Restoring the Apostle Paul to His Roots (2024)
Matthew Thiessen
How Does a Woman Get To Be a Prophet in Ancient Israel? (2023)
Susan Ackerman听
Scriptural Reasoning, Medieval Style: Interfaith Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Paris (2022)
Frans van Liere
The Suffering Jewish Jesus and Christian Memory (2022)
Barbara U. Meyer
Jesus the Jew and his Christian Followers (2022)
Jesper Svartvik
Paul of Tarsus among Jews and Gentiles (2022)
Jesper Svartvik
The Epistle to the Hebrews--or against Them? (2022)
Jesper Svartvik
Jesus the Jewish Divine Physician: Understanding Healing in Early Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts (2022)
Frances Flannery
Judas and Betrayal ("Do you betray me with a kiss?") (2022)
Ruth Langer and Jesper Svartvik
Good Friday or Bad Friday (2021)
Jesper Svartvik
The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (2020)
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler
Reading the New Testament Without Presupposing Supersessionism: Four Fundamental Issues (2020)
Jesper Svartvik
Neither Moloch nor the Velveteen Rabbit (2019)
Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.听
The Psalms: Jewish-Catholic Dialogue through Shared Praise (2017)
Andrew Davis
Video
A Rebellious Son? Jesus and His Mother at the Wedding in Cana (John 2) (2016)
Adele Reinhartz
In Quest of the Jewish Mary (2014)
Mary Christine Athans
The Gospel of John and the "Parting of the Ways" (2014)
Adele Reinhartz
The Word Set Free: Presenting the New Testament in its First-Century Context (2010)
Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.; Chris Leighton; David Michael; Celia Sirois
Christ's Passion: What's at Stake for Christians Jews? Personal Meditations for Holy Week (2005)
Philip Cunningham; Raymond Helmick, SJ; John Michalczyk; Louis Roy, OP
Judaism
A Book Event for Shai Held's "Judaism is About Love" (2024)
A Dialogue between Shai Held and Stephen Pope
The History of Jewish Mysticism (2020)
David Maayan
The History of Medieval Jewish Thought (2023)
Jonathan Decter
History of Jewish-Christian Relations
Soloveitchik's Children Confront Christianity (2024)
Daniel Ross Goodman
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023)
Magda Teter
The Babylonian Talmud and Jewish-Christian Literary Relations in Late Antiquity (2023)
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Scriptural Reasoning, Medieval Style: Interfaith Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Paris (2022)
Frans van Liere
Constantine's Sword: 20 Years Later - A Retrospective (2022)
James Carroll听
Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front (2022)
Charles R. Gallagher, S.J.
Cushing, Spellman, O'Connor: How Three American Cardinals Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations (2012)
James Rudin
Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism: The Uneasy Connection (2009)
Robert Wistrich
The Jewish-Christian Debate in the Early Modern Period: Spinoza, Modena, and Isaac of Troki (2005)
Daniel J. Lasker
Estranged [Br]others: Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity (2005)
Adiel Schremer
For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity (2004)
Irving Greenberg and Panel
Shoah (Holocaust)
Auschwitz and Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor (2024)
James Bernauer, S.J.
Kristallnacht and the Anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler: On the Interaction of Malicious Intentions and Unplanned Circumstances (2023)
Michael S. Bryant
The German Churches, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust (2023)
Rebecca Carter-Chand
The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel (2023)
Emma Polyakov
Two Jewish Fathers Who Changed History: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Elie Wiesel (2022)
Susannah Heschel, Elisha Wiesel
Faith and Politics in a Complex Time: Christian-Jewish Relations in the Third Reich (2022)
Susannah Heschel
The Arts in the Terezin Concentration Camp (2022)
Mark Ludwig
The Holocaust-Era Archives of Pope Pius XII: The State of the Question (2021)
Suzanne Brown-Fleming, David Kertzer, Robert Ventresca, Iael Nidam-Orvieto
The Shoah in Film: History from the Ashes (2021)
John Michalczyk and Susan Michalczyk
Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance (2020)
James Bernauer, S.J.听
Germany's Post Holocaust Payout: Compensation, Reparations, and Transitional Justice (2020)
Nir Eisikovits
Formation of the听Religious Conscience after the Shoah: Bonhoeffer's Spirituality for Today (2006)
Lisa Dahill, Mark Krell,听Stephen Pope,听Victoria Barnett
Jews, Christians, and the Holy Land
The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel (2023)
Emma Polyakov
How Should We Approach Jerusalem? A Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (2021)
Philip Cunningham and Ruth Langer
ICCJ-Webinar "Interreligious Dialogue About the Land" (2021)
Anette Adelmann; David Neuhaus, SJ; Ruth Langer; Jesper Svartvik; Philip A. Cunningham; Adam Gregerman
Book Launch: "Enabling Dialogue About the Land" (2020)
Philip A. Cunningham, Adam Gregerman, Ruth Langer, Jesper Svartvik
The Significance of Jerusalem in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2020)
Raphael Jospe
Between the Holocaust and the Nakba: When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History, Jaffa 1949 (2020)
Alon Confino听
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Where We Are and How We Got There (2009)
Mark Tessler
Social Justice
A Book Event for Shai Held's "Judaism is About Love" (2024)
A Dialogue between Shai Held and Stephen Pope
Jews, Christians, & Civil Society: Bergoglio in Argentina (2023)
Rabbi Sergio Bergman
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (Panel Discussion) (2021)
Martin Doblemeier and Susannah Heschel
Christian Privilege, Christian Fragility, and Gospel of John: How American Race Relations inform Jewish-Christian Dialogue (2018)
Amy-Jill Levine听
Heschel and King: Legacy and听Responsibility (2006)
Cornel West
Costly Discipleship and Contemporary Culture: Bonhoeffer as a Model for Religious Activism (2006)
Or Rose; David Gushee; James Bernauer, SJ; Clifford Green
Religious Resources to Combat Racism
Narrative, Restorative Justice and the Need for Truth in Racial Equality (2020)
Yavilah McCoy and Joshua Snyder
Toward Understanding Another's Reality: Narrative Empathy, Reconciliation, and Racism (2020)
Theresa O'Keefe and Rabbi Benjamin Samuels
Mining the Christian Tradition for Resources to Combat Racism (2020)
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones and Vincent D. Rougeau
Discussions About Race in the Classroom: Cultivating Helpful Dynamics (2021)
Marina McCoy and Meghan Sweeney
Discussions About Race in the Classroom: Creating Constructive Conversations (2021)
Elizabeth Antus and Gregory Fried
Discussions About Race in the Classroom: Developing Practical and Integrative Assignments (2021)
Matthew Kruger and Mary Troxell
Teaching First-Generation Boston College Students
Teaching First-Generation Boston College Students (2021)
Rossanna Contreras-Godfrey, Yvonne McBarnett, and Andy Petigny
The Socio-Economic Factors Shaping the First-Generation and Montserrat Experience (2021)
Burt Howell
How to Support First-Generation BC Students (2021)
Dacia Gentilella
Theology as Requirement: The Challenges of Teaching Theology in the Modern Academy
Introducing Theology (2022)
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones and Nathan D. Wood-House
Complicating Theology (2022)
Jeffrey L. Cooley and Domenik Ackermann
Practicing Theology (2022)
Meghan Sweeney and Katie Mylroie听听
Jewish-Christian Lecture Series
Images of Gods and Goddesses in the Kingdom of Israel: A Southern Levantine Context (2024)
Ido Koch
The Book of 2 Esdras: Jewish, Christian, Both, Neither (2024)
Matthew Goff
Kristallnacht and the Anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler: On the Interaction of Malicious Intentions and Unplanned Circumstances (2023)
Michael S. Bryant
The German Churches, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust (2023)
Rebecca Carter-Chand
Faith and Politics in a Complex Time: Christian-Jewish Relations in the Third Reich (2022)
Susannah Heschel
Constantine's Sword: Twenty Years Later - A Retrospective (2022)
James Carroll
Jesus the Jewish Divine Physician: Understanding Healing in Early Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts (2022)
Frances Flannery
The History of Jewish Mysticism (2020)
David Maayan
The Significance of Jerusalem in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2020)
Raphael Jospe
Germany's Post Holocaust Payout: Compensation, Reparations, and Transitional Justice (2020)
Nir Eisikovits
Annual John Paul II Lectures
Humans as the Image of God: The Bible and John Paul II (2023)
David Novak
Why Did God Choose the Jews? A Christian Reflection in Conversation with Jewish Thought (2022)
Kendall Soulen
MESSY MONOTHEISM: The Crowded Cosmos of Ancient Jews and Christians (2021)
Paula Fredriksen
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"Walking You Make the Road": Discerning the Way in Jewish-Christian Relations Today (2021)
Mary C. Boys
Between the Holocaust and the Nakba: When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History, Jaffa 1949 (2020)
Alon Confino
Christian Privilege, Christian Fragility, and the Gospel of John (2018)
Amy-Jill Levine
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2024 Corcoran Conference "RANKING RELIGIONS: Taxonomic Comparison in Medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Thought"
Panel 1
Jason Welle: "Nishapur Yields a Seminal Plan: Ab奴 l-岣san Compares the Ady膩n" []
Barbara Roggema: "Us, Us and Them: Thoughts on the Truth Hierarchy of Religions in Arab Christian Thought (8th-14th c. CE)"
David Freidenreich: "Shifting Poles: The Evolution of Medieval European Rhetoric about Jews and Muslims"
Panel 2
Samuel Stafford: "Ranking the Umma and the Israelites on Sinai in the Torah of Ka士b al-A岣膩r" []
Jonathan Decter: "Hierarchies of Belief and Practice in Judah Halevi's Kuzari"
Boyd Taylor Coolman: "Idolaters, Heretics, or Sinners: Sorting and Ranking Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Early Franciscan Tradition" ]
Panel 3
Jeannie Miller: "Al-J膩岣岷� on Jews and Christians: New Reflections"
Omer Michaelis: "Interiority in Ba岣a Ibn Paquda and the Plurality of Religions" []
Jessica Andruss: "The History of Religions in Maimonides鈥檚 Epistle to Yemen"
2023 Corcoran Conference "Shared Scripture 鈥� Divided Faiths: The Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter over the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament"
Session 1
Devorah Schoenfeld: "How Many Lovers are in the Song of Songs? The Construction of Unified Protagonists in the Commentaries of Rashi, Bede, and the Glossa Ordinaria" []
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger: "New Perspectives for the Study of Bilingual Psalters from Medieval England"
Robert A. Harris: "Speaking To and About the Other: Terms for Christians and Christianity Among 12th Century Rabbinic Exegetes" []
Keynote Address
Frans van Liere: 鈥淗ebraeus 鈥� Judaeus: A Thousand Years of Christian Ambivalence in Two Words" []
Session 2
Deeana Copeland Klepper: "Shared Scripture? Nicholas of Lyra鈥檚 'On the Differences between the Hebrew Letter and Our Translation' (1333)"
G枚rge K. Hasselhoff: "The Impact of the Parisian Talmud Trials on Christian Theology: Translating the Talmud, Rashi, and Maimonides"
Johannes Heil: "The Other Diaspora - Roman Jews and Latin Jewish Texts (400-800)"
Session 3
Boyd Taylor Coolman: "The Old Law and the Trinity: A Trinitarian Reading of the Decalogue in the 'Summa Halensis'" []
Franklin T. Harkins: "Moses Maimonides and Albertus Magnus on Job and Divine Providence"
Christopher Ocker: "Juan de Segovia: a Hierarchy of Errors, the Bible, and the Jews"
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2022 Corcoran Conference "Treasures New and Old"
Session 1听
Jesper Svartvik: 鈥淭herefore Every Scribe Who Has Been Trained for the Kingdom听of God Is Like the Master of a Household Who Brings Out of His Treasure What Is听New and What Is Old鈥�
Judith Hershcopf Banki: 鈥淣ostra Aetate 鈥� A Jewish Perspective鈥�
Session 2
Matthew Tapie: 鈥淚听Have Called You Friends: The Catholic Church鈥檚 Affirmation of Rabbinic Judaism听as Resource for Christian Theology鈥�
Michael G. Azar: 鈥淩ethinking Jewish-Christian Relations and Orthodox Christian听Theology鈥�
Adam Gregerman: A Jewish Response
Session 3
Barbara U. Meyer: 鈥淎 Lutheran Dogmatics of Halakhah: The Way of听Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt鈥�
Randall Zachman: 鈥溾�楪od's Blessing Still Rests Among Them:鈥� Overcoming听Contempt for the Jews in the Reformed Tradition鈥�
Amy-Jill Levine: A Jewish Response
Session 4
Mary C. Boys: 鈥淗ow Do We Transform Traditional Christian Representations听of the Pharisees? Components of a Strategic听Pedagogy鈥� []
Peter A. Pettit: 鈥淕etting Traction: Problems and Possibilities in the Journey听Forward鈥� []
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2021 Corcoran Conference听鈥淭o Arrive Where We Started and Know the Place for the First Time: Exploring Pre-Supersessionist Readings of the New Testament"
Session 1听
Jesper Svartvik:听鈥淭hose Who Trust Us Educate Us鈥�: Daniel Deronda鈥檚 Quest for His Origins and New Testament Studies
Wendy Farley:听Radical Compassion During Days of Rage
Session 2
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski:听The Parable of the Vineyard and the Dynamics of Covenant
Mary C. Boys:听鈥淨uestions at the Heart of our Faith鈥�: The Gifts of Non-Supersessionist Christianity
Day 1 Closing Session
Daniel Boyarin
Session 3
Daniel C. Ullucci:听Supersessionism, Sacrifices, and the Destruction of the Second Temple
Dieter T. Roth:听Transfiguring the Transfiguration: Reading Luke 9:35 Adversus听Marcionem
Session 4
Peter C. Phan:听Non-Supersessionism and Asian Ecclesiology and Christian Mission
R. Kendall Soulen:听Jesus and the Unspoken Name: On Recovering a Differentiated Apophaticism
Day 2 Closing Session
Daniel Boyarin
Student Internship Research Projects
Loving the Stranger: Christian and Jewish Responses to Migration in the United States (2023)
Owen Fletcher and Mark Massa, S.J.
The Natural Law Foundation of Interreligious Social Advocacy: A Civil Rights Movement Case Study (2021)
Dennis Wieboldt and Mark Massa, S.J.
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