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Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
in its fiftieth-eighth year under the auspices of
The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Religious Studies
201 Cohen Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104
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PSCO Presentation: 1 October, 2015
“Judaism and Syriac Christianity”
Aaron Butts (Catholic University) and Simcha Gross (Yale)
Seminar
Aaron Butts and Simcha Gross will inaugurate this year's discussion of “Beyond ‘Greco-Roman Context’: Persian and Other Perspectives on Judaism and Christianity.” They will engage these issues through the lens of their in-progress collaborative volume on Judaism and Syriac Christianity.
Audio Recording
Here is an audio recording of this session. (If you prefer, you can download this recording.)
Suggested Readings
Suggested readings will be sent out closer to the date.
Meeting and Dining
All are welcome! As usual, those interested are also welcome to join us for an informal dinner prior to the session. Those wishing to dine together before the seminar will meet at 6:00 p.m. in the Second-Floor Lounge of Cohen Hall and then walk next door to the food court in Houston Hall. Or, just meet us in the Houston Hall downstairs food-court between 6:00-6:45 p.m.
As usual, the PSCO seminar will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. We meet in the Second-Floor Lounge of Cohen Hall.