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For Immediate Release September 27, 2006 |
Public Information Office 310 Owen Hall, Campus PO 1820 Asheville, NC 28804-8507 828/251-6526 - FAX: 828/251-6677 web: http://www.unca.edu/news e-mail: pubinfo@unca.edu |
UNC Asheville Hosts Lecture on "The Birth of Christianity from the Matrix of Judaism"
UNC Asheville’s Center for Jewish
Studies and the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement
will host a talk on “The Birth of Christianity from the Matrix
of Judaism: From Myth to Fact,” by religious scholar Walter
Ziffer at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in UNC Asheville’s Reuter
Center. The lecture is based on Ziffer’s latest book. The event
is free and open to the public.
Ziffer, Mars Hill College adjunct
professor of philosophy and religion, will put the story of
Christianity’s formation into a historical and cultural context.
He will discuss the crucifixion, the apostle Paul’s motivation
to modify Judaism for the Gentiles, the formation of a 19th
benediction in the Jewish prayer commonly called Eighteen
Benedictions, and the two Jewish Wars against Rome. Ziffer will
explore these events to discuss the formation and development of
Christianity as an independent world religion.
Ziffer, a Holocaust survivor,
converted from Judaism to Christianity, became an ordained
Christian pastor and professor in Christian seminaries and later
converted back to Judaism. He taught at theological seminaries
in Washington D.C., France and Belgium. Ziffer is the author of
“The Teaching of Disdain: An Examination of Christology and New
Testament Attitudes Toward Jews” and of many articles on
Bible-related topics in various publications in France and in
the United States. After retiring, Ziffer taught at the
University of Maine and at UNC Asheville.
For more information, call the North
Carolina Center for Creative Retirement at 828/251-6140.
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