Elijah the Prophet’s Varied Eschatological Roles in Jewish and Christian Discourse

12 December, 2022

We are honoured to welcome Dr Chana Shacham-Rosby, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Halpern Centre for the Study of Jewish Self-Perception, Department of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University, Israel, to lead a session of the International Interfaith Reading Group on Eschatology in Interfaith Contexts.

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Here are the details of this fascinating event.

Topic: Elijah the Prophet’s Varied Eschatological Roles in Jewish and Christian Discourse

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the various roles attributed to Elijah the Prophet in Jewish and Christian eschatological narratives. I will focus on the function of Elijah’s figure in Jewish-Christian polemic about the eschaton, and especially the fate of the Jews. The talk will review a range of written and visual sources and suggest possible avenues of discourse between the communities.

Speaker: Dr Chana Shacham-Rosby, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Halpern Centre for the Study of Jewish Self-Perception, Department of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Speaker’s bio: Dr Chana Shacham-Rosby received her PhD from the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University in 2019. Her dissertation, ‘Elijah the Prophet in Medieval Ashkenazi Jewish Culture’, is in production as a book. She was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2021), at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University (2022), and is currently at the Halpern Center for the Study of Jewish Self-Perception at Bar Ilan University (2023).

Date: 12 December, 2022

Time: 18:00-19:00 GMT | 19:00-20:00 CEST | 10:00-11:00 PT | 12:00-13:00 CT | 13:00-14:00 ET

Venue: Online

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