2014 Divinity-Classics LectureErich S. Gruen, U.C., BerkeleyCHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE AGEOF NERO Introduction by John J. Collins Yale Divinity SchoolThursday, April 10, 2014 6: 00pm Linsly Chittenden Hall, (LC-101), 63 High Street This lecture is free and opento the public. Reception to follow.The lecture takes as its starting point the arrival of Paul in Rome. It attempts toreconst ruct the atmosphere for Jews and Christians in Neronian Rome at that point , toconsider the attitude of t he Roman government toward the m, to discern their relationsw ith one another, and to ask wh at Paul might have anticipated when he chose to appealto the emperor and present his case before the imperial throne. Erich S. Gruen is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor Emeritus at U.C., Berkeley. His most recent books include,Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans (Harvard University Pre ss) and Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (PrincetonUniversity Press). For more information about Professor Emeritus Gruen , please visit http://history.berkeley.edu/people/erich-s-gruen John J. Collins is the HolmesProfessor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Sponsored by Yale University’sDivinity School, Department of Classics, and Judaic Studies Program.
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