[Csrfac] Thursday 11/10 - Robert Gregg's Davis Lecture in Christianity: The Death of Jesus: Comparing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Accounts

[Kati Fitzgerald]

Join us this Thursday (11/10)!

Robert Gregg's Davis Lecture in Christianity: The Death of Jesus: Comparing
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Accounts
<http://religion.osu.edu/events/robert-greggs-davis-lecture-christianity-death-jesus-comparing-christian-jewish-and-muslim>
Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 4:30pm
165 Thompson
[image: Robert Gregg]

Robert Gregg <https://classics.stanford.edu/people/robert-gregg> is a Professor
of Religious Studies and, by courtesy, Classics (Emeritus) at Stanford.
Please join us for Dr. Gregg's lecture "The Death of Jesus: Comparing
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Accounts."

Abstract

All three religions’ representations of how Jesus/Yeshu/`Isa died,
developed over centuries, promoted very different understandings and
valuations of the event itself, its aftermath, and its significance. At
stake in these competing narratives were claims about messiahship,
 prophethood, divine sonship—and God’s favored people. A close weighing
side-by-side of (a) select Christian interpretations of the meanings of
Jesus’s death in Gospels, creeds, and art, (b) two Jewish writings--a
parody of the life of Yeshu/Jesus and a 7th century apocalypse announcing
the imminent appearance of the messiah, Menahem, and (c) alternative
treatments of `Isa’s/Jesus’s death in the Qur’an, among its interpreters,
and in Muslim paintings, lays bare numerous elaborations of viewpoint and
argument. A sharp case of the kind of story or teaching that contributed to
the divergence and independent existence of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
as religions, this exploration at the same time underlines a shared, and
core, eschatological mentality: a day of judgment approaches.

-- 
Kati Fitzgerald

Graduate Teaching Associate
The Ohio State University
Department of Comparative Studies

Graduate Administrative Associate
Center for the Study of Religion

Fitzgerald.268 at osu.edu
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