Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts

Discussion of a New Book Featuring a Range of Religious Experts Exploring the Interpretation of Violence in Their Sacred Texts

February 7, 2023
1:00 p.m. ET
Online

Religiously inspired violence remains a tragic feature of today’s world. We invite you to join us for a discussion of the just published book, Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts: Interreligious Perspectives, a collection featuring essays by 11 experts from a range of religious backgrounds. The discussion will include the book’s editors, Dr. Helen Paynter and Dr. Maria Power, in conversation with Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris and Dr. Alan Mittleman of JTS, who contributed essays to the collection. They will talk about the interpretation of violence in their sacred texts and the role that world religions have played both in war and conflict and in the creation of peaceful settlements.

Sponsored by the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue at JTS.

Note: You will receive the Zoom link for the series once you register.

Speakers

Dr. Helen Paynter, Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, Bristol Baptist College, Bristol, England

Dr. Maria Powers, Senior Research Fellow in Human Dignity, Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford

Rabbi Dr. Deborah Kahn-Harris, Leo Baeck College, London

Dr. Alan Mittleman, Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy, JTS