The Changing Relations between Christians and Jews

Dr. Robert L. Wilken, a renowned scholar of the History of Christianity, will present the 21st Annual Oesterreicher Lecture entitled, “The Changing Relations between Christians and Jews,” at Seton Hall University on Sunday, November 2, 2014 from 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Throughout his long career as an educator specializing in early Christianity, Dr. Wilken has studied the relationship between Christians and their neighbors as seen in several of his books: The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (1984), John Chrysostom and the Jews (1983), and Judaism and the Early Christian Mind: A Study of Cyril of Alexandria’s Exegesis and Theology (1971). His mastery of the literature and other records of the time is evident in The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought (1992).

Dr. Wilken’s most recent work is The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (2013). As General Editor of the series, The Church’s Bible: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans), Dr. Wilken and his team have made treasures of the distant past available to scholars and serious students alike.

The memorial lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in the Beck Rooms of the Walsh Library.

For more information please contact Lawrence Frizzell at lawrence.frizzell@shu.edu.