Fall 2011 Events

rineharr — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:31:35 +0000

A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

When: Tue, 10/04/2011 – 8:00pm – 9:30pm

Where: Kirby Hall of Civil Rights Auditorium (Rm. 104)

Presenter: Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the University of Chicago Divinity School; also in the Committee on Jewish Studies; Associate Faculty in the Department of History

Price: Free, and open to the public

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Prof. E. Ziolkowski

610-330-5181

ziolkowe@lafayette.edu

Sponsored by Lyman Coleman Fund, through the Department of Religious Studies; supported by the Department of Government and Law, and the Jewish Studies Program

“Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image”: Word, Image, and the Quadricentennial of the King James Bible

When: Thu, 09/15/2011 – 7:30pm – 9:00pm

Where: Kirby Hall of Civil Rights Auditorium (Rm. 104)

Presenter: Kent Richards

Price: Free and Open to the public

The Quadricentennial of the King James Version of the Bible has stimulated discussion about numerous issues from its impact on the standardization of the English language to the influence on literature, art, music, and politics. Little attention is paid to the early illustrated King James Bibles. In part the role of Puritans in this new translation suggests that any hint of idolatry would have been avoided. In addition, the strict protection of who could print this new translation which had no illustrations has further fed the notion that there were no illustrated King James Bibles. This lecture sets the historical context for the new translation within the history of illuminated and illustrated Bibles. Often forgotten in a time when every household and hotel room seems to have a Bible is the recognition that the earliest means of transmitting the Bible was through images and pictures.

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Eric Ziolkowski

610-330-5181

ziolkowe@lafayette.edu

Sponsored by the Schlueter Lectureship on the Art and History of the Book, and the Department of Religious Studies through the Lyman Coleman Fund. Supported by the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies Program.

Lyman Coleman Lectures

rineharr — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:28:16 +0000

Most Religious Studies lectures are sponsored under the auspices of the Lyman Coleman Fund. The Rev. Lyman Coleman was a Lafayette professor. To learn more about him, read A Sermon Commemorative of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lyman Coleman, D.D.

Past Lyman Coleman Lectures have included Wole Soyinka, Nigerian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature; Elie Wiesel, Nobel prize winner and Holocaust survivor; Wendy Doniger, an expert on Indian religions; Andrew Greeley, Catholic priest, sociologist, and novelist; and John Updike, acclaimed novelist, short-story author, and poet.