400 S Orange Ave, South Orange, NJ
Time: 2:00pm–4:00pm
SETON HALL PRESENTS THE SEVENTH ANNUAL MONSIGNOR JOHN M. OESTEERICHER MEMORIAL LECTURE
The Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies will welcome an adjunct professor in the MA program in Jewish-Christian Studies to give the Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher Memorial Lecture on October 24, 2010, from 2p.m. - 4 p.m., at the Walsh University Library.
Father Joseph Sievers, Ph.D., is a scholar who has made major contributions in the study of Josephus Flavius and the Hasmonean dynasty of Second Temple Judais. His lecture will be entitledChristian –Jewish Relations: A View from Rome. The general public is welcome to attend his lecture, beginning at 2:00 p.m. in the Beck Rooms of the Walsh Library on the South Orange Campus.
From 1975 -1983 father Sievers taught in the Department of Jewish-Christian studies at Seton Hall. He was also a professor in the prestigious Pontifical Biblical Institute of the Gregorian University in Rome. From 2003-2009 he was the first director of the Augustin Cardinal Bea Center for Interreligious Dialogue in the same university. In that capacity he co-edited the proceedings of two important conferences: The Catholic Church and the Jewish People: Recent Reflections from Rome and Good and Evil after Auschwitz: Ethical Implications for Today. In April 2008 he was appointed to be consulter to the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jewish People.
For more information, contact Reverend Lawrence Frizzell at (973) 761-9751 orLawrence.Frizzell@shu.edu
