Interpreting the Crucifixion of Jesus: The Passion Narratives and Jewish-Christian Relations, will be the focus of a panel discussion at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24. at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, 385 East Eighth Street. The event is free and open to the public.
Panelists will include: Gary Gilbert, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC, editor of The Papers of the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (1996), Steve Davis, professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC, author of God, Reason, and Theistic Proofs (1997) and co-editor of Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God (2002), Robert Faggen, professor of literature, CMC, author of Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (1997) and editor of Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (1997), John Roth, professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC, co-editor of Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (1989) and Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust (2002), Michael Berenbaum, adjunct professor of theology, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, editor of The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (1998) and co-editor of The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? (2003), Jeff Siker, professor of theological studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, author of Disinheriting the Jews: Abraham in Early Christian Controversy (1995) and Scripture and Ethics: Twentieth Century Portraits (1997).