The Department of Religious Studies
presents a talk by
Menachem Lorberbaum
(Tel Aviv University)
Tuesday, December 14, 3:00 p.m.
University Hall 122
Menachem Lorberbaum teaches in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Michael Walzer and Noam Zohar, he is co-editor of the unprecedented and ambitious compilation, The Jewish Political Tradition (Yale UP), of which volumes 1 (“Authority”) and 2 (“Membership”) have appeared so far. His academic specialties are medieval Jewish philosophy and political philosophy, and he has a special interest in problems of political theology and the relationship of state and religion. His book is called Politics and the Limits of Law. Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought (Stanford UP, 2001).
As part of his visit to Southern Ontario, Prof. Lorberbaum is also giving a lecture on a topic that grows out of his work on The Jewish Political Tradition, entitled “Church and State: Taming the Holy” at Beth Tzedec Synagogue in Toronto (see http://www.beth-tzedec.org)
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