Y. Ariel, UNC-Chapel Hill, '20

 

Name of Speaker:
Prof. Yaakov Ariel

Date:
October 26, 2020

Location:
Appalachian State University

 Prof. Yaakov Ariel

In this October 26 ZOOM-based Center lecture, Prof. Yaakov Ariel (Carolina Center for Jewish Studies/Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill) examines "An Unexpected Enchantment: Evangelical Christians and Jews," detailing the far-reaching repercussions of these relations from political realignments to Holocaust memory in their historical contexts. A specialist in Judaism in the Modern World, Prof. Ariel is one of the foremost experts in Evangelical Christianity's attitudes towards the Jewish people and the Holy Land and on Christian-Jewish relations in the late modern era.