Event

The Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law

Penn Law welcomes Christine Hayes, the Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, as the 2018 Gruss Lecturer. Professor Hayes will speak about “Divine Law: A Tale of Two Concepts (and three responses)”

More info on Prof. Hayes: https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/people/christine-hayes

 In late antiquity, two radically distinct conceptions of divine law – the Greek and the biblical – confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present.  This lecture explores three ancient Jewish responses to these dueling conceptions of divine law – responses that would shape western civilization in profound ways.

The lecture will be followed by an informal reception. Dietary laws will be observed.

Please RSVP: https://www.law.upenn.edu/newsevents/calendar.php#!event_id/55199/view/event