Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art and Literature

Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis, PhD (1992) in theology, Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, is lecturer in Rabbinics and Jewish Christian relations. He has published on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, on Jewish history and on the interaction between Church Fathers and Rabbinics.

Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D (1981), Jewish History, Hebrew University, is Director of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies and the Schulman Center for Basic Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has published extensively on the historical geography of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.

Joseph Turner, Ph.D (1993) is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He has published on Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Yehezkel Kaufmann among others. His current project is in the philosophy of Jewish existence, focusing on attitudes toward Zion and the Diaspora in 20th century Jewish thought.