Faculty representatives from over twenty colleges, universities and seminaries will attend a three-day Institute on Contemporary Jewish and Christian Thought at Emory University. Sponsored by Emory University’s Department of Religion, and its Candler School of Theology and United Campus Ministry, together with the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and the United Methodist Board of Higher Education, the academic gathering which began today and ends Tuesday, will be aimed at more effective integration of Jewish studies into existing courses in religion, scriptures, philosophy, history and ethics. The institute will also study contemporary Jewish life and thought against the background of Biblical and rabbinic teaching with a view toward stimulating new academic programs in this field. A further goal is the advancement of Christian-Jewish understanding through scholarship, research and teaching. Dr. Seymour Siegel, professor of Rabbinic Theology and Ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and Dr. Jack S. Boozer, professor of religion at Emory, will be the principal lecturers. Representatives at the Institute will be from schools in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Virginia, Alabama, South Carolina, Michigan and Arkansas.
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