Joseph Cardinal Bernardin and members of a Catholic-Jewish delegation visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 1995.
Co-sponsored as a partnership of Spertus, the Archdiocese of Chicago, the American Jewish Committee, the Chicago Board of Rabbis, and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
Lectures, Discussions, Panels
Annual Bernardin Lecture
This program is sold out and we are no longer taking reservations.
Spertus hosts the 12th Annual Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture
- Jewish Views of Jesus
- Monday, March 26 at 7 pm
- Free, but reservations strongly recommended.
- Call 312.322.1743 or email rsvp@spertus.edu.
Please join us for the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture, an annual program that commemorates Cardinal Bernardin's 1995 visit to Israel and continues the dialogue he advocated between Jews and Catholics on theological issues affecting their relationship.
This year's lecture will be delivered by Rabbi Dr. Michael J. Cook of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, with a response by Dr. Margaret M. Mitchell of the University of Chicago.
Dr. Michael J. Cook is Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures and holds the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professorship in Judaeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati. He is possibly the only rabbi in the U.S. with a professorial Chair in New Testament, and has extensive expertise in the field of Jewish-Christian relations.
Dr. Margaret M. Mitchell is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
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