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Guest Speaker John Collins

Friday, December 1, 2017 13 Kislev 5778

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Agudath Israel and its Adult Scholarly Education Group is pleased to welcome John J. Collins, the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation of the Yale Divinity School, for a Shabbat on on Decembers 1 and 2, devoted to the development of Jewish messianic thinking. Professor Collins is a world renowned authority on Second Temple literature, on apocalypticism, on Wisdom literature, on Hellentistic Judaism and on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is the author of a veritable library of books on these subjects, including two with particular relevance to the topic upon which Professor Collins will be lecturing at CAI, that is, The Sceptre and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature and King and Messiah as Son of God (this book co-authored with Professor Collin's wife, Adela Yarbro Collins). Professor Collins will be speaking Friday night at 7:00 pm, after services (at 4:10 pm) and a dinner, (at 5:30 pm for which there will be a small feeat $18 per person) On Saturday morning, at 9:00 am, Professor Collins will lead the weekly Torah, about the relationship between king and the messiah and the royal ideology in ancient Judah. All are welcome to participate in the class and hear about the "Fallen Booth of David," that is, how the collapse of the Davidic monarchy transformed Jewish hopes in Second Temple times regarding a restoration of the Davidic kingship and the impact of those hopes on messianic thinking. During morning services, Professor Collins will deliver a sermon entitled "What does the Lord want of us? -- a discussion of the Prophet Micah." After kiddush, Professor Collins will teach in a lunch and learn format about other non-kingly Messiahs, such as priestly, prophetic and heavenly messiahs (such as the Son of Man concept found in the book of Daniel.) Finally after shabbes ends, at 7:00 pm, Professor Collins will lecture on "How did Christianity Adapt the Ideas Found in Jewish Messianic Expectations through Jesus and other messiahs of Israel. A dessert reception will follow.

The series of lectures by Professor Collins are the second series of lectures hosted this year by the CAI Adult Scholarly Education Group. They come on the heels of the very successful two lecture series conducted by Professor Baruch Schwartz of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in September of this year on the books of Chronicles and Ezekiel. These learning opportunities follow a year of lectures and classes offered by Professors Benjamin Sommer of JTS, Joel Baden of Yale Divinity School and Baruch Schwartz on scholarly ways of understanding Torah and how one might reconcile these ideas with traditional observance. The Adult Scholarly GroSave Event Info up has more lectures planned for this year. CAI is committed to providing an opportunity to delve into Jewish studies at the very highest caliber with world class teachers at no cost."

Shabbat Topic: How did Messianic thinking develop in Judaism and in Christianity?

Friday, December 1:
4:10 pm -Shabbat Services

5:30 pm Shabbat Dinner with speaker - $18.00 per person. Please click here to RSVP for the dinner. 

7:00 pm - Lecture on Hebrew Scriptural underpinnings of the idea of a messiah. During this lecture he will discuss the idea of the king being conceived as the son of God in Samuel, Kings and especially Psalms.

Saturday, December 2:
9:00 am -  During weekly parshah class: the impact of the Book of Daniel, probably the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures to be composed, on messianic thinking.

After Kiddush Lecture: Professor Collins will discuss how messianic ideas were developed in late Second Temple Judaism and in the Qumran community.

7:00 pm - Lecture on the subject of how Christian Jews developed these Jewish ideas into messianic Christian thinking.

**PLEASE INCLUDE THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO ARE ATTENDING IN THE NOTES. 

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