Dickinson Hosts Lecture on Holy Land, Past and Present
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Talk examines danger and purity in, around Jerusalem
On Monday, Nov. 11, Dickinson will host a lecture about current and historical claims to land in and around Jerusalem.
The event, titled Danger, Purity and the Holy Land Past and Present, will be held in the Stern Center Great Room at 7 p.m.
Robin Darling Young
The lecture will be presented by Robin Darling Young, a Catholic University of America professor of church history and affiliate of the university’s Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages.
Young’s most recent publications are (as editor in chief) an annotated commentary and translation, from Greek and Syriac, of the Gnostic Trilogy of Evagrius of Pontus, and a translation of the Armenian Letters of Evagrius (CSCO, 2023) with Hovsep Karapetyan. She is past president of the North American Patristics Society and has taught at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia.
This event is part of the annual Borges Lecture series at Dickinson. It is co-sponsored by St. John’s Episcopal Church in Carlisle, the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and Dickinson’s Department of Religion.
The talk is presented in memory of Wayne and Mary Ellen Borges, who are honored annually at Dickinson through lectures that bring together Dickinson community members with members of the local religious community to explore topics of importance with speakers of accomplishment and authority.
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Published October 18, 2024