2010 Klingenstein Lecture

The annual Klingenstein lecture in Judaic Studies was held on January 19, 2010, at 7:00 pm in the Mildred Sainer Pavilion (5313 Bay Shore Road) on the campus of New College of Florida. The 2010 speaker was Dr. David Frankfurter. His talk was entitled "Exorcism and Demons in Early Judaism. "

David Frankfurter, Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of numerous articles on Jewish and Christian apocalypticism, magic, Christianization, demonology, and violence in antiquity, especially in Roman and late antique Egypt, and is the recipient of Guggenheim, N.E.H., Radcliffe Institute, and Institute for Advanced Study fellowships. His books include Elijah in Upper Egypt (Fortress Press, 1993), Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance (Princeton University Press,1998), and Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History (Princeton University Press, 2006), the last two of which each won the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion. His current research concerns the particular social worlds in which Christian ideas and symbols were brought together with native Egyptian traditions in late antiquity

For more information on the Klingenstein lecture series, please visit http://www.ncf.edu/klingenstein-lecture.

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