SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture continues its lecture series in Coronado and in Carlsbad respectively on January 18 and January 30.
Rabbi Scott Meltzer of SDSU and spiritual leader at Ohr Shalom Synagogue is the featured speaker. Rabbi Meltzer’s first lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on January 18 at 10:30 am, and later in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on January 30 at 7:00 pm. His lecture is titled “Messianic Parallels in Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament.”
The Messiah of the Hebrew Bible, a descendant of King David who will restore the monarchy and bring peace to the land, gets transformed in the first century of the Common Era in both the New Testament and in Rabbinic Literature. The Messiah becomes a supernatural construct, the one who will not only bring “kingship” back to Israel but will usher in the “End of Days” and the beginning of a whole new epoch in human nature. Join us to study a sampling of these texts, Rabbinic and New Testament.
Rabbi Scott Meltzer lectures at SDSU and serves as rabbi of Ohr Shalom Synagogue in the historic synagogue building located at 3rd and Laurel in San Diego. He is currently the President of the San Diego Rabbinical Association, Chairperson of San Diego’s Joint Synagogue—United Jewish Federation Committee, and a Lecturer in Religious Studies at San Diego State University.
Previously, Rabbi Meltzer served as Dean of Students and Residential Life at the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina. Prior to that, he was Director of Education of The Brandeis-Bardin Institute (BBI) and director of its renowned program, the Brandeis Collegiate Institute (BCI), where he was responsible for programs in residential and experiential Jewish education.
Future lectures will feature brilliant professors speaking on their own areas of research. Dr. Joellyn Zollman, in February, will share on “Shalom, Hunan! An Historical Exploration of American Jews and Chinese Food.” In March, Professor Risa Levitt Kohn, SDSU will speak on “God said What? Reading the Bible as a Historian” and in April, Professor Alyssa Sepinwall, CSUSM will speak about “Should a Kipa Be Worn on the Champs Elysees? Jews and French Debates about Diversity.”
The Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies is a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, Co-Sponsored by Jewish Federation of San Diego County and Leichtag Foundation.. The Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series is a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, Co-Sponsored by Friends of the Coronado Lecture Series and Jewish Federation of San Diego County. Both lectures are free and open to the public.
For more information on this or future talks in the series, contact the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, (858) 362-1327 or www.sdcjc.org.
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