Professor Bernard M. Levinson,
University of Minnesota and Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,
Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible:
“Reading the Bible in Nazi Germany: Gerhard von Rad’s Attempt to Reclaim the Old Testament for the Church”

Professor Bernard M. Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. His research focuses on biblical and cuneiform law, textual reinterpretation in the Second Temple period, and the relation of the Bible to Western intellectual history. His research interests also include constitutional theory, the history of interpretation, and literary approaches to biblical studies.

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 Dr. Faydra Shapiro, Emek Yezreel College in Afula, Israel:
“Jewish Family Values”

Dr. Shapiro is a specialist in contemporary Jewish-Christian relations, with a focus on evangelical Christian-Jewish relations. She has published and presented extensively on the topic of Christian Zionism and evangelical Christian support for Israel. She received her PhD in 2000 and her first book received a National Jewish Book Award (2006). Prior to joining Yezreel Valley College, Dr. Shapiro was a university professor for over a decade in a department of Religion and Culture in Canada. A dynamic speaker with extensive experience teaching both Christians about Judaism and Jews about Christianity, Faydra is proud to live in the Galilee with her family. 

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