The End of the World (Three-Part Mini-Course)

Jenny R. Labendz, Allen and Joan Bildner Visiting Scholar, Fall 2024

This three-part, online mini-course will compare and contrast Jewish and Christian ideas about the end of the world through an exploration of several topics: divine judgment, resurrection, and the inauguration of the end-times. The course will challenge widespread assumptions about how rabbinic Jews and early Christians thought about God's plan for the world.

Mini-Course Three Sessions:

Week 1: December 3

Week 2: December 10

Week 3: December 17

Jenny R. Labendz is associate professor of religious studies at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York. She specializes in ancient Jewish literature and religion from a comparative perspective. Her first book, Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013), examines attitudes and discourse about non-Jews in late antique rabbinic literature. She is currently completing a second book, Beyond Hope: Rabbinic Eschatology of Late Antiquity in Comparative Perspective, under contract with Oxford University Press.