Converting the New Testament? Hebrew Translations of the New Testament in the Early Modern Period

Co-sponsored by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, TJSS, and Duke Jewish Studies. This seminar is for faculty and graduate students. No reservations are required. It is being held at UNC Chapel Hill in Hyde Hall, incubator room (2nd floor).

Yaacov Deutsch is the head of the History Department at David Yellin College and an adjunct lecturer at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research focuses on Christian-Jewish relations in the medieval and early modern period, and especially on Christian Hebraism. His book Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Period was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press.