Guest Speaker, Dr. Francis Landy: “Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Book of Isaiah”

Please join us Tuesday, February 11 at 5:00 pm at the Alumni House. Guest Speaker, Dr. Francis Landy, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta, will a deliver a lecture titled, “Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Book of Isaiah.” Dr. Landy will discuss how Isaiah responded to the catastrophes of his age and projected a vision of a new humanity. This vision required a complete rethinking of all the foundations of Israelite identity and offered a possibility of hope despite apparent disaster. Isaiah is one of the most formidable and most poetic of biblical books, covering the entire trajectory of Israelite history from the 8^th century crisis through the exile to the restoration in Jerusalem.

The event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute, Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, and Religious Studies.