Program Description: “The Apple That Was Stolen from the Synagogue: A Strange Story from Medieval England” with Dr. Evyatar Marienberg, Dept of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill
In the middle of the 13th century an object was stolen from a synagogue in southern England. King Henri III himself was calling for an inquiry. What was that object? Why was it stolen? Dr. Marienberg will suggest a solution that might be related to the upcoming High Holidays.
Evyatar Marienberg, author of seven books and over 20 articles, teaches in the Dept. of Religious Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Born and raised in Israel, he is a historian of religions with a focus on beliefs and practices of Jews and Christians of various periods. His academics have taken him worldwide, including Paris as a student of Catholic theology at the Sorbonne, New York as a visiting fellow at Yeshiva University, Montreal at McGill University, Department of Jewish Studies, Stockholm’s Padeia Institute, Tel Aviv University for teaching and research, and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
