David Halperin, author of Journal of a UFO Investigator
flyer - lecture series | flyer - campus lecture
In the 1960s, David Halperin was a teen-age UFO investigator. Today, he is an author and Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, specializing in religious traditions of heavenly ascent. Professor Halperin trained in Semitic languages at Cornell University, rabbinics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and, in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where and received his doctorate. From 1976 to 2000 he taught history of Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Merkabah in Rabbinic Literature; The Faces of the Chariot: Early Jewish Responses to Ezekiel’s Vision; Seeking Ezekiel: Text and Psychology and Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings.
lecture series
Otherworldly Jerusalem: When a City Becomes a Myth
Beth El Congregation | 118 West Glendale Avenue, Phoenix
The Lure of the Otherworldly: A Personal Story Friday, November 18 | 6:15 p.m. discussion following dinner Shabbat dinner: $18 per person check payable to Beth El Congregation
Muslim City, Jewish City: The Legends Saturday, November 19 | 9 a.m. during Shabbat services
Jewish City, Muslim City: The Land Saturday, November 19 | 12:30 p.m.
The Lure of the Otherworldly: Four Entered a Garden …” Sunday, November 20 | 9-10 a.m. teen session | reading together from the Talmud adults also welcome
The Lure of the Otherworldly: Ascension or Abduction? Sunday, November 20 | 10:30-noon adult session
r.s.v.p. to Beth El by November 11
Renee at 602-944-3359 x113
lecture series co-sponsored by Beth El Congregation and Center for Jewish Studies
campus lecture Reimagining Myth: How a Scholar of Jewish Mysticism Came to Write a Novel About UFOs Monday, November 21 | 10:30 a.m. Lattie F. Coor Hall, room 4403 | Tempe campus of Arizona State University
campus visit co-sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies and Faculty of Religious Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies at Arizona State University