This year's Ptarmigan Lecture will be delivered by Professor Guy Stroumsa. It will take place on 9th May at 5.00pm in Examination Schools, Room 6; followed by a reception – all are welcome!
About the Speaker
Guy G. Stroumsa is Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, and Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. He is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. He received the Humboldt Research Award, the Leopold-Lucas Prize, and the Rothschild Prize. He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite.
Author of fifteen books and more than one hundred and forty articles, editor or co-editor of twenty-one books. Among his recent publications: Religions d’Abraham: histoires croisées (Geneva, 2017), The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity (Cambridge, Mass, 2016), The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2015), A New Science: the Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason (Cambridge, Mass., 2010), and The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations of Late Antiquity (Chicago, 2009; paperback 2012; Original French edition, 2005; also Italian, German and Hebrew translations)
About the Ptarmigan Lectures
Through the generous support of the Ptarmigan Foundation, there lectures are open to students, academics and theologians from around the world. The invited Lecturer will focus on Patristics, providing a serious
understanding of ancient context and modern relevance.
