October 11, 2000

Professor of Talmud to Deliver Annual Quint

Lecture in Jewish Studies at Middlebury College on Oct.

25

Talk Will Be Titled “Jews, Messiah, and the

Millennium”

MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—Chaim Milikowsky, professor of Talmud at Bar

Ilan University, Israel, will deliver the 13th annual

Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday,

Oct. 25 in the Robert A. Jones Seminar room of Middlebury

College’s Geonomics House on Hillcrest Road, off College Street

(Route 125). His lecture will be titled “Jews, Messiah, and the

Millennium.” Sponsored by the College’s religion department, the

lecture is free and open to the public.

Milikowsky, who received his doctorate from Yale, has been a

faculty member at Bar Ilan University since 1977. Now in the process

of its publication, he has worked for the past 25 years on a critical

edition of “Seder Olam,” a rabbinic chronology of the world that

merges modes of historiography and biblical analysis. Milikowsky has

published numerous articles on the intellectual history of Judaism in

the first centuries of this era, and is currently exploring several

approaches to the study of midrash, an ancient Jewish biblical

interpretation.

The Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies was established in

1987 by Hannah A. Quint and her son Eliot Levenson of the Middlebury

class of 1964. The mandate of the lectureship is to provoke thought

at the College and in the larger Middlebury community on important

issues in Jewish history, religion, and culture.

For more information, contact Charlene Barrett of the Middlebury

College religion department at 802-443-5289.

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