{"id":779,"date":"2016-12-02T20:20:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T00:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/?page_id=779"},"modified":"2017-05-18T23:39:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T03:39:37","slug":"lunch-and-discussion-holy-war-past-and-present-florence-chafetz-hillel-house-boston-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/dialogues-and-discussions\/lunch-and-discussion-holy-war-past-and-present-florence-chafetz-hillel-house-boston-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy War Past and Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Nov. 30 th , 2016,<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Hillel House, Boston University<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Speakers: Katell Berthelot (CNRS) and Yonder Gillihan (Boston College)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A discussion with students about the concept of Holy War, both as presented in 1 &amp;\u00a02 Maccabees and as invoked in various places in the world today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container lunch-and-discussion-fall-2015 autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-513\" data-slideshow-name=\"lunch-and-discussion-fall-2015\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-513\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-513_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/maccabees\/files\/2015\/12\/Website-3-LD-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-513_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/maccabees\/files\/2015\/12\/Website-LD-2-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-513_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/maccabees\/files\/2015\/12\/Website-4-LD-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-513_3\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-center\"><img src=\"\/maccabees\/files\/2015\/12\/Website-1-LD-636x424.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-513\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<p>This event was a dialogue\u00a0<span>of undergraduates and three scholars: two of Jewish antiquity\u2014Katell Berthelot, and Yonder Gillihan \u2014and one of Islam\u2014Natana DeLong-Bas (Boston College) on the concept of Holy War in the Bible, in the Islamic tradition, and in our modern context at the Elie Weisel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. After much discussion, Gillihan and Berthelot agreed that the concept of Holy War is found in the Christian Old Testament. DeLong-Bas provided insight into what exactly is Holy War in the Islamic tradition and what are the reasons it is fought. The conversation ended with a discussion about the history, motivation, and misinterpretation of the Koran by the followers of ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 30 th , 2016, Hillel House, Boston University Speakers: Katell Berthelot (CNRS) and Yonder Gillihan (Boston College) A discussion with students about the concept of Holy War, both as presented in 1 &amp;\u00a02 Maccabees and as invoked in various places in the world today. This event was a dialogue\u00a0of undergraduates and three scholars: two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12357,"featured_media":0,"parent":854,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions\/893"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/maccabees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}