Since 1999, Saint Leo University’s 天主教犹太研究中心 (ccj) has presented its Eternal Light Award to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the cause of 天主教-Jewish relations. Receiving the award this year is 约瑟夫·西弗斯博士, professor emeritus of Jewish History and Literature of the Hellenistic period at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, where he began teaching in 1991.

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ccj will host its 永恒之光颁奖晚宴:对话之夜, 11月17日星期日下午6点至9点, at 圣劳伦斯天主教堂的希金斯大厅, 5225 N. Himes Ave., 坦帕, FL 33614. 公众被邀请参加这个特别的活动,因为该中心努力在一个极其困难的时期建立天主教徒、犹太人和所有善意的人之间的相互尊重和理解。

报名截止日期为11月1日星期五。 Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are available at https://your.saintleo.edu/ccjs/elad. For more information, contact Laurie Gens at [email protected] or (352) 588-7711.

坦帕市基督之王天主教堂的神父Len Plazewski和坦帕市会众Schaarai Zedek的拉比Joel Simon担任此次活动的共同主席。

Sievers is the 20th recipient of the Eternal Light Award. His keynote address will be 作为一个天主教徒,与犹太人和犹太历史的相遇如何改变了我的生活. The respondent is Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, a past Eternal Light Award recipient and the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford 国际 University for 宗教 and Peace.

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自2008年以来,西弗斯一直担任梵蒂冈与犹太人宗教关系委员会的顾问。 2003年至2009年,他担任宗座格里高利大学红衣主教比阿犹太研究中心主任。 西弗斯撰写了许多学术出版物,特别是在第二圣殿犹太教和犹太-基督教关系领域。 He is the co-editor of such volumes as 奥斯威辛之后的善与恶:今天的伦理意涵 (2001), co-edited with Jack Bemporad and John T. Pawlikowski; 天主教会和犹太人:来自罗马的近期反思 (2007)与Philip A. Cunningham和Norbert J. Hofmann合编; 基督耶稣与今日的犹太人:神学相互关系的新探索 (2011),与Philip A. Cunningham、Mary Boys、Hans Hermann Henrix和Jesper Svartvik合编; and 法利赛人 (2021), co-edited with Levine, and published in both English and Italian.

圣利奥书院的历史

天主教徒和犹太人之间思想交流和对话的重要性促使圣利奥大学天主教-犹太人研究中心于1998年成立。 拉比a·詹姆斯·鲁丁(A. James Rudin)说,他当时注意到,佛罗里达州的犹太人和天主教徒人数不断增加,这种动态的人口趋势可能会持续下去。 “当时巴尔的摩以南没有基督教-犹太教学术中心,”他说。

Rudin met with the then-Saint Leo College President Arthur Kirk Jr., who liked the rabbi’s proposal of creating an 各宗教间的 center on campus. 柯克、鲁丁和当时的美国犹太人委员会主席布鲁斯·m·雷默签署了建立ccj的联合声明。

As the college grew and became a university, the late 名誉主教 John J. Nevins of the 天主教 Diocese of Venice (FL); and now 名誉主教 Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg (FL) became co-founders of ccj. These leaders recognized the need in the state for an academic center devoted to the biblical and 神学 study of 天主教-Jewish relations and 各宗教间的 dialogue, as emphasized by the Second Vatican Council.

今天,ccj是研究天主教-犹太关系的主要学术中心。