Partnership with Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The “Cardinal Bea” Centre is engaged in international academic exchanges of teachers and students with institutions in various countries, in particular with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Visiting Professorship and Fellowship, an annual exchange of professors and students between the Center for the Study of Christianity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the “Cardinal Bea” Centre for Judaic Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University, was established in 2001. The annual Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Lectures in Jerusalem and Rome are intended to promote the interreligious dialogue through the study of the religious traditions of Judaism and Christianity.

Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Professorship

Scholarship Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn

Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Lectures

Lectures
at The Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome

2025 In Dialogue: “From Adversaries to Fellow Travellers: Visions and Metaphors for the Future of Jewish-Christian Dialogue”

Mary C. Boys, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Philip A. Cunningham, Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations Saint Joseph’s University.
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University -Tennessee, Hartford International University for Religion
Peace Yonatan Moss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2024 In Dialogue: “Unity and Identity: Jewish-Christian Relations in their Ecumenical Context”

David Meyer, Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies
Christian Rutishauser SJ, Central European Province of the Society of Jesus
Kendall Soulen, Emory University
David Sandmel, International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations

2023 In Dialogue: “The Our Father against the background of Jewish and Christian Prayer and Liturgy”

Thomas Söding, Ruhr Universität Bochum
Rabbi Moshe Navon, Jewish Liberal Community in Bad Pyrmont “Tefillat Shalom”

2022 In Dialogue: "Shaped by the Other. Abraham Heschel, a Common Teacher Beyond Time and Space"
In Commemoration of Abraham J. Heschel on the 50th Anniversary of his Death

Benjamin Pollock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, On the Direction of the Divine-Human Relationship in Heschel's Thought
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Engagement with Christians and Christian Theology Giacomo Morandi, Bishop of Reggio Emilia
Guastalla Abraham Heschel: una fonte di ispirazione per l’esperienza Cristiana

2021/22 In Dialogue: "Reading from the Same Text: From Dialogue to Jewish-Christian Studies"

Amy Jill Levin, Hartford International University & Pino Di Luccio SJ, Gregorian University, Rome The Parable of the Good Samaritan: First- and Twenty-First-Century Jewish Interpretations
Christian Rutishauser SJ, University of Salzburg & Karma Ben Johanan, Humboldt University, Berlin Joseph D. Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Man: A Jewish Self-Reassurance with Inspirational Power for Christians

2018/19 In Dialogue: "Rewriting Nostra Aetate Today"

Israel Yuval, HUJI The Impact of Nostra Aetate on Jewish Studies
René Dausner, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt The Future of Nostra Aetate
Saretta Marotta, KU Leuven Augustin Bea's Dedication to Jewish-Christian Relationships

2017/18 In Dialogue:

Menachem Ben-Sasson, Hebrew University A Jewish and A Democratic State - Can These Dimensions Dwell in Harmony?
Alberto Melloni, Università di Reggio Emilia Dal mito della cristianità alla chiesa pellegrina: Il cattolicesimo davanti alle democrazie

2016/17

Michael Segal, HUJI “Daniel’s Throne” and its Earliest Jewish and Christian Readings

2015/16

Rina Talgam, HUJI Sacred Histories in Sacred Spaces: Late Antique Synagogues and Churches in the Holy Land

2014/15

Marc Hirschman, HUJI Song, Speech and Silence: Jewish and Christian Education in Late Antiquity

2013/14

Israel Jacob Yuval, HUJI Did Rabbinic Judaism emerge out of Christianity?

2012/13

Yair Zakovitch, HUJI Intermarriage and Halachic Creativity: Reading the Book of Ruth

2011/12

Isaiah Gafni, HUJI From Temple to Text: Rabbinic Judaism as Default or Destiny

2010/11

Immanuel Etkes, HUJI Hasidism: From an Esoteric Circle to a Mass Movement

2009/10

Lee I. Levine, HUJI How, When, and Why Did Jerusalem Emerge as the Sacred City of the Jews?

2008/09

Emanuel Tov, HUJI The Septuagint between Judaism and Christianity

2007/08

Sara Japhet, HUJI The Status of Women in the Old Testament

2006/07

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, HUJI Pilgrimage in Judaism and Early Christianity

2005/06

Meir Buzaglo, HUJI The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers in Rabbinic Midrash

2004/05

Emmanuelle Main, HUJI Jewish, Christian and Muslim Jerusalem: Three Cities in One?

2003/04

Roberto Bonfil, HUJI Mosé: Riflessioni sulla polisemia di una figura biblica

2002/03

David Satran, HUJI By Persuasion and not by Force: A Theme in Early Jewish & Christian Literature

2001/02

Guy Stroumsa, HUJI Antiquitates Judaicae: The Early Modern Study of Israelite Religion

Lectures
at The Center for the Study of Christianity
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2025

Uta Heil, Vienna
When Sunday Fell from the Sky: How a Heavenly Letter from Christ Sought to Change the Structure of Time

2024

Paula Fredriksen, Boston University
The Politics of Piety: The Romanization of Christianity

2022

Christine Shepardson, University of Tennessee
A Memory of Violence: The Radicalization of the Sixth-Century Christian Conflict

2018/19

Jennifer Knust, Duke University, USA
Desire's Social Good: The Fathers on Marriage Revisited