Conferences & lectures

Gerbern Oegema, Theology in the City Public Lecture

"Preparing for the Apocalypse: The Legacy of Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the End of the World"

Date & time

Tuesday, September 27, 2022
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Registration is closed

Speaker(s)

Gerbern S. Oegema, professor of Biblical Studies, School of Religious Studies, McGill University

Cost

This event is free.

Organization

Department of Theological Studies

Where

F. C. Smith Building
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Loyola Chapel

Room 110

Accessible location

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Gerbern S. Oegema poses in front of a shelf of books. He wears a blue suit coat over a salmon pink button-up shirt. He wears oval tortoise-shell glasses and has white hair.

Gerbern S. Oegema, professor of Biblical Studies, School of Religious Studies, McGill University

In this public lecture by Gerbern Oegema, professor in the School of Religious Studies, McGill University, Oegema examines several responses to crises in antiquity, war, famine, pandemics, persecution, hostilities, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc., whether they are responses in the form of retreat, revolt or reformation, and asks what we can apply to the present day.

This event is part of:

Legacy: Wisdom, Experience, Knowledge