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Sunday, March 22 • 2:45pm - 3:45pm
"Which Is the True Religion?: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Lessing's "Nathan the Wise"

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Nathan the Wise is a play by G.E. Lessing, an 18th-century German writer, philosopher, and dramatist, influenced by Spinoza. Produced in 1779, the play is set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade. It portrays the wise Jewish merchant Nathan (a character modeled on Lessing’s friend, Moses Mendelssohn), engaged in conversation with the Islamic Sultan Saladin and a Christian Knight Templar. Our discussion will focus on the intriguing “Ring Parable” at the heart of the play, which Nathan offers in response to Saladin’s question, Which is the true religion?
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Seth Applebaum

Seth Applebaum is a Tutor in the Great Books Program at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He received his undergraduate degree from St. John’s College, Annapolis and a doctorate in philosophy from Tulane University where his research focus was the political philosophy... Read More →
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Michael Golluber

Michael Golluber is the Assistant Dean at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has been a Tutor (the title for all professors there) since 2000. He received his MA in contemporary continental philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his PhD... Read More →
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Ronna Burger

Ronna Burger is the Gaisman Chair in Philosophy and Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane. Extending her scholarly work in Greek philosophy to her current studies of Maimonides and the Hebrew Bible, she has lectured at numerous college campuses on Adam and Eve, Rebekah, Joseph... Read More →

Sunday March 22, 2020 2:45pm - 3:45pm PDT
Adult Activity Lounge, JCC
  Arts and Culture

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