Suffering Servants! How to Deal with the Missionary at the Door

A virtual event presentation by Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

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ABOUT THE EVENT:

For centuries certain texts in the book of Isaiah have been used by (some) Christians
to try to convert Jews. What are these texts and what is the Jewish perspective on
them? We’ll look at the texts themselves, classic Jewish commentaries, and Christian
commentaries, and develop some skills that might prove useful next time your
doorbell rings …

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz is a Research Fellow at London School of Jewish Studies, and at the Centre for Jewish Studies, Manchester University, where she is researching the history of Limmud. In 2021 she received Orthodox rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, and published her first book, Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization). She’s also lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, & King’s College London, founded the Pop-Up Beit Midrash in 2019, and is a co-founder of Azara, which offers cross-denominational Jewish text learning across the UK.