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DESCRIPTION:Anthony Grafton will present at the Seminar in Cultural History
  on Wednesday\, September 7\, at 6 pm. His talk is entitled “How Jesus Cel
 ebrated Passover: Some Early Modern Readings of the Last Supper.'The Last 
 Supper has always mattered deeply to Christian theologians\, artists\, and
  commentators on the Gospels. In the sixteenth century\, this interest too
 k a new turn. Catholic and Protestant scholars began to wonder what the La
 st Supper would have looked like\, and what Jewish rituals Jesus and his d
 isciples might have carried out on the evening of the Last Supper. In this
  paper\, we will see how antiquaries and church historians\, theologians a
 nd chronologers competed and collaborated to imagine Jesus as a Jew. In th
 is case as in many others\, the effort to understand a few lines of the Sc
 riptures in a new way had massive intellectual consequences.Anthony Grafto
 n studied history and history of science at the University of Chicago and 
 University College London. In 1974-75 he taught history at Cornell Univers
 ity\; since 1975 he has taught at Princeton University\, where he is curre
 ntly Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities. At P
 rinceton he founded the Freshman Seminar Program\, which he directed for t
 en years. Since then he has served as Director of the Program in European 
 Cultural Studies\, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Research 
 and the Council of the Humanities.His books include Joseph Scaliger: A Stu
 dy in the History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford\, 1983-93)\; Defenders 
 of the Text (Harvard\, 1991)\; The Footnote: A Curious History (Harvard\, 
 1997)\; What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambr
 idge\, 2007)\; with Megan Williams) Christianity and the Transformation of
  the Book (Harvard\, 2006)\; with Brian Curran\, Pamela Long and Benjamion
  Weiss\, Obelisk (MIT\, 2008)\, Worlds Made by Words (Harvard\, 2008) and 
 (with Joanna Weinberg) “I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue.” Isaac Casaub
 on\, the Jews\, and A Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Harvar
 d\, 2011). He has also contributed articles and reviews to American Schola
 r\, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, the London Review of Books\, The 
 Nation\, The New Republic\, the New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\
 , and the Times Literary Supplement. He is currently finishing a book on R
 enaissance proof correctors and studying histories of Christianity in sixt
 eenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.Grafton is currently President of th
 e American Historical Association. He is also a member of the American Phi
 losophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a cor
 responding fellow of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft
 en and the British Academy. He has received fellowships from the American 
 Council of Learned Societies\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National En
 dowment for the Humanities\, the National Science Foundation\, and the Wis
 senschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, has been a visiting professor at the Collège 
 de France\, Columbia University\, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences 
 Sociales\, the Warburg Haus in Hamburg\, and the University of Munich\, ha
 s been a Resident at the American Academy in Rome and has held visiting me
 mberships at Pembroke College\, Oxford\; Christ’s College\, Cambridge\; Tr
 inity College\, Cambridge\; and Merton College Oxford. In 2002 he received
  the Balzan Prize for History of the Humanities\, and in 2003 the Mellon F
 oundation Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: How Jesus Celebrated Passover
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