Debating Truth / Nina Caputo, Ph.D.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 @ 3:00 p.m. EST
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Nina Caputo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, will share her book Debating Truth: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263, A Graphic History (Oxford 2017) on Wednesday, February 23 @ 3:00 p.m. EST. Illustrated by Liz Clarke, Debating Truth dynamically recounts the famed medieval exchange between Rabbi Moses ben Nahman and Dominican Friar Pablo Christiani in the form of a graphic novel intended for academic use. Professor Caputo will discuss her scholarship on interfaith theological discourse and the complicated relationship between Jews and Christians in medieval Spain.
A scholar of medieval Jewish history and interfaith relations in medieval Europe, Nina Caputo, Ph.D., has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Florida International University, and has been a recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Center and a Dorest Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Caputo is also the author of Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, Messianism (2007) and has co-edited Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity (Cornell, 2014) and, with Mitchell B. Hart, On the Word of a Jew. Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust (Indiana, 2019). She is currently working on a book on the figure of the Jewish convert to Christianity in the Middle Ages.
A scholar of medieval Jewish history and interfaith relations in medieval Europe, Nina Caputo, Ph.D., has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Florida International University, and has been a recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Center and a Dorest Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Caputo is also the author of Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, Messianism (2007) and has co-edited Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity (Cornell, 2014) and, with Mitchell B. Hart, On the Word of a Jew. Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust (Indiana, 2019). She is currently working on a book on the figure of the Jewish convert to Christianity in the Middle Ages.
