Dr. Peter Ochs’ primary scholarship is in philosophy and scripture, or what he calls scripture-based reasoning. He writes as a Jewish philosopher and Jewish theologian, with degrees in anthropology, rabbinics, and philosophy. Much of his work engages Christian theologians. He will begin his luncheon talk with personal reflections on his work, before turning to his project for the year: studies of reparative reasoning in Jewish and Catholic traditions, which are also reasonings out of non-finite sources.

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Dr. Peter Ochs is the Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and the 2024-2025 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations at Boston College. He completed his PhD at Yale University and his MA in Jewish Thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His research focuses include Jewish philosophy and theology, Comparative Jewish-Christian-Muslim studies, and Abrahamic "Scriptural Reasoning."