Lecture
Professor Ken Gemes
Why the Jews Survived
Summary
Historians agree that it is a great conundrum that so many peoples and civilizations of the ancient world—Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, Greeks, etc.—have perished, while the Jews have endured. This talk looks at the nature of the Jewish God and the history of the ancient Jews to provide a key element that helps illuminate this historical conundrum.
Professor Ken Gemes
Ken Gemes received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. He came to Birkbeck in 2000 having taught for ten years at Yale University. Ken’s interests range from technical issues concerning logical content and confirmation to Nietzsche’s account of how philosophy is merely the last manifestation of the ascetic ideal.