The faculty of the Graduate Department of Jewish-Christian Studies offers a variety of courses that explore traditional sources, historical developments, cultural contexts, and relationships between Jews and Christians through history, using contemporary critical scholarship to advance understanding and balanced assessment.

Reverend Lawrence Frizzell, S.T.L., S.S.L., D.Phil.
Associate Professor
Department Chair (2006-)
Director, Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies.
Fr. Frizzell pursued graduate work at the University of Ottawa, the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and the University of Oxford, where he specialized in the Qumran Scrolls.
Courses: Jewish Philosophy of Education; Encounters of Christians and Jews
 

Reverend David M. Bossman, S.T.B., M.A., M.S., Ph.D.,
Professor
Executive Director, The Sister Rose Thering Endowment
Dr. Bossman has received graduate degrees from The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., the State University of New York at Albany, and Saint Louis University. Editor of Biblical Theology Bulletin since 1981, he explores Christian and Jewish origins, history, and cross-cultural values in a contemporary settings.
Courses: Lessons from the Holocaust; Values for a Pluralistic Society; Survey of Jewish History
 

Rabbi Alan Brill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair in Honor of Sister Rose Thering
The first faculty to hold the Cooperman/Ross Faculty Chair in Honor of Sister Rose Thering, Rabbi Brill holds a rabbinical degree from Yeshiva University and a doctorate from Fordham University.
Courses: Modern Jewish Thinkers and Perspectives on the Holocaust, Modern Judaism and Other Religions; Israel Today
 

Rabbi Asher Finkel, Ph.D.
Professor
Rabbi Finkel holds a rabbinical degree from Yeshiva University and a doctoral degree from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Rabbi Finkel's special interests include post-biblical Judaism, Jewish thinkers and early Christianity.
Courses: Biblical Thought; The History of Judaism; The Teachings of Jesus.
 

Reverend John F. Morley, Ph.D.
Faculty Emeritus, Religious Studies
Long-time, highly respected department adjunct, Fr. Morley completed his doctoral work at New York University. Fr. Morley serves in international Church-related study projects on the Holocaust.
Courses: History and Interpretation of the Holocaust