Published on 23 Sep 2010

Rabbinic Scholar in Residence – Robert Daum

Christ Church Cathedral, in partnership with the Iona Pacific Inter-religious Centre at VST, is pleased to announce the one year appointment of Rabbi Dr. Robert Daum as Rabbinic Scholar in Residence at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC (May 2010-May 2011).

As Rabbinic Scholar in Residence Dr. Daum will teach from his tradition; the Cathedral community respects the integrity of his tradition and counts his presence in the congregation as a teacher and consultant to be a blessing from the one God our traditions have known in different and in similar ways.

Please find below highlights from Dr. Daum’s c.v.  To view his complete c.v. (PDF format) please Click Here.

Current Appointments:

July 1, 2009 –

Director, Iona Pacific: Inter-Religious Centre at Vancouver School of Theology.

July 1, 2009 –

Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Thought, Vancouver School of Theology.

September 1, 2010 – August 31, 2013

Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, The University of British Columbia (appointment pending approval by the UBC Board of Governors).

September, 2009 – present

Law & Society Advisory Board, The University of British Columbia.

January, 2008 – 2013

Faculty Associate, Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of British Columbia.

Previous Appointments (Highlights Only):

July 1, 2002 – June 30, 2009

Asst. Professor of Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Literature, Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, The University of British Columbia.

September, 1999 – June, 2002

Judaic Studies Curriculum Project Director, Vancouver Talmud Torah (part-time).

September – December, 2000; September, 2001 – April, 2002

Sessional Lecturer in Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, The University of British Columbia (part-time).

1996 – 1999

Rabbi/Educator, American Jewish Committee & San Francisco Archdiocese: Catholic- Jewish Educational Enrichment Program funded by Righteous Persons Foundation of Los Angeles, CA (part-time).

1996 – 1998

Founding Rabbi, Congregation Shir Shalom, Sonoma, CA (part-time).

New Developments:

• Completion of an intensive certificate program in the summer of 2010 — “Expressions of Diversity: An Introduction to Muslim Cultures,” of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, offered at SFU by Simon Fraser University and Aga Khan University (July 19 – 30, 2010);

Forthcoming Publications:

• A chapter, “Recalling the Nation’s Terrain: Narrative, Territory, and Canon,” in a volume that he has co-edited, The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present (Mark Vessey, Harry O. Maier, Sharon V. Betcher, Robert Daum, eds.; University of Toronto Press, December, 2010);
• An article on form and content in a talmudic poem — appearing in the Jewish Quarterly Review, the oldest English language academic journal of Jewish studies in the world, which is published by the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Upcoming Lectures:

Quest University in Squamish, Har-El Synagogue in West Vancouver, St. Mary’s Kerrisdale, Canadian Memorial United Church, St. Mark’s College’s “Theology on Tap” series; a fourth annual lecture in the Arts One program at UBC on Genesis; a second annual lecture on law and culture in the introductory course of the undergraduate Law & Society Minor at UBC; co-teaching a new course at SFU’s Wosk Centre (co-sponsored between SFU and Iona Pacific) next fall (2011); an invitation (accepted) to deliver an academic paper at a conference on “the reinvention of tradition” in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, to be held early this winter at Universidad Pablo Olavide in Spain with the sponsorship of a foundation established by the Kingdom of Morocco and the Government of Andalusia for the purpose of promoting peace and friendship among the peoples of the Mediterranean.

New Developments at Iona Pacific:

• Reappointment of Aliya Hirji, now Senior Intern;
• Appointment of Rosa Sevy, PhD (Sociology, UBC) as the first Iona Pacific Postdoctoral Fellow, a specialist in the therapeutic benefits of bearing pubic witness to communal trauma;
• A comprehensive new initiative for multi-faceted outreach to refugees;
• Year two for our dynamic Iona Pacific Youth team, currently led by seven Christians, Muslims, and Jews from the UBC Campus, focusing on inter-religious poverty initiatives, the arts as a way to bridge religious communities, and leadership development;
• Inter-religious dialogues, including women’s dialogue groups;
• A health and wellness initiative;
• Inter-religious initiatives in micro-credit and micro-development;
• Iona Pacific is now a practicum placement site for two students from the Adler School of Professional Psychology, one in the M.A. in Counselling Psychology program, the other in the M.A. in Organizational Psychology program;
• New degree programs in Indigenous and Inter-religious Studies in cooperation with VST and First Nations partners;
• A new course taught by Dr. Daum on sacred texts in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam;
• A new course co-taught by Prof. Harry Maier and Dr. Daum on how early Christians and rabbinic Jews responded to life under the Roman Empire (100 – 325 C.E.);
• A new course on Pedagogies of Pain offered downtown by Prof. Sharon Betcher, which includes two public events (one a Tonglen yoga healing retreat, the other a Jewish-Muslim-Christian trialogue (on the Job character, the Coen Brothers film “A Serious Man,” and approaches to suffering in the three monotheistic faiths);
• A new semi-annual Iona Pacific newsletter appearing in November;
• Co-sponsoring the Interfaith Amigos event at Christ Church Cathedral in November.

For Dr. Daum’s Education, Media Interviews, Community Service, Professional Development, and Publications, Click Here.

Rabbi Dr. Robert A. Daum

Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature & Jewish Thought Director,
Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre
Vancouver School of Theology
6000 Iona Drive
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1L4

(604) 827-4742

robertdaum@ionapacific.ca
www.ionapacific.ca
www.vst.edu