Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published his first book,
Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017). Sacks also published an article on Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and contemporary religious thought: “Is God Eternal? Revisiting Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig on Reason, Revelation, and the Name of God,”
Modern Theology 33.1 (2017; special issue on “The Reasons of Revelation: Theological Knowledge After Modernity”): 69-91. Additionally, Sacks spoke at the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and Association for Jewish Studies, and served as the Program Co-Chair for the annual meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics.