Div School Judaic Study Chair Filled for Next Four Years

Eleven months after the Albert A. List Foundation gave $1 million to the Divinity school for a professorship in Jewish studies, officials have appointed four scholars to fill the position--the first endowed Jewish studies professorship at a Christian seminary or divinity school in the United States ----for the next four years.

By selecting the visiting professors, Div School officials hope to provide background in Judaism for ministerial students and encourage dialogue between the religions.

The one-year visiting professorship "complements the work of the Center of Jewish Studies," George V. Rupp, dean of the Div School, said yesterday. Some of the new courses taught by the List Professors will be open to undergraduates, be added.

Rabbi Jacob J Petuchowski a specialist in Judeo-Christian dialogue and Jewish liturgical traditions, said yesterday he hopes to teach "the Christian theology of Judaism and the Jewish theology of Christianity--how each religion looks upon the other".

Petuchowski, who is currently a professor of Judeo-Christian studies at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, will fill the chair in 1984-85. "They wanted me earlier, but that's the earliest I can get away from here," Petuchowski said.

Eugene Borowitz, who will fill the chair next year, is a professor at the Hebrew Union College in New York.

In addition, Judah Goldin, professor of Hebrew literature at the University of Pennsylvania, will fill the List chair for 1983-84; and Louis Jacobs, the rabbi of the New London Synagogue in London, England, will teach in 1985-86