Religious Education

Cougar Queries are a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life. Today, we meet Jenet Erickson, a religion and family science professor.

Almost every summer since 2011, BYU faculty and students have joined a consortium of universities led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to excavate the synagogue in the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. This year’s work on the building’s beautiful mosaic floor, which dates from the late fourth – early fifth century C.E., yielded a unique discovery: fragments showing Jael and the prophetess Deborah.

Brigham Young University Academic Vice President C. Shane Reese announced the appointment of Scott Esplin as the next dean of Religious Education, effective July 1.

Brigham Young University Academic Vice President James R. Rasband announced today that Daniel K Judd has been named the new Dean of Religious Education.

A new public conference sponsored by BYU Religious Education’s new Office of Religious Outreach will focus on different Christian faiths’ views of life after death.

The BYU Passover Seder service includes the biblical unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and features other festival foods and traditions of Passover, all in a specially catered meal.