Members of the Faculty

Laurence H. Kant
Associate Professor of the History of Religion

B.A., Tufts University, 1978
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, 1981
M.A., Yale University, 1982
Ph.D., Yale University, 1993

Joined faculty in 2002

Laurence H. Kant, associate professor of the history of religion, was born and reared near Boston. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and has taught at several institutions, including Harvard and Yale as a teaching fellow, and served on the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell and the Division of Humanities of York University (in Toronto). Mr. Kant is conversant in many languages, including Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Italian, French, and German, and has lived abroad and traveled widely.

A historian of religion, Mr. Kant has wide-ranging scholarly interests, including New Testament and early Christianity, ethics, and Jewish Studies.

Mr. Kant is dedicated to interfaith dialogue with all religious groups. Deeply committed to Judaism and his heritage, he has a long history of working in Jewish-Christian relations and has devoted his career to breaking ground in this

Mr. Kant is married to Dr. Dianne M. Bazell, a scholar of medieval religion (Harvard, Ph.D., 1991). She is Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. They are both active members of Temple Adath Israel.