The University of Nebraska-Lincoln hosted its Robert E. Knoll lecture Thursday, hosting speaker Achsah Guibbory, who is an Ann Whitney Olin professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Guibbory spoke about Christian identity and Israel in England in the 17th century. 
In England, after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, England was spoken of being protected under God, she said in the lecture.

“Some English people, some of the time, found themselves relating to Jewish people,” Guibbory said.

This led to the belief that England may actually be Israel, she said.

Read more in the Daily Nebraskan here.

Achsah Guibbory, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, will give the 2009-10 Robert E. Knoll Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on November 5 at the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th Street in Lincoln. Her talk, “Christian Identity and Israel: The Case of 17th-century England,” will be 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a dessert reception.

It will explore the competing claims of English political and religious groups to be the true descendents of God's Chosen People.

The talk is taken from her recently-completed book, Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in Seventeenth-Century England.

The press release and photos are here.

The poster for the event is here.