Herod did have the whole fall collection...

Jaime Lara: Herod was very influenced by the Greeks and Romans. He loved Gucci.

Overheard: House of the Lord

Lara speaks

Jamie Lara: Churches love to collect stuff. Just go to any Episcopalian church.

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Jaime Lara (on the Sacred Spaces conference): We now have 700 registered participants.... For a conference on mosques, churches and temples, hello!

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Jamie Lara: These saints, they didn't have an MDiv or MAR, and they got into heaven.

Overheard at: Iconography

You can only get those YDS postcards here too

(after showing video of the interior of Santa Maria Maggiore)
Jaime Lara: You only get this at Yale Divinity School. You don't get this at Princeton.

Overheard at: Iconography

$19.95 at www.whitehouse.gov

(describing the Arch of Titus)
Jaime Lara: It was like George Bush Gone Wild, like a statue of George Bush on the White House lawn.

Overheard at: Iconography

There wasn't enough room on the sarcophagus for fava beans

(on a Roman sarcophagus)
Jaime Lara: It [the afterlife] is a land flowing with milk and honey and a little chianti. They were Italian Jews, you know.

Overheard at: Iconography class