Dr. Amy-Jill Levine lecture series at Saint Michael and All Angels

09.19.16

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine lecture series at Saint Michael and All Angels

    Here's your chance to hear Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, a popular author and scholar who writes about the Old Testament, speak in Dallas during a robust lecture series Saint Michael and All Angels in October, February and April. 

    Here's the schedule: 

    "Who Am I called to Be?”
    October 15 
    9:15 am | The Call to Speak About Church and State — Daniel in Babylon
    10:30 am | The Call to Discipleship  — Mary and Martha
     
    October 16, 2016
    10:00 am | The Call to Action — Queen Esther
     
    “How am I Called to Be With Others?”
    February 11   
    9:15 am | When My Action Impacts Others — David and Bathsheba
    10:30 am | When Others Make Demands  —  Jesus and the Canaanite Woman
     
    February 12
    10:00 am | When Other Define Themselves — the Story of Sarah and Hagar
     
    “Let Us Go Forth Into the World”
    April 1                
    9:15 am | When We Leave Home: Abraham and Sarah
    10:30 am | When World Collide: Joshua and Rahab
     
    April 2
    10:00 am | When the World Is Next Door: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
     

    Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and  Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences. Holding the B.A. from Smith College, the M.A. and  Ph.D. from Duke University, and honorary doctorates from Christian Theological Seminary, Drury University, the University of Richmond, the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, and the University of South Carolina-Upstate, Professor Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has held office in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the Association for Jewish Studies. Her books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperOne), the edited collection,The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton), and the thirteen-volume edited series, Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings (Continuum). With Marc Brettler of Brandeis University, she edited the  Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford). She has written, with her Vanderbilt colleague Douglas Knight, The Meaning of the Bible: What The Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament Can Teach us  (HarperOne); with Warren Carter of Brite Divinity School, she published in 2013 The New Testament: Methods and Meanings(Abingdon).  Her most recent book is Short Stories by Jesus: the Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi (HarperOne).  She has recorded "Introduction to the Old Testament," "Great Figures of the Old Testament," and "Great Figures of the New Testament" for the Teaching Company. In 2011, Professor Levine became Affiliated Professor at the Woolf Institute: Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations at Cambridge, UK. A self-described "Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt," Professor Levine combines historical-critical rigor, literary-critical sensitivity, and a frequent dash of humor with a commitment to eliminating anti-Jewish, sexist, and homophobic theologies.

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