When: December 4, 1:30 PM

Who: Prof. George Nickelsburg, Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa,

      Affiliate Professor, University of Washington

What: “Books that Didn’t Make It into the Bible.”

Where: Kane Hall 110

About the speaker:

George W.E. Nickelsburg is an internationally known specialist in the field of early Judaism and the origins of Christianity. He is a graduate of Valparaiso University and earned his Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School in 1968. Nickelsburg is Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, where he taught New Testament studies and early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies for thirty-one years. Prior, he was pastor of a Lutheran Church in Akron, Ohio for three years. Dr. Nickelsburg has written seven books (among them Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah, Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins, and 1 Enoch: A Commentary on the Book of First Enoch), over 90 articles for scholarly books and journals, 200 entries for dictionaries and encyclopedias, and edited seven other books. He has been on the editorial board of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries since its inception in 1994. Also, he has served on the editorial board of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly for eight years and was an editor of The Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period and of the forthcoming Dictionary of Religious Writings in Antiquity.

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Many of the religious persuasion are quite confident that their particular holy book is completely infallible – an inerrant command directly from on high. However, any even cursory study of early Christianity reveals the Bible to be inspired fiction at best. I am sure that this lecture will be quite interesting from a scholarly standpoint.

If you would like to familiarize yourself with some of the material beforehand, I would highly recommend the Early Christian Writings website.

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