Dr. Israel Knohl is the Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. His book The Messiah Before Jesus: …
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Topic This round table talk will be focused on understanding the culture and religious environment in which early Christ-following movement developed. How did the Jewish world interact with and was …
Reading the Bible(s) with and without Jesus
Marc Zvi Brettler (Duke University)
Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University)
Why do Jews and Christians read the same texts differently? Amy-Jill Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. …
Dr. Jodi Magness is Distinguished Professor of Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and President of the Archaeological Institute of America. She has published numerous …
Mark S. Goodacre is Frances Hill Fox Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas’s Familiarity with the …
About Prof. Amy-Jill Levine Amy-Jill Levine earned her B.A. with high honors in English and Religion at Smith College. She went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion …
Dr. Joan Taylor is a Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King’s College London. Her books include The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea; The Immerser: John …
Rev. Dr. David Instone-Brewer is a senior research fellow at Tyndale House in Cambridge. A Christian minister as well as a scholar, he has conducted extensive research on rabbinic literature …
Topic In this round-table talk, we will hear about the personal life journey to the discovery of the Jewish Apostle Paul by one of the foremost scholars of Pauline studies …
Is Divorce Biblical?
David Instone-Brewer (Tyndale House Cambridge)
Cyndi Parker & Yeshaya Gruber (Israel Bible Center)
The question of divorce has long been problematic for Jews, Christians, and others. What is the Biblical view of divorce? Is it permissible at all? If so, when? Can divorce …
Dr. Craig Keener is Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. He has authored two dozen books and hundreds of articles on the historical Jesus, the reliability …
Dr. Joan Taylor (King’s College London) and Dr. Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa) are leading scholars of the late Second Temple Period. In this engrossing panel discussion with Dr. Yeshaya …
