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Special
Events: Hall Lectures
Nadine Beacham and Charlton F. Hall Sr. Lectureship
in New Testament Studies and Early Christianity
The Nadine Beacham and Charlton F. Hall Sr. Lectureship in New Testament Studies and Early Christianity is sponsored by the department of Religious Studies. It is held each year the week before Palm Sunday. In addition to the public lecture, it includes an ecumenical clergy day, and an in-depth discussion with pastors, priests and rabbis from around the state. All events are free and followed by a question and answer session.
lecturers in this series have been:
- 2008 -- Ben Witherington III, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky
* What Have They done with Jesus?
* Jesus the Seer
* Jesus the Sage
- 2007 -- Amy-Jill Levine, E.Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and
Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University.
* Jesus and Judaism
* Jesus and Women
* Jesus, the Church, and the Academy
- 2006 -- Richard B. Hays, George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament Divinity School at Duke University
* Can the Gospel Writers Teach Us How to Read the Old Testament?
* The Liberation of Israel in Luke-Acts: Intertextual Reading as Resistance
* "I Desire Mercy": Reading the Bible Through Matthew's Eyes
- 2005 --Dr. Pheme Perkins, Professor of New Testament at Boston College
* Looking at the Passion: Canonical and Apocryphal Gospels
* Gospels, Community, and a Rule of Faith
* Gospels and the Spiritual Quest
- 2004 --Dr. John Dominic Crossan, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul university, Chicago, and noted Jesus scholar.
*The Life of the Historical Jesus
*The Passion of the Historical Jesus
*The Passion of the Historical Jesus
- 2003 --Dr.Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History Yale University
*The Sensus Literalis and the Quest for Original Intent
*Issues of Interpretation in the Bible and in the Constitution
*Development of Doctrine: Patterns and Criteria
- 2002--Rev. Dr. Charles H. Talbert, distinguished professor of religion at Baylor University.
*Is the Sermon on the Mount about Ethics? Spiritual Formation and Moral Guidance in Matthew 5-7
*Is Matthew a Legalist? Indicative and Imperative in Matthean Soteriology
*What is the Higher Righteousness: A Matthean Perspective on Living Justly
- 2000 -- Bart D. Ehrman, Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
*Ignorance and Bliss in the Christian Tradition
- 1999 -- Luke Timothy Johnson,
*The Real Jesus: The Challenge of Recent Scholarship
- 1998 -- Marcus Borg, the Hundred Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture in the philosophy department at Oregon State University
- 1997 -- Leander E. Keck, the Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology and former dean of the Divinity School at Yale University.
*Who is Jesus
- 1996 -- D. Moody Smith
- 1995 -- Ftr. Raymond E. Brown, Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York
*The Passion Narrative of the Gospel According to Luke
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