Monday, January 5, 2009

March 5-7, 2009 in Dallas, TX at SMU's Perkins School of Theology

Here is another event that you might enjoy attending:
"Perkins Theological School for the Laity"
From March 5-7, 2009

For more information, click here: http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/PTSL/laity_main.html

My course is on Saturday. Check it out at http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/PTSL/courses.html#s3

Looking forward to seeing you there.
Tschüs!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Houston Lay School of Theology on Jan. 24, 2009


Come to Houston on January 24, 2009 and join my session at the Houston Lay School of Theology!

http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/LaySchool/Houstonmain.html
http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/LaySchool/HoustonSch.html


Eve and Adam in the Twenty-First Century
An Introduction to Gendered Bible Readings

This course explores the history of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible, engages in interactive “play,” examines the contributions of several feminist scholars, and provides conversation and text work focused on Eve, Rahab, Jezebel and Ruth as “other” women.

Please bring your Old Testament Bible.


Suggested Reading
Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible, Susanne Scholz
Available at http://www.womenshebrewbible.com/buythebook.html
or any bookstore (online and offline)



For more information on the Lay School of Theology Program, visit this website http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/LaySchool/Houstonmain.html

Questions? Email me at sscholz@smu.edu or author@womensHebrewBible.com.

I am looking forward to seeing you in Houston!

Yours truly,
s2
http://www.womenshebrewbible.com/

Friday, January 2, 2009

SBL meeting in Boston November 2008

In case you missed my talks at the SBL meeting in Boston 2008, I am listing them here so that you can keep track of what was going on there:

1. "A 'Third-Kind' of Feminist Reading: Toward a Sociology of Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics.” Paper presented at the program united “Feminist Interpretation of the Bible” of this year’s topic “Exploring the Parameters of Feminist Methodologies,” Boston, MA, November 24, 2008.

2. “Dialogical Beginnings: Introductory Statement.” Paper presented with Dora Mbuwayesanga at the panel “Socio-Geographical and Hermeneutical Differences: Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Feminist Biblical Studies,” at the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, MA, November 23, 2008.