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!

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/

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.

Boldern/Switzerland, May 29 @ 5:30 pm

Join me at Boldern Conference Center in Zürich/Switzerland on May 29, 2008 at 5:30 pm (Hirschengraben 50).

In conjunction with a conference on "The Bible in a (Political) Crisis: Feminist Contributions from the USA", I will give a lecture on "Die Krux mit der Bibelbuchstäblichkeit: Die Christliche Rechte in den USA."

This talk is based on several of my publications, such as:

• “Eve’s Daughters Liberated? The Book of Genesis in Feminist Biblical Studies.” In All the Women Went Out After Her: A Retrospective of Feminist Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible, ed. F. Rachel Magdalene (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, forthcoming)
• “Bible Truth, Mega Churches, and the Christian Right in the USA.” In Theologie von Frauen für Frauen? Chancen und Probleme der Rückbindung feministischer Theologie an die Praxis. Beiträge zum Internationalen Kongress anlässlich des zwanzigjährigen Gründungsjubiläums der Europäischen Gesellschaft für theologische Forschung von Frauen (ESWTR), ed. Irmtraud Fischer, 202-226. Münster: LIT, 2007.
• “The Christian Right’s Discourse on Gender and the Bible.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 21, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 83-104.

As usual, copies of Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible will be available for purchase. See you then and there!

April 22 Talk @ North Prospect Union UCC in Medford, MA (10:30 am)

Come and join us at the ElderSpirit Group of the North Prospect Union UCC in Medford, MA, on April 22 at 10:30 for coffee, conversation, and lunch!

At 11 AM I will talk about my book "Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible"!

Copies of the books will be available for sale.

The meeting and talk will take place at:

144 North Street

Medford, MA 02155

For more information on North Prospect Union UCC, visit http://www.northprospectchurch.org/

See you then and there!

BigS--Learn more about the first inclusive Bible translation in German

Fresh off the online press are several articles on the first inclusive Bible translation in German. Visit the site at: http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/SBLForum.aspx

My contributions on "The Bibel in gerechter Sprache (BigS): The Secular Press, Kirchenherren, and Theology Proessors Reacts To a New German Inclusive Bible Translation" is linked here:
http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=760

If you read German and want to learn more about this fascinating translation that has brought the Bible back into the public discourse in German-speaking countries, go to http://www.bibel-in-gerechter-sprache.de. Of course you can always buy your own copy of the translation at, for instance, here:
http://www.amazon.de/Bibel-gerechter-Sprache-Ulrike-Bail/dp/3579055003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207150266&sr=1-1

Visit at Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran in San Francisco

Come to Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran in San Francisco and hear me introduce my book to this progressive feminist congregation on April 6 at 10:30 am! Yet another opportunity to get the book signed and stamped...

Ebenezer Lutheran Church

678 Portola Drive
San Francisco, CA 94127

Phone: 415-681-5400

www.herchurch.org

I am looking forward to meeting you there and then!
s2