Past presentations

Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 3:00-4:15 pm, room 351 in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center

        Dr. Eric F. Mason, Associate Professor, Judson University: "Ancient Jewish Ideas About the Origins of Angels"

Friday, February 5, 2010, 3:00-4:30 pm, room 351 in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center

        Dr. Anathea Portier-Young, Assistant Professor, Duke University Divinity School: “Apocalypse against Empire: Toward a Theory of Early    

                    Jewish Apocalypses as Resistance Literature.”

Friday, April 18, 2008, 2:00-3:00 pm, room 351 in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center   

        Dr. Kevin Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University: "Becoming the Thirteenth Demon: Judas in the Gospel of Judas."

Friday, March 7, 2008, 3:00-4:00 pm, room 351 in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center

        Dr. Nicolae Roddy, Associate Professor, Creighton University: "'Taste and See...': Hierophagy as Religious Experience."

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 3:00-4:00 pm, room 351 in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center

          Dr. Jeffrey Morrow, Adjunct Professor, University of Dayton: "Creation and Liturgy: The Liturgical Background of Genesis 1-3."

Friday, November 9, 2007, 12:30-2:00, room 351 in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center

        Rev. Alexander Golitzin, Professor, Marquette University: "'And He Saw That Place': Aphrahat the Persian on Transfiguration."

        Dr. Andrei Orlov, Assistant Professor, Marquette University: "The Praxis of the Voice: The Divine Name Traditions in the Apocalypse of       

                    Abraham."