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WSR Cafe Series: John Endres, Rebecca’s Prayer In the Book of Jubilees

Monday, November 11th 2013, 10:00am

 

This presentation focuses attention on the characterization of women in one narrative text found among Second Temple Jewish pseudepigraphal works.  The author of Jubilees has given special attention to women characters known from the The Book of Genesis, which it retells. Betsy Halpern-Amaru has studied this phenomenon in her book, The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees (Brill, 1999) and I have examined a prayer of blessing for Jacob...

October 15, 2013

A Just Calling

By the Book | Pursuing Academia while in Ministry by Angela Yarber (Ph.D. ’10)

For nearly 14 years I’ve had a foot in the church and a foot in academia.

I had planned to pursue a career in the performing arts, majoring in musical theatre or dance in college. A conversion experience in a Christian church in my late teens shifted my plans for life and career. Fortunately, wonderful religion professors quickly taught me that my calling in ministry can coincide with my gifts in the arts and my deep interest in feminism. As a college freshman, I served as a youth minister.

I...

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