St. Alban’s Endowed Memorial Lecture with Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, March 13, 2024
The St. Alban's Memorial Lecture Committee warmly invites you to join us for an evening with internationally-known author and speaker Dr. Amy-Jill Levine. Drawing from her book "Witness at the Cross: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Friday," Dr. Levine will deliver the 2024 Endowed Memorial Lecture, “The Crucifixion of Jesus: From Ancient Texts to Present Contexts, on March 13, 2024. The lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. and will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Children’s programs and nursery care will be available during the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. Preceding the lecture, St. Alban’s Church welcomes you for Evening Prayer at 5:00 p.m. and dinner at 5:30 p.m. Pre-registration is required for dinner, nursery care, and the lecture. Please sign up here for the lecture. Please sign up here for dinner. St. Alban’s Church is at 3001 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016.
About Dr. Amy-Jill Levine
Dr. Levine is the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, as well as the University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita and the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Levine is the first Jewish scholar to teach the New Testament at Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the first winner of the Seelisberg Prize for Jewish-Christian Relations, and the 2023 recipient of the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation from the Archbishop of Canterbury. She describes herself as an unorthodox member of an Orthodox synagogue and a Yankee Jewish feminist who works to counter biblical interpretations that exclude and oppress.
Her publications include:
● Witness at the Cross: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Friday
● The Gospel of Mark: A Beginner’s Guide to the Good News
● The Beginner’s Guide series also includes Sermon on the Mount, Light of the World, Entering the Passion of Jesus, The Difficult Words of Jesus, and Signs and Wonders
● The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
● Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
● The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III, the first biblical commentary by a Jew and an evangelical)
● The Jewish Annotated New Testament (co-edited with Marc Brettler)
● The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (with Marc Brettler)
● The Pharisees (co-edited with Joseph Sievers)
● 13 edited volumes of the Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature
● Six children’s books (with Sandy Sasso)
About St. Alban’s Endowed Memorial Lecture Progr
St. Alban’s Endowed Memorial Lecture Progr
The lecture will also be live-streamed at http://youtube.com/StAlbansDC but will not be recorded or available later.
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We sincerely hope you can join us!
Warmly,
The St. Alban's Memorial Lecture